Re: URL expertise needed, please!

From	Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.computer.workshop, comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: URL expertise needed, please!
Organization	Southern Nevada Institute of Technology
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Date	2025-06-27 04:29 +0000
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On Jun 26, 2025 at 1:46:03 PM MST, "Your Name" wrote
<103kbib$3ln2s$1@dont-email.me>:

> On 2025-06-26 19:04:19 +0000, David B. said:
>> On 26/06/2025 17:21, Brock McNuggets wrote:
>>> On Jun 26, 2025 at 9:14:05 AM MST, ""David B."" wrote
>>> <mc59udFt5mkU1@mid.individual.net>:
>>>> On 26/06/2025 17:00, Brock McNuggets wrote:
>>>>> On Jun 26, 2025 at 6:12:13 AM MST, ""David B."" wrote
>>>>> <mc4v9dFq2feU1@mid.individual.net>:
>>>>>> On 25/06/2025 09:40, David B. wrote:
>>>>>>> On 25/06/2025 08:00, David B. wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 25/06/2025 07:19, David B. wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 24/06/2025 23:48, Brock McNuggets wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Jun 24, 2025 at 2:51:19 PM MST, ""David B."" wrote
>>>>>>>>>> <mc0kunF3ot9U3@mid.individual.net>:
>>>>>>> [....]
>>>>>>>>>>> Most honest folk don't remove their persona from LinkedIn.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Where did you get this from?
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> LinkedIn, of course!
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> This may help too:- https://i.ibb.co/LXtfG3Kk/Image-26-08-2023-
>>>>>>>>> at-10-09.jpg[....]
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> For some reason, when clicking on the link in that image, the 'y' (two
>>>>>>>> of them) have been removed from the URL and it say "page not found" (or
>>>>>>>> similar!)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Like this:-  httos://www.canadacompanvregistrv.com/companies/etresoft-inc/
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> This is what it SHOULD show:- https://www.canadacompanyregistry.com/
>>>>>>>> companies/etresoft-inc/
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Can anyone explain, please?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I've just noticed that https was also changed ..... to httos
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Odd!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Comments welcomed!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I had hoped SOMEONE might know!!!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It's not TOO late to respond! ;-)
>>>>> 
>>>>> You clicked a link on an image?
>>>> 
>>>> *YES*!
>>>> 
>>>> In THIS image https://i.ibb.co/LXtfG3Kk/Image-26-08-2023-at-10-09.jpg
>>>> 
>>>> The lowest three items in a blue font are LIVE links! (Using Safari)
>>> 
>>> No, it is am image.
>>> 
>>> Some tools will do automatic OCR, though, to try to read it. Sounds like
>>> whatever tool you used had a failure in that.
>>> 
>>> Using Shottr I had it look at a rectangle and it got this:
>>> -----
>>> found here: https://www.canadacompanyregistry.com/companies/etresoft-inc/
>>> PO Box number!!!!!
>>> C forums - https://discussions.apple.com/profile/HunterBD/participation
>>> - but was 'banned' whe ils on Linkedin here:-
>>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/boaterdave/duct!
>>> -----
>> 
>> All I do is hover my cursor over the blue font item(s) and it turns into
>> an active link. This only happens with Safari, not Firefox or Chrome.
> 
> Newer versions of Apple's operating systems have the silly "Live Text"
> 'feature' that automatically tries to create normal text, links, phone
> numbers, etc. from words in images. It 'works' in many apps, but not
> all. Like any optical character recognition, it can be rather hopeless,
> especially on low-quality images, small font sizes, or blurry
> high-compression images.

It has its limitations but I find it works very well.

>  It is really just another useless Artifical
> Intelligence gimmick that does not work properly and is designed to
> make fools waste money on a newer, more powerful computer to get all
> the new toys.

It works well for me. Well is not the same as perfectly.
> 
> Just ignore the rubbish and simply retype the text yourself. Even
> better, turn the nonsense gimmick off completely:
> <https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/disable-live-text-mac/>


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