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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 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.

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/>