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Re:The Impending Doom of Expiring Root CAs and Legacy Clients by gindely on Monday June 08, 2020 @11:03AM (#23457092)
(ot: should that be clueless^Whelpful, or is there some new convention I'm not aware of? ^ still means "ctrl" right?)
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Re:The Impending Doom of Expiring Root CAs and Legacy Clients by castillar76 on Monday June 08, 2020 @02:23PM (#23459213)
It's an old Unix convention: ^W (Ctrl-w) would remove a word using the Emacs keybindings. So in place of striking out a word, you'd put ^W and the replacement, as you would when typing it out ("clueless...err, no, wait...ctrl-W...HELPFUL").
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Re:The Impending Doom of Expiring Root CAs and Legacy Clients by Drdrdrq on Monday June 08, 2020 @04:28PM (#23460413)
Gp missed "w".
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Re:The Impending Doom of Expiring Root CAs and Legacy Clients by gkop on Monday June 08, 2020 @11:09AM (#23457154)
The parent is using it to mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_conjunction
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Re:The Impending Doom of Expiring Root CAs and Legacy Clients by gindely on Monday June 08, 2020 @11:39AM (#23457483)
If true, that would be logical and fair.
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Re:The Impending Doom of Expiring Root CAs and Legacy Clients by koolba on Monday June 08, 2020 @12:32PM (#23458055)
It’s not. I’m not that clever.
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Re:The Impending Doom of Expiring Root CAs and Legacy Clients by bawolff on Monday June 08, 2020 @02:59PM (#23459620)
Not quite, as i doubt exclusive or is meant here.
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Re:The Impending Doom of Expiring Root CAs and Legacy Clients by mywittyname on Monday June 08, 2020 @01:10PM (#23458441)
^ probably means super-script format in this context.

I'd probably say ~helpful~clueless instead though

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