<nettime> Europanto 3.0

[tbyfield <tbyfield@panix.com>]

Europanto 1.0 (1997):

	https://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9703/msg00114.html

Europanto 2.0 (1998):

	https://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9803/msg00004.html

Europanto 3.0 (2019):

	https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/30/macos_catalina_twitter/

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You'e yping i wong: macOS Catalina stops Twitter desktop app from 
accepting B, L, M, R, and T in passwords

Oher sofwae ikey hi y egession in uggy opeaing syse

Shaun Nichols
30 Oct 2019 at 21:15

Twitter says a bug in macOS 10.15.1 aka Catalina stops users of the 
social network's desktop Mac app from entering certain letters in 
account password fields.

When attempting to type their passwords into the application to log in, 
some characters are ignored, specifically 'b', 'l', 'm', 'r', and 't'. 
That would make it impossible to submit passwords using those keys to 
sign into Twitter accounts; pass phrases can be cut'n'pasted just fine.

According to Twitter in-house developer Nolan O'Brien, these particular 
keypresses are gobbled up by a regression associated with the operating 
system's shortcut support. Normally, users can press those 
aforementioned keys as shortcuts within the app to perform specific 
actions, such as 't' to open a box to compose a new tweet.

Something changed within macOS to capture those shortcut keys, rather 
than pass them to the password field in the user interface as expected. 
So, in other words, when you press a shortcut key in Twitter when 
entering an account password, the keypress is ignored in that context 
rather than handled as a legit password keypress.

Other programs may also be similarly affected.
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Could be worse — say, if it became impossible to RT anything about 
BLM.

Cheers,
[T]
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