keyword moderation is terrible and only affects the language(s) you know about. It doesn't actually prevent the content (the goal of these types of filters) from being served. It'd be like a virus scanner preventing a program from running because it had the name 'virus' in it ... which would prevent itself from running -- probably.
NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen
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Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen
#22I run a business called Keygen [^0], and own the @keygen namespace on npm. We’re working on a Node SDK, so this isn’t good to hear. I’ll open up a discussion with them and see what we can do. [^0]: https://keygen.sh
Three fun days of CI/CD pipeline debugging to get to this..
Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen
#23What if I write a package to provide generic key generation for other software packages, then share it, generous man that I am?
Believe it or not, jail.
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#24Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen
#25keyword moderation is terrible and only affects the language(s) you know about. It doesn't actually prevent the content (the goal of these types of filters) from being served. It'd be like a virus scanner preventing a program from running because it had the name 'virus' in it ... which would prevent itself from running -- probably.
There's also a famous image I've seen online from another game where the guy's name was Nasser which appeared for everyone else in-game as "N***er"
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#26NPM is owned by Microsoft, who sell proprietary software, the kind that keygens are made to defeat. Don't expect to see KMS spoofers on GitHub anytime soon for the same reason.
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#27I thought buttbuttination taught everyone how incredibly stupid this is 25-30 years or so ago already? But no. Just a few years ago I tried to enter an answer into a Hungarian Q&A site recommending to take the Algeciras-Tangier ferry and the answer was refused. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/geci
Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen
#28I run a business called Keygen [^0], and own the @keygen namespace on npm. We’re working on a Node SDK, so this isn’t good to hear. I’ll open up a discussion with them and see what we can do. [^0]: https://keygen.sh
Sure no one will be able to install the app from the CLI (unless there is a bug in npm’s parsing logic) but you should be fine distributing hyperlinks to skim-readers ;)