Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

Re:Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wi... by transitorykris on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @08:52PM (#48914895)

Brilliant feature, well done Vancouver PD. A very serious boss mode. Lotus 1-2-3 wouldn't look quite right here but weather.ca is plausible.

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Re:Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wi... by lysace on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @09:45PM (#48915258)

This feature has a long and storied history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key

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Re:Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wi... by analog31 on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @10:30PM (#48915554)

Amusingly, I just noticed that alt-spacebar-n doesn't hide a window in Ubuntu.

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Re:Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wi... by lostlogin on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @12:02AM (#48916166)

Bullies can’t use Linux, that’s for the bullied.

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Re:Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wi... by derekdahmer on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @09:23AM (#48920496)

When I was a little kid I was playing a DOS submarine game which had a Boss Key.

All I knew was the button makes it quit the game so my 6 year old interpretation was that it must be something you press when you get to the final boss and are too scared?

One day I played for an hour straight trying to get to the boss part of the game but it never came.

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Re:Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wi... by specproc on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @04:10AM (#48917706)

I came here for the boss key

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