#badui — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #badui, aggregated by home.social.
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What's up with the weird word by word pseudo-typing way that "AI" responses appear on the screen?
It's as if the design is aiming to make it seem more human than previous generation chatbots, and yet that's not how replies appear *in any other context*.
What's up with that?
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A while back I got a new digital 'scope. The one I'd been using was okay, but only 8-bit and had some other limitations. The vertical resolution was actually starting to make it difficult to get accurate-enough readings of some things I was working with.
The new one is 12-bit. That is likely to be better than I will ever need. I'm happy with it. Being several years newer (and a different brand) it brings some new #features to the table.
One is that you can use it as a digital logic analyzer - it can sample a whole lot of inputs (rather than just 4 analog channels) quickly if it only has to tell on from off. But you have to get a whole lot of #signals into the #scope before you can do that, so you need a #connector with a lot of pins/signals.
You could use something standard for this type of application (which is still going to be a limited-audience part), or a custom thing, but those options are expensive. So instead, if you're the manufacturer, you find a common (and therefore #cheap) #connector with lots of #pins, and you re-use that. Done and dusted!
They picked ... the HDMI connector. It's there at the bottom of the middle of the control panel. And in the manual is the prominent (not) warning:
> WARNING: Non-standard HDMI interface, Siglent device ONLY, or you will damage your device.
Yes, if you plug anything HDMI-related into this obvious #HDMI port, you will cause damage to your 'scope, or your other device.
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A while back I got a new digital 'scope. The one I'd been using was okay, but only 8-bit and had some other limitations. The vertical resolution was actually starting to make it difficult to get accurate-enough readings of some things I was working with.
The new one is 12-bit. That is likely to be better than I will ever need. I'm happy with it. Being several years newer (and a different brand) it brings some new #features to the table.
One is that you can use it as a digital logic analyzer - it can sample a whole lot of inputs (rather than just 4 analog channels) quickly if it only has to tell on from off. But you have to get a whole lot of #signals into the #scope before you can do that, so you need a #connector with a lot of pins/signals.
You could use something standard for this type of application (which is still going to be a limited-audience part), or a custom thing, but those options are expensive. So instead, if you're the manufacturer, you find a common (and therefore #cheap) #connector with lots of #pins, and you re-use that. Done and dusted!
They picked ... the HDMI connector. It's there at the bottom of the middle of the control panel. And in the manual is the prominent (not) warning:
> WARNING: Non-standard HDMI interface, Siglent device ONLY, or you will damage your device.
Yes, if you plug anything HDMI-related into this obvious #HDMI port, you will cause damage to your 'scope, or your other device.
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A while back I got a new digital 'scope. The one I'd been using was okay, but only 8-bit and had some other limitations. The vertical resolution was actually starting to make it difficult to get accurate-enough readings of some things I was working with.
The new one is 12-bit. That is likely to be better than I will ever need. I'm happy with it. Being several years newer (and a different brand) it brings some new #features to the table.
One is that you can use it as a digital logic analyzer - it can sample a whole lot of inputs (rather than just 4 analog channels) quickly if it only has to tell on from off. But you have to get a whole lot of #signals into the #scope before you can do that, so you need a #connector with a lot of pins/signals.
You could use something standard for this type of application (which is still going to be a limited-audience part), or a custom thing, but those options are expensive. So instead, if you're the manufacturer, you find a common (and therefore #cheap) #connector with lots of #pins, and you re-use that. Done and dusted!
They picked ... the HDMI connector. It's there at the bottom of the middle of the control panel. And in the manual is the prominent (not) warning:
> WARNING: Non-standard HDMI interface, Siglent device ONLY, or you will damage your device.
Yes, if you plug anything HDMI-related into this obvious #HDMI port, you will cause damage to your 'scope, or your other device.
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A while back I got a new digital 'scope. The one I'd been using was okay, but only 8-bit and had some other limitations. The vertical resolution was actually starting to make it difficult to get accurate-enough readings of some things I was working with.
The new one is 12-bit. That is likely to be better than I will ever need. I'm happy with it. Being several years newer (and a different brand) it brings some new #features to the table.
One is that you can use it as a digital logic analyzer - it can sample a whole lot of inputs (rather than just 4 analog channels) quickly if it only has to tell on from off. But you have to get a whole lot of #signals into the #scope before you can do that, so you need a #connector with a lot of pins/signals.
You could use something standard for this type of application (which is still going to be a limited-audience part), or a custom thing, but those options are expensive. So instead, if you're the manufacturer, you find a common (and therefore #cheap) #connector with lots of #pins, and you re-use that. Done and dusted!
