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We used to have these back in the days of Windows XP in the form of “HTML Applications”, though I recall them being atrocious from a security perspective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application

I did similar several years ago with the .services TLD. Lo-and-behold, I bought the .com not long afterwards!

I think this is one of the few things as late that makes me feel genuinely proud to be British, because, beneath the hostility that feels so rife across our country recently, we’ve so many good people making things like this happen. Bravo.

Stripe handle this interestingly, with a prefix to the ID indicating the type of entity.

https://dev.to/4thzoa/designing-apis-for-humans-object-ids-3...

This is a really fascinating idea… Just another one for the list of side-projects I’d like to get around to but never will!

It most certainly does in the UK.

The same day that OnlyOffice ended its 8-year partnership with Nextcloud, no less.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605831

The same day that The Document Foundation ejected its core developers, including much of the LibreOffice team, no less.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599305

At least they could make landing on a flat, non-spherical surface would be much easier, I guess.

Certainly not a headline that I had on my bingo card for 2026…

Update: It turns out that I was wrong. Sorry!

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/30/github_copilot_ads_pu...

Indeed. I can’t see why Copilot would promote an unrelated third-party service…

Ah, sorry, my bad - assumed you were referring to a business use-case, given the context, but makes sense.

I’ve been using a Clicks case since the early days and have personally loved every second of it but it’s definitely an acquired taste. Let us know how you find it.

Not sure what difference the nationality of the copywriters makes…

Doesn’t Shared iPad do exactly this?

It’s definitely an option in the UK, as I’ve just used it, though it’s not particularly prominent.

If you choose the option to verify with a credit card and scroll down the form, there’s an option to verify another way, which allows you to use your driving license.

Doesn’t Shared iPad enable that already?

Mac requires separate users as other have said.

However, for iOS and iPadOS, the answer is “Sort of”.

As taken from https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/deployment/dep4d9e9cd2...:

> If a user is signed in with a personal Apple Account and Managed Apple Account, Sign in with Apple automatically uses the Managed Apple Account for managed apps and the personal Apple Account for unmanaged apps.

I’ve been doing exactly this with Jamf Pro for my personal devices. I’ll be interested to see if I can scrap it now.

It only took us 29 years but HTTP 402 Payment Required might finally mean something on a wider scale…

As a European, you’re on your own there…

Crapple, probably.

Which is a real server, no less!

https://github.com/danfuzz/lactoserv

I’d imagine that the carrier will agree not to use any data they do receive for anything but a handful of purposes, but I suppose that depends on the extent of the technical solution.

It was once upon a time, hence them moving to HHVM to interpret it, but it’s been all but replaced with a PHP spinoff named Hacklang now.

I follow that, and it's something I've struggled with in the past, but doesn't this sort of solution make them more likely to tell you to fuck off or to make a scene, rather than less?

As with anything in life, it depends on how you ask.

Ongoing discussion on the same, albeit linked to a news article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649644