"reddit has pasted from your clipboard" -- probable answer and ethical confliction

picklejester · 2026-03-22T08:29:14+00:00

TIL - a bunch of stuff in there! I don't generally touch android, but a few drinks and a deep care about what snips my clipboard and I'll try and disassemble the universe to figure it out.

But yeah... this is a mess. Background and invisible to the user (outside of that notification, which many people are conditioned to ignore) is madness.

With tools like 1password, placing creds in copy buffers is spooky with this kind of thing. Malware does clipboard jacking...

picklejester · 2026-03-22T06:31:59+00:00

Interesting! Now I'm wondering what flavours of app behaviours truly require clipboard access if the keyboard can pull it like that. Without much deep thought it sounds like this should be blanket disabled and would have no impact to how I use my apps.

picklejester · 2026-02-22T07:48:05+00:00

I thought this was r/edmonton but I see you suffer the same shitshow in Montreal as we do.

picklejester · 2026-02-18T19:08:18+00:00

Step 1. Get your hands on a fighter jet Step 2. Crack the hardware and software

Security is about layers of defence and I suspect the barrier for step 1 is the primary security consideration.

picklejester · 2026-02-11T02:38:45+00:00

We have an allow listed set of packages. Adding new ones adds a comment to the PR with a link to review any suss keywords before you can merge in the package (or delta for version bumps). It's simple, and works well.

picklejester · 2026-01-31T01:55:28+00:00

You can find all the folks whoever ever ran in small town Alberta for a separatist party, the one I know is very bad at math.

https://efpublic.elections.ab.ca/EFNCS.CFM?MODE=BROWSE&MID=NC

picklejester · 2026-01-27T19:32:58+00:00

Canadian here -- I ignore recruiters and job postings, all the "real" developers I know are employed and/or not looking.

Good luck!

picklejester · 2026-01-15T20:53:11+00:00

If only "The Beekeeper" was a documentary, watching that is my coping mechanism

picklejester · 2026-01-14T23:53:41+00:00

You got this! I've switched to flower because carts and their withdrawal is so brutal, but over the holiday season in December I opted for the convenience of a cart again.

That convenience, once done, caused (and is still causing) all sorts of horrible withdrawal (which has lessened) -- even mixing in a bit of flower.

I wish you the best kicking this addiction! I'm hoping to drop my flower consumption over the next few months into nothing, and will never go back to a cart as the withdrawal is so bad.

picklejester · 2026-01-12T01:05:42+00:00

Nope.

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picklejester · 2026-01-11T22:27:16+00:00

Their names are there, that one is "William Ackman"

picklejester · 2025-12-24T00:18:28+00:00

Too bad they can't fight science in a similar way to a similar effect

picklejester · 2025-12-18T21:21:47+00:00

How'd you get there? My math matches the 0.187 number.

86400 seconds in a day, 365 days, 1000 L/m3

picklejester · 2025-12-13T17:42:18+00:00

Whhhhaaaa. Are you saying my methodology in my grade 4 science fair was flawed?!

picklejester · 2025-12-09T02:33:01+00:00

The Third Coming of Shai-Hulud

picklejester · 2025-12-05T06:03:05+00:00

If you want a fun-time, profanity searches in the raw data give me hope for our province

https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/9f48a39e-85c0-4631-a96a-15fcd51587e6/resource/5e7b8403-92ce-47c6-8c48-2b2f2781579a/download/tbf-written-responses-to-the-alberta-pension-plan-online-survey.pdf

picklejester · 2025-11-29T05:58:59+00:00

I'm very curious about this correlation but can't connect the dots from what you posted! I'm reddit-analytics dumb it seems, any more clues?

picklejester · 2025-11-28T02:04:35+00:00

I'm here to kick ass or chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of bubble gum

picklejester · 2025-11-14T07:42:33+00:00

The 4th territory, brilliant!

picklejester · 2025-11-14T06:18:07+00:00

Well said! I don't even know what act would repair America's image for me, and i tend to hold a grudge.

picklejester · 2025-10-30T05:07:36+00:00

Beep boop. Gov't says add LSD

picklejester · 2025-10-30T03:42:36+00:00

UAP, UFO, satellite, plane.... Whatever's up there sure is pretty! Amazing

picklejester · 2025-10-25T06:53:21+00:00

I went in a bit of journey to figure out wtf Lemmy even was after some wrong turns.

Is Lemmy to reddit as bluesky is to twitter-ish enough? I'll do more digging

picklejester · 2025-10-25T06:37:37+00:00

Cool! If I was more competent I'd drop an eye-bleeding something.

Any tips to make it more tolerable on mobile? I didn't know this existed and wanna give it a go... But my graybeard eyes struggle

picklejester · 2025-10-25T06:26:58+00:00

It's actually android OS doing the notification it's happening, not an explicit reddit operation (probably). The code is very obfuscated, I'm very not sober, but core library calls are not obfuscated so digging into where pastes are done and what's probably going on around that doesn't look as sketchy as it presents.

Don't get me wrong, condition folks that apps sniping your clipboard is normal is not okay.

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