Why should we? Repos like ELPA, NonGNU and CPAN are trusted enough.

Indeed. Professional woodworking equipment can also cut you, but that’s a risk we accept as we know their developers also care more about providing a tool that works and can be used responsibly by trained professionals. Yes we could insist everyone only hands us straight jackets in padded rooms, but I’m not sure that’d be a good thing.

For over 20 years now, professional woodworkers have had SawStops, devices that literally use an explosive charge to ram a block of aluminum into the blade of a table saw when it detects that the blade is touching something that might be a human body part. These are $50+ devices that destroy themselves on use (and often destroy the $50+ blade they’re used on), they have a high false positive rate, and yet they’re still in heavy use and very popular with professional woodworkers. Table saws also have riving knives and sleds with clamps, both to prevent kickback. All of this on top of constantly educating woodworkers to be responsible and use push blocks instead of their hands, to boot. All of these safety features exist on table saws because we did educate woodworkers on how to be responsible, and we still saw that the average table saw will cause more than one injury in its lifetime. I’m actually really glad you brought up woodworking because table saws are a perfect example of how we saw “this is risky, be responsible” was inadequate.

I remember as a kid seeing the Tomorrow's World episode where the chap demonstrated it to probably Philippa Forrester and Peter Snow. It looked like magic. What a great idea.

Not something you’ll find in any professional cabinetry shop. But you’re welcome to use Notepad for all your coding.

But if saw stops are mandatory, how the heck am I supposed to cut hotdogs?

little snitch is the sawstop.

detecting and preventing exfil attempts in real time is the current sota.