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  1. I just renewed my vehicle registration/insurance. We have a provincial crown corporation here that has a monopoly on it.

    I ran into a problem with their "new & improved!" website [1]. I always do. This one is boring; like 90% of the issues I run into, it's because the developers have only tested the site with Chrome, and they're violating CORS policy (a security thing) so Firefox prevents a request trying to fetch part of the page contents. Chrome doesn't give a damn, it doesn't want to stop any trackers or anything.

    But the 🧑‍🍳 😘 in the whole thing is ... there are various "Feedback" links and buttons. I want to report the issue, so I try them, and ... they haven't actually provided the HREF attribute on the links/buttons at all. They are literally not hooked up to anything.

    Good testing on the new site, boys! You sure you didn't miss testing any of the functionality?

    [1] Why companies absolutely insist on regularly improving their websites into unusability escapes me. As I mentioned elsewhere, it's not like the HTML of the working site has a best-before date on it.

    #CADT #WebDeveloper #Firefox #CORS #HREF #feedback #NewAndImproved #qwality #WeveHeardOfIt

  2. I just renewed my vehicle registration/insurance. We have a provincial crown corporation here that has a monopoly on it.

    I ran into a problem with their "new & improved!" website [1]. I always do. This one is boring; like 90% of the issues I run into, it's because the developers have only tested the site with Chrome, and they're violating CORS policy (a security thing) so Firefox prevents a request trying to fetch part of the page contents. Chrome doesn't give a damn, it doesn't want to stop any trackers or anything.

    But the 🧑‍🍳 😘 in the whole thing is ... there are various "Feedback" links and buttons. I want to report the issue, so I try them, and ... they haven't actually provided the HREF attribute on the links/buttons at all. They are literally not hooked up to anything.

    Good testing on the new site, boys! You sure you didn't miss testing any of the functionality?

    [1] Why companies absolutely insist on regularly improving their websites into unusability escapes me. As I mentioned elsewhere, it's not like the HTML of the working site has a best-before date on it.

    #CADT #WebDeveloper #Firefox #CORS #HREF #feedback #NewAndImproved #qwality #WeveHeardOfIt

  3. I just renewed my vehicle registration/insurance. We have a provincial crown corporation here that has a monopoly on it.

    I ran into a problem with their "new & improved!" website [1]. I always do. This one is boring; like 90% of the issues I run into, it's because the developers have only tested the site with Chrome, and they're violating CORS policy (a security thing) so Firefox prevents a request trying to fetch part of the page contents. Chrome doesn't give a damn, it doesn't want to stop any trackers or anything.

    But the 🧑‍🍳 😘 in the whole thing is ... there are various "Feedback" links and buttons. I want to report the issue, so I try them, and ... they haven't actually provided the HREF attribute on the links/buttons at all. They are literally not hooked up to anything.

    Good testing on the new site, boys! You sure you didn't miss testing any of the functionality?

    [1] Why companies absolutely insist on regularly improving their websites into unusability escapes me. As I mentioned elsewhere, it's not like the HTML of the working site has a best-before date on it.

    #CADT #WebDeveloper #Firefox #CORS #HREF #feedback #NewAndImproved #qwality #WeveHeardOfIt

  4. I just renewed my vehicle registration/insurance. We have a provincial crown corporation here that has a monopoly on it.

    I ran into a problem with their "new & improved!" website [1]. I always do. This one is boring; like 90% of the issues I run into, it's because the developers have only tested the site with Chrome, and they're violating CORS policy (a security thing) so Firefox prevents a request trying to fetch part of the page contents. Chrome doesn't give a damn, it doesn't want to stop any trackers or anything.

    But the 🧑‍🍳 😘 in the whole thing is ... there are various "Feedback" links and buttons. I want to report the issue, so I try them, and ... they haven't actually provided the HREF attribute on the links/buttons at all. They are literally not hooked up to anything.

    Good testing on the new site, boys! You sure you didn't miss testing any of the functionality?

    [1] Why companies absolutely insist on regularly improving their websites into unusability escapes me. As I mentioned elsewhere, it's not like the HTML of the working site has a best-before date on it.

    #CADT #WebDeveloper #Firefox #CORS #HREF #feedback #NewAndImproved #qwality #WeveHeardOfIt

  5. I just renewed my vehicle registration/insurance. We have a provincial crown corporation here that has a monopoly on it.

