Rocks'n'Diamonds

'guest' / 'guest' is probably too obvious, and if they turn their AI even a teeny tiny bit inwards it will parse your greet text and figure out how to get past the 'firewall'. But, not sure how to do better. If you say 'login as guest with password guest-spelled-backwards' -- the AIs are certainly s...

Yeah, graph needs two different Y-axis scales for 'before' and 'after'... This probably belongs somewhere other than the 4406 announcement thread :) My $work is also struggling against AI scraper load. WTF is wrong with those people -- robots.txt is there for a reason (on your part); spoofed user ag...

---------- added after splitting topic ---------- To access pages on https://git.artsoft.org/ other than the start page, you have to log in with user "guest" and password "guest". Please read on for more information! ---------- added after splitting topic ---------- bug on the 2...

What I meant, and I think has been successfully communicated, but I still want to clarify myself, is: By looking at graphicsinfo.conf files, we could deduce that yes , RnD already has the ability to internally translate between element 'names' like 'player_1', and internal numeric representations as...

'Off Topic' seems sufficient :) Not to be flip, but -- so far this is one (1) example of the post type you're referring to. If you post 50 of them (or your outburst provokes others to follow) -- then I'm sure Holger will see the need, and create a separate topic. And fortunately phpBB does support a...

Look in the (thousands of) files named 'graphicsinfo.conf' in the game levels directory tree. This is another matter where there are dozens or hundreds of discussions in the forums here, but -- not sure what you would search for (except 'graphicsinfo.conf' will probably hit a good fraction of such d...

It does seem clear that RnD already knows the elements 'by name', in order to support element-specific graphical tricks. So the ability to paste level excerpts in that sort of format seems like it wouldn't be super hard to do. And your reasons for wanting it seem sound...

I found an example. I clicked on my own name, then 'Search user's posts', and searched for 'paste'. That led to this post: https://www.artsoft.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16852&hilit=paste#p16852 -- which has an example. You can see what the code looks like by using the forum's 'Reply with quote' ...

There is already some sort way of representing level elements in text, which can be used in some manner to copy-paste level snippets into the forum here, and they get displayed as the correct elements. I have used it once or twice when I discovered it and it was fresh in my memory; now the existence...

This all sounds like good fun :)

For text-paste, I guess it should truncate large pastes (maybe 100 chars? And maybe with that limit tunable...) I've copy-pasted 1MB+ texts on my Linux desktop, would not really like to see what that would do in RnD level editor...

Given the commit you pointed to, your previous comment of: Looking at commit 07e47c9c, there's only one single directory that is created with world-writable permissions, and that's the scores directory: was actually wildly off the mark! So I am amused and mildly surprised. Other than that, all is we...

Hmmm, we will probably end up having to 'agree to disagree' on this. I say, an app should *not* create and then use world-modifiable directories in one's home directory. You say 'the system was already screwed up', but -- if you look at any real-world computer security breach, it is made up of a cha...

Argh, I didn't actually state the point of the security issue. It is not a security issue against the *system* one is running on, but against the *person* running RnD. It doesn't let an attacker attack system files, only the files of the person playing the game. Still, we don't want to play a game a...

The original CVE includes links to other things including https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651620 -- which, if the facts it claims are correct, was talking about a real and actual security concern. It says that RnD, back then (and as built and packaged in Debian) created the user's ...

I'm a bit torn. I think, being able to see what score you would have gotten without the pesky time limit is totally legit, and I'm imagining the dismay of, say, a 5 year old who was previously racking up a nice collection of scores, who now finds that their runs are all invalidated. As to issues of ...