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@boomzilla
I just finished pushing my blob through the pipe. I should have flushed earlier.
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@Gurth said in Look before you paste.:
@accalia Funny how it’s on a Linux site, but the screenshots are from OS X’s Terminal.app.
You can make Linux look like OSX, or pretty much any other OS.
Except Windows 10. I don't think you can make it look THAT ugly
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@TimeBandit bash is bash ... if the exploit is based on bash then most Linux system and OSX systems would be affected. If you had a FreeBSD or OpenBSD system that use bash in shell that had root rights I suspect the same would happen.
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I tried to make a clever avatar out of default avatar, but I think I utterly failed.
But here, have my attempts anyway:
At some points it looked like boobs.
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@Zecc I like tits, make more avatars that look like tits.
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@lucas1 said in Look before you paste.:
@Zecc I like tits, make more avatars that look like tits.
???
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@bb36e tits not tit
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@bb36e said in Look before you paste.:
@lucas1 said in Look before you paste.:
@Zecc I like tits, make more avatars that look like tits.
???
E_BOOBY_NOT_TIT
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@bb36e I think you just did a tit job?
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Did someone call for a pair of tits?
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@RaceProUK I was hoping for blue tits.
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@asdf More BDSM stuff, gives me a boner
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@TimeBandit said in Look before you paste.:
@Gurth said in Look before you paste.:
@accalia Funny how it’s on a Linux site, but the screenshots are from OS X’s Terminal.app.
You can make Linux look like OSX, or pretty much any other OS.
Except Windows 10. I don't think you can make it look THAT ugly
Why not? Redmond theme is pretty darn old by now...
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@Zecc said in Look before you paste.:
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@loopback0 said in Look before you paste.:
when you're downloading something from a website you trust.
And you're using https.
And not being a dumbass, ignoring invalid certificates.
@kt_ said in Look before you paste.:
WEll, there you gotta be careful. You should only install software made by people you trust. No, your uncle Edward is a bad example, never install stuff created by uncle Edward!
Wasn't there a "oops..." by someone important who neglected to fully verify a commit by a third-party and accidentally got malware injected because of that? Edit: to be clear, the commit specifically targeted the installation script.
ISTR something like that, but searching for news about it I couldn't find anything.Wasn't it an uninstall script? https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commit/a047be85247755cdbe0acce6f1dafc8beb84f2ac
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@TimeBandit said in Look before you paste.:
You can make Linux look like OSX, or pretty much any other OS.
You can, but the screenshot gives me the impression it really is OS X’s terminal nonetheless. The typeface, the “home” icon, and especially the black dot in the red “close” button while the script is executing are pretty good indicators, if you ask me.
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@anonymous234 said in Look before you paste.:
Nothing wrong with that IF that script is downloaded via secure https.
Which wouldn't help you if someone had managed to corrupt the version on the site. Instead, you'd have just securely downloaded an attack on your computer. Congratulations!
It's almost indistinguishable from installing Norton AV…
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@lucas1 said in Look before you paste.:
@RaceProUK I was hoping for blue tits.
I'd have thought you'd be hoping for great tits
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@HardwareGeek I don't know that acronym.
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@asdf said in Look before you paste.:
Blue waffle?
@lucas1 said in Look before you paste.:
@asdf More BDSM stuff, gives me a boner
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@CarrieVS said in Look before you paste.:
@HardwareGeek I don't know that acronym.
Variation on #MAGA.
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@HardwareGeek said in Look before you paste.:
@CarrieVS said in Look before you paste.:
great tits
#MTGA ?
#TAGA
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@CarrieVS Is that a nice pair of tits on a nut sack?
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@Zecc I appreciate the effort, but I don't want to remind anyone of the copyright symbol when I post! That might send the wrong message...
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@CrazyEyes Here you go:
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@CreatedToDislikeThis said in Look before you paste.:
There should be a clear clipboard button - I instinctively overwrite the clipboard using the same trick powerlord mentioned every time I'm done with it by now.
You can execute a command line to set or clear the clipboard, and this vbscript does that:
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.Run "cmd.exe /c echo. >NUL | clip", 0, True
If you want a hotkey, you could create a shortcut on the desktop and assign a hotkey to it. Or, you could probably translate that vbscript to an AutoHotKey script fairly easily -- it just needs to run that
cmd.exe /c echo. >nul | clip
command in a minimized/hidden console window. I haven't used AHK enough to know off the top of my head what the AHK script for this would be, but I don't imagine it would be terribly difficult.No, officer, there's nothing suspicious about posting vbscript code in this thread. Nothing suspicious at all!
