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< So much for saving the world from links
Hey ~inquiry,
I often surprise folks by typing (even lengthy) URLs right into the address bar :)
That being said, the copy+pasting would maybe reduce the careless visit of shady URLs --- alas, it is much easier for the IT department to tell everyone "you stupid idiot clicked on that link". But it would be a lot less cleaning up damages by just disabling the automatism. And for that reason I don't use terminal window, which "recognize" URLs. I rather (partially) copy and paste. Cheers!
Ugh... sorry for the reply followup mess... something about what I uploaded didn't "take" right... something in it was interpreted as being more than just text... and now I can't delete those entries either.
I really need to get the hell off online given all the heartache and misery lurking around its every corner....
Hi ew.
Interesting. Beyond potential "increased safety", I see your personal policy of typing in links as even better than copy/paste of URLs in terms of slowing down click rush.
That has me suddenly imagining a voluntarily used script to slow down click frenzy even more that reads a URL from stdin, clears the screen, then doesn't echo it back to stdout until some predefined amount of time (one minute, say). It would be up to the user whether they typed or pasted a URL into its stdin.
Obviously, one could simply wait a minute, but why not let a script keep track of that time?
For example:
#! /usr/bin/env lua
local url = io.stdin:read('*l')
os.execute('clear\
=> /replies/8140 ~inquiry wrote:
Hi ew.
Interesting. Beyond potential "increased safety", I see your personal policy of typing in links as even better than copy/paste of URLs in terms of slowing down click rush.
That has me suddenly imagining a voluntarily used script to slow down click frenzy even more that reads a URL from stdin, clears the screen, then doesn't echo it back to stdout until some predefined amount of time (one minute, say). It would be up to the user whether they typed or pasted a URL into its stdin.
Obviously, one could simply wait a minute, but why not let a script keep track of that time?
For example:
local url = io.stdin:read('*l')
os.execute('clear