'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens — npm Security Satire Hits r/programming

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A satirical article riffing on The Onion's recurring mass-shooting headline ('No Way To Prevent This') targets npm's persistent supply chain security failures. Posted days after the TanStack/Mini Shai-Hulud attack that compromised 170+ packages with valid SLSA provenance, the 316-upvote post (77 comments) captures developer community frustration with npm's fundamental security model compared to alternatives like pnpm v11's strictDepBuilds defaults.