Executable content

Posted Apr 21, 2025 7:23 UTC (Mon) by oldtomas (guest, #72579)
In reply to: Executable content by farnz
Parent article: Catanzaro: Dangerous arbitrary file read vulnerability in Yelp

Books don't have this problem.

Of course, the ad industry is the main driver of this "temptation". It would make sense to just resist it.

You say: "... rather than by bloating the help engine with an understanding of every single niche...".

This is a fine irony, given that e.g. on my box, firefox leads the memory hog contest. Far behind is mariadbd, trailing by a factor of two; behind that, there's a smattering of "Isolated Web Content", "Web Extensions", "Privileged Content", "Web Content" and so on (roughly 10 processes) which taken together (my guess: 20..30M RSS) dwarf *everything else* running on my box.

I have three (!) tabs open, and the firefox profile I'm using has had its javascript functionality neutered.

Bloat? Nah.