    I ran into a problem with their "new & improved!" website [1]. I always do. This one is boring; like 90% of the issues I run into, it's because the developers have only tested the site with Chrome, and they're violating CORS policy (a security thing) so Firefox prevents a request trying to fetch part of the page contents. Chrome doesn't give a damn, it doesn't want to stop any trackers or anything.

    But the 🧑‍🍳 😘 in the whole thing is ... there are various "Feedback" links and buttons. I want to report the issue, so I try them, and ... they haven't actually provided the HREF attribute on the links/buttons at all. They are literally not hooked up to anything.

    Good testing on the new site, boys! You sure you didn't miss testing any of the functionality?

    [1] Why companies absolutely insist on regularly improving their websites into unusability escapes me. As I mentioned elsewhere, it's not like the HTML of the working site has a best-before date on it.

    #CADT #WebDeveloper #Firefox #CORS #HREF #feedback #NewAndImproved #qwality #WeveHeardOfIt

  6. Oh, this is #fun.

    #Applebot - Apple's web crawler, used for various things - is ignoring robots.txt rules governing crawling of websites.

    I have Applebot (and Applebot-Extended, which isn't really a crawler) in my robots.txt files, set to disallow all access. Has been that way for #yonks.

    And Applebot is consistently the highest-traffic crawler to my sites - at least of ones that actually bother to fetch robots.txt. Yesterday, for example, Applebot fetched robots.txt from one of my websites almost 800 times.

    Yes, it's really Apple, not someone faking the user-agent identifier. It's coming from the networks that Apple says can be used to identify Applebot access. DNS matches, everything.
    e.g. support.apple.com/en-ca/119829

    So: legendary Apple software quality. Documented to do the right thing, but actually doing the wrong thing. And completely failing to cache content, fetching the same file 800 times a day when it hasn't changed in years.

    Hey, Apple! Need a software engineer who's actually, you know, good at it? I'm available.

    #Apple #AppleInc #TimApple #WebCrawler #RobotsTxt #quality #WeveHeardOfIt #qwality #AppleQwality #legendary #TwoHardThings #caching #fail #engineer #software #SoftwareEngineer

  7. Oh, this is #fun.

    #Applebot - Apple's web crawler, used for various things - is ignoring robots.txt rules governing crawling of websites.

    I have Applebot (and Applebot-Extended, which isn't really a crawler) in my robots.txt files, set to disallow all access. Has been that way for #yonks.

    And Applebot is consistently the highest-traffic crawler to my sites - at least of ones that actually bother to fetch robots.txt. Yesterday, for example, Applebot fetched robots.txt from one of my websites almost 800 times.

    Yes, it's really Apple, not someone faking the user-agent identifier. It's coming from the networks that Apple says can be used to identify Applebot access. DNS matches, everything.
    e.g. support.apple.com/en-ca/119829

    So: legendary Apple software quality. Documented to do the right thing, but actually doing the wrong thing. And completely failing to cache content, fetching the same file 800 times a day when it hasn't changed in years.

    Hey, Apple! Need a software engineer who's actually, you know, good at it? I'm available.

    #Apple #AppleInc #TimApple #WebCrawler #RobotsTxt #quality #WeveHeardOfIt #qwality #AppleQwality #legendary #TwoHardThings #caching #fail #engineer #software #SoftwareEngineer

  8. Oh, this is #fun.

    #Applebot - Apple's web crawler, used for various things - is ignoring robots.txt rules governing crawling of websites.

    I have Applebot (and Applebot-Extended, which isn't really a crawler) in my robots.txt files, set to disallow all access. Has been that way for #yonks.

    And Applebot is consistently the highest-traffic crawler to my sites - at least of ones that actually bother to fetch robots.txt. Yesterday, for example, Applebot fetched robots.txt from one of my websites almost 800 times.

    Yes, it's really Apple, not someone faking the user-agent identifier. It's coming from the networks that Apple says can be used to identify Applebot access. DNS matches, everything.
    e.g. support.apple.com/en-ca/119829

    So: legendary Apple software quality. Documented to do the right thing, but actually doing the wrong thing. And completely failing to cache content, fetching the same file 800 times a day when it hasn't changed in years.

