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Re: Serious Chrome zero-day

#51

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Yep, chat makes sense. Thank you for actually stating a use-case.

Next time you see a shortened word, you can just assume it's useful. Because they are.

Not really, I have seen a lot of unneeded abbreviations. Thankfully we are (almost) out of the age of 140c messages and 40c editor lines.

But more to the point, 'vulns' seems like a very unnatural abbreviation. I would go with v11n (similar to i18n).

Re: Serious Chrome zero-day

#52

Honest question - why do people use Chrome? It’s from an arguably as-evil company as Facebook. Alternatives exist. What’s the draw?

I'd like to switch to Firefox but font rendering, especially in PDFs, is so much nicer on Chrome/chromium in my opinion.

Re: Serious Chrome zero-day

#53

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> Does anyone actually use this abbreviation? More common in plural (vulns). However, it sounds oddly vulgar in my ears.

I've typed it, but I dunno if I've ever said it out loud. Kind of like i18n.

Same here. It is used internally here as a written abbreviation, and we use it as a prefix in a numbering scheme to identify a certain category of defects, but I don't think I've ever heard anyone use it verbally.

Re: Serious Chrome zero-day

#54

Honest question - why do people use Chrome? It’s from an arguably as-evil company as Facebook. Alternatives exist. What’s the draw?

I gave Firefox an honest go, but some web apps just don't work 100% in it. Chrome does not have this issue. Most of us drive cars filled with fuel from evil oil companies, why do we all drive cars?

> why do we all drive cars?

...we don't?

Re: Serious Chrome zero-day

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> This blog post is so watered down and manages to digress at every possible point that it is almost impossible to read. Its target audience appears to be ten-year-olds, yet it's inexplicably devoid of memes.

the target audience is managers and bookkeepers who see the sophos invoice every month but have no idea what they do. here is the blog post in meme form, for your convenience: https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/67508702/look-at-me-...

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Re: Serious Chrome zero-day

#56

This blog post is so watered down and manages to digress at every possible point that it is almost impossible to read. The only useful part of the text are the URLs. Also, this: > A vulnerability, or vuln for short, is a bug that makes software go wrong in a way that reduces computer security. Does anyone actually use this abbreviation?

"vuln" is pretty commonly used in the security industry

Re: Serious Chrome zero-day

#57

Honest question - why do people use Chrome? It’s from an arguably as-evil company as Facebook. Alternatives exist. What’s the draw?

I used it because it was fast, now I use Brave and it is fast and private.

Brave is based on Chromium and has a recent update.

Re: Serious Chrome zero-day

#58

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Next time you see a shortened word, you can just assume it's useful. Because they are.

Not really, I have seen a lot of unneeded abbreviations. Thankfully we are (almost) out of the age of 140c messages and 40c editor lines. But more to the point, 'vulns' seems like a very unnatural abbreviation. I would go with v11n (similar to i18n).

v11n meaning vulnerabilitn presumably ;)

Re: Serious Chrome zero-day

#59

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Yep, chat makes sense. Thank you for actually stating a use-case.

Next time you see a shortened word, you can just assume it's useful. Because they are.

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(for some reason I doubt that's true)

Re: Serious Chrome zero-day

#60

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Next time you see a shortened word, you can just assume it's useful. Because they are.

Not really, I have seen a lot of unneeded abbreviations. Thankfully we are (almost) out of the age of 140c messages and 40c editor lines. But more to the point, 'vulns' seems like a very unnatural abbreviation. I would go with v11n (similar to i18n).

> But more to the point, 'vulns' seems like a very unnatural abbreviation. I would go with v11n (similar to i18n).

Please no. I really don't like that convention and would rather you just type out the whole word if that's the alternative. Worse yet, for some reason you've decided to end in `n` rather than `y`.

How can you dismiss the first four letters as an "unnatural" abbreviation, and then suggest inserting digits to represent the number of characters removed as an alternative? I'm not following that logic at all.

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