No love for russian sanction-bypass product
jaaaardvark
joined 1 year ago
Shattered Pixel Dungeon is great, actively developed, and was only possible because the original Pixel Dungeon went OSS. [email protected]
I'm glad I chose the right instance to join, also been here for a year. Elagu Eesti!
Nah, the latest iteration was a Telegram clone
Awesome! Subbed
Overall I'm underwhelmed. They seem to be reverting the most interesing changes from the previous UA, ones which restore health from the game, and not changing the problems, like Monk, enough. (Heighten Materialism looks like an impactful fix, though.) Will have to see after the actual playtest.
I like the changes to Paladin and Rogue most, but Cunning Strike feels like it needs more rounds of playtesting for the idea, and time is something they don't have, so I'm 50/50 on them just removing it.
Sure, here's the original investigation on its Russian origin: https://dou-ua.translate.goog/forums/topic/38748/?_x_tr_sl=uk&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US (Dou is the ukrainian IT forum).
Note I didn't claim anything about technical security. It's more of an ethical issue. Even if it's FOSS (which, as seen in the other subthread, its merely pretending to be), it's helping russian government.
If you want to consider security — security starts with trust. And GRU/FSB will infiltrate and use any segment of supply chain it has in its reach, being less constrained with any laws than NSA. Are you sure that malicious code will be caught in time like with xz?