    Hey, Apple! Need a software engineer who's actually, you know, good at it? I'm available.

    #Apple #AppleInc #TimApple #WebCrawler #RobotsTxt #quality #WeveHeardOfIt #qwality #AppleQwality #legendary #TwoHardThings #caching #fail #engineer #software #SoftwareEngineer

  9. Oh, this is #fun.

    #Applebot - Apple's web crawler, used for various things - is ignoring robots.txt rules governing crawling of websites.

    I have Applebot (and Applebot-Extended, which isn't really a crawler) in my robots.txt files, set to disallow all access. Has been that way for #yonks.

    And Applebot is consistently the highest-traffic crawler to my sites - at least of ones that actually bother to fetch robots.txt. Yesterday, for example, Applebot fetched robots.txt from one of my websites almost 800 times.

    Yes, it's really Apple, not someone faking the user-agent identifier. It's coming from the networks that Apple says can be used to identify Applebot access. DNS matches, everything.
    e.g. support.apple.com/en-ca/119829

    So: legendary Apple software quality. Documented to do the right thing, but actually doing the wrong thing. And completely failing to cache content, fetching the same file 800 times a day when it hasn't changed in years.

    Hey, Apple! Need a software engineer who's actually, you know, good at it? I'm available.

    #Apple #AppleInc #TimApple #WebCrawler #RobotsTxt #quality #WeveHeardOfIt #qwality #AppleQwality #legendary #TwoHardThings #caching #fail #engineer #software #SoftwareEngineer

  10. Oh, this is #fun.

    #Applebot - Apple's web crawler, used for various things - is ignoring robots.txt rules governing crawling of websites.

    I have Applebot (and Applebot-Extended, which isn't really a crawler) in my robots.txt files, set to disallow all access. Has been that way for #yonks.

    And Applebot is consistently the highest-traffic crawler to my sites - at least of ones that actually bother to fetch robots.txt. Yesterday, for example, Applebot fetched robots.txt from one of my websites almost 800 times.

    Yes, it's really Apple, not someone faking the user-agent identifier. It's coming from the networks that Apple says can be used to identify Applebot access. DNS matches, everything.
    e.g. support.apple.com/en-ca/119829

    So: legendary Apple software quality. Documented to do the right thing, but actually doing the wrong thing. And completely failing to cache content, fetching the same file 800 times a day when it hasn't changed in years.

    Hey, Apple! Need a software engineer who's actually, you know, good at it? I'm available.

    #Apple #AppleInc #TimApple #WebCrawler #RobotsTxt #quality #WeveHeardOfIt #qwality #AppleQwality #legendary #TwoHardThings #caching #fail #engineer #software #SoftwareEngineer

  11. Wow, these #AliExpress sellers are pretty ingenious! These 304 stainless set screws are *much* easier to pick up with a magnet than with sausage fingers.

    #Chinesium #SetScrew #GrubScrew #304Stainless #StainlessSteel #fake #Qwality #magic

  12. Wow, these #AliExpress sellers are pretty ingenious! These 304 stainless set screws are *much* easier to pick up with a magnet than with sausage fingers.

    #Chinesium #SetScrew #GrubScrew #304Stainless #StainlessSteel #fake #Qwality #magic

  13. Wow, these #AliExpress sellers are pretty ingenious! These 304 stainless set screws are *much* easier to pick up with a magnet than with sausage fingers.

    #Chinesium #SetScrew #GrubScrew #304Stainless #StainlessSteel #fake #Qwality #magic

  14. Wow, these #AliExpress sellers are pretty ingenious! These 304 stainless set screws are *much* easier to pick up with a magnet than with sausage fingers.

    #Chinesium #SetScrew #GrubScrew #304Stainless #StainlessSteel #fake #Qwality #magic

  15. Wow, these #AliExpress sellers are pretty ingenious! These 304 stainless set screws are *much* easier to pick up with a magnet than with sausage fingers.

    #Chinesium #SetScrew #GrubScrew #304Stainless #StainlessSteel #fake #Qwality #magic

  16. "The forged certification marks that are different on each part in the component series is your trusted sign of Qwality."

