#NULL!

And I would be the one biting that bait hard because mojibake are like a pet peeve of mine.

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

use %20 randomly for fun

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

my favorite thing to do is go to small town websites and look at the page source for their forms. 70% of the time they have inputs commented out to “disable” forms or just deprecated functionality.

I like to uncomment them and submit the forms just to fuck with them 🤣

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python@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I was applying to a job recently, and their online form had a “Upload your documents here” field. Problem was, the input was set to only accept a single file. Well, I wanted to upload two, so I just went into the html and added “multiple” to the input. Which just worked, I even checked the network tab to confirm that both files were submitted.
Haven’t heard back from that company yet. It was a web dev position so I hope they appreciate my hijinks 🤞

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perviouslyiner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Always include a % in your song titles to crash car music player software that uses sprintf. (h/t to Dave P)

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coolansplanet@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

ooh, so it was you then!! 😠

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Enkrod@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Allow me to make one thing perfectly clear: If you insert those symbols into my perfectly working website… only to mess with me and inadvertently give me vietnam-style flashbacks to the days when I had to deal with incredibly badly formed and misencoded CSV-files on the daily…

Then I will find you and break into your home to replace every second sock with one of the same color and pattern but slightly different make, size or material and you will always wonder why you can’t find any exactly fitting pairs of socks anymore.

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ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I willingly embraced mismatched socks years ago. I just pretend it’s a fashion statement. Come at me bro.

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- vanillama@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Don’t let the world change you, this is wonderful
  
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- captcha_incorrect@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I always buy identical socks, cannot mismatch if they are all the same.
  
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- NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I started buying all the same sock type, but some might have a little gray or a little brown in the variation, and I dont care, I mix/match.
  
  If one gets a hole its just one of many and is tossed.
  
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Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

To the op of the screenshot meme, calm down satan

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Kojichan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Usually only happened when a French person copied and pasted their text directly from a Word document… dang weird spaces and accented characters… drove my boss mad when I told him it was because it French, and not a glitch.

Still had to work around it… text counters in textboxes had to account for accented characters, which took two bytes instead of one.

“I only have 2000 letters!” … 2000 including 200 accent characters made it 2200 characters, not 2000.

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Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I remember one day long ago when Notepad++ was the real shit, I was using the vertical selection feature and noticed that the selection was shorter on lines that had accented characters. I thought: “huh, accented characters count as two? What would happen if the selection ended in one? Can I select half a character?” no I could not and I had to restart my computer after trying.

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- Kojichan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I loved Notepad++.
  
  Started in DOS with Edit, regular notepad, got introduced to UltraEdit, then found NP++.
  
  … lol. Sounds like you tried splitting an atom.
  
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calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Easy. Just use utf-32 and make the text field a maximum of 500 letters. That will be a maximum of 2000 bytes, doesn’t matter if the user is french or Chinese.

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- Kojichan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  XD ahahah.
  
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AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

“I only have 2000 letters!” … 2000 including 200 accent characters made it 2200 characters, not 2000.

Or, you could count it in Unicode characters, and not in whatever bizarro charset you’re using over there. Then “À” is one character, just as it’s supposed to be.

The problem typically comes from improper conversion between charsets. Like Windows-1252 to Unicode, or something equally horrible.

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- Kojichan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I was basically calculating in Javavscript then in PHP for validation before I sent it to Zoho.
  
  The DB also was fine. It was honestly just PHP and Javascript. It’s all good now though!
  
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- calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Not if the maximum is due to the database being configured to have a maximum space of 2000 bytes for that field.
  
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Ucarenya@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

How to make your code look ‘modern’ 101

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diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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mlg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I remember feeling extra powerful when Moonshell for the DS shipped with UTF-8 and UTF-16 support because the developer was japenese and wanted to make sure any language would work.

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Jakylla@jlai.lu [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

□□□□□□□□ !!

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LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Former dev here, can confirm on occasion it does.

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_stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Allow me to introduce you to my favorite Unicode character, the zero width space

unicode-explorer.com/c/200B

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Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Unfortunately, evil people blacklist this character a lot :(

May I introduce you to my favorite Unicode character, the Braille zero dots

https://unicode-explorer.com/c/2800

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- captcha_incorrect@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Here is the big list of naughty strings.
  
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lalala@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
What kind of devil came up with this?

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- Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  The justification is on the linked page
  
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blah3166@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
that sounds awesome! (there’s 10k zero width spaces between the quotes ->’’.)

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- Whelks_chance@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Odd, on the Connect app it shows a bunch of spaces, but not 10k of them.
  
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- solxix@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  On Interstellar it shows up as normal spaces for me so there’s just a giant block of empty space
  
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- _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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- flint@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Checks out:
  
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Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Ok calm down there Satan. Leave some chaos for the rest of us 😅

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ValiantDust@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Unless they work for Microsoft. Teams has been showing � instead of ä for the caller’s name in the popup when someone calls for several weeks now. It didn’t use to do that before. I don’t think they care anymore.

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ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I don’t think it’s even “they” any more.

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elvith@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I � Unicode!

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FreshLight@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I like this very much! It implies that the person expressing this knows exactly how they feel about Unicode. It’s just us, the readers (or some other link in the chain), who have/ has the wrong encoding.

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davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

You monster!

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oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Can this really not be fixed?

I still see this in various text that’s meant to be readable.

Usually ampersands are the biggest culprit, but is it just a really sacred data type that can’t be upgraded to include punctuation, but can include the foreign looking wingdings that try to stand in for it?

