Don't copy-paste commands from webpages...

Pathduck

@sgunhouse Shift+Insert has always been paste hasn't it? At least in most terminal emulators it's been the standard. Being able to use Ctrl+C/V is relatively recent even in Linux terminals.

Back in the old real MS-DOS there was no paste or a clipboard at all of course. I don't think clip existed back then.

And it's only lately that MS have made it possible to use Ctrl+V to paste in a CMD window. Earlier you had to use RMB - or possibly Shift+Ins - although I can't remember ever using it for paste. And even that wasn't even possible unless "Quick Edit" was enabled, which it for some reason was not by default.

At least that's one thing *nixes has going for them - actually useful terminals

I have to log in to older Win servers on a daily basis, and if I've not logged in before, I have to spend a couple minutes setting up CMD to even be useful for anything at all.

npro

@pathduck said in Don't copy-paste commands from webpages...:

mine OS is better than thine OS

nobody told that, it's just that GNU/Linux is better than MS Windows

jumpsq

@npro

Pathduck

@npro I lived through the OS wars, man. I couldn't care less.

https://liw.fi/advocating-linux/

jumpsq

@pathduck You're right. @npro and @jumpsq are very naughty and childish and we should focus on browser wars instead of OS wars. But I hope you can secretly enjoy this as well.

npro

@pathduck Well you know, on the one hand you don't want to talk about MS, its monopoly and about Linux, on the other hand you keep posting pro-Windows, anti-Linux links, it does not look to me like someone who couldn't care less, so you'd better decide what you want?

Also if that article you linked is from 1996, that is one year after Windows 95 and before the US vs. Microsoft antitrust case in 2001, which has proven a lot in the meantime and life has proven the rest, with the latest incident of Jon writing another article about Microsoft's tactics.

Don't stick to that article, it says

If they flame Linux users, they're idiots and you should ignore them.

I think you don't want that.

npro

Oh and something else...

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guigirl

@pathduck said in Don't copy-paste commands from webpages...:

I lived through the OS wars

I was dead for a year, then, for tax reasons.

ALL.

Lately, for vague indiscernible reasons, i've sensed this thread might have slightly deviated a tiny tad OT. Now, as someone who demonstrably respects Staying On Topic at all times, & to whom the very concept of OT is bigly distressing, this is rather upsetting. Ipso facto, further digressions shall be reported right up the line, to the very top. So there!

Disclaimer.
Given some peeps seem to have an ongoing struggle spotting irony & sarcasm, i formally declare that this post might contain teensy weensy traces of them. Maybe. Really, who's to say? Jodie? Possibly nobody knows... Shirley?

hlehyaric

@guigirl said in Don't copy-paste commands from webpages...:

as someone who demonstrably respects Staying On Topic at all times, & to whom the very concept of OT is bigly distressing

I truly & sincerely admire you for this.

Disclaimer
This post may contain traces of ~~gluten~~ a lousy attempt of humour.

guigirl

@hlehyaric Right, you ... FLAGGED for OT.

Don't say ya wasn't warned.

You've only yourself to blame.

Muhahahahaha...

dbouley

@guigirl A very interesting article. Thanks for sharing it with us. I really didn't know that such a vulnerability existed, but I'm glad that the tools that I do use would expose such an exploit if I ever encountered it.

My clipboard history tool, on my WindowMaker desktop, seems to easily identify the hidden code.

guigirl

@dbouley Yeah, ditto.

Nightmaresama

When google became a default search engine and was getting more and more popular what microsoft did? Launched bing
When google chrome killed internet explorer what microsoft did? Copy and paste chromium code and made closed-source Microsoft Edge
When Android was getting more popular what Microsoft did? Launched Windows for mobile.
When Mac-os got popular what Microsoft did? Made Windows 11 look exactly same as mac.
When Android became the most popular operating system what Microsoft did? Windows 11 now also supports Android apps.
Microsoft said they block ads and trackers in microsoft edge they don't.
Windows 11 home windows 10 home windows 7 home none of them support bitlocker. Privacy comes at a price.

And why does an antivirus needs to submit my files to the cloud?

To provide protection or to spy(automatically).

And why do I need to turn on optional diagnostic data to get insider builds. That feature is so deadly that it send entire data in the ram is sent automatically to microsoft. Means even keypassXC can't defend my passwords.
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This guy betrayed his own wife what is the guarantee he will not betray us?

guigirl

@nightmaresama Oh c'mon, please. Not here!

Nightmaresama

@pathduck said in Don't copy-paste commands from webpages...:

Try this one (if you dare):
https://hashbang.sh/

sgunhouse

Back on topic ... I wrote my college dissertation on Word on Windows 3.1, and the shortcuts there were Ctrl-Del, Ctrl-Ins and Shitt-Ins.

And theoretically, Windows is not quite a monopoly. You could always buy a Mac, and now there are also Chromebooks and Linux.

guigirl

@sgunhouse said in Don't copy-paste commands from webpages...:

Back on topic

Phew.

Windows is not quite a monopoly

Well, that didn't last long.

sgunhouse

@guigirl

guigirl

In the interests of never again deviating from the essential theme of this thread's OP, i think we can all agree on this simple unambiguous statement of facts, then all move forward hand in hand & merrily Kumbayahhhhhhhhhhing...

windoze sucks
linux rocks
lmb-select mmb-paste rulz
mac; wot's that?

And so now we can calmly return to the main topic, safe in the knowledge of no further OT.

npro

@dbouley keeping the spirit of not being OT, did you switch back to ALT-Linux? No more Exe?

...makes totally sense actually...