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Comment on How I accidentally made my link shortener into a malware honeypot in ~tech
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Comment on Every flashing element on your site alienates and enrages users in ~design
TheBeacon Link ParentVisual feedback that a task was completed successfully is important. We're all used to sites just breaking for a miriad of reasons and local apps can lock up too. You need to know if continuing as...Visual feedback that a task was completed successfully is important. We're all used to sites just breaking for a miriad of reasons and local apps can lock up too. You need to know if continuing as usual will result in losing work and you need to refresh/restart the app, or everything is fine. If the norm was that everything is reliable you could maybe get away with not explicitly saying anything, but that's not the case, and it's not how everyone was trained by the internet.
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Comment on Google seems to be running OCR on photos in my Gmail. Is this happening to you too? in ~tech
TheBeacon Link ParentI don't have mixed feelings. It's search working as intended. Attachments are part of the email, they are in no way a "sealed" part that should for some reason be kept separate. Consider PDF...I don't have mixed feelings. It's search working as intended. Attachments are part of the email, they are in no way a "sealed" part that should for some reason be kept separate.
Consider PDF attachments, some are created using PDF "printer" software that makes the contents an image or are scanned documents. They should show up on search like any other text document, but because of the way they were made that's only possible if you run OCR on them. So Google does this for good UX. Similarly you have documents sent as images, maybe photographed. So you need to run OCR on images too.
If there's any sensitive information it should be kept encrypted. This is especially important for email considering some servers are still sending them out in the clear i.e. without even transport encryption.
Sending text as images is not encryption, nor an indication the contents are to be walled off. I'm baffled some people treated them as such.
Also link shorteners in QR codes.
The more data a QR code needs to store the smaller and more numerous the dots get, which can matter in bad lighting conditions, when using poor quality printers or small print sizes, or the scanning devices have low resolution cameras.
With less data you can also go ham on QR code decorations like company logos, or even whole QR code art, since you have more room for error correction which is what keeps it functional in spite of alterations.