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

Ingebrigtsen: The End of Gmane?

Posted Aug 3, 2016 13:19 UTC (Wed) by ssam (guest, #46587)
In reply to: Ingebrigtsen: The End of Gmane? by karkhaz
Parent article: Ingebrigtsen: The End of Gmane?

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

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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