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There was a thread recently about a repo that accidentally went private and lost all of its stars because of confusion with GH teams vs GH profile readme repo n
by Blackcatmaxy 4y ago
There was a thread recently about a repo that accidentally went private and lost all of its stars because of confusion with GH teams vs GH profile readme repo naming. I think this type of prompt is very useful for explicitly preventing the rare worst case scenarios but the problem is making any type of prompt "routine" so that our brains fail to process it.
- skrtskrt 4y agoI always copy-paste into that box as well, they should probably make at least an attempt at disabling pasting into it
- lostlogin 4y agoThis is it I think. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31033758 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31033758
- swid 4y agoThe suggestion in that post about how to fix it is good, and mirrors one I read in the Rachael by the Bay blog - type the number of machines to continue: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/10/26/num/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/10/26/num/ The take away by both is there is actually something to do which can wake people up when the stakes are high, and they might not be doing what they expect.
- oauea 4y agoAnd most importantly, don't let yourself get into the habit of copy pasting the value
- underwater 4y agoI wonder if your could print some non visible characters in there to taint the copied value in some detectable way.
- weaksauce 4y agoyeah, that would possibly stop the copy and paste problem. to make it robust they would need to use a string of a few non-visible characters but that would fail if the browser's clipboard system doesn't copy them over for some kind of privacy initiative. might be another way it fails that I can't think of right now.
- dkersten 4y agoPrompt in words, but expect the value in numbers, eg: "Twenty-five" and the box requires you to type "25"? At least this specific case, it would require you to type it.