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What's the weirdest bug in a program you found in a project you didn't write? (programming.dev)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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I thought of this after a recent bug I found. I use Vivaldi browser and recently it updated. After the update my mouse cursor was not visible when within the browser window. Other programs worked fine. I tried visual studio and steam and epic game store all had my mouse, Vivaldi didn't.

I closed all instances of Vivaldi via task nanager(was unable to click the x) and restarted it. That fixed the bug and I haven't been able to replicate so I don't have anything to submit for a bug report. Just a really strange thing.

What have been your weirdest bugs?

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[–] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Load 2TB of data into ram during startup. Prompt user credentials to continue. Whoops, we need to do cryptography on those credentials... Free the heap. Invalid creds force exits. Valid creds goes gray until those 2TB are loaded back into memory... From storage halfway across the country over the 3mbps link, the best available in BFE.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Why 2TB? Why during startup? Why does cryptography free the heap? Why is the data stored off-site?

    So many questions!

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Loads the entire db table into memory. The login step is configurable but the app loads the table before checking for it. Site is in BFE and other sites need access to the database so it is in corp.

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