this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2025
1 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

66901 readers
5852 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
1
Life isn't easy if your last name is 'Null' as it still breaks database entries the world over (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
top 6 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] recursiveInsurgent@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

I was NaN years old when I learned this.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’ve been doing web development for something like 20 years now and I just can’t imagine how shitty your backend is if this is an issue.

[–] timuchan@lemm.ee 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This was my thought as well, sanitize your inputs! Are they not quoting/casting to string before input?

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Unless you’re coding from scratch it’s hard to not do this with any modern framework.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Legacy systems still handle more traffic than modern ones, I’d wager

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 weeks ago

Mandatory xkcd: