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For anyone who doesn't know what this string of characters means (because I also wouldn't have before yesterday), try using this
btw, if you're using a system with the GNU coreutils, you can
echo "<base64 encoded string>" | base64 -d.im prety sure you can just do base64 -d and type it in after running the command and then do ctr d
Thank you! I wish it were more obvious what random strings of characters meant. Sometimes I see them and I have to hunt around in community rules and mega threads and I still can't find a solution as to how to decode them.
you can identify base64 encoded strings by the
=(or sometimes==) at the endyou can also identify it as a b64 string by the way that it is
depending on the implementation this may be optional or not allowed though