Does anyone else have their apple machine reboot on them willy nilly? My air m2 does that after I have been afk for a while. Instead of waking from sleep, sometimes it just decides to restart. Obviously forgets all the windows and the desktops they were assigned to.
So frustrating. It's such an absolute shitshow of an OS. I wish I didn't have to use it for work :(
#apple #macos #BadUIX #OS #PowerManagement #BadSoftware #BadDesign
Another complete screw-up by EventBrite.
Last week I tried to reserve a ticket at an event and the "Reserve a place" button never showed up in either Firefox or Chrome on Linux.
It did in Chrome on Android on my phone.
Now I've tried to reserve a ticket for another event run by another organisation and I've had exactly the same symptoms.
EventBrite has one reason to exist, and they are complete screw-ups.
If you want reliable ticket and event management ...
Don't use EventBrite.
If you don't care about your users ... fine, do what you want.
#UserInterface #BadSoftware #Ticket #Software #Warning
PS: Yes, I'm angry.
@mapilio #Mapilio iOS upload attempt server error bug
#BadSoftware #SoftwareBug #BuggySoftware
Sucks that @mapilio #Mapilio iOS street-level image app chokes - "Server Error" - when attempting to upload sequence to server.😕😡 Not a great #OpenStreetMap #OSM ally 😕😡
P.S. App usually launches w/images upside down - FCOL learn how to query sensors!
#BadSoftware #SoftwareBug #BuggySoftware #EverythingIsStupid #EverythingIsBroken
This post might seem like it's about #brightspace (the #lms the #suny system is forcing us all to use), but it's actually about having bosses who hold you in such contempt that they can't even be bothered to explain why they paid millions of dollars for a product that doesn't work while telling you to use it or else.
Today's Brightspace issue: hundreds of questions with images (trapped within BS's little walled garden of impenetrable database locations) that appear only as placeholders, but might or might not render when placed into a student quiz. The odds seem so far to be about 50/50.
There is no way to know which items are affected *even when I edit each of the hundreds of items by hand*, because I see this placeholder for MOST of the questions but then the students sometimes see the image. Sometimes not.
It's silent failure. No flags, no checks, no indications of what's wrong. No way to know if any changes will fix things.
Other silent failures: BS will cheerfully tell you it has imported your 5,000 or so items (painstakingly created over the past decade) from your previous LMS--which was also mandated--and then just *won't tell you* that hundreds or thousands of them did not import because BS simply choked and pooped or because BS doesn't even have the functionality to use those question types.
I fucking hate this LMS, but I really hate the fact that the people in charge think so little of me and 30,000 of my colleagues that they shove shit like this at us and tell us to pretend it works.
#professor #rant #highered #broken #shittydesign #baddesign #badsoftware #capturedmarket
Proof that AI is bunk: Nav is still so stupid
AI is supposed to revolutionize everything, but I call BS. AI is 90% smoke, mirrors, and promises that will remain unfulfilled.
Given a choice between fulfilling a past promise and making a new one, tech companies will generally choose the latter.
Let’s look at an application that should benefit from AI and showcase AI’s potential but is still as dumb as a post: Navigation.
Nav is still […]
#AI #BadSoftware #Navigation #TechBubbles
https://swduncan.com/2024/10/29/proof-that-ai-is-bunk-nav-is-still-so-stupid/
Saulala Beta for PCs (Windows and macOS) is live on Github.
Good luck, don't @ me.
(Please do, actually, @ me)
Manage your expectations.
Judge rules that expensive algorithmic system illegally denied thousands of medicaid benefits - oh, the wonders of technology. But seriously folks, some fools are writing bad software and making gazillions. #Medicaid #BadSoftware
https://gizmodo.com/judge-rules-400-million-algorithmic-system-illegally-denied-thousands-of-peoples-medicaid-benefits-2000492529
Great pre-testing in dev Crowdstrike! Did ya miss a step and go right to prod with a bad upgrade? Me thinks a bit of testing first would have exposed the issue before they took down a crap load of world services.
#failure #crowdstrike #whotests #whytestfirst #badit #it #offline #internet #badsoftware #notesting
So much work. SO much work, including physically walking across the room and bending over the back of the TV with a camera.
To discover the reason its Bluetooth searches forever without finding the earbuds is ... Sony never gave it that ability.
#badsoftware #badhardware #sony #bluetooth #bluetoothisevil #fuckbluetooth #bluetoothdoesnotwork
Current AI is that one unreliable friend, the one who seems nice sometimes, but makes up stuff to make themselves look smart, tells you lies, doesn't keep your secrets, talks trash about you behind your back, steals all your stuff when you're not looking, and only pretends to care about you.
The 2 hr old thread is starting to fill up as folk realise they've been painted in to a shit update corner.
OneDrive: Downloading 1 file - 212.0 KB
Okay, that's cool. But can you tell me why you are using 2.9 GBs of RAM then?
How can I convince my employer that it is for their best benefit that they supply me with a Linux laptop? I'm done with Window's slowness, insidious OS background processes that liberally take 50% of my CPU, random restarts, and a constant barrage of updates that do nothing but make the computer worse than it was before.
Not to mention WSL 2 eats all of my RAM by simply staying idle 🙃
Zoom doesn't need an update on my Mac today? Really? Maybe I need to buy a lottery ticket, too. #badSoftware
Aptos seems OK, but it really feels like a screen font. Why is O365 making it the default _document_ font? #fonts #microsoft #BadSoftware #OutsourcingResponsibility
The company I work for uses a particular bit of software to manage its HR needs; things like time tracking, org chart, leave management and the like. The HR People _love_ it.
It. Is. Garbage.
It is so poorly designed, labyrinthine, and inflexible, that I want to make a better thing, but I don't want to spend my time on such soul suckingly boring work. Yes, part of my job is to make tables pretty and ask people questions and a lot of that can be boring, but this would be worse.
#softwaredevelopment #software #kfc #badSoftware
I guess KFC want me to put my desktop computer onto a UPS to drive down to the store.
Not everyone uses only a #mobile #mobileapp
Sorry but this is just a prime example of stupidity without even attempting to think.
1: No session id (cant bookmark or transfer to my phone)
2: You can detect if i'm using a mobile device
3: It did no checks/straight to `Order Collected`.....
4: I bet the order will be incorrectly made as usual
Just had a company who sold us a software product tell me that the install and config documentation is proprietary and they can't provide it to me as the customer. I'm not sure how to respond to that except to laugh in their face (which I did).
Part of me wonders what horrors lurk in that document. What terrible things are they doing that I can't know about?
How is it possible that the largest networking company Cisco makes a VPN client with the worst UX on the planet. I am forced to use the piece of junk because I want to use the online Cisco Modelling Labs. I am at the point where I install Cisco Anyconnect on my Mac when I need it and immediately uninstall it once I'm done. #networks #networking #vpn #badsoftware #Cisco
Note: This is a rant not a support request
