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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not far enough. I won't trust it until I can build it myself and self-host it. Then if they provide reproducible builds and hashes of the currently running build, I can decide whether it's better to use their hosted version or my own.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'd want both.

My biggest gripe is that when companies provide "source code," it often is technically reproducible and "works," but only with a gigabytes-large binary blob that cannot be debugged and will not be sourced.