this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2024
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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
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 &).
@Soyweiser @self just base64-encode everything then learn to read base64 in your head
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