They picked ... the HDMI connector. It's there at the bottom of the middle of the control panel. And in the manual is the prominent (not) warning:
> WARNING: Non-standard HDMI interface, Siglent device ONLY, or you will damage your device.
Yes, if you plug anything HDMI-related into this obvious #HDMI port, you will cause damage to your 'scope, or your other device.
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A while back I got a new digital 'scope. The one I'd been using was okay, but only 8-bit and had some other limitations. The vertical resolution was actually starting to make it difficult to get accurate-enough readings of some things I was working with.
The new one is 12-bit. That is likely to be better than I will ever need. I'm happy with it. Being several years newer (and a different brand) it brings some new #features to the table.
One is that you can use it as a digital logic analyzer - it can sample a whole lot of inputs (rather than just 4 analog channels) quickly if it only has to tell on from off. But you have to get a whole lot of #signals into the #scope before you can do that, so you need a #connector with a lot of pins/signals.
You could use something standard for this type of application (which is still going to be a limited-audience part), or a custom thing, but those options are expensive. So instead, if you're the manufacturer, you find a common (and therefore #cheap) #connector with lots of #pins, and you re-use that. Done and dusted!
They picked ... the HDMI connector. It's there at the bottom of the middle of the control panel. And in the manual is the prominent (not) warning:
> WARNING: Non-standard HDMI interface, Siglent device ONLY, or you will damage your device.
Yes, if you plug anything HDMI-related into this obvious #HDMI port, you will cause damage to your 'scope, or your other device.
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the dumbness of sites signing you out in 2026.
- one time text
- one time email
- passwordchoose password because you know I self host a password manager...
"For security we must send a one time code to...."
Then why the hell did you offer "just password" 🤦♂️
#userhostile #login #badui #firstworldproblems -
It’s crazy how mad this ‘left click to pan’ is making me. It’s profoundly stupid, with ‘right click to box select’ being the diarrhea icing on the shit cake.
Like, it’s making me so mad I just don’t want to learn this fucking software. My index finger hurts from left clicking and dragging because it’s _all you do_ in this cursed UI.
#touchDesigner
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due to the Fucking AI boots 🔥🤬😡 thanks #facebook #apple #badui we are forced to put all our repositories on internal meaning you will need an account to browse the source at gitlab.fusiondirectory.org 🚨🚨🚨🚨 we are sorry about that be the situation is non manageable. we will see in the Future what we can do #ai #iacancer
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Once upon a time I created a Sephora account
Trying to log into it now, they have different validation on sign in than when I created the account, preventing me from logging in with my password
When trying to reset the password, it incorrectly validates my email address because it's not one of the 4 TLDs we used in 1990
Don't be like Sephora
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Hostile Volume – A game about adjusting volume with intentionally bad UI
#HackerNews #HostileVolume #Game #BadUI #VolumeControl #IndieGames
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And today I finished the annual "if you aren't gonna die you gotta pay taxes" ritual. I've taken over from my wife who had been doing it with TurboTax so I keep that going even though it's a bit pricey. I hate filling out forms and scanning PDFs in is a breeze.
On the minus side, every fourth fucking screen was an upsell attempt for something called MAX.
Every.
Fourth.
Screen.
Come on guys. They also have a few misleading "click this box" places where a purchase is next to an acknowledgement of "yes I read this required verbiage".
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YouTube search is literally unusable now that they removed date sorting in search results.
I mean, Seriously?
The first thing I did after searching in YouTube was to sort by date. I have never used any of the other filter options. Not even the facets that remove search results.
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@nixCraft Thought this might be interesting and from past experience I agree 1000% that AWS is shite. https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/04/aws_genz_misery_nope/
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Perhaps I've missed something somewhere, but for me the number one really horrible user interface issue with mastodon on the web and with the tusky app that I use on my phone is repeating videos.
If I want to watch a video I will click on the play button.
If I want to watch it again I will click again.
I *never* want videos to repeat endlessly.
Never.
Is there a hidden off switch for this horrible feature? Anyone out there know how to stop it?
#video #mastodon #repeatingvideo #ui #badui #terribleuserinterface -
At laundry. Washing machine will send SMS when it's finished. Washing machine decides it's finished when you open the door to take out your clothes, not when it finishes its cycle and is ready for you to open the door to take out your clothes. Feature turns out to be less useful than initially expected.
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This notification alert in the upper right corner's gotta be one of the worst UI patterns. The other day I couldn't find my bank account statements, because they were behind this sort of button. That's the kind of button I instinctively never click, because I'm too used to it being some kind of spam stuff on movie streaming piracy websites, hehe. Also, I'm just studying the docs. Why do they pretend I'm on social media or something?
