On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 02:52:30AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > On 12/12/24 10:16 am, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 06:42 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > >> I believe that the problem, and, the reason that the Internet (on top of > >> which, runs, or, hobbles along, the World Wide Web, hobbled by the web > >> applications), is the malignant use of javascript client-side processing. > > > > Shortly after it first arrived, javascript (as opposed to java) was > > described as "the world's best virus construction kit."
[...] > JavaScript need not be that bad, but the web developers at fault are the ones > that SHOULD NOT HAVE jobs! It's not the devels. It's their bosses. And the bosses's customers. And. You don't get paid for even *counting* the number of npm packages which get wrapped into your so-called front-end. Let alone to understand what they purport to do. Let alone to understand what they *actually do*. That's how those funny vulnerabilities like event-stream [1] happen. Cheers [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/773121/ -- t
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