Comment on Roblox Game Devs Duped by Malicious npm Packages

• atheken@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s misleading because it’s irrelevant and makes it sound like a platform breach.

  Try replacing Roblox with “Foozsplatz” and the implication of severity are completely different.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m confused, in this hypothetical is Foozsplatz a non sense word or is it meant to be a game like Roblox? If you mean the first, then yeah, obviously replacing a proper noun with gibberish changes the implication. If you mean the second then no, it would have the same implication.

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    • atheken@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It literally doesn’t matter. You can remove the word and the nature of the problem being discussed is still the same. What platform is being targeted has nothing to do with the example problem.

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Roblox is mentioned because it literally was a library for Roblox lmao. That’s not sensationalizing.

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