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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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it seriously took them 21 hours to come up with an excuse, and their excuse is it’s impossible to do the parts of html sanitization you can do with a basic regex and nothing else
fuckin ampersands man how the fuck do they work
This has got to be a bit, in my very online time I have never seen somebody complain about &s hell even with the \ I have never seen people go 'don't use the backslash' just people explain to others why the backslash behaves a bit weird (or how you can escape other characters with it, like for example the &).
@Soyweiser @self just base64-encode everything then learn to read base64 in your head
"I don't even see the RFC 4648 anymore. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead..."
To deter over the shoulder spying my browser converts everything using rot13.
For shouldersurfing opsec I’ve switched the keycaps on my keyboard, and now no-one can be certain which keys I’m inputting!
I think literally the last place I actually had this kind problem was a case of mojibake in filenames for things that started on a windows fs served under iis, that then went to a btrfs store and chilled there for a while (like, 6+ years and however many kernels), then rsync’d onto a zfs box (on bookworm)
And I literally just slapped the names through a python auto-remapper library after like 5min of searching to fix shit…