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talkin

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    Comment #49138414

    I didn’t see it for decades, only realized waaay too long into a Dutch movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3765078/ (Publieke Werken). I cannot imagine how I was ever able to not s…

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    Comment #48610315

    It costs tokens, so it helps the business model, so it’s not a bug but a feature.

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    Comment #48337046

    It’s also a weird argument. You can only spend your money once, and the affected employees also chose to work for a bell-end like Altman (or Zuck, or Musk)

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    Comment #48204705

    Fixing easy cases makes the list shorter, so enables more focus on harder cases. And it also signals that you actually do want to improve, just a little bit of boy scout rule goes …

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    Comment #47541943

    > for some reason the industry stubbornly refuses to solve the "cron job as a service" problem for end-users, whether on the web or in the OS. Such a service will always be destroy…

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    Comment #47528130

    > cd -: The classic channel-flipper. Perfect for toggling back and forth. And not only cd. Gotta love 'git checkout -'

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    Comment #47521393

    There will always be early adopters. And maybe more importantly: security tools and researchers.

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    Comment #47288904

    Or even an autoincrement int primary key internally. Depending on your scale and env etc, but still fits enough use cases.

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    Comment #47099466

    Most regex usage actually doesnt require near infinite backtracking, so limited unless opted in wouldn’t be that weird.

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    Comment #46729603

    “Intuitive!”

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    Comment #46383812

    NO. Please don’t spread wrong solutions. Your attempt has similarities to the idea behind Checking Sec-Fetch-Site. Implementing that header is the same amount of work. But this hea…

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    Comment #44384851

    No. The Regex DoS class of bugs is about infinite backtracking or looping inside the regex engine. Completely isolated component, just hogging CPU inside the regex engine. It may a…

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    Comment #44318782

    Backup/restore tends too look less important until it isn’t. ;)

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    Comment #44293640

    Interferes with the business model. ;)

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    Comment #43030229

    > Well, I don't think most folks could name a CEO of another car company. Yup, and I don’t care. I liked the brand better without the drama queen.

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    Comment #42971587

    Spreading the message inside FB helps the mission. The people who already stopped don’t need to be convinced anymore. ;) But sure, ironic and counterintuitive.

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    Comment #42603285

    Nobody said you shouldn’t do any due diligence. But 1 sprint vs 2 months of review really smells like ‘processes over people’. ;)

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    Comment #42244841

    All true, but lets be honest: For the technical users searching a library, nothing beats having The Keyword being part of the name.

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    Comment #42146401

    Yes. Just like the Log4j issue root cause. Too powerful and abstract features to wield securely. Or maybe if we keep intent out of it; features were added in a time when we all wor…

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    Comment #42146357

    This comment and all siblings fight over PHP vs Pyhton etc, but that just isn’t the bottleneck in most apps. By far, for most apps, the biggest bottleneck is the database.

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    Comment #42146325

    To be specific about static analysis: Lots of tools catch this. Sure, making some checks native would be nice, but for instance PHPStan always catches this, and more. Regardless of…

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    Comment #41980377

    You’re technically right but that doesn’t matter. That you’re correctly using html forms won’t quickly lead to browser improvements.. so the result is that users will hate your for…

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    Comment #41932694

    > I think it's the autocomplete in particular that leaks a lot of private data. That’s the beauty. The whole unified input can be presented as a UX simplicity gain, while this quot…

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    Comment #41826984

    And 2 problems jn the fix: - It’s a specific symptom fix: The same problem could occur with $_COOKIE or $_REQUEST always being available - The cleanup is not done in a finally{}, s…

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    Comment #41651407

    Thanks for the clear words. :) But that still means both can go hand in hand! If user targeted ads and tracking is forbidden and a thing from the past, there’ll be less problems wi…