Seems like a good idea to put that there. People who know what they're doing won't be bothered by it, but it might save a few people from getting hacked
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2024
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I'm admiring the ASCII art - great usage of different characters to smoothe out the outline of the text
Probably generated by a bot
Somebody had to program that bot! They still sat down and did the hard work of getting it smooth, but for every character
Ah, but you can have a bot do that too
Somebody had to program that bot too!
Not if there's a bot building bot for that
Hmmm, I see your point. Touché.
Machine learning though
That would produce a wonky "Sl0p" instead. Great.
Can confirm
- is bot
Oh? Let's test this. THIS STATEMENT IS A LIE
don't think about it don't think about it don't think about it don't think about it
Hmmm.. uh, true, gonna go true on that one.
But if true then is lie
The thing that nobody would have predicted about AI was that it lacked even the coherence of mind to recognize these logical puzzles, let alone be broken by them.
Generated by a function, come on
Hacker: That's ok, we don't want you to paste stuff in there, we just want you to send us your cookies. It's not like you're eating them anyway…
Hey once your logged in, can I have that unique identifier over there? It's for science. ;>
Yeah, you see this on a few sites.
Think discord has it as well
Firefox has a built-in warning against pasting. I think Chromium too. I don't think they warn about account theft, though.
Chromium now requires you to type a string inside the console before it lets you paste anything.
Firefox as well:
⚠️ Scam Warning: Take care when pasting things you don’t understand. This could allow attackers to steal your identity or take control of your computer. Please type ‘allow pasting’ below (no need to press enter) to allow pasting.
Soon browsers will require you to implement fizzbuzz in the console before enabling paste 😅
Honestly, a Modulo-Captcha wouldn't be that bad of an idea?
Sure, it's not really "non-dev-proof"; but I guess a simple "To enable pasting, please type result to the following formula: 5%3" would at least stop some people that will glady ignore the warning because obviously nobody wants to let you hack other Facebook accounts, but those guys told me it's fine - but will already be confused and then feel smart by entering 0.15 because 5% of 3 is 0.15 ... and wonder why it doesn't work
Before you try to enable enable vim mode in Obsidian, you're prompted to show you know how to exit vim before continuing.
they even straight up disable pasting until you reenable it.
and both browsers warned about identity theft in the error message when i tried it.
With access to front-end javascript comes great responsibility.
discord has it too iirc
Yep, that's the first place where I saw something like that
Lots of sites have this, I'd assume its common security practice for large sites where scammers are aplenty
