CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@whitequark Reminds me of one particular moment watching the Space Battleship Yamato live-action... If I had been drinking anything when they said it, my screen would probably have been covered in it. "On April 7th 1945, the Yamato set out to bring a ray of hope at a time of utter despair" (I may have substituted a few words by accident, but the phrasing is largely accurate)

For context, that date is "Operation Ten-Go", aka "The Yamato attempts to fling itself at the Americans invading Okinawa, beaching itself, and to keep firing until it physically can't." It didn't even make it to Okinawa before it got blown to shrapnel by the US. (And it's quite disturbing just how pointless the whole thing was, all because the top brass couldn't get their heads out of their "honor-bound to do something" asses...)

@bloor Depending on the setup behind the link, it could be a "malware scanner" somewhere in the path getting too damn smart for its own good. There have been numerous reported cases of such scanners even making POST requests from one-time links without the user's involvement, invalidating sensitive document transfers and similar. And IIRC a few companies rolling out knowbe4 phishing tests (bleh, but good example) almost immediately got a 100% fail rate because the scanner or some other automation immediately opened all the links upon receiving them.