Apple’s made some uncharacteristically awful design choices over the last few years, but taking a plain-text HTML link and turning it into a “preview” mail.app, thereby breaking many a recipient’s ability to properly see said link, is up there right at the top of the list of “our fixing of a thing is actually what broke it” stupid.

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re: the list of “our fixing of a thing is actually what broke it”

Ah, my favorite Yiddish word: farpotshket

@kims @ubiquity75 I will have to practice that word: the German phrase “verschlimmbessert” has a similar meaning, but less oomph!
@kims @ubiquity75 provocative maintenance is older than people think...
@kims @ubiquity75 Oh, that’s totally going into the writeup for this week’s post incident retrospective.
@kims @ubiquity75 @jadevol This is my new favorite word! Thank you!
@kims @ubiquity75 @brettcannon and there doesn’t seem to be any way to change it by default, but at least workarounds: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/disable-apple-mail-url-link-previews/
macOS: How to Disable Apple Mail URL Link Previews

In macOS Ventura, Apple's Mail app automatically adds a rich link preview in your email when you paste in a web address. Keep reading to learn...

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@kims @ubiquity75 In German, "verschlimmbessern", meaning "imworseproving", is one of my favorite words.

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See also: German’s verb “verschlimmbessern.“ Tantamount to making something worse when trying to improve it.

@kims @ubiquity75 Will add to my list of Yiddishisms right next to verkakte (so many spellings!) to describe something's crappy brokenness. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/verkakte#English
verkakte - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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My favorite Yiddish saying is "Nenter vi vaiter" [Nearer than farther]

@kims @ubiquity75 this totally describes my life right now
@kims @ubiquity75 this exists in german as well: verschlimmbessert (verschlimmert / worsened plus verbessert / improved)