Well, it appears the #internet is broken - again! Who's the culprit? #cloudflare - again! I would say "this will teach them to not centralise big portions of the internet on a few big providers". But unlike the bean counters I learn from past mistakes of others and will not get my hopes up. 😩 #decentralisation #brokenbydesign

#BIND #vulnerability #CVE #security #WeveHeardOfIt #ISC #bug #BrokenByDesign #DNS

I’m curious if and how they are going to fix this.

#brokenByDesign
https://mastodon.social/@MetricMartyr/115176517486252958

A good read on a lousy invention.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/study-social-media-probably-cant-be-fixed/

#socialmedia #enshittification #brokenbydesign

Firefox UI person: "I know! Let's change the bookmarks folder icon to just a black outline with no fill, so it doesn't stand out at all and people have a harder time navigating their bookmarks."

FFS.

I swear, Mozilla's motto is "If it ain't broke, break it."

#Firefox #UI #UX #designer #CADT #broken #BrokenByDesign #IfItAintBroke #BreakIt #software #Mozilla

@futzle
I think that qualifies for #BrokenByDesign

It looks like your login process is broken and/or poorly designed, so I'm never going to use your website again :hmmyes:

#adblock #TheFork #BrokenByDesign

@HonkHase gut dass es mittlerweile ne Initiative aus der Zivilgesellschaft gibt, die ein Gutachten anfertigen...
#BrokenByDesign

Take 10¹⁰⁰. Now add 1. Then subtract 10¹⁰⁰ from that.

You end up on 1.

Search engine calculators: NO!

#SoftwareSucks #BrokenByDesign #SimpleMath #duckduckgo #google #bing #startpage

@heiseonline ohne meine @Lilith sag ich nichts.

Naja doch, ich wette das ist wieder #BrokenByDesign und mit jeder Menge #LilithDoors

Mit einer Knopfzellenbatterie ein E-Auto stillegen?

Geht nicht? Geht doch!

Sorry für den Klickbait - hier die ganze Story:

Gestern war ich mit einem #Seat #Cupra Born des lokalen CarSharing-Anbieters #COONO der @stadtwerketuebingen unterwegs…

Kurz vor dem Ziel habe ich noch einen Abstecher gemacht - also das Auto abgestellt, aber ich konnte es von außen mit der Funkfernbedienung nicht abschließen.…

#Elektromobilität #BrokenByDesign

Backblaze seemingly does not support files greater than 1 TB

For nearly a month now, Backblaze has been fixated on a particular file of mine, that happens to be over 1 TB in size. Backblaze seemingly uploads it completely, but then on the next backup it uploads it again, even though it has not changed (in eight years!). Ad infinitum.

Using their Explainfile tool to dig into the log files, the clue seems to be:

– line 288 – 2024-12-16 16:16:17 […]

https://wadetregaskis.com/backblaze-seemingly-does-not-support-files-greater-than-1-tb/

🎉 2024: A year of innovation, where the only thing more consistent than tech conferences is the internet being "broken" for 25 years straight! 🤔 Spoofed IPs are the new retro, and BCP38's vintage charm is rivaled only by RPKI's slow dance into relevance. Why fix what we can nostalgically complain about? 📡

https://fed.dyne.org/post/290989

#InternetNostalgia #BrokenByDesign
https://fed.dyne.org/post/290989

Just reading https://euroquis.nl//kde/2024/09/14/keyboard

> There isn’t a standardized mechanism in Wayland to request a different keyboard layout. It’s up to the compositor how and what it wants to do.

Yes, why would you want to do Wayland ...
#wayland #brokenbydesign #kde #plasma

Neue Firmen-Policy erzwingt die Verwendung des MS Authenticators. Habe ich natürlich wenig Lust drauf, da ich ja bereits eine 2FA App habe, die über alle meine Geräte synchronisiert ist.

Was aber auch weiterhin geht, diese alte 2FA App verwenden, wenn man beim Login einfach angibt die zuvor einmalig eingerichtete MS App nicht verwenden zu können.

Warum einfach wenn es auch kompliziert geht.

Die Konzern-IT lässt auch Yubikeys nicht zu. #it #security #brokenbydesign #fail #authentication

Why are we asking people to verify if they are humans by using robotic questions?

#captcha #brokenbydesign

NSCopyObject, the griefer that keeps on griefing

NSCopyObject is a very old Foundation function - pre-dating Mac OS X entirely; from the NeXT era - that was originally basically just memcpy, but now it's complicated. A lot more complicated.

What NSCopyObject does

Its implementation currently starts with essentially:

id NSCopyObject(id object, NSUInteger extraBytes, NSZone *zone) {

if (nil == object) {

return nil;

}

id copy = object_copy(object, extraBytes);

object_setClass(copy, [...]

https://wadetregaskis.com/nscopyobject-the-griefer-that-keeps-on-griefing/

On Microsoft Recall:
"Microsoft is building a feature into Windows that is monitoring and logging a ton of data about you and the way you use your PC. Traditionally, we’d call this 'spyware.'"
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/windows-recall-demands-an-extraordinary-level-of-trust-that-microsoft-hasnt-earned/
#trust #security #privacy #ai #brokenbydesign #defectivebydesign

@echo_pbreyer richtig wäre #brokenbydesign. Entweder Verschlüsselung für alle oder Verschlüsselung für niemanden.

Het internet wordt weer een stuk minder vrij:
https://tweakers.net/nieuws/220144/nederlandse-providers-moeten-grote-illegale-e-bookdownloadplatforms-blokkeren.html
Stichting Brein krijgt hierbij zelfs de mogelijkheid om zomaar vermeende proxies toe te voegen aan de blokkeerlijst, zonder dat er ook maar een rechter aan te pas komt.
Dat terwijl legale e-book vaak zo gemankeerd zijn door DRM dat het echt jou boek niet is en je het niet kunt lezen op het apparaat van jou keuze.
Meeste mensen willen best betalen voor boeken, maar dan moet je wel gemak bieden!
#censuur #BrokenByDesign #DRM #ZLib #AnnasArchive #privacy #eBooks #boeken