In my experience it was precisely when it wasn't abstracted properly that injection attacks became more prevalent, not the other way around.
In PHP, people used to just call mysql_query on a string and all the escaping was done with mysql_escape_string. According to you that nice locality of query construction and sanitization that should've improved security, but my god did it ever not do that.
It was exactly layers of abstractions, moving things far away from the programmer, with prepared statements to ORMs, that meaningfully reduced the number of SQL injection vulnerabilities.
Another example is JavaScript, how many XSS vulnerabilities never happened because of all the shadow dom frameworks? Layers of abstractions like these (JSX,etc) are a major reason we don't see many XSS vulnerabilities nowadays.
The whole idea that there is such a thing as impartial or unbiased news is a deeply flawed idea that is itself a strong ideological position. Everyone is biased, ideological and partial, some may claim they aren't, but it's just a lie. The media has failed everyone miserably over and over and over again in the last decades and has consistently failed to take accountability.
I still vividly remember the media's disgusting mouth-foaming psychotic hysteria in support of the Iraq war and the ferociousness in which they barked at anyone who dares to speak the truth. Or the countless times they prevented leaks of the most disgusting crimes of the state to be published, or how they threw their own sources into the fire to protect the most vile warmongers.
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They’re not talking about distributed transactions: it’s not about a task being published and consumed atomically, it’s about it being consumed and executed atomically.
The bombing/killing of innocent Yemenis can't be politicized because everyone agrees with it, nobody can score political points from it if everyone is in agreement.
> the real story, which is the federal government’s seemingly indiscriminate bombing of Yemeni residences in an attempt to execute a mildly infamous terrorist
also the story about how a natsec reporter just happens to be so intimately in contact with these officials that they accidentally add him to the group chat in the first place. There is no adversarial relationship between journalists and the state department, there never was, no matter who is in the white house. They just parrot whatever the US or allied nations are saying when it comes to foreign policy (that is the illegal invasion and murder of innocent civilians in foreign sovereign nations).
The fact that they used signal and leaked some messages to a propagandist is a distant third, but everyone only cares about that, makes me sick. This is why the US is hated around the world, and nobody gives a shit about Trump outside the western bubble.
I think its a side-effect of depoliticization by neoliberal reform from the 80s onward in the western liberal democracies. Everything has already been privatized and financialized, technocratic decision making has taken over. People are increasingly hurt by this system, but there is no political conceptualization of where that hurt is coming from. So people are galvanized into impotent political camps where they can hysterically scream about gay people, abortion, immigrants, guns or whatever.
I would be very curious to know what people here even consider "rational debate", probably a bunch of centrist takes on gay people, abortion, immigrants, guns or whatever would be my guess.
> It's rarely "center-left", more clearly left-wing.
To give you some perspective: I'm a leftist, the guardian represents the polar opposite of very fundamental beliefs all leftists share, they actively undermine and oppose what we believe in. Just because you disagree with both liberal and left-wing views doesn't make them the same. Leftists aren't allied with liberals, we despise them, sometimes we hate them even more than conservatives.
Just a few examples: [1] They were smearing Corbyn constantly as antisemitic (which we leftists view as a smear-campaign by liberals to purge the labor party of it's left-wing, which they successfully did btw.), [2] they did partner with the gates foundation on global development (leftists view the foundation as neoliberal and their development of the global south as part of neocolonialism, we think those are all bad things btw.) and finally [3] they push Israeli/Zionist framing of the genocide in Gaza.
There is a lot more going on in our brains to accomplish that, and a mounting evidence that there is a lot more going on in LLMs as well. We don't understand what happens in brains either, but nobody needs to be convinced of the fact that brains can think and plan ahead, even though we don't *really* know for sure:
In PHP, people used to just call mysql_query on a string and all the escaping was done with mysql_escape_string. According to you that nice locality of query construction and sanitization that should've improved security, but my god did it ever not do that.
It was exactly layers of abstractions, moving things far away from the programmer, with prepared statements to ORMs, that meaningfully reduced the number of SQL injection vulnerabilities.
Another example is JavaScript, how many XSS vulnerabilities never happened because of all the shadow dom frameworks? Layers of abstractions like these (JSX,etc) are a major reason we don't see many XSS vulnerabilities nowadays.
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