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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. The only useful part of the text are the
by uniformlyrandom 8y ago
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?
- munchbunny 8y agoI do in team chat. It's obvious enough in context, as in "hey can you deploy, I just patched this urgent vuln: [url to ticket]" You won't see me using it in an email or other long form writing though.
- uniformlyrandom 8y agoYep, chat makes sense. Thank you for actually stating a use-case.
- benatkin 8y agoNext time you see a shortened word, you can just assume it's useful. Because they are.
- uniformlyrandom 8y agoNot 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).
- warent 8y agov11n meaning vulnerabilitn presumably ;)
- NyxWulf 8y agoI was picturing villain with an implied evil laughter.
- reificator 8y ago> 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.
- JeremyBanks 8y agoTerms like i18n and l10n are bad for a11y.
- reificator 8y ago> Terms like i18n and l10n are bad for a11y. Thank you for that, I am definitely stealing that phrasing.
- benatkin 8y agoUntil 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?).
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- munk-a 8y agoOh please _please_ don't. i18n is a terribly obscure term with no implicit link to the actual word. This is a place where "naming things is hard" but for big concept chose short concise terminology while letting the details get lost in the verbose verbiage. Whenever I see i18n I just weep over the fact they didn't use the term "lang", internationalization is complicated and hard to shorten due to other meaningful jargon around it but there are better options than the dumpster fire which is i18n.
- amake 8y ago> Whenever I see i18n I just weep over the fact they didn't use the term "lang" That's a bad idea because "lang" or "language" is already dangerously overloaded. People casually use it to mean any of (actual) language, locale (language + region (+ script, maybe)), script, or any combination of the above.
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- warent 8y ago4 sr i dt ths T (for some reason I doubt that's true)
- deoxxa 8y agoI read this as "for sure I do this too"
- munk-a 8y ago> Next time u c a shrt'd wrd u cn just ass. it's useful. B/c they r. They aren't always useful but I've rewritten your sentence in what I would consider a minimally legible format for me... but that's the problem it's for me. Don't introduce jargon in an effort to reduce comprehension time, it almost never works if you consider the time to familiarize yourself with the jargon. So when you're writing a blog post about PHP feel free to sprinkle in some comments about var vars, when you're communicating with your team use all your internal jargon... but when publishing an article for wide consumption just write everything out clearly.
- saagarjha 8y agoI have heard it used.
- JakeWesorick 8y agoI uz vuln evry day n sware dev.
- excalibur 8y ago> 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.
- notatoad 8y agothe 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-im-helping.jpg https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/67508702/look-at-me-...
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- blattimwind 8y ago> Does anyone actually use this abbreviation? More common in plural (vulns). However, it sounds oddly vulgar in my ears.
- DC-3 8y agoIt'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'.
- diminoten 8y agoI've typed it, but I dunno if I've ever said it out loud. Kind of like i18n.
- __jal 8y agoSame 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.
- uniformlyrandom 8y ago> oddly vulgar My initial reaction was 'linguistically disgusting', but I decided to hold off the opinion, just in case I am strangely illiterate.
- bezosbaldballs 8y agou r n0t 1337 h4xx0r This sounds like it was written by the same guy who started the "Hacker known as 4Chan" meme
- sjg007 8y agoTotes.
- bsamuels 8y ago"vuln" is pretty commonly used in the security industry
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoZerocool and Neo do.
- kerng 8y agoVuln is a common abbreviation in the security space - although, I dont appreciate parts of the sentence structure and how things are written in the article in general. Its difficult to read.
- ecesena 8y agono, I want to abbr I use v, and a for att.
- lucb1e 8y agoAs a security consultant, sure we do. But I'd never use it in a customer report or company blog post if I felt I needed to explain the abbreviation.