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Comment on Roblox Game Devs Duped by Malicious npm Packages

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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  - atheken@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The thread you are in and my response made it clear that the headline is clickbait by including that irrelevant detail.
    
    If they didn’t include the word the post title, it would have no traction at all.
    
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    JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    “Roblox library is target of typo squatting” is a perfectly accurate headline that uses the word Roblox and is not clickbait.
    
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