A crack changes program code and is executed. There is no easy way to check if it is safe.
Unless you inspect the source code or binary code (directly or through reverse-engineering) you can not verify it.
What’s left without that is attempts at gaining confidence through analysis trust of third parties - the providers, distributors, creators - who have to be confirmed beyond a matching text label too.
The alternative to or extension of being confidently safe or accepting the risk is to sandbox the execution. Run the crack in a restricted environment with limited access in case it does things you do not want to. Optionally monitoring what it does. Which has to be put into relation of what the program does without the crack.
I think that’s what we see and may be misattributing of a small active subset that is very technical and invested.
It’s on the steam store. I’m sure many people buy and play, and don’t ever read or write on a community like this. They’re “invisible” here, but impact if not dominate the playtime ranking.
Found a neat little program that will compile, split, merge, and rename chapters in fiction all with the keyboard. Some commands conflict with screen readers so I suggest not using this program for reviewing your writing, but for compiling. It was designed to be keyboard exclusive and is at least 70% accessible, with some dialogs not reading unless in browse mode. warewoolf. https://github.com/brsloan/warewoolf#OpenSource#BlindCommunity@foss
@japaneselanguage I like how Japanese is simply structured. Especially as a programmer, I have been able to pick up Japanese due to how sentences are structured.
(I don't have a Japanese keyboard.)
watashi wa (
niji ni (
hirugohan o (
tabemasu
)
)
)
Everything can be broken into blocks which is really nice. This is what programming languages do, so this feels very natural to me.
My native language is English, but I am thinking of moving to Japan.