Anyone pushing you to do something you don't understand, or understand poorly. I could see an actual security researcher pushing for a code update to fix a vulnerability.

Heck, even as an occasional contributor I take some pride in seeing my fixes etc make it into the mainline codestream.

But yeah, you definitely need to be wary of somebody you only know from online pushing a change that doesn't make sense or you don't understand.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Anyone pushing you to do something you don’t understand, or understand poorly.

This was taught to me in my bank teller training back in 19-dickety-two. Don’t let someone try to rush you or to obfuscate/over-complicate things.

[–] FiniteBanjo 1 points 7 months ago

19-dickety-two? It's an older colloquialism, but it checks out. You're free to go, sir.