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Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app
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Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Funny, with Google you typically want to add "-best" to your searches to cut down on SEO spam.
Interesting, I had never heard of this tip before. How do you do this though? Do you just add it at the end like a flag? (e.g. "sparking water -best" ?) In general, I thought these kinds of search engine commands were being phased out, but it looks to me like it would filter out those garbage articles that would bring up results like "top/best 15 brands of sparkling water" etc.
That still works on Google. You can put it anywhere in the query. The "-" is a negation operator that tells the engine to exclude results containing the following word.
They've actually apparently introduced a few new operators since the old days, which I found surprising. For example, $ for prices, # for hashtags, and .. for ranges of numbers. https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en
Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app
#103Imagine having a domain or business name starting with "old" - nightmare scenario! Old Spice, Old Navy...
how is it a "nightmare scenario"? it's not ideal, but it doesn't sound bad (there are other browsers, workarounds, etc. it's not like these sites are forever gone because of a ransomware or SSL key exploit, etc)
I can't imagine "Old Navy" customer support is going to have much success telling iOS customers to install another browser (I'm not even sure that solves it).
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#104Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
These initialisms, abbreviations and acronyms are getting out of hand.
These are the people who in real life say “Jan” instead of “January.”
At least that can usually be understood from context. Acronyms and initialisms usually cannot unless you already know them.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
As distinct from OCONUS. https://veteran.com/military-acronyms/
Interesting to not see POTUS there.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
I doubt that since it’s their own code but I’d easily believe that it hits an API endpoint which just started malfunctioning. The description is vague but it appears to retrieve a bunch of different kinds of information from some Apple service. Clearly a massive test coverage miss if my speculation is right.
I think he is joking.
It's partially a joke, but as anyone who has worked with a complex system, things like this can happen. A privacy control is changed somewhere, but not activated until later, and suddenly one day something stops working.
Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app
#108“best “ “bedt “ “old “ “wel “ “dta “ All of these crash safari in iOS for me. What’s strange about this bug is that it happened overnight for multiple iOS version. It seems to be a server bug that happens with the requests that populate the suggestions. Turning off safari suggestions fixes it.
It's not universal, my iPhone 14 pro with 16.1 does not crash for any letters I can type, spaces or not. Suggestions work fine for me. Clearly there is another factor not obvious causing the crash. In any case Apple would see a whole influx of crash reports (assuming they are as anal about them as I used to be).
Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app
#109Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app
#110Turning off Safari Suggestions is one of the first and most important privacy tweaks on a new iPhone. Otherwise every keystroke you type in the address bar gets sent to Apple in realtime.