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New comment by connorgurney in "Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses"

connorgurney — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:37:29 +0000

I did similar several years ago with the .services TLD. Lo-and-behold, I bought the .com not long afterwards!

New comment by connorgurney in "Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha"

connorgurney — Fri, 15 May 2026 06:17:41 +0000

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.

New comment by connorgurney in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

connorgurney — Sun, 10 May 2026 10:24:15 +0000

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...

New comment by connorgurney in "Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930"

connorgurney — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:29:17 +0000

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!

New comment by connorgurney in "FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account"

connorgurney — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:57:34 +0000

It most certainly does in the UK.

New comment by connorgurney in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

connorgurney — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:23:59 +0000

The same day that OnlyOffice ended its 8-year partnership with Nextcloud, no less.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605831

New comment by connorgurney in "OnlyOffice just pulled its 8-year partnership with Nextcloud"

connorgurney — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:23:28 +0000

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

New comment by connorgurney in "Head of FEMA defends claim that he was teleported"

connorgurney — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:21:50 +0000

At least they could make landing on a flat, non-spherical surface would be much easier, I guess.

New comment by connorgurney in "Head of FEMA defends claim that he was teleported"

connorgurney — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:20:49 +0000

Certainly not a headline that I had on my bingo card for 2026…

New comment by connorgurney in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

connorgurney — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:30:43 +0000

Update: It turns out that I was wrong. Sorry!

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/30/github_copilot_ads_pu...

New comment by connorgurney in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

connorgurney — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:51:19 +0000

Indeed. I can’t see why Copilot would promote an unrelated third-party service…

New comment by connorgurney in "Apple Business"

connorgurney — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:26:37 +0000

Ah, sorry, my bad - assumed you were referring to a business use-case, given the context, but makes sense.

New comment by connorgurney in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

connorgurney — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:26:09 +0000

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.

New comment by connorgurney in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

connorgurney — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:21:17 +0000

Not sure what difference the nationality of the copywriters makes…

New comment by connorgurney in "Apple Business"

connorgurney — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:04:26 +0000

Doesn’t Shared iPad do exactly this?

New comment by connorgurney in "Apple Just Lost Me"

connorgurney — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:29:55 +0000

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 use your driving license.

New comment by connorgurney in "Apple Business"

connorgurney — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:51:07 +0000

Doesn’t Shared iPad enable that already?

New comment by connorgurney in "Apple Business"

connorgurney — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:50:41 +0000

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 with a personal Apple Account and Managed Apple Account, Sign in with Apple automatically uses the Managed Apple Account for managed apps and the personal Apple Account for unmanaged apps.

New comment by connorgurney in "Apple Business"

connorgurney — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:47:35 +0000

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.

New comment by connorgurney in "purl: a curl-esque CLI for making HTTP requests that require payment"

connorgurney — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:26:10 +0000

It only took us 29 years but HTTP 402 Payment Required might finally mean something on a wider scale…