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I know finding bugs is undeniably a good thing but I can't help but feel someone as obviously bright as this should be making more things It's like the people who spent a lot of their time finding ever more pedantic inaccuracies and continuity errors in films. The mute LED on your thinkpad sometimes goes out of sync? fascinating
> When snaps are uploaded, there are security and sanity checks which run against the snap. My use of the (probably reserved) word null seemed to fool the backend checks script, live on stage, in front of my peers. That’s the way to end a lightning talk, I think! The backend crashes and instead of getting an error message you are forced to watch a spinner forever?
People like that is the reason why this list was created https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/blo... My personal favorite is this one though "If you're reading this, you've been in a coma for almost 20 years now. We're trying a new technique. We don't know where this message will end up in your dream, but we hope it works. Please wake up, we miss you.",
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Because software has hundreds or thousands of tanks, compartments, cogs, levers, buttons and switches. And if it's not designed robustly, using any one of those things slightly wrong (or even right, but there's a bug in the software) can make the entire thing disappear in a cloud of smoke, taking your groceries with it.
The funny thing about this comment is that it is also applicable to the software in the car. The amount of software in today's car is mind boggling, and it grow exponentially as more and more features make it to the public roads.
That said, it did uncover a bug that obviously hadn't been tested for which gave the infra team more impetus to solve utf8mb4 support for the database.
https://www.drupal.org/project/infrastructure/issues/2531884 https://github.com/govCMS/govCMS7/commit/ab5da5fd0cb3d7e1d33...
>While I’m not a QA or security professional, I have developed a knack for doing “stupid” things with software which causes it to malfunction. A person after my own heart. I've had many a dev go "why would you do that" In which I answer "it doesn't matter, but if you accept my input it's your job to ensure the app doesn't crash"
Why do you require software to be more resilient than other things? If I pour water in the gastank of my car, it will also fail to drive. Or gas in the sprinkler tank. So the car should somehow prevent the enduser putting the wrong thing in the tank?
People like that is the reason why this list was created https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/blo... My personal favorite is this one though "If you're reading this, you've been in a coma for almost 20 years now. We're trying a new technique. We don't know where this message will end up in your dream, but we hope it works. Please wake up, we miss you.",
I can get why testing for "Jimmy Clitheroe" and "Horniman Museum" , but can't make a reason for "Linda Callahan" .
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what a great github repo. I enjoyed: # Strings that may occur on IRC clients that make security products freak out DCC SEND STARTKEYLOGGER 0 0 0 and everything under: # Innocuous strings which may be blocked by profanity filters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem)
I'm surprised about Scunthorpe, if any name with a profanity substring would trigger the filter I'd have thought this issue would be more common than Scunthorpe.
>While I’m not a QA or security professional, I have developed a knack for doing “stupid” things with software which causes it to malfunction. A person after my own heart. I've had many a dev go "why would you do that" In which I answer "it doesn't matter, but if you accept my input it's your job to ensure the app doesn't crash"
Why do you require software to be more resilient than other things? If I pour water in the gastank of my car, it will also fail to drive. Or gas in the sprinkler tank. So the car should somehow prevent the enduser putting the wrong thing in the tank?
Then there's just annoying stuff like the case where someone paid to have "null" on their car's license plate, which suddenly caused him to get all traffic tickets that could not be correctly addressed.
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Most of the things in this list I can see what they're testing for but your favorite stumps me. Can you give me a hint? Thanks.
I assume it's a joke to test if reality is a simulation or a dream.
If you were going to play a simulation game, you would not be a normal participant. You would not play a normal person, you would play the successful guy at the top launching spaceships and making money.
So - the chances of Elon Musk being in a simulation are very high compared to normal people.