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a more cautious user might first paste the url into the address bar of their web browser to see what the script looks like before running it.
Wow, I never thought anyone would be that dumb.
Why wouldn't they just wget it, read it, and then execute it?
@K3can@lemmy.radio love the early 2000s stylesheet/color theme of your blog 🙂
Thanks! I like to keep things simple. The colors are based on Counter Strike 1.6. 😁
And if you're into the classic styling, my homepage is a direct homage to my old 2000s sites.
This helped a lot. I had no clue I could post the curl string in the URL bar of a browser to view the script. Thanks for the education!
You didn't knew that the tool to handle URLs written in C (very creatively named C-Url) was handling URLs? It's also written in C if you didn't knew.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| PiHole | Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 12 acronyms.
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Good bot