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Protip:

1. Use a not-100%-polished website design that inspires trust, or

2. Ask your visitor to execute random shell code from the internet, or

3. Place a non-trivial redirect in that code that makes it impossible to examine what exactly is being run on your system.

But, please, for the sake of all that is holy, do not do all three at once.

(Yes, I know there is a "Source Code" link, but that's not directly what's getting run, is it?)

Richard from DevStructure here. You're right about a lot of your criticism: the setup.sh process is not ideal. I do think it is preferable to pointing someone at packages.devstructure.com and saying, "Good luck!"

We'll be changing shortly to recommend `git clone` for first-time tinkerers and packages.devstructure.com for real use.

Changed to git clone.

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