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Re: Another Javashit Idiocy

From owl <owl@rooftop.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Another Javashit Idiocy
Date 2018-11-03 17:48 +0000
Organization O.W.L.
Message-ID <izb00ga.3@rooftop.invalid> (permalink)
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F. Russell <fr@random.info> wrote:
> One of the greatest images of human history is the Hubble Telescope
> Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) image:
> 
> https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0611b
> 
> This web site provides a direct link to the 110 Mb TIFF
> image file of the HUDF, which is good.
> 
> It also provides a sha256 checksum.  But is this also
> a link?  Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!  Fuck no!  It's a stupid,
> asinine, idiotic, imbecilic, and totally retarded
> Javashit "balloon."
> 
> Instead of doing a quick check using
> 
> wget -O - URL | sha256sum -c -
> 
> the user has to copy, paste, and save the checksum to
> a local file.  What lunacy!
> 
> It is, admittedly, only a minor annoyance but it serves
> to illustrate, yet again, the utter stupidity of web
> developers and their favored junk-toy javashit.
> 

1. Right-click the image and choose 'copy image address',
2. Select the hash string and run:

wget $(xsel -b); xsel -o |sha256sum -c

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Another Javashit Idiocy "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2018-11-02 01:31 +0000
  Re: Another Javashit Idiocy Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2018-11-03 10:05 +0100
    Re: Another Javashit Idiocy Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-03 02:45 -0700
    Re: Another Javashit Idiocy Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-03 05:06 -0700
    Re: Another Javashit Idiocy Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-11-03 08:12 -0700
      Re: Another Javashit Idiocy Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-03 22:31 -0700
  Re: Another Javashit Idiocy Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-03 03:47 -0700
  Re: Another Javashit Idiocy owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-11-03 17:48 +0000
    Re: Another Javashit Idiocy Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-03 11:17 -0700
    Re: Another Javashit Idiocy Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-11-05 07:22 -0800
      Re: Another Javashit Idiocy owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-11-05 15:38 +0000
        Re: Another Javashit Idiocy Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-05 08:08 -0800
    Re: Another Javashit Idiocy fr314159@gmail.com - 2018-11-05 07:35 -0800
      Re: Another Javashit Idiocy Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-05 07:52 -0800

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