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by connorgurney 2mo ago
We used to have these back in the days of Windows XP in the form of “HTML Applications”, though I recall them being atrocious from a security perspective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application
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Customer service as a mirror of modern life(connorgurney.me.uk)
1 points by connorgurney 3mo ago|0 comments
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by connorgurney 3mo ago
I did similar several years ago with the .services TLD. Lo-and-behold, I bought the .com not long afterwards!
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by connorgurney 4mo ago
I think this is one of the few things as late that makes me feel genuinely proud to be British, because, beneath the hostility that feels so rife across our country recently, we’ve so many good people making things like this happen. Bravo.
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by connorgurney 4mo ago
Stripe handle this interestingly, with a prefix to the ID indicating the type of entity. https://dev.to/4thzoa/designing-apis-for-humans-object-ids-3...
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by connorgurney 5mo ago
This is a really fascinating idea… Just another one for the list of side-projects I’d like to get around to but never will!
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by connorgurney 5mo ago
It most certainly does in the UK.
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by connorgurney 6mo ago
The same day that OnlyOffice ended its 8-year partnership with Nextcloud, no less. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605831
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by connorgurney 6mo ago
The same day that The Document Foundation ejected its core developers, including much of the LibreOffice team, no less. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599305
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by connorgurney 6mo ago
At least they could make landing on a flat, non-spherical surface would be much easier, I guess.
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by connorgurney 6mo ago
Certainly not a headline that I had on my bingo card for 2026…
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by connorgurney 6mo ago
Update: It turns out that I was wrong. Sorry! https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/30/github_copilot_ads_pu...
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by connorgurney 6mo ago
Indeed. I can’t see why Copilot would promote an unrelated third-party service…
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by connorgurney 6mo ago
Ah, sorry, my bad - assumed you were referring to a business use-case, given the context, but makes sense.
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by connorgurney 6mo ago
I’ve been using a Clicks case since the early days and have personally loved every second of it but it’s definitely an acquired taste. Let us know how you find it.
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by connorgurney 6mo ago
Not sure what difference the nationality of the copywriters makes…
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by connorgurney 6mo ago
Doesn’t Shared iPad do exactly this?
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by connorgurney 6mo ago
It’s definitely an option in the UK, as I’ve just used it, though it’s not particularly prominent. If you choose the option to verify with a credit card and scroll down the form, there’s an option to verify another way, which allows you to
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by connorgurney 6mo ago
Doesn’t Shared iPad enable that already?
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by connorgurney 6mo ago
Mac requires separate users as other have said. However, for iOS and iPadOS, the answer is “Sort of”. As taken from https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/deployment/dep4d9e9cd2... : > If a user is signed in
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by connorgurney 6mo ago
I’ve been doing exactly this with Jamf Pro for my personal devices. I’ll be interested to see if I can scrap it now.
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by connorgurney 6mo ago
It only took us 29 years but HTTP 402 Payment Required might finally mean something on a wider scale…
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by connorgurney 6mo ago
As a European, you’re on your own there…
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by connorgurney 7mo ago
Crapple, probably.
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by connorgurney 7mo ago
Which is a real server, no less! https://github.com/danfuzz/lactoserv
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by connorgurney 8mo ago
I’d imagine that the carrier will agree not to use any data they do receive for anything but a handful of purposes, but I suppose that depends on the extent of the technical solution.
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by connorgurney 8mo ago
It was once upon a time, hence them moving to HHVM to interpret it, but it’s been all but replaced with a PHP spinoff named Hacklang now.
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by connorgurney 8mo ago
I follow that, and it's something I've struggled with in the past, but doesn't this sort of solution make them more likely to tell you to fuck off or to make a scene, rather than less?
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by connorgurney 8mo ago
As with anything in life, it depends on how you ask.
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by connorgurney 8mo ago
Ongoing discussion on the same, albeit linked to a news article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649644

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