Spyke
lemmy.world

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

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leekleakreply
lemmy.world

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

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Just run the copied text through the same highlighter, then.

Or use a platform that supports text formatting.

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flickerreply
lemmy.world

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.

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discuss.online

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

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lemmy.world

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

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jetreply
hackertalks.com

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

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

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.

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lemmy.world

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…

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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.

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lemmy.world

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.

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lemmy.world

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.

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lemmy.world

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.

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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…

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Kraftingreply
lemmy.world

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

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Tafferreply
lemm.ee

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

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marcosreply
lemmy.world

The comment that is parent to the parent comment.

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Tafferreply
lemm.ee

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

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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.

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lemmy.world

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.

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

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lemmy.world

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

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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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jet
hackertalks.com

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snooggumsreply
midwest.social

People don't send out server crash incident logs, they receive them.

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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

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