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Post by chungy »

azalemeth wrote: post #168
mcculley wrote: post #107

The first time I saw perfectly valid Unicode take down an RSS reader (in ~2003), it was an ü that did it. I have taken to calling that the kaboomlaut in unit tests.

The are quite a lot of "gotchas" with passwords being Unicode though. One of my favourite tricks is to include a null byte in passwords and see what happens. Sudo treats it as the end of the string. Passwd gives "token manipulation error" and nopes out. Many websites seem to fail in interesting ways...

A bigger deal happens with ambiguities concerning composed versus decomposed characters. Linux and Windows tend to prefer writing composed characters, whereas Mac OS will prefer writing decomposed characters. The letter é will have two distinct byte sequences to represent the same character (more precisely, the same grapheme).

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Post by remram »

pxc wrote: post #218
remram wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any program running as your user on your personal machine can trivially gain root privileges, by dropping a program called "sudo" in your personal PATH, putting a "sudo" command in your .bashrc, man-in-the-middle a shell (how do you know that last command actually completed?), or hijacking any of the graphical programs that trivially ask you for your UNIX password to do anything (Discord/Slack/... updater, Steam, ...…

When do any of those programs ask you for your password? I've never had any of them ask for my Unix password, ever. Is that just a macOS thing with self-updaters?

I'm using Ubuntu/KDE/Plasma. "Discover" is the GUI app that prompts you to install system updates, and will ask for your password when you do (to run apt/dpkg as root). Discord doesn't directly ask for my password, it downloads a .deb from somewhere and opens it, and I get prompted for my password then. Not much different IMHO.

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Post by grose »

warent wrote: post #24

For anyone wondering, this is basically a young millennial / gen z meme. The emoji is usually pronounced "pwease", as in a childlike pronunciation of "please" Therefore the command is basically just asking very nicely, hoping to get one's way edit. source: dude just trust me

It's also a meme in Japan, called "pien".

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/c03823/

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Post by pxc »

jowsie wrote: post #145
gumby wrote: post #87

Typing emoji is a pain, but the chat suggests that that might be an advantage: > Using this program requires you to be able to type an emoji. Most attack code is of such poor quality that they are unable to run commands named with emoji.

It's easy on Windows, just winkey+.

This is the best feature of Windows tbh

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Post by adenozine »

goodpoint wrote: post #181
adenozine wrote: post #73

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Rust? Well, speaking of egotistical open source people that refuse to change...

You are being downvoted by the RIIR crowd for bruising their egos.

Yeah, sorta proves my point. I expected it.

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Post by Dylan16807 »

xdennis wrote: post #268
xena wrote: post #196

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If you configure your content blocker to hide the picture element, all the furries go away.

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Not block all images, just on the site. It takes a few seconds.

I think it's valid advice in this case, because they seem to be quite upset specifically at the furries, and not at the conversational structure of the post.

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Post by doodlesdev »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #207
doodlesdev wrote: post #187

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Okay, I read it... > Sexual attraction to furry characters is a polarizing issue. In one survey with 4,300 furry respondents, 37% answered that sexual attraction is important in their furry activities, 38% were ambivalent, and 24% answered that it has little or nothing to do with their furry activities. So I'm reading "no reason to assume it's a sexual thing without specific contextual evidence", which I'm not seeing…

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Post by xdennis »

gnicholas wrote: post #39
readthenotes1 wrote: post #30

I have more trouble interpreting emojis then I do emotions. God help me.

I end up hovering a lot on slack to find out the translation. And thankfully Siri reads them out loud to me when I have my airpods in.

People who use emojis aren't the type to lookup the official meaning. In other words, actual use is at times very different from the official description.
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