#badsoftware — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #badsoftware, aggregated by home.social.
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One of the truly funny moments in my tech writing: I forget what the project was, but during final edits of an actually not very large manual, Microsoft Word bleated this https://nxdomain.no/~peter/dokumentet_er_for_stort.jpg at me.
This translates to "The document is too large to save. Delete some of the text before saving."
#badsoftware #documenttoolarge #microsoftword #MSFT #errormessage -
@whitequark ERP with "fat" desktop client that has "superuser" database credentials hardcoded in application. And these credentials are basically "app:app".
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NEVER install these programs:
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Digital photo frames: seemingly simple, yet so many are utterly terrible. This piece dives into the murky world of subpar screens, atrocious software, and sneaky subscriptions.
Turns out, finding a truly good one is a quest. What's one piece of tech that *should* be simple but rarely is?
#TechInsights #ConsumerTech #BadSoftware #DigitalLife #Engadget
https://www.engadget.com/home/smart-home/best-digital-frame-120046051.html?src=rss -
#Safeway (#Albertsons) self-check-out station software bug - consumer-facing *production software* in use in major national grocery store chain! WTH! - app in endless loop. Message: “Please wait, help is on the way”. Workaround: go to other checkout station and scan everything all over. ☹️😡 Hyper-capitalist commerce in the early 21st century.😡
#SoftwareBug #BadSoftware #StupidSoftware #EverythingIsStupid #EverythingIsBroken -
#Safeway (#Albertsons) self-check-out station software bug - consumer-facing *production software* in use in major national grocery store chain! WTH! - app in endless loop. Message: “Please wait, help is on the way”. Workaround: go to other checkout station and scan everything all over. ☹️😡 Hyper-capitalist commerce in the early 21st century.😡
#SoftwareBug #BadSoftware #StupidSoftware #EverythingIsStupid #EverythingIsBroken -
#Safeway (#Albertsons) self-check-out station software bug - consumer-facing *production software* in use in major national grocery store chain! WTH! - app in endless loop. Message: “Please wait, help is on the way”. Workaround: go to other checkout station and scan everything all over. ☹️😡 Hyper-capitalist commerce in the early 21st century.😡
#SoftwareBug #BadSoftware #StupidSoftware #EverythingIsStupid #EverythingIsBroken -
CW: Rant about Windows Mail
Windows Mail is an abomination. It's just taken me half an hour to add two accounts!
Firstly, it automatically tacked port 1 onto the server name when adding the account. I already had a port specified, so I ended up with something like "mail.myserver.com:993:1". As you might expect, this didn't work. Weirdly, it doesn't do this when you go back in and edit the server name.
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@ElleGray
#EightSleep CEO Matteo Franceschetti said, “We will work the whole night+24/7 to build an outage mode so the problem will be fixed extremely quickly.”software "engineering" by idiots, it seems 😡 #badSoftware #stupidSoftware
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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
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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.
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Saulala Beta for PCs (Windows and macOS) is live on Github.
Good luck, don't @ me.
(Please do, actually, @ me)Manage your expectations.
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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
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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.
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The 2 hr old thread is starting to fill up as folk realise they've been painted in to a shit update corner.
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Zoom doesn't need an update on my Mac today? Really? Maybe I need to buy a lottery ticket, too. #badSoftware
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Just found out that video streams stutter when you connect a mac to a TV through an HDMI cable. So frustrating.
The more I use macos, the more I am convinced of its utter failure as a serious operating system. Absolutely pathetic.
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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?
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The way Apple’s iCloud Photo Library works is so dumb.
There's no real way to manually save a specific photo/video to be available offline, nor is there a way to manually delete a specific photo/video ONLY from your local device 😡