Ingebrigtsen: The End of Gmane? [LWN.net]

Ingebrigtsen: The End of Gmane?

Posted Aug 2, 2016 5:56 UTC (Tue) by karkhaz (subscriber, #99844)
In reply to: Ingebrigtsen: The End of Gmane? by micka
Parent article: Ingebrigtsen: The End of Gmane?

> Seriously, some seem to be made so hard that they guess computer from human because only computers can solve them

Related: The Arch Linux forum requires that you paste in the output from a shell command in order to register as a new user. At the moment it is date -u +%V$(uname)|sha512sum|sed 's/\W//g'.

I always assumed that it was to stop the hoards of hand-holdy distro users who sign up to post support questions that Archers can't or won't answer, but that particular command is not actually Arch-specific. Would be nice if it involved pacman or something.

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Ingebrigtsen: The End of Gmane?

Posted Aug 3, 2016 13:19 UTC (Wed) by ssam (guest, #46587) [Link] (2 responses)

Pasting from websites is a bad idea
https://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste

Ingebrigtsen: The End of Gmane?

Posted Aug 3, 2016 14:04 UTC (Wed) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link] (1 responses)

Well, pasting from a website to a terminal is a bad idea right.
This is pasting from a terminal to a website.

Ingebrigtsen: The End of Gmane?

Posted Aug 5, 2016 7:34 UTC (Fri) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link]

The registration page[0] asks of the user during registration

. . .What is the output of "date -u +%V$(uname)|sha1sum|sed 's/\W//g'"?

How do you think a typical user will answer this question? They could of course try to type it into the terminal themselves, but the quantity of punctuation and whitespace control requirements will lead to many errors. Most likely they will copy and paste it from this question to their terminal. That is what is being questioned, not the second copy-paste of the answer.

0: https://bbs.archlinux.org/register.php?agree=Agree