Mail (the email client for Windows 10), has a loading bar for pasting text.
Someone saw that pasting text takes a long time, and instead of thinking 'OMG, we pasted text in the 80's without a problem', they decided to write a loading animation in, so that people would understand the paste is coming.
This is beyond parody.
@malin
The paste api is making sure the text is safe, by downloading the latest rules engine, that requires dotnet franework 4.9 :P
@malin If it's plain text it should by all means work unless pasting is disabled in the field, but then it shouldn't get that far. Copied text at times has hidden formatting junk, though. Paste it into a plain text editor like Notepad or Notepad++ to remove the junk.
@malin Oh, geez. I just read your first post and had no IDEA. You're right, that's completely unacceptable!
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@malin@linuxrocks.online lmao problem solving 2021
@malin Something tells me it will paste instantly if you turn off your network connection...
@malin I swear there's like a trend in tech that just likes to waste everyone's time with loading animations. Possibly even for devs who have to wait for the loading to finish so they can see if a thing looks good.
Curious Cat and Misskey come to mind.
@malin
Well, waiting for some clipboard with a recent linux mint...look here:
echo "hello hamburg"> some_very_little_textfile
xclip -selection clipboard <some_very_little_textfile
and then ctrl-D the terminal.
on a i7/ssd/16GB without load you wait around 3 seconds
Wuzzefugg?
@wuffel I have no idea why you're writing an 'echo' output to disk.
> echo "hello hamburg" | xclip -i
@malin
Yep, that i recognised a second after sending. :)
sending clipboard to Microsoft for approval...
@malin
the same that encourages html email? what did people think would happen when a html parser has to parse html for html containing html? #mamushkaeffect
Mari 
@malin the same kind of programmer who in this year of twenty twenty-one still requires that an email address be copied as a hyperlink with "mailto:" prepended
and also doesn't automatically strip that when you paste it in the "To" field of an email
@malin not sure howbit works on Windows, but pasting can be quite complex. For example, in Wayland, the copied stuff is still stored by the program from which you copied it, and the "actual clipboard" only contains a reference to it. So when you copy from program A and paste to B, program B asks program A to send the clipboard content in one of the formats B supports, and waits for A to respond with the content
Of course this is no excuse for pasting to take so much time.
@malin
"Das Internet ist kaputt! Die Welt dreht sich nicht mehr!"
Originale Fehlermeldung an IT-Abteilung.
Befund: die animierte Grafik beim Internetexplorer war defekt und sonst nichts!
@malin same for OneNote
@malin hmm... I wonder what it's doing all that time...
@schratze Not pasting my goddamn text.
@malin
edge browser says it converts link copies to user friendly titles by default. would it have been better to set a copy title option?
@malin
WTF?
I still C&P with my three mousebuttons, even on console…
It's doing it again, but now cannot paste the URL.
What kind of programmer fails to handle pasting a line of text?