You declare it in the package.json as a category when publishing. It's completely self-selected with no oversight, review, or enforced permissions.

I believe they're referring to lower down in the article, where the researchers analyzed existing extensions on the marketplace:

After the successful experiment, the researchers decided to dive into the threat landscape of the VSCode Marketplace, using a custom tool they developed named 'ExtensionTotal' to find high-risk extensions, unpack them, and scrutinize suspicious code snippets.

Through this process, they have found the following:

• 1,283 with known malicious code (229 million installs).
• 8,161 communicating with hardcoded IP addresses.
• 1,452 running unknown executables.
• 2,304 that are using another publisher's Github repo, indicating they are a copycat.

I assume they're talking about player names, not usernames - steam usernames are unique, but steam player names can be whatever you want and are often duplicates.

Some excellent content this week. Some of my highlights:

• Plex continues its BS, alienating the users who want to actually use their product
• Fun "fediverse for dummies" writeup

FYI user mentions in Lemmy are done with an @ not /u/, e.g. @cypherpunks@lemmy.ml

Excited to see the Jellyfin UX improving - it's probably the biggest reason I use Plex over Jellyfin (not that Plex is THAT much better...)

Yeah but it's awful, and can only install UWP apps which are just plain bad

I'd like to point out, the value add of Rust isn't speed, it's safety in a low-level language. C is also just as fast, it's just that Rust guarantees safety in a wide class of potential catastrophic bugs with little to no runtime overhead, by using the design of the language and compiler.

Actually no, Lewis is parodying the Bible: https://www.biblehub.com/1_corinthians/13-11.htm

The Bible quote does say that, but he's poking fun at it by saying "why so serious?"

Are you thinking of this? Great saga: https://imgur.io/gallery/dTv6b

No, practically speaking the domain name should have no effect on access time. DNS has so many layers of caching that as long as SOMEONE has accessed the website nearby (including you), the domain lookup will be local and therefore fast.

Anyway, DNS lookup times, even slow ones, are still not going to be noticable to the end use originally.

There's an open feature request for this: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818