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I seriously thought I was losing my mind this morning.

Loaded up my IDE and got to work.

Needed to find something in the project, so I hit the keyboard shortcut to find all usages in the project path.

The dialog pops up, but my selection is replaced with a long hex string. I thought it was weird, but I just installed the latest update of my IDE so I thought I'd found a regression. I grabbed the hex string and went over to Google to see if anything useful popped up.

The first result is the reddit post for my keybase key.

Wait. The "random" hex string was the fingerprint for my keybase public key? I double-checked to make sure that keybase wasn't running and I didn't have anything weird hanging out on my clipboard. Nothing amiss, but I still got my key whenever I searched for something.

This is the point where my brain got a little melty. I started running weird conspiracy theories in my head. My ever-helpful coworkers could only suggest to "stop using a Mac".

I saw that the app menu got highlighted when I opened the dialog, so I opened the menu and looked at the Services. Lo and behold, the GPG Suite update I installed recently very "helpfully" added a global shortcut to "Insert My Fingerprint" with the same keyboard shortcut as the IDE action.

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  • 7
    Yeah, I'm with your coworkers. Stop using mac :)
  • 1
    I mean use whatever lets you be productive, but I watch Louis Rossmann so...
    Stop using a Mac!

    Also apple does these weird dumb things like keyboard shortcuts that are inconsistent with normal OSes (alt gr + q for @ becomes cmd + q for quit?!), having right-click disabled by default, and these round window controls where you have to aim your mouse precisely whereas you can just roughly aim for the top right and click to close a window in windows...
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