• Scary le Poo@beehaw.org
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      The ampersands gets converted to HTML (aka & by various clients).

      In general, it’s a good idea to never use ampersands on the web. A lot of sanitizers do not process them properly.

      I’m guessing that you are a good bit older (50s/60s), otherwise you would probably know this already.

      No one is “comin’ fer yer ampersands”, but it’s worth knowing that on the internet they aren’t a great idea.

      • self@awful.systemsOP
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        oh my fuck I banned them before I even saw this

        yeah we must be a fair bit older if we don’t buy their bullshit html sanitization ploy. no idea what web dev is here!

        “a lot of sanitizers don’t process them properly” holy fuck

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          it seriously took them 21 hours to come up with an excuse, and their excuse is it’s impossible to do the parts of html sanitization you can do with a basic regex and nothing else

          fuckin ampersands man how the fuck do they work

          • Soyweiser@awful.systems
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            This has got to be a bit, in my very online time I have never seen somebody complain about &s hell even with the \ I have never seen people go ‘don’t use the backslash’ just people explain to others why the backslash behaves a bit weird (or how you can escape other characters with it, like for example the &).

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            I think literally the last place I actually had this kind problem was a case of mojibake in filenames for things that started on a windows fs served under iis, that then went to a btrfs store and chilled there for a while (like, 6+ years and however many kernels), then rsync’d onto a zfs box (on bookworm)

            And I literally just slapped the names through a python auto-remapper library after like 5min of searching to fix shit…