I’m just confused on why those characters have multi character reference names that aren’t part of the regular alphabet or punctuation set either, but those still show up instead of having room to just remove the erroneous reference with the actual character.

It’s 2026, just dig out this fossil and fix it already.

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Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The characters are all in your own pc. The text data is actually just numbers, referencing the index of each character in a reference table.

Early on someone thought “let’s create a bunch of different reference tables and each country uses the one that is best for them so we don’t have to include every character in the world”.

But that thinking has a critical problem: when you write some text that will only be read within the country, you don’t need to keep track of which table you used because everyone will be using the same. Soon you forget that there are other tables for other countries so when you do send an international text using your table as a reference, the person on the other side will be parsing it using their own table and the resulting text will be different. And sometimes when this mixup happens, the index referenced by the text in the other table may actually be some internal control character that is not meant for rendering.

These days the problem is “mostly fixed” by the near-universal adoption of a single reference table that proposes including verything you may ever need (even a lot of emojis) - but this large table means that each character in a text may need more digits to represent the intended index so the total file size for the same text is larger than it would be with the non-universal table.

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- oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Exactly. My point is to move to a single universal standard that is used by literally everything so this never happens. Just cut off everything that can’t be updated, and it can just sink or swim based on how well it can parse the new table.
  
  Fuck all that ancient non-updateable shit. There’s no good reason that old table still exists, much less be possible to use this side of 2000.
  
  Obviously this has legacy problems, but fuck those systems, everyone gotta get new shit now, tough shit. The old table should be cause for new shit to fail compiling in the first place. Shouldn’t be possible to use it.
  
  Let’s just make forward progress, and lose the chains.
  
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dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

It’s 2026, just dig out this fossil and fix it already.

That’s the joke. 😅

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funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
the wrong UTF encoding is usually the issue

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ODuffer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

▞☒ę

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gruvn@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Pretty sure that’s illegal here.

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NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Not always, but most times, yeah.

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9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Actual monster

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Kenny2999@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Image

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RobertTableaux@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
My day has come!!!

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deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Don’t sanitise inputs. Reject non-conforming inputs entirely.

But otherwise: yes.

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- nonagonOrc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  No fuck both of those, just use prepared statements so user input can’t be interpreted as SQL.
  
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- Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  And end up having loads of valid requests rejected 😁
  
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- ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I’ll never conform!
  
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akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
How would you do this in C? I’m a beginner. Does it entail checking/disallowing certain characters and data types? What? 😃

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- copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  If you use the SQLite C API like this
  
  char query[256]; snprintf(query, sizeof(query), "SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = '%s'", username); int rc = sqlite3_exec(db, query, NULL, NULL, &err_msg);
  
  and someone enters Robert’; DROP Table Students;– as username, it deletes the table Students.
  
  const char *sql = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = ?"; int rc = sqlite3_prepare_v2(db, sql, -1, &stmt, NULL); if (rc != SQLITE_OK) { fprintf(stderr, "Failed to prepare statement\n"); return; } sqlite3_bind_text(stmt, 1, username, -1, SQLITE_STATIC);
  
  Using this “prepared statement” and “bind”, your code is secured against such SQL injection attacks.
  
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- LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  You wouldn’t - what they’re describing is called “SQL injection” - a way to fool poorly written web server code (regardless of what language it’s writen in) into executing SQL code. The poorly written server code takes what’s entered in a form field on a web page and pastes it into a skeleton of a SQL statement - in this case the text in the input field is SQL that ends the intended statement, followed by a new statement that deletes a table. For this to even work, the SQL skeleton on the server would have to be structured in just the right way so the modified version with the pasted-in text still makes sense. For this reason, hackers attempting SQL injection usually have to do a lot of trial and error to get something to happen. The only way it can work at all is if the server software handling the web page sends SQL commands to a database server as text, as if they’re being typed in, and the server executes them. You can’t inject C in this way because unlike SQL, C code isn’t just executed, C programs have to be precompiled.
  
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- jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Many languages like C, Java, Python, etc allow you to construct SQL queries or SQL statements, where SQL is its own language used to communicate with a database, like Oracle or MySql, or Postgres or MSSQL. One way to do this is to construct a string in your language using whatever string functions, concatenation etc available in your language. The problem occurs because usually you want some kind of user input as one of the parameters in your sql query, in order to fetch the correct records the user is asking for. Like say a record ID or name. If you do not properly sanitize that ID or name which originally comes from some type of user input, then a malicious user could carefully craft an ID or name which includes their own SQL and other special characters, which will interfere with the query you intended to construct, and instead do something malicious. Like delete records or obtain records the user is not supposed to have access to.
  
  There are many ways to guard against this, and you should learn about this when you start working with SQL and databases. It’s called a SQL injection.
  
  There is another type of code injection which can occur if you are making exec() calls (or whatever your language uses) to run shell commands. Similar caution should be taken there.
  
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- vrek@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  How do you sanitize your inputs or how do you exploit inputs which are not sanitized.
  
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Klear@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I see little Bobby Tables is all grown up

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Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
He’s taking painting classes. Let’s see if the database there can handle him!

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Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Depends on if it breaks the form and they get called. Actually if it gets through they might rightfully question their sanitation coding.

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zqwzzle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

[object Object]

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inari@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
NaN

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resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
What? My mother was a saint!

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panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Yes?

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Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Calm down satan 😅

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#NULL!

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