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iamacyborg commented on Roundcube Webmail: SVG feImage bypasses image blocking to track email opens   nullcathedral.com/posts/2... · Posted by u/nullcathedral
afavour · 3 days ago
It's counter to the principle of what e-mail is. It's supposed to be static. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
iamacyborg · 3 days ago
> It's supposed to be static.

Says who? It's not in the original RFC as far as I'm aware.

iamacyborg commented on Roundcube Webmail: SVG feImage bypasses image blocking to track email opens   nullcathedral.com/posts/2... · Posted by u/nullcathedral
RobotToaster · 3 days ago
Which is completely stupid since images in an email should never change.
iamacyborg · 3 days ago
Why shouldn't they? There's plenty of scenarios where you might want to swap images after a period of time has elapsed, or to fix a mistake.
iamacyborg commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)    · Posted by u/david927
iamacyborg · 3 days ago
A CRM for the tattoo industry.

https://www.pencild.co

iamacyborg commented on Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers   techcrunch.com/2026/02/05... · Posted by u/witnessme
iamacyborg · 4 days ago
So, is the breach for substack users or for people who subscribed to substack users’ newsletters?
iamacyborg commented on My AI Adoption Journey   mitchellh.com/writing/my-... · Posted by u/anurag
mjr00 · 7 days ago
> Break down sessions into separate clear, actionable tasks. Don't try to "draw the owl" in one mega session.

This is the key one I think. At one extreme you can tell an agent "write a for loop that iterates over the variable `numbers` and computes the sum" and they'll do this successfully, but the scope is so small there's not much point in using an LLM. On the other extreme you can tell an agent "make me an app that's Facebook for dogs" and it'll make so many assumptions about the architecture, code and product that there's no chance it produces anything useful beyond a cool prototype to show mom and dad.

A lot of successful LLM adoption for code is finding this sweet spot. Overly specific instructions don't make you feel productive, and overly broad instructions you end up redoing too much of the work.

iamacyborg · 7 days ago
> On the other extreme you can tell an agent "make me an app that's Facebook for dogs" and it'll make so many assumptions about the architecture, code and product that there's no chance it produces anything useful beyond a cool prototype to show mom and dad.

Amusingly, this was my experience in giving Lovable a shot. The onboarding process was literally just setting me up for failure by asking me to describe the detailed app I was attempting to build.

Taking it piece by piece in Claude Code has been significantly more successful.

iamacyborg commented on France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US   apnews.com/article/europe... · Posted by u/AareyBaba
mrits · 9 days ago
Right. Just like edge is used on 100% of windows
iamacyborg · 9 days ago
You think government staff just use whatever software they want?
iamacyborg commented on Why software stocks are getting pummelled   economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/petethomas
ManuelKiessling · 10 days ago
I‘m not sure it’s a perfect example, but at least it’s a very realistic example from a company that really doesn’t have time and energy for hype or fluff:

We are currently sunsetting our use of Webflow for content management and hosting, and are replacing it with our own solution which Cursor & Claude Opus helped us build in around 10 days:

https://dx-tooling.org/sitebuilder/

https://github.com/dx-tooling/sitebuilder-webapp

iamacyborg · 10 days ago
I’m not sure the world needed yet another CMS
iamacyborg commented on Email experiments: filtering out external images   terracrypt.net/posts/emai... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Marsymars · 13 days ago
There must be some nuance to this - e.g. I just double-checked a bank 2FA email from a bank that only has Canadian operations, and it doesn't have an unsub mechanism. I don't know how an unsubscribe mechanism for a 2FA email that you get after entering a correct password would even function.
iamacyborg · 13 days ago
The unsub would only be for marketing emails, not for transactional ones, even if included in the transactional email.
iamacyborg commented on Email experiments: filtering out external images   terracrypt.net/posts/emai... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
ChrisLTD · 13 days ago
I filter emails with the word "unsubscribe" into a separate folder (label in Gmail). If you can unsubscribe from it, it's probably not critical. The vast majority of transactional emails (password resets, magic login links, 2fa codes) don't have that wording in the email body.
iamacyborg · 13 days ago
This fails under CASL (Canadian Anti Spam Law) where transactional mail is required to provide an unsub mechanism. A lot of senders likely don’t bother personalising those emails based on recipient country.

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