ci: mimic the "restricted" mode

ci: mimic the "restricted" mode

Judging by https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/automatic-token-authentication#permissions-for-the-github_token
it should be enough to grant the "read contents" permission to
most of our actions. The "read metadata" permission is set impliciclty
somewhere and can't be set via the "permissions" setting:
```
The workflow is not valid. .github/workflows/linter.yml (Line: 14, Col: 3): Unexpected value 'metadata'
```