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🚀 Oh great, another half-baked tool no one asked for to "simplify" the web. #Defuddle promises to extract content like Readability, but instead, muddles it up with #GitHub #buzzwords and leaves you wondering if it’s a parody of bad UI. 🙃
https://github.com/kepano/defuddle #badUI #halfbaked #tools #webdevelopment #HackerNews #ngated -
@yurisizov I think I actually had an even better idea... 😊
https://editor.p5js.org/bojidar-bg/sketches/FUbJem2vI
(also, a 2D variation up at https://editor.p5js.org/bojidar-bg/sketches/a1j194GnS, but it's comparatively more boring)
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This "state" menu includes not just US states, but territories, provinces, and countries. #SoftwareGore #UI #badUI
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Imagine using a giant purple dragon watermark bought online for $20 on federal court filings. A judge called it juvenile and banned it. The lawyer cited AI use and liking dragons. Maybe not the best branding move. #LegalTech #BadUI #LawyerLife
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I’ve been using Android phones for years, and only recently got an iPhone. And I cannot believe that on the iPhone, the messages app doesn’t let you copy a portion of a text message. The whole thing or nothing.
Apple has always gotten most UI decisions right, but always has one fucking lunatic thing that’s no one would ever want. And they usually stick with it for years and years, like idiots.
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Did Visual Studio Code really make it harder to edit a SVG in a text editor?
That is some terrible UX decision-making for a text editor. I’m sorry. But I won’t pull any punches there. It’s a bad decision.
Instead of a sensible default for a text editor, I now have to go configure 2 different options and install an extension (figuring out which of the many extensions to install).
Looking at it, it seems like the original issue that caused this regression was Image preview does not work for SVGs. It was opened by a user with a single sentence, no issue summary, no discussion, no feedback. The PR for it was approved by two people without any real sort of review. There is much more feedback to revert this issue then there was for it, but no action has been taken. The image preview was also already provided by one of those extensions.
Hopefully the issue gets more traction and a better way to preview SVGs without making it much harder to edit them in a text editor gets added.
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#Amazon has a handy button to change your language. And helpfully they've localized the names of each language so you can only tell what they are if you can read that language. Hablo Inglés y solo pequeño Español ... And I'm not fluent by any means.
The native spelling for that language should be the primary one displayed #badUI #badUX
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So, these are amazing. 😂 Thanks to @skullvalanche for tipping me off to the almighty Worst UI Competition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAAj1_lfvZA
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Wellp, its a good thing I'm resourceful, persistent, and know a few things about code. I should not have had to go this far, and I should not have to do what I have to do in order to use my $1,400 network switch. Explnation follows.
But this is what ablism, lack of accessibility, lack of inclusive design, and lack of critical and forward thinking and planning by Netgear UX/UI designers, along with everyone else who does/makes these kinds of things/decisions causes for those who do not fall into their narrow mindset, views, and ideas of what is functional and useful design.
So it turns out that practically the entire web UI is Java script. Surprised, anyone?
On the VLAN membership page, there are ports and link aggregation group designations in a table, but of course not formatted at all like a proper table. Not yet surprised?
That's all well and good. But here's where it gets completely ablist, inaccessible and inconsiderate. The settings that control the port/LAG state is entirely images, and java-based clickable controls that don't actually respond to screen reader clickable identification/listing mechanisms. So if a port/LAG is part, not part, tagged, or untagged in a VLAN is only communicated as a visual signal in an image. And as we've seen in my previous post, even AI can't figure it out accurately more than half the time. Making adjustments to these controls is purely a guessing game.However, here's where my persistence, resourcefulness, and understanding of code comes in.
After slamming things around for a few hours, including my keyboard, I got the bright idea to start looking through the dev tools as well as page source.
It was then that I got frustrated once again, until I figured out that the VLAN membership stuff was in a separate iframe. So I had to look at its separate source specifically.
Once I found the code I needed, I then discovered that I could figure out what state each port/LAG was in by interpreting the html/java image code/tags and image names for each port. Two examples follow.
The first port is 10, and is removed from the VLAN. The second port is 11, and it is untagged in the VLAN.
<div class='portMember margin'><span class='portword'>10</span><div class='panels'><div class='portImage remImg'></div></div></div>
<div class='portMember margin'><span class='portword'>11</span><div class='panels'><div class='portImage untImg'></div></div></div>
So in the two above examples, we can see that the portword class is 10 and 11 respectively. This tells us what port we're dealing with.
Then later in the code, we can see that the portImage is either remImg or untImg. I've deduced that rem means remove, and unt means untagged.
So this is how I have to do VLANs in my $1,400 switch.
#Inaccessibility #Nonusability #Noninclusive #BadUX #BadUI #Ablism #RealEffects -
Logged on this morning to yet another attempt to move me from Windows 10 to 11. I had to search out three 'no' buttons.
