Google Removes ‘Pirate’ URLs from Users’ Privately Saved Links::undefined

  • @betterdeadthanreddit
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    101 year ago

    Usually a backslash (the one under the backspace key, not the one that shares a key with ”?") before a character that would usually be treated as a formatting instruction will stop it from being interpreted as such. Could be different for other machine-interpreted languages but when used this way, the backslash is called an “escape character”.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      The \ key. And you might ask how I wrote that symbol without it gettting interpreted. Well, by writing \\.

      • @PotatoKat
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        1 year ago

        Which you wrote by writing \\\\ which I wrote by writing \\\\\\\\ which I wrote by writing \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\… help I’m stuck in a loop

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      But that didn’t work for ‘angle braket open’ text ‘angle braket close’? Not even in code tag right now.

      • @betterdeadthanreddit
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        1 year ago

        How about using “&lt;” and “>” (“<” and “>”, respectively)?

        Edit: Okay, I see what you mean. That is strange. Not sure what to do about that but will look around.

    • @Aluminaughty
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      11 year ago

      It’s a forward slash, to be clear. There’s not two backslashes on the keyboard.

      • @betterdeadthanreddit
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        11 year ago

        I specified the location of the backslash as a way to tell the difference between that and the forward slash. Probably could have made my intent more clear if I’d stated that the slash sharing a key with the question mark was the forward one as you mention but didn’t see a need.

      • @[email protected]
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        01 year ago

        Imagine being downvoted because someone else can’t figure out the difference between a forward and back slash.

        Lemmings, weird breed. Lots of chuds, it seems.