    #qwality #certification #forged #certificate #Chinesium #SafetyThird #electronic #component #AliExpress

  17. "The forged certification marks that are different on each part in the component series is your trusted sign of Qwality."

    #qwality #certification #forged #certificate #Chinesium #SafetyThird #electronic #component #AliExpress

  18. "The forged certification marks that are different on each part in the component series is your trusted sign of Qwality."

    #qwality #certification #forged #certificate #Chinesium #SafetyThird #electronic #component #AliExpress

  19. "The forged certification marks that are different on each part in the component series is your trusted sign of Qwality."

    #qwality #certification #forged #certificate #Chinesium #SafetyThird #electronic #component #AliExpress

  20. "The forged certification marks that are different on each part in the component series is your trusted sign of Qwality."

    #qwality #certification #forged #certificate #Chinesium #SafetyThird #electronic #component #AliExpress

  21. Breaking localhost network functionality is an impressive achievement.

    Pushing that breakage out undetected in a general availability update of your current mainstream OS is even more impressive.

    But the real WTF is why it was even possible in the first place. Quoting The Register's coverage:

    > The bug, introduced in build 26100.6899, has been traced to HTTP.sys,
    > the Windows kernel component that handles local HTTP traffic.

    "the Windows kernel component that handles local HTTP traffic" is a phrase that has no reason to exist in the English language. I can only imagine how many security vulnerabilities having HTTP/2 in the kernel makes possible.

    #Windows #security #breakage #broken #localhost #networking #Windows11 #Microsoft #qwality #QualityWeveHeardOfIt #WeveHeardOfIt #HTTP #kernel

  22. Breaking localhost network functionality is an impressive achievement.

    Pushing that breakage out undetected in a general availability update of your current mainstream OS is even more impressive.

    But the real WTF is why it was even possible in the first place. Quoting The Register's coverage:

    > The bug, introduced in build 26100.6899, has been traced to HTTP.sys,
    > the Windows kernel component that handles local HTTP traffic.

    "the Windows kernel component that handles local HTTP traffic" is a phrase that has no reason to exist in the English language. I can only imagine how many security vulnerabilities having HTTP/2 in the kernel makes possible.

    #Windows #security #breakage #broken #localhost #networking #Windows11 #Microsoft #qwality #QualityWeveHeardOfIt #WeveHeardOfIt #HTTP #kernel

  23. Breaking localhost network functionality is an impressive achievement.

    Pushing that breakage out undetected in a general availability update of your current mainstream OS is even more impressive.

    But the real WTF is why it was even possible in the first place. Quoting The Register's coverage:

    > The bug, introduced in build 26100.6899, has been traced to HTTP.sys,
    > the Windows kernel component that handles local HTTP traffic.

    "the Windows kernel component that handles local HTTP traffic" is a phrase that has no reason to exist in the English language. I can only imagine how many security vulnerabilities having HTTP/2 in the kernel makes possible.

    #Windows #security #breakage #broken #localhost #networking #Windows11 #Microsoft #qwality #QualityWeveHeardOfIt #WeveHeardOfIt #HTTP #kernel

  24. Breaking localhost network functionality is an impressive achievement.

    Pushing that breakage out undetected in a general availability update of your current mainstream OS is even more impressive.

    But the real WTF is why it was even possible in the first place. Quoting The Register's coverage:

    > The bug, introduced in build 26100.6899, has been traced to HTTP.sys,
    > the Windows kernel component that handles local HTTP traffic.

    "the Windows kernel component that handles local HTTP traffic" is a phrase that has no reason to exist in the English language. I can only imagine how many security vulnerabilities having HTTP/2 in the kernel makes possible.

    #Windows #security #breakage #broken #localhost #networking #Windows11 #Microsoft #qwality #QualityWeveHeardOfIt #WeveHeardOfIt #HTTP #kernel

  25. Breaking localhost network functionality is an impressive achievement.

    Pushing that breakage out undetected in a general availability update of your current mainstream OS is even more impressive.

    But the real WTF is why it was even possible in the first place. Quoting The Register's coverage:

    > The bug, introduced in build 26100.6899, has been traced to HTTP.sys,
    > the Windows kernel component that handles local HTTP traffic.

    "the Windows kernel component that handles local HTTP traffic" is a phrase that has no reason to exist in the English language. I can only imagine how many security vulnerabilities having HTTP/2 in the kernel makes possible.

