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

  • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
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    Don’t rely on online service to save your stuff.

    Edit: how can i exclude < and > from being interpreted?

    • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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      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”.

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

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

        • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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          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.

        • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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          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.

        • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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          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.