SpaceLifeForm

Old Geek. Hacking for a Half Century. My Header is an image of a Black Hole without an accretion disk. May be cryptic. May wax philosophical. Big Bang is illusion.

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2026-02-24

I opened my bank's mobile app to do an e-transfer. When I hit "send" on the transfer, it demanded that I verify my ID for security reasons, with a bunch of steps.

Frustrated, I hit the back button intending to abort and switch to laptop... But that took me back to the transfer confirmation screen, so just for fun I hit "send" again... and the transfer went through just fine without the security verification.

From this I'm inferring two things: nobody tested the failure transitions in the workflow, and so the app merely records that the verification flow was previously _entered_, rather than completed successfully. And, possibly, the bank's android devs are too young to remember that there's an OS-level back button that's not in the default UX any more, but you can turn it back on in settings.

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2026-02-24
2026-02-24

@hn50

Negative values are just a rounding error. Inflation is a trailing indicator.

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2026-02-24
2026-02-24

@majorlinux

Plausible cover story, yet again.

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2026-02-24

"In the digital world, it is wise to appear unpredictable… like a Windows update." - The Art of Cyber War

2026-02-24

@dangillmor

Except you end up giving away PII.

2026-02-23

@exador23

Just the first pic left me exhausted.

2026-02-23

@bagder

I must be old. I never knew it existed.

2026-02-23

@ai6yr

Mouse: Lookout! There is a classic bug pointer problem!

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2026-02-23

LOL disappearing mouse pointer... wonder if that was also vibe coded.

"...Microsoft is investigating a known issue that causes the mouse pointer to disappear in the classic Outlook desktop email client for some users..."

bleepingcomputer.com/news/micr

#microsoft #outlook #bug

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2026-02-23
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2026-02-23

Starting to believe that “moving fast” in professional environments is actually just “delay this problem for someone else to deal with in the future”.

Context: I’ve been helping oversee an email service provider (ESP) migration for an enterprise org (1,000+ people).

Every other day we find unexpected issues that were caused by someone trying to save time and move quickly in the past. And we have to spend the time those people supposedly saved in the past by fixing their issues now, in their future.

No time was actually saved, folks. It was an illusion.

#work #tech #ESP #emailMarketing #marketing #enterpriseIT #workCulture

2026-02-23

@billyjoebowers

They will also supply the fan.

2026-02-23

@paco

I'll bet you barked in the night.

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2026-02-23

The #monsterdon stats are gonna be late today. I “fixed” the code over the weekend. Which is why it isn’t working. 😜

Debugging: the crime where you are the victim, the chief investigator, and the prime suspect!

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt
2026-02-23

Anthropic and OpenAI are accusing Chinese companies of using their work for their AI models.

Anthropic and OpenAI clearly have the high moral ground, having never used other people's work to create their products /sarcasm

techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/anth

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JA WestenbergDaojoan
2026-02-23

Every AI company knows they're building the wrong thing.

And they can't stop.

Because the competitive structure specifically punishes anyone who slows down long enough to build the right thing.

The race is real. The destination is fake.

joanwestenberg.com/everyone-in

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2026-02-23

John Oliver's Show covered what's happening with X/Twitter. How it's algorithms are designed to push right-wing content, and how people don't just get away with, but get paid for inciting violence and hate speech. His advice? Leave X.
youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG_xWYLzI

#SocialMedia #LeaveTwitter #LeaveX

2026-02-23

@GossiTheDog

Inflation is written on the inside and the outside of the bubble.

#AI #Insanity

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