Banana

joined 1 year ago
[–] Banana@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I work at the biggest software company in the world.
Sure there is projects with security flaws, but at the company I work, there is zero tolerance to big security flaws in the code, we have many automated checks, as-well as manual checks.

[–] Banana@kbin.social -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

In all seriousness, no one is talking about this, but this is the one disadvantage of open source software being developed by volunteers, we don't know exactly how the admin accounts were hacked but the XSS stuff is really basic stuff, none of those fields were sanatised at all, and it makes me concerned what else has been missed, obviously the advantage of open source is in time this stuff can get fixed, but this is what happens when loads of people who aren't experts contribute to a site.

In comparison to sites where there is a fully hired developer team the quality of the code is significantly better. I really hope the passwords were hashed on these instances and the hackers didn't get plain text passwords or anything really bad like this.

One thing and credit to Ernest, as I've contributed there he does very thorough code reviews and his quality of code is very good, its why im confident kbin won't be hacked.

[–] Banana@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • Excessive grinding or padding in a game just for the sake of it or for microtransaction reasons.
  • Microtransaction and pay-to-win models in full price $70 games...
  • Overuse of Quick time events Press E to dodge etc etc
  • Escort missions when developers want to pad their game out
  • Terrible stealth mechanics when an enemey spots me when im standing still in a bush from the other side of the map
[–] Banana@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit literally don't care. They gotta try and become profitable somehow and they will destroy their community to get there if they have too

[–] Banana@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This was basically force the admins of reddit to remove them as mods... going to annoy a lot of people but its not going to magically cease reddits operations.

[–] Banana@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

The truth is if you have to explain to users how it works, its not a very user-friendly concept.

[–] Banana@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't know you overestimate people, I think if the Fediverse will succeed its gotta be dumbed down a lot more for people and made seemless so it works without them having to think about the various instances as much.

[–] Banana@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I always think that Discord has a huge potential to replace both Reddit and Twitch if they wanted too.