    #Windows #security #breakage #broken #localhost #networking #Windows11 #Microsoft #qwality #QualityWeveHeardOfIt #WeveHeardOfIt #HTTP #kernel

  26. Line manager: Uh, Boss?

    Boss: Yes?

    L: We finished that new run of the component. We sent it to QA.

    B: Okay? Is there a problem?

    L: I just got the report back. This batch, uh, didn't meet the tolerance goal.

    B: [rubs temple] Okay, shit happens. I guess it goes out as 10%. That's not too bad a hit.

    L: Uh, it didn't meet 10% tolerance, either.

    B: What? How bad is it? 20%?

    L: Uh...

    B: It's *worse* than 20%?

    L: Most of the parts are barely within 50% tolerance.

    B: ...

    L: So, uh, we should probably ...

    B: Who was running the line?

    L: ...

    B: It was Chuck, wasn't it?

    L: ... yes.

    B: Was he drunk again?

    L: I don't know. I sent him home.

    B: Nobody's made these components in 50% tolerance for thirty years. Where am I going to sell them?

    L: ...

    B: Okay, AliExpress it is. Go to the noodle shop across the street and offer him some new boxes if we can have the ones his supplies come in. No way I'm putting these parts and the company name in the same room together.

    (inspired by some parts I received today...)

    #electronics #hobby #AliExpress #tolerance #components #ShortFiction #qwality #ShipIt #scene #business #Chinesium #YumCha

  27. Line manager: Uh, Boss?

    Boss: Yes?

    L: We finished that new run of the component. We sent it to QA.

    B: Okay? Is there a problem?

    L: I just got the report back. This batch, uh, didn't meet the tolerance goal.

    B: [rubs temple] Okay, shit happens. I guess it goes out as 10%. That's not too bad a hit.

    L: Uh, it didn't meet 10% tolerance, either.

    B: What? How bad is it? 20%?

    L: Uh...

    B: It's *worse* than 20%?

    L: Most of the parts are barely within 50% tolerance.

    B: ...

    L: So, uh, we should probably ...

    B: Who was running the line?

    L: ...

    B: It was Chuck, wasn't it?

    L: ... yes.

    B: Was he drunk again?

    L: I don't know. I sent him home.

    B: Nobody's made these components in 50% tolerance for thirty years. Where am I going to sell them?

    L: ...

    B: Okay, AliExpress it is. Go to the noodle shop across the street and offer him some new boxes if we can have the ones his supplies come in. No way I'm putting these parts and the company name in the same room together.

    (inspired by some parts I received today...)

    #electronics #hobby #AliExpress #tolerance #components #ShortFiction #qwality #ShipIt #scene #business #Chinesium #YumCha

  28. Line manager: Uh, Boss?

    Boss: Yes?

    L: We finished that new run of the component. We sent it to QA.

    B: Okay? Is there a problem?

    L: I just got the report back. This batch, uh, didn't meet the tolerance goal.

    B: [rubs temple] Okay, shit happens. I guess it goes out as 10%. That's not too bad a hit.

    L: Uh, it didn't meet 10% tolerance, either.

    B: What? How bad is it? 20%?

    L: Uh...

    B: It's *worse* than 20%?

    L: Most of the parts are barely within 50% tolerance.

    B: ...

    L: So, uh, we should probably ...

    B: Who was running the line?

    L: ...

    B: It was Chuck, wasn't it?

    L: ... yes.

    B: Was he drunk again?

    L: I don't know. I sent him home.

    B: Nobody's made these components in 50% tolerance for thirty years. Where am I going to sell them?

    L: ...

    B: Okay, AliExpress it is. Go to the noodle shop across the street and offer him some new boxes if we can have the ones his supplies come in. No way I'm putting these parts and the company name in the same room together.

    (inspired by some parts I received today...)

    #electronics #hobby #AliExpress #tolerance #components #ShortFiction #qwality #ShipIt #scene #business #Chinesium #YumCha

  29. Line manager: Uh, Boss?

    Boss: Yes?

    L: We finished that new run of the component. We sent it to QA.

    B: Okay? Is there a problem?

    L: I just got the report back. This batch, uh, didn't meet the tolerance goal.

    B