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Re:I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Prod... by oauea on Thursday May 05, 2022 @01:22PM (#31276118)
And most importantly, don't let yourself get into the habit of copy pasting the value
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Re:I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Prod... by underwater on Thursday May 05, 2022 @06:37PM (#31279143)
I wonder if your could print some non visible characters in there to taint the copied value in some detectable way.
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Re:I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Prod... by dkersten on Saturday May 07, 2022 @12:34PM (#31296097)
Prompt in words, but expect the value in numbers, eg: "Twenty-five" and the box requires you to type "25"? At least this specific case, it would require you to type it.
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Re:I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Prod... by weaksauce on Thursday May 05, 2022 @08:34PM (#31279837)
yeah, that would possibly stop the copy and paste problem. to make it robust they would need to use a string of a few non-visible characters but that would fail if the browser's clipboard system doesn't copy them over for some kind of privacy initiative. might be another way it fails that I can't think of right now.
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