• Lmaydev
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    7 months ago

    Seems like an ancient hack to allow bat files to be run via that function.

    I expect windows is full of stuff like that.

    • onlinepersona
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      7 months ago

      Yeah, backwards compatibility is good when it isn’t a security issue.

      Anti Commercial AI thingy

      CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

      Inserted with a keystroke running this script on linux with X11

      #!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
      #!nix-shell -i bash --packages xautomation xclip
      
      sleep 0.2
      (echo '::: spoiler Anti Commercial AI thingy
      [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
      
      Inserted with a keystroke running this script on linux with X11
      ```bash'
      cat "$0"
      echo '```
      :::') | xclip -selection clipboard
      xte "keydown Control_L" "key V" "keyup Control_L"
      
      
      • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        7 months ago

        I can barely live with that licence thingy, but don’t paste that tutorial into your comment ffs.

        • onlinepersona
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          7 months ago

          I’ve gotten the question often enough about why and how. You don’t have to open it 🤷

          Anti Commercial AI thingy

          CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

          Inserted with a keystroke running this script on linux with X11

          #!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
          #!nix-shell -i bash --packages xautomation xclip
          
          sleep 0.2
          (echo '::: spoiler Anti Commercial AI thingy
          [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
          
          Inserted with a keystroke running this script on linux with X11
          ```bash'
          cat "$0"
          echo '```
          :::') | xclip -selection clipboard
          xte "keydown Control_L" "key V" "keyup Control_L"
          
          
          • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            7 months ago

            Seems like my client doesn’t show it as a drop-down I thought it was like the reddit spoiler that where the same size but blacked out. Sorry.