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This is not correct in general. My job uses SSO and I can change my Slack name.
It is correct, your company just messed up somewhere...
Replacing ascii with similar-looking unicode characters is an old trick. There's a bunch of these characters out there. You can use it in the code to prank your colleague developers - April 1st is nearing! I even made a vim plugin that highlights these "dangerous" characters: https://github.com/vim-utils/vim-troll-stopper I've never been pranked with unicode characters, but I've had a situation at work where a consul…
Lots of apps have helpfully started turning two dashes (—-) into some sort of Unicode long dash that is more aesthetically pleasing, while also breaking command line tools.
The em dash doesn’t exist to be aesthetically pleasing, it has a meaning in writing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Em_dash
What you’re seeing is the result of software being more typographically conscious and replacing the incorrect characters we got used to typing in our keyboards with the correct ones. Same reason why " is replaced with “ and ”.
But you’re right that is annoying in a programming environment.
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Name changes can be locked; I'm in an Enterprise Grid org and our display names/usernames are synced against our employee profile. We're also required to SSO every single time we launch the desktop app so once you're terminated you're definitely not getting back in (they deactivate accounts very quickly too, so mobile is likely not a major concern). Basically the only thing you can change without filing a ticket is y…
How does an enterprise chat tool not have the ability to invalidate all session tokens and all connected clients to disconnect?
A lot of people advise ways of locking down name changes, but this doesn't really solve the problem. I'm sure there's someone out there whose first name is actually Jira. I worked for $company where customer dashboards were set up on a wildcard - https://*.$company.com , e.g. https://foo.$company.com . Guess what happens when someone picks a dashboard slug that conflicts with an actual record, like `www` or `blog`? T…
I think it’s better to do like GitHub and Shopify and many others do. Have a separate domain at least that customer pages are made subdomains of.
GitHub uses GitHub.com as their own domain, and they use GitHub.io as the pages domain with subdomains for users.
Shopify uses Shopify.com for their own site and myshopify.com for customer subdomains.
The main advantages of using a separate domain for customers include:
- You don’t have as many pre-existing or future subdomains that you want for yourself. (You still need to filter so that people don’t use offensive words or misleading words etc.)
- You can have that domain added to the Public Suffix List, which avoids some potential problems you might otherwise run into https://publicsuffix.org/
I knew an ex-employee back in the day (not me I swear) who created a dialup/ISDN provisioning profile called 'Ringing' in the modem rack controller module (not the Radius server, that would be too obvious), such that a glance at the modem rack status page showed everyone who was connected, and one that was 'Ringing', just like any other incoming call that hadn't been picked up yet. It went completely undetected, yiel…
A lot of people advise ways of locking down name changes, but this doesn't really solve the problem. I'm sure there's someone out there whose first name is actually Jira. I worked for $company where customer dashboards were set up on a wildcard - https://*.$company.com , e.g. https://foo.$company.com . Guess what happens when someone picks a dashboard slug that conflicts with an actual record, like `www` or `blog`? T…
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There is a massive difference between scraping unintentionally published information on a public website and cloaking your account to subvert your employer revoking access to its systems and continuing to access them when you know you're not allowed to be.
> cloaking your account This seems like a bit of strech for “cloaking”. (Like wearing vaguely similar colored t-shirt as employees do) > continuing to access them when you know you're not allowed to This part is rock solid.
Intentionally deceovit about your identity, in order to obtain access to a something of value that you are forbidden to access, is a clear crime, as it should be.
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Lots of apps have helpfully started turning two dashes (—-) into some sort of Unicode long dash that is more aesthetically pleasing, while also breaking command line tools.
Looks like that happened to you in your comment. The em dash doesn’t exist to be aesthetically pleasing, it has a meaning in writing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Em_dash What you’re seeing is the result of software being more typographically conscious and replacing the incorrect characters we got used to typing in our keyboards with the correct ones. Same reason why " is replaced with “ and ”. But you’re right…
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Lots of apps have helpfully started turning two dashes (—-) into some sort of Unicode long dash that is more aesthetically pleasing, while also breaking command line tools.
Looks like that happened to you in your comment. The em dash doesn’t exist to be aesthetically pleasing, it has a meaning in writing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Em_dash What you’re seeing is the result of software being more typographically conscious and replacing the incorrect characters we got used to typing in our keyboards with the correct ones. Same reason why " is replaced with “ and ”. But you’re right…
If I type `--` it's because I want `--` (or even `-------` but some software† insists on changing that to a sequence of en-dash), especially I can type them easily on macOS:
- minus key: minus char -
- Option+minus: en dash –
- Option+Shift+minus: em dash —
Similarly, opening and closing single and double quotes are on bracket keys.
† yes there are OS-level settings for that (at least on macOS) but other software do it in addition to the SO, and you can't disable it plus it plays badly with undo.