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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have clipboard history enabled but holy is that an actual security nightmare.

  IMO not a good requirement to have.

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  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    As always the security is with the user. No clipboard is just unusable.

    And we are talking windows here, security was never important apparently until windows 10 anyways.

    In fairness X11 was a threat right? That is one of the reasons Wayland broke so much.

    As for the clipboard, kde applications can have a setting to say “this is a secret” and you can set to won’t clip. But passwords are so out of favor I am not sure it matters.

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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No clipboard is just unusable.

      there’s no “no clipboard”, what are you talking about? there’s been a clipboard in any OS since XP that I have used

      security was never important apparently until windows 10 anyway

      what? have you heard about 7?

      As for the clipboard, kde applications can have a setting to say “this is a secret” and you can set to won’t clip.

      I doubt that’s a setting, it’s just how it works. It’s not like it’s KDE specific behavior,even windows 10 is doing that.

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      • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Windows did not have a functional clipboard. Go look at all the complaints over the years.

        **Windows historically had only a single-item clipboard and no built-in UI/history. **

        A separate one shipped with MS Office that let you store something like 12 to 20 items. Why? Because windows sucked and DID NOT HAVE ONE.

        Windows itself did not get a built in Win+V searchable/historical clipboard until windows 10.

        what? have you heard about 7?

        Yes, better than XP, still not good. I am not going to do your homework, but Windows 10 was the first release that really focused on isolation, secrets management, and virtualization of applications for system wide and user protection.

        I won’t even comment on the rest, but it’s bullshit

        Just as well, you don’t know what you are talking about anyways.

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• uncouple9831@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No but seriously, what are you talking about?

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  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Do you not know what a clipboard is? Did you not use linux for years and when you had to deal with the windows desktop it was easily in the top 10 of really annoying things a computer should be able to do?

    In windows 10 they finally got a resemblance of clipboard. The bare minimum.

    Meanwhile, Linux had a qr reader/writer, full object cut and paste, actions, white-space trimming, history length adjustment, persistence between sessions, blacklisting, clipboard editing, functions, search, sorting, should I keep going?

    You can find multiple complaints over the years about how bad windows was at this.

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    • uncouple9831@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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      • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You need me to spell out what I said? Windows did not have a clipboard. That is it. You could enable one separately for word/excel for awhile.

        Otherwise the system got one slot. ONE to hold text. That was it.

        I was explaining what I mean. What more could i say?

        You are highlighting exactly what I am talking about: Linux has had a ton of features for the desktop for years (better right click context menus, better network protocol support, better nearly everything) but windows people didn’t so they don’t even know why using windows was basically living in the dark ages until Windows 10 started to get some worthwhile features. Windows 11 was the first to actually get a nearly functional file manager for example.

        I mean you are thinking QR read/write is not a useful clipboard feature?

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