• @criss_cross
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      That’s what makes it risqué

    • KillingTimeItself
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      or do, it’s still not a joke, and you might get your ass blasted over it, but i suppose thats part of the fun.

  • @SpaceNoodle
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    Anyone else here baffled by why people take pictures of text instead of just copying it? The latter is inherently more useful …

    • @leekleak
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      i mean images allow for syntax highlighting to carry over, so I prefer them if my relation with the code/log is going to be read-only

      • @SpaceNoodle
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        Just run the copied text through the same highlighter, then.

        Or use a platform that supports text formatting.

    • flicker
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      For memes; I screenshot on my phone. Takes less time and makes the print bigger for my old friends.

      Anything actually important I will copy and paste.

    • @[email protected]
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      124 months ago

      My wife does that and it drives me crazy. Especially when she sends me screenshots of a website instead of the url.

      • @SpaceNoodle
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        164 months ago

        At least she doesn’t print the website out. And then mail it to you.

        • Midnight Wolf
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          14 months ago

          “I went to Kinkos to print our MapQuest vacation directions”

          “what”

      • @[email protected]
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        64 months ago

        I think the surge of JavaScript only websites that you can’t deep link to has trained that out of general people

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          54 months ago

          general people

          Specific people too! Perhaps even colonel people!

    • KillingTimeItself
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      104 months ago

      copying some text is more annoying to format. Sometimes i copy paste wiki text, but the formatting is a little fucky, and the notes are a little fucky wucky.

      Also phones are a terrible UI, so people don’t use them properly.

      • @Ziglin
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        14 months ago

        I haven’t used writer or anything like that in so long that I forgot about that. I think most apps allow you to press Ctrl+Shift+V to paste without formatting. Images sound worse though.

        I like copying from terminal to terminal…

        • KillingTimeItself
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          24 months ago

          yeah on PC it’s generally a lot better, you could also just dump the output to a text file and call it a day. That’s a personal favorite of mine.

    • @Couldbealeotard
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      84 months ago

      Proof of authenticity? If anyone sends you a block of text, the formatting could be compromised, there could be auto correct mistakes, they could have left out important feedback clues from the terminal output.

      • @Ziglin
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        14 months ago

        Proof of authenticity? I have gimp.

        Also why does your auto correct edit things you paste?

        If the important feedback from the terminal is out of view a screenshot still doesn’t help. The entire output piped into the clipboard is far more useful.

        • @Couldbealeotard
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          14 months ago

          Are you seriously suggesting photo manipulation is a risk factor for sending and receiving software crash reports?

          Manually typing or copy/pasting is vulnerable to typos, auto correct, formatting issues

          If the important information is out of view of the screenshot, that’s a skill issue that exists above the method of communication.

          • @Ziglin
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            I don’t think there’s a reason for anyone to fake crash reports. But an image still doesn’t prove anything.

            How is ctrl+shift+c, ctrl+shift+v vulnerable to those? (Or do you mean typing it by hand? That sounds really inefficient).

            Almost all crash reports are multiple pages long, I wouldn’t call missing relevant information a skill issue.

            I’m starting to wonder if we use vastly different setups…

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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      Even more baffling is when they take a screenshot of text and then put it in a Word document

      • @SpaceNoodle
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        64 months ago

        “Middle manager named Rhonda” vibes

      • @raynethackery
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        14 months ago

        Then print it and then scan it to their email so they can forward it to you.

    • KraftingOP
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      44 months ago

      Because it’s the point of this community?

      • @marcos
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        104 months ago

        I think the GP is talking about the logs.

        • KraftingOP
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          Oh yes indeed, sorry, well, when you kernel panic or are inside a VM, copying is not always an option!

          • @Ziglin
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            Just put the paper from the teletypewriter into the photocopier.

        • Taffer
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          44 months ago

          I understand what it means in context here, but what does GP stand for? Figure it’s not a typo of OP.

          • @marcos
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            34 months ago

            The comment that is parent to the parent comment.

            • Taffer
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              What does the G stand for tho? Edit: oh grandparent?

              • @[email protected]
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                This is the first time I’ve ever encountered “GP”. Most people I’ve seen just use “OP”, and people just understand which comment the person is referring to based on context.

    • @Ziglin
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      24 months ago

      You might not be logged in to the program you want to share the text with on that device. If you mean screenshots I don’t know either.

      • @SpaceNoodle
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        A photograph, if you’re severely airgapped, is better than nothing, but chiefly I’m whining about screenshots.

    • Midnight Wolf
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      04 months ago

      is complaining about this while totally OK with the exact same thing occurring with the post

      “but it’s not the same because […]” aaaand you have the answer to your question

      • @[email protected]
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        Who said I was okay with it? Screenshots of text instead of the actual text accompanied by a link to the original tweet etc. is a stupid trend and I don’t know why people prefer it.

        For the record, though, it isn’t the same because tweets are limited to a few hundred characters, and the font size is usually pretty big, so they’re usually easy to read through a screenshot. Crash logs are – how shall I put this – not, especially when they’re often photos of computer screens because crashed software, especially on servers, rarely lends itself well to taking actual screenshots.

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    PD ALERT #8008132 on Pants Rotation: Escalation, Critical Outage. Reply 14:ACK 16:Resolve 17:Escalate

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      164 months ago
      • claims to be a network server admin

      • terrible grammar

      This seems to check out

        • @Ziglin
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          14 months ago

          If that person is usually on the receiving end of that kind of picture it makes sense.

    • Firestorm Druid
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      94 months ago

      Works either way. Get sent implies the kind of pics a person as a recipient gets sent at 3am and sends is the other way around

  • @AeonFelis
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    44 months ago

    So… uh… pictures of Spider-Man?