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https://xkcd.com/2822/ -> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2822 Any other fun easter eggs in the XKCD counter? - https://xkcd.com/404/ 404s (obviously) - https://xkcd.com/1337/ is about hacking
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LOL this reminds me of a hilarious bug (but only in hindsight!) I had with Discord just three days ago! I tried to login to Discord. It detected a novel browser or location. Sure, this stuff can happen. It wanted to confirm that I was still me and asked me for my e-mail address. I gave it and it said "This e-mail address is already registered". What. Of course it is. It's me. Mine. The one I have registered with you.…
what would be the best fix for this? when checking for dupes, ignore dots on all leftside of all emails?
But if you do this you better do it everywhere you use email. Otherwise you can get some pretty nasty bugs where two emails aren't considered the same sometimes, are are considered the same other times.
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The presumption would be that these are two different entities.
They can't be, because Gmail obviously won't let you register an address that's already registered.
Alternatively: will third-party systems consolidate such addresses under a single account, or treat them as different?
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I don't understand how anyone else can register a facebook account with f.o.o@gmail.com if you own it just as much as you own foo@gmail.com.
The trouble is that Facebook doesn't know every email providers rules and which email addresses the email provider considers equivalent. So for Facebook, foo@gmail.com and f.o.o@gmail.com are two separate addresses (and indeed foo@hotmail.com and f.o.o@hotmail.com probably really are two separate addresses probably controlled by two different people). You're right that if Facebook required the email to be verified (b…
If you own foo@gmail.com, you also own every combination of it using dots left of the @. for example:
f.oo@gmail.com
fo.o@gmail.com
Nobody else can register these addresses because they're all owned by foo@gmail.com automatically.
I love a good reply-all email storm. I remember a Lotus Notes-based on in a bank I worked at the early 90's. I think it only stopped when the Chief of Staff did a reply-all with "The next person to reply-all to these emails is sacked."
(Don't do this in real life, please.)
This is a great reminder that Gmail ignores dots on the left side of the @ symbol, which means I am constantly getting e-mail for other people. The “+” tagging was a great idea, but the fact that incorrect address matching has become a “feature” (and not fixed over decades) plus constant spates of spam has made me believe there’s nobody left at the helm who actually understands e-mail. I’ve kept my Gmail addresses fo…
That is not how it works, you own every combination of your email address with dots left of @ automatically.
if you own foo@gmail.com, then nobody else can own f.oo@gmail.com because you own it, it's an alias of your email address esentially.
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I was still curious about the exact response, therefore I see no harm in posting that.
After all, the Python project has "import antigravity".
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LOL this reminds me of a hilarious bug (but only in hindsight!) I had with Discord just three days ago! I tried to login to Discord. It detected a novel browser or location. Sure, this stuff can happen. It wanted to confirm that I was still me and asked me for my e-mail address. I gave it and it said "This e-mail address is already registered". What. Of course it is. It's me. Mine. The one I have registered with you.…
This isn't a bug. Instead of clicking the "login" button on discord's home page, you clicked the "Open discord in your browser" button. This, by default if you're not logged in, takes you to a create account flow. The prompt you entered your _username_ into was the "Pick a display name" prompt. If you enter, say, "user" it silently adds numbers to your displayname to make a new username ("user1234"), rather than redi…
Sarcasm? Serious question. I used Discord exactly once, many years ago, and it appeared to be mostly children playing video games. I hear things have changed, but it’s hard to imagine a more tech savvy group than HN.
Auto replies would kill it pretty quick. "I am currently on leave" could be the Wikipedia page.
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