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✨jes✨

FYI, when a website erases your text that you just spent an hour writing, you can use this little trick to recover it 99% of the time:

1. find the firefox pid

$ pgrep -l firefox

2. attach gdb to firefox and dump its core

$ sudo gdb <pid>
gcore firefox.dump
<this takes awhile>
quit
<firefox dies>

3. find your lost text in the coredump

$ strings firefox.dump | grep "a unique word/sentence from ur text"

i just did this today to recover a long post i wrote, and figured i'd show others!! :uxn:

31 Aug 2023 at 0:09 | Open on merveilles.town
183 comments
dewomser

@j3s
$ sudo gdb -p <pid>
and it works for me
Linux Manjaro

10 Sep 2023 at 16:21 | Open on social.tchncs.de
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Andrea De Pirro

@j3s I was burned so many times that I always use a text editor and copy-paste it to the browser. It's like the habit to name any file with underscores instead of spaces.

11 Sep 2023 at 13:45 | Open on mastodon.social
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spooky blip 👻

@j3s I missed this when you wrote it but omg WHAT this is incredible. thank you!

20 Oct 2023 at 20:02 | Open on merveilles.town
spooky blip 👻

@j3s could you maybe add this to a blog post / wiki page / etc that I can permalink and bookmark for future reference? this is really helpful as one who breaks the shit out of software constantly.

20 Oct 2023 at 20:03 | Open on merveilles.town
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

@j3s Neat. I mostly resort to an alternative solution for this exact problem though:

1. Yell "Fuck you and your piece of shit website".
2. Close tab
3. Do some woodworking, sew clothes, plant trees, grow crops, help refugees, etc.

20 Oct 2023 at 20:10 | Open on social.tchncs.de
Dusty Pomerleau

@j3s @janriemer TIL about `pgrep`!

In the past I would have done:

ps -ax | rg firefox

20 Oct 2023 at 22:39 | Open on fosstodon.org
aburka 🫣

@dpom @j3s @janriemer I still usually do that one because pgrep only gives you the PID. So if there are multiple results you don't get any hints which is which

20 Oct 2023 at 23:12 | Open on hachyderm.io
Daniel

@dpom @j3s @janriemer If you didn't know about its buddy pkill, you do now! Basically the same arguments as pgrep but does what you would expect :)

21 Oct 2023 at 5:16 | Open on social.dekay.se
littlewing

@j3s What about editing your long post in Notepad++ first, then copy & paste it into the browser's editing window?

20 Oct 2023 at 22:51 | Open on indieweb.social
alys

@j3s if you're worried about losing text you entered in the future, also try an extension like addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef. unfortunately, it's a bit clunky

21 Oct 2023 at 2:39 | Open on selfy.army
Joel Wirāmu, Pauling
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