Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

Post by smarx007 » Thu, May 05, 2022, 9:37 PM UTC

_wldu wrote: post #28

zciwor wrote: post #15

Will 100% be pasting this into a coworker's Google Doc with a white font color.

That's probably a cyber crime in most US states. Edit: You guys have no sense of humor.

Post by Jap2-0 » Thu, May 05, 2022, 9:38 PM UTC

oblosys wrote: post #81

Here's a bug I discovered in MS Word in 2004, which has survived the past 18 years of updates and is even present in the web version: https://1drv.ms/w/s!AgYiBqBjIZZpfkcvO9jnOel9T2o?e=tFA4wp If you join the two lines using a backspace at the start of the second line, the second line turns into gibberish.

Post by marcusverus » Thu, May 05, 2022, 9:40 PM UTC

dkarl wrote: post #25

blueberrychpstx wrote: post #4

When I come across posts like these, I just wonder, "How in the world did the user discover this in the first place?!" Let's place bets: A) The user just let autocomplete "take it away" (not sure about this one since they were able to access the console) B) Pen Testing? C) Error copy and pasting? D) Actual dialog in a sci-fi post-apocalyptic love story where a robot discovers the Turing test and attempts to set itsel…

I've heard people say it, speaking like this: "This would be a great solution to the problem, except that it would break the admin dashboard. And billing. And SSO. And partner test environments. And. And. And. And. And. This would break so many things I'm sure I could only name half of them if I tried."

Post by eyelidlessness » Thu, May 05, 2022, 9:42 PM UTC

iinnPP wrote: post #93

_wldu wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's probably a cyber crime in most US states. Edit: You guys have no sense of humor.

You can say this and express it as a joke but the text reads like poor criticism.

Post by sam1r » Thu, May 05, 2022, 9:43 PM UTC

simonh wrote: post #74

sam1r wrote: post #48

I’m willing to bet it’s related to this. Google docs is trying to guess something for autocomplete, similar to their gmail feature to complete your sentences. Which means, on a privacy standpoint, whatever you’re writing and guessing, they are absolutely processing something. We the user are the product, apparently. This is mildly creepy to me because, I do vent on google docs sometimes. And assume only I can read it…

It’s literally called a word processors, so I suppose it processes the words. I don’t have a problem with that, as long as my data is only used for purposes I have approved and to provide features I use.