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For those not reproducing: your device may have to reside CONUS for some of "tar"(-get), "bes"(-tbuy), "wal"(-mart), "wel"(-ls fargo), "old"(-navy?), "sta"(-rbucks), "pla"(-net fitness?) to work. Try local brands, e.g., "Harrods", "Tesco", "Picard", etc. For my country "Gusto", a casual dining franchise, reproduces the issue. List is from [1].

Edit: stopped reproducing here as of 19:11 UTC.

Edit: some people digged into it[2][3], [2] includes partial endpoint URLs. Apparently this was happening for 7+^H^H 10+ hour.

1: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/11/14/safari-search-crash-bug...

2: https://twitter.com/nejigami/status/1592174411712712706

3: https://twitter.com/take6556/status/1592100775119171584

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> your device may have to reside CONUS for some of "tar"(-get), "bes"(-tbuy),

I have no idea what this means

These initialisms, abbreviations and acronyms are getting out of hand.

These are the people who in real life say “Jan” instead of “January.”

At least that can usually be understood from context. Acronyms and initialisms usually cannot unless you already know them.

Sounds like most conversations I had with cybersecurity people until I learned about NIST 800s, FIPS, CNSS, STIGs, etc.

This wouldn't make me blink.. Jan, Feb.. but if someone just said Mar for March I'd blink twice.

How about Thu for Thursday?

Apr for April :P

And Jun for June?

I literally just had a PM tell me "we will talk about that 'tom'". It left me confused for a few seconds. Is it really that hard to use a couple more syllables?

Prime Minister of what country?

Kinda reminding me of when you're autocompleting commands in a shell prompt.

“My name is not Tom”

"Who tf is Tom?"

Apache Tomcat, a casual acquaintance of the local tomboy.

And K instead of OK

And “OK” instead of “I understand, thank you.”

Still, “k” is infinitely better than a thumbs up.

Hmm, how so? A thumbs up is more bytes, and thus more poignant.

No, I'm talking specifically about case of reducing two letters to one.

OK is oll korrect

okay

https://phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1791

typical hacker news bullshit.

people forget that many acronyms are context sensitive and/or audience sensitive. they just assume everyone across the world has the same shared life experience that they do.

Specifically the use of military jargon to describe consumer software

Many small time make big time

"CONUS" is short for "CONtinental United States"

Where is this term popular? I have never, ever heard this term before.

It's a US military term; I've never heard it outside of a military context, but it's super common within a military context.

It shows up a lot outside of military contexts when flat rate shipping is involved - it's usually CONUS-only.

For me(GP) it was this. Some of desk toys and electronics I'd considered were like that.

It is used in satellite communications as well to describe those beams that cover the continental US.

It’s popular with people who work for the USG. United States Government.

Sounds like it could be a USAF term

Wait, now we have another initialism :P

United States Air Force, where initialisms enjoy a great deal of popularity

US domestic shipping?

As distinct from OCONUS. https://veteran.com/military-acronyms/

Interesting to not see POTUS there.

Or TOTOPOTUS! https://twitter.com/MarkDStrauss/status/1590026071059013633

It stands for Contiguous or Coterminous United States

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contiguous_United_States

Is Alaska considered continental in this jargon ?

No. CONUS stands for Contiguous or Coterminous United States. Alaska is outside CONUS or OCONUS.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contiguous_United_States

Thank you

CONUS (can't help but giggle) supposedly stands for Continental United States, as I learnt from a sibling comment here. First time I'm hearing that acronym.

Target is a supermarket chain in USA. I assume Bestbuy is also something like that.

In my browser (Firefox on Android) if I type "tar" it auto-suggests completing the url to "target.com". Useless to me because I'm nowhere close to USA and there's no Target in my country.

Speaking of which, maybe they should have a separate list of autocompletable sites based on the user's location. However, I'm not sure of the privacy implications of that.

Continental US, I guess? Not sure why “continental” matters.

Excludes Hawaii, and Alaska (+ all other non state islands/territories)

Continental includes Alaska, as it's on the same continent, but contiguous does not.

I mean, _you'd think_, but: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/CONUS#Usage_notes

Except in Nebraska.

Good thing this acronym distingui- oh.

So that would be CONUS instead of CONUS?

Never heard L48 though. Yet.

i think they meant they're not sure why that would make a difference

So you’re saying the bug doesn’t happen for Hawaiian iPhone users somehow?

Me either, but guessing: Contiguous United States

Most interesting comment on cone snails that I ever heard. Couldn't parse it either. Others said it means continental United States.

Would be quite the story if shitty adware causes crashes.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=CONUS

It’s “Continental United States”.

Does not crash for me. (US, using “old “.) Safari suggestions on. IOS 15.7 (19H12).

Installing 15.7.1 now to check that version (and because I might as well install it anyway...) Edit: doesn’t crash on 15.7.1 either (though my first test on 15.7.1 was at 17:28 UTC.)

Hm, I am on CONUS and I’ve visited bestbuy.com a lot recently. The bug is not happening to me. Probably because I’m on iOS 15.6 and the bug happens starting with iOS 15.7, according to your Macrumors reference.

Probably I should upgrade even more slowly in the future…

I like the many possibilities here of

1. apple shipped a feature for walmart causing their browser to crash

2. apple shipped walmart code in their browser which crashed

3. apple shipped walmart plugin in their browser and then apple made a breaking change which crashed

3rd one is my favorite because it's the most dysfunctional

The reality will be more like Safari suggestions API sending malformed response for some scenarios, crashing the app.

And none of those would explain why Gusto crashes for the person you replied to

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