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... reminds me that I wasted far too much time trying to figure out what layer is causing strings that look like URL's in my terminal become mouse-click-ably opened by my browser.

Not xterm, and not browser links, but similar.

$terminal (urxvt in my case) started to require confirmation, when pasting "funny characters" (simple new lines in my case!) into the terminal. Now, a terminal is a terminal and not my supervisor or nanny. I find this sort of thing "outrageous". A terminal, that tries to be smart? Even to the extent to outsmart me?? Seriously??? So I set out to find this naughty thing. Turns out, that urxvt sports extensions written in perl! A giant door to spy on my typing via extensions included behind my neck. Sigh! I managed to disable it by setting

URxvt.perl-ext-common:-confirm-paste

But it got me thinking. Maybe urxvt is just not the technology I should be using. That being said, I abandoned xterm, because of (perceived?) difficulties using a tiling window manager. Oh the joys of terminal diversity.

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~inquiry wrote:

I'm guess I'm less concerned with being spied on than being inconvenienced.

In this case, I don't know when URLs suddenly became clickable in my terminal windows, but what used to be a simple copy/paste now requires more surgical precision lest I click the damned thing, which launches it in Chrome. BZZT! That's not what I want! And it seems like something that ought to be easy to disable, but I spent hours researching it to no avail.

I find having to spend time making effort due to someone else's having felt the need to "help" me a particularly vile form of inconvenience. It's one thing if a water main breaks. But it's another when it's due to "help" that I didn't ask for.

And that's how I see what "the web" has become: a huge tumor of inconvenience. My <deity>, how I want to retch watching modern pages load, including how attempting to click on a link that keeps jumping around feels not unlike trying to catch a fly with my hand.

And don't get me going on "content" provided by javascripturbation such that I can't simply curl and parse. That's close to the pinnacle of inconvenience zone, meaning my choices are use some beast of a browser, or go without. I far more often go without anymore.

Love the phrase "terminal diversity", by the way. :-)