It sounds like this is a poisoning attack, which has been shown to be pretty trivially defeated [1]. That said, while poisoning countermeasures in the facial recognition case were shown to easily generalize, we dont know yet how general of a defense could be built for a VLM. Which means holding a 0day poisoning attack on a VLM could cause a lot of trouble / deaths before an update to the model with counter-training could be deployed..
One feature of this format which made me choose it for a project I worked on is self-synchronization -- if your data is truncated or corrupted in some way, you can recover by stepping forward until the start of the next frame. And since frame lengths are limited to a small number, there's no worry of one corrupt byte causing the parser to skip the rest of a long file.
Ok, turns out I was mixing up "flexible array member" with "variable-length array". Slices can be used on the stack like a VLA as well, though, with the unstable "unsized_locals" feature. This feature is controversial, however, because of the risk of unintentional stack blowup..
Slices in Rust are actually kinda similar to VLAs in C99, but usable in places other than aggregates, and use an additional word in pointers to them for the length, as a safety mechanism. You can even use slices as the last member of a struct, like VLAs, though they're not very ergonomic currently (you can only obtain references to them, as well as Boxes containing them, using "unsizing" coercion):
I'm not going to assume anything about this person's gender, but I think it's worth mentioning that the Japanese government uses violence to erase transgender existence [1], so it may not be a safe place to be non-cisgender.
Exactly. How is this any different than any Instagram filter that many influencers of any gender use to make themselves look younger?
I think this was only a news story in Japan because feminism / LGBTQ rights in Japan have a long way to go before people feel comfortable being themselves in public.
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.14851