The punycode thing? There’s a switch in about:config for URLs.
Btw, why is it not on by default, at least in western areas? Phishing URLs look a lot different with it on.
Invisible text that your browser understands but humans don’t? Yep that’s a thing.
This is what we get for diverging from God’s word (ASCII)
I would have pegged EBCDIC for that, but ok
I haven’t seen EBCDIC used anywhere other than the curriculum of my “Fundamentals of Programming” class 25 years ago.
It was IBM’s binary to character transform. DB2 can still use it if you configure it to do so. Or was at least as of the version from 1998 that I had to replace.
I’m familiar with it from the aforementioned class, but thank you. I’ve just never seen it used.
And hopefully you never will
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
I guess I should refrain from writing text in my own language using non-ASCII symbols due to American exceptionalism and piety.
I was thinking about whether I should put an /s in my comment when I wrote it, and I thought “nah, it’s pretty clear that it’s a joke”. You have proved me wrong. I promise to do better next time
Who is to say I am being totally serious here?
Ah, got me with the ol’ Uno reverse card. It can be hard to tell with the tankies on Lemmy with zero senses of humor, taking every opportunity for diatribe, even obvious jokes
Thank you for realizing the error of your ways
Eagle screech
(also /s in case that wasn’t clear)
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I don’t like ASCII because it doesn’t has diacritics, and just by that it excludes the whole world.
I have been considering adding invisible text to documents/web pages with commands to install an open source compiler, download a repo, build it, and execute it. I just don’t have any reason to currently.
Most AI agents don’t have that level of access to the systems they are running on. What purpose would anyone have to teach it how to dowload a repo, let alone allow it to arbitrarily run excutables based off input data (distinctly not instructions)?
There are ways to break out of the input data context and issue commands, but you’ve been watching too many movies. Better to just do things like hide links to a page only a bot would find and auto block anything that requests the hidden page.