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@anotherusername said in Look before you paste.:
You can execute a command line to set or clear the clipboard, and this vbscript does that:
Bah. Just use Klipper:
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No idea if it's any good; didn't know it was a thing until just now.
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Remember when back in Windows 95 or 98 it was possible to drag some text into the desktop and it would create a snippet file you could then DnD at a later time to get the text back?
What ever happened to that functionality? Was it removed because no one knew / used it?
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@boomzilla said in Look before you paste.:
@anotherusername said in Look before you paste.:
You can execute a command line to set or clear the clipboard, and this vbscript does that:
Bah. Just use Klipper:
The nice thing about Windows is that there is always a GUI to do it.
You don't have to use some cryptic command or script.Oh, wait ...
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@Zecc said in Look before you paste.:
Remember when back in Windows 95 or 98 it was possible to drag some text into the desktop and it would create a snippet file you could then DnD at a later time to get the text back?
What ever happened to that functionality? Was it removed because no one knew / used it?
Yes, and there was much rejoicing.
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"Scraps", it was called. I was trying to remember the name, but all I was coming up with was "snippets" or "scratches".
Raymond Chen said:
Either way, virus writers loved this "open the application that originally created the scrap" functionality because it allowed them to create a scrap file and fill it with data that said, "The original application is cmd.exe, and the document fragment is this batch file." When somebody double-clicked that particular scrap file to see what was in it, the scrap viewer handed a batch file to the command processor and said, "Please open this and show it to the user."
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The answer came back from the product support group. In the past year, the group received a total of four calls. And all of them were of the form, "I created this strange file. What is it and how do I get rid of it?"Ah, that explains it. I never used them myself, as a matter of fact.
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@Zecc said in Look before you paste.:
because it allowed them to create a scrap file and fill it with data that said, "The original application is cmd.exe, and the document fragment is this batch file." When somebody double-clicked that particular scrap file to see what was in it, the scrap viewer handed a batch file to the command processor and said, "Please open this and show it to the user."
Microsoft: designing functionality without thinking about the security implications since 1975
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@TimeBandit said in Look before you paste.:
1975
From Wikipedia:
Microsoft was founded by Paul Allen and Bill Gates on April 4, 1975
Should've been founded three days earlier.
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@Medinoc At the bottom of the linked article:
It's been ages since Raymond has seen you, and he wonders how the family is doing.
You creepy stalker !
Is this the guy responsible for building all that telemetry in Win10 ?
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@TimeBandit said in Look before you paste.:
Is this the guy responsible for building all that telemetry in Win10 ?
Based on the contents of his blog, I'd guess he's one of the kernel team. Or was at one point, anyway.
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I've always typed stuff. Even when looking up code snippets for stuff I don't know how to do, unless I'm super constrained by time I type it down instead of copy-pasting. It really helps committing it to memory, and it's how I learned how to program as well.
I never thought much of it other than the fact that I liked typing stuff when I was learning to code, but years later, when I came across the "Learn the Hard Way" series of books by Zed Shaw, his request to never copy-paste anything in order to help you understand what you're doing made a lot of sense and explained my behavior as a kid.
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@RaceProUK said in Look before you paste.:
Based on the contents of his blog, I'd guess he's one of the kernel team. Or was at one point, anyway.
And you think the telemetry is not running in the kernel ? I wouldn't be surprised.
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@TimeBandit I think that site needs someone to proof-read their titles...
"Hacker kicks one bit XP to 10 Windows scroll goal"? After that title, I was expecting all the article to be engrish, but it seems reasonably well written. Weird.
And another linked on the site says "Linux nasty kicks weak, hacked gadgets when they're already down"? (granted, that one may be ok if assuming that "nasty" is an ellipsis for "nasty bug" or somesuch)
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@RaceProUK said in Look before you paste.:
@TimeBandit said in Look before you paste.:
Is this the guy responsible for building all that telemetry in Win10 ?
Based on the contents of his blog, I'd guess he's one of the kernel team. Or was at one point, anyway.
I'm pretty sure at this point his title is something like "Windows Source Historian and Chief Trivia Officer"
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@boomzilla said in Look before you paste.:
@remi said in Look before you paste.:
Is that how you old timers called it in your days?
I'm manually downloading a blob right now.
I do that too. Fiber helps.