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[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Probably not a good idea to show your API key to everyone..

[–] [email protected] 64 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean? I just see asterisks.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Same here. I’m pasting my password here and it will encrypt it so no one can see it other than me: *******

[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh cool it works for my password, too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I understood that reference

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Your password is seven asterisks, right?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah encrypt it or at least put on a nsfw tag or something. Gosh. People flaunt their privates like it's Onlyfans.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Or at least use an environment variable, it's not a good practice to have it written in plaintext in your code.