Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues

Issue #994 — December 28, 2022

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Safari’s date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues gist.github.com \| points: 506 \| comments: 320

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Americans duped into losing $10B by illegal Indian call centres in 2022: report timesofindia.indiatimes.com \| points: 474 \| comments: 426

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CCC captures U.S. military biometrics database ccc.de \| points: 443 \| comments: 156

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US Government demands direct police access to European biometric data [pdf] digit.so36.net \| points: 433 \| comments: 291

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I’m done with Google deijin.bearblog.dev \| points: 408 \| comments: 293

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Google removed my Yubikeys from a Google account ’just to be safe’ lunnova.dev \| points: 388 \| comments: 125

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What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained palant.info \| points: 385 \| comments: 247

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Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours npr.org \| points: 366 \| comments: 362

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How Twitter moderated the Covid debate thefp.com \| points: 335 \| comments: 785

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Detecting the use of “curl \| bash” server side (2016) idontplaydarts.com \| points: 334 \| comments: 159

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Rigs of Rods: free and open source vehicle simulator that uses soft-body physics rigsofrods.org \| points: 270 \| comments: 53

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I have reached Vim nirvana maxwellrules.com \| points: 265 \| comments: 187

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eBay, Etsy and other marketplaces on brink of having to disclose seller details eseller365.com \| points: 210 \| comments: 158

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Extending Python with Rust maxwellrules.com \| points: 208 \| comments: 77

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Show HN: Self-hosted CMS on serverless Cloudflare github.com \| points: 207 \| comments: 59

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Show HN: Dog API dogapi.dog \| points: 204 \| comments: 58

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Too big to live, too loved to die: Big Tech’s billion dollar curse of the free theregister.com \| points: 203 \| comments: 229

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6M Acres of Public Land in the US West Are Corner-Locked onxmaps.com \| points: 201 \| comments: 167

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Experimental Rust Feature: Safer Interoperable ABI github.com \| points: 197 \| comments: 76

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Numba: A High Performance Python Compiler numba.pydata.org \| points: 185 \| comments: 45

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