#brokenbydesign

2025-11-18

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

Norbert Hegernoheger@wien.rocks
2025-09-11

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

#brokenByDesign
mastodon.social/@MetricMartyr/

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

2025-05-19

@futzle
I think that qualifies for #BrokenByDesign

Francesco Marinuccifranzmari@ieji.de
2025-05-18

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

Screenshot of an alert displayed when trying to access The Fork website. The text says "It looks like your ad blocker is preventing you from logging in. Please disable it and try again. We're sorry for the inconvenience".
2025-03-30

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

𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬dirk@gts.0x7be.net
2025-03-15

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

2025-02-13

@heiseonline ohne meine @Lilith sag ich nichts.

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

Elias Probsteliasp
2025-01-10

Mit einer Knopfzellenbatterie ein E-Auto stillegen?

Geht nicht? Geht doch!

Sorry für den Klickbait - hier die ganze Story:

Gestern war ich mit einem Born des lokalen CarSharing-Anbieters 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.…

Eine bildfüllende Abbildung einer CR2032-Knopfzellenbatterie.
2025-01-02

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/

Screenshot from Backblaze's website showing their claims about "Unlimited data, unlimited file sizes, unlimited drives", with an eyebrow-raised emoji overlaid.
Dyne.org foundationdyne@toot.community
2024-11-01

🎉 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? 📡

fed.dyne.org/post/290989

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

Norbert Preiningnorbu
2024-09-14

Just reading euroquis.nl//kde/2024/09/14/ke

> 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 ...

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

Anachron :void:Anachron@fosstodon.org
2024-09-06

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

#captcha #brokenbydesign

2024-07-16

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, [...]

wadetregaskis.com/nscopyobject

Grumpy Cat frowning, with the caption "NO".
2024-06-05

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.'"
arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/win
#trust #security #privacy #ai #brokenbydesign #defectivebydesign

2024-04-08

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

Het internet wordt weer een stuk minder vrij:
tweakers.net/nieuws/220144/ned
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

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