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Serious Chrome zero-day
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Re: Serious Chrome zero-day
#62Honest question - why do people use Chrome? It’s from an arguably as-evil company as Facebook. Alternatives exist. What’s the draw?
It is fast, responsive, has much better security history and architecture than all others, super convenient if you have multiple computers. I have absolutely no problems with Chrome, I already trusted my information with Google, so I always stay signed in as well, never had any issues.
Re: Serious Chrome zero-day
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
Terms like i18n and l10n are bad for a11y.
Re: Serious Chrome zero-day
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Does anyone actually use this abbreviation? More common in plural (vulns). However, it sounds oddly vulgar in my ears.
It's weird because when you read vulnerability (or at least when I say it) the first phoneme effectively becomes 'vun' - but in the abbreviated form one feels the need to mentally enunciate the 'l'.
It's because vul-ner-a-bil-i-ty is being chopped in the middle of a syllable "ner",
"Vulner" is more pleasant than "vuln"
Re: Serious Chrome zero-day
#65This 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?
Zerocool and Neo do.
Re: Serious Chrome zero-day
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
Terms like i18n and l10n are bad for a11y.
> Terms like i18n and l10n are bad for a11y.
Thank you for that, I am definitely stealing that phrasing.
Re: Serious Chrome zero-day
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
Until now you apparently haven't been keeping a busy person typing in chat into account. Now you can. This use case isn't unique to the vuln/vulnerability abbreviation, but plenty of others. Including confusing ones like "i left you a vm" (virtual machine? where?).
Re: Serious Chrome zero-day
#68Honest 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?
Is the stuff not working in Firefox due to lazy devs too young to remember IE6?
Re: Serious Chrome zero-day
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
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Re: Serious Chrome zero-day
#70Honest question - why do people use Chrome? It’s from an arguably as-evil company as Facebook. Alternatives exist. What’s the draw?
I am switching to Brave when sync between devices rolls out