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[-] FishFace@piefed.social 20 points 1 week ago

There's an aspect of my surname which is somewhat unusual (at least in my country). As a result I occasionally get form validation errors when entering it. Sometimes those errors are extremely inscrutable. Sometimes a form validates but something elsewhere makes unvalidated assumptions about names which then breaks in completely unpredictable names...

[-] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 18 points 1 week ago
[-] FishFace@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

Actually no. In fact, I think most people who thought for a minute would realise names like mine exist, it's just that sometimes people working systems don't think for a minute ;)

[-] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago

The number of scripts I've seen that would break with an O'Neill or O'Brien is too high. Worse is some people don't get it when pointed out.

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