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the difference though is you can check a script. if it’s an open source project, you can also compile from source. but I get what you mean
You can, but to me it seems weird to say it's crazy to pipe to bash when people happily run binaries. If anything, the convenience script is lower risk than the binary since people have probably checked it before you.
I wouldn't pipe a random script to bash though, nothing where I wouldn't trust the people behind it.