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I noticed that the rules of this community prohibit posting of "cheats." However, I am curious on the policy of research and educational focused focused exploits. I am looking to write some exploits to demonstrate some of the potential security issues. I am mostly interested in man in the ...

PhpBB feels very clunky to me and doesn't fit well with modern machines. It has the same 20 year old interface that is confusing and hard to use. By comparison, discourse is much more modern. It has a nice looking interface that is much cleaner and easier to navigate. It is just as customizable as p...

Yeah I am not a expert. Like I said above, this is just some thoughts I had. If I was skilled enough to actually audit the code for security I would.

I do know Lua so I have been trying to find and fix issues with popular mods when I find them. Most of the time it is simple bug fixes.

For those who are looking for a alternative place to discuss Minetest, there is a Lemmy community at !minetest@lemmy.ml https://lemmy.world/c/minetest@lemmy.ml Lemmy is a federated alternative to forms such as ycombinator and Reddit. If you are looking at this post and are confused it isn't a big de...

I am creating this post to share some random thoughts I had about Minetest and my experiences with it. It seems to me that Minetest is a little insecure and puts a lot of trust in both the client and the server. A player on a server can crash the entire game by doing something unexpected. This can b...