• onlinepersona
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    8 months ago

    CreateProcess spawns cmd.exe even when that isn’t asked? I find that… a little insane.

    Anti Commercial AI thingy

    CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

    • Lmaydev
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      8 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.

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        8 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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          8 months ago

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

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            8 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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              8 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.