sn_master

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Comment · 2 years ago

I believe he was trying to ratio him (and he succeeded).

Comment · 2 years ago

That behavior goes all the way back to the mid 90s in IE4 at least when everything was .com

Comment · 2 years ago

Yup, I found about this when I accidentally clicked on such a link to PlayStore that was missing the colon and was confused when it didn't work and copy-pasted it in the address bar. I am sure it was just a typo on that website.

GitHub is full of similar typos in documentation and code files (74.8k results). I am not sure if there's a way to do a web search based on code and find "live" examples but I can't imaging there'd be a shortage of those either.

https://github.com/search?q=%22https%2F%2F%22++&type=code

PSA: Safari URL Correction Being Exploited by Scammers

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Comment · 2 years ago

Good. Dublin should follow next.

Comment · 2 years ago

Except this thing is opt-out and would put a whole lot of data on tens of millions of computers including things that were never stored by default (credit card numbers, reset codes, e2e encrypted messages etc).

Recall is a malware.

Comment · 2 years ago

This is every romance scammer's dreams come true...

Comment · 2 years ago

Wonder what the author thinks of the Tesla software locked batteries.

Comment · 3 years ago

and now Google is barely returning any relevant results anymore :/

Comment · 3 years ago

RoboForm auto-upgraded my "perpetual" license that I bought over 10 years ago and now it's in "read-only" mode (doesn't allow auto-fill or adding new passwords) unless I pay them a MONTHLY subscription AND it synced all my passwords to their server without my consent.

Comment · 3 years ago

Microsoft has more careerists than most other tech companies. I bet plenty of the key figures are still at the company.

Comment · 3 years ago

Just use a Google voice number?

Comment · 3 years ago

I just need search engines to have an option to "block" certain sites from my results for all future search queries. Getting rid of Quora would be a good start.

Comment · 3 years ago

I thought that was to keep the electronics powered up. The 12V battery isn't enough to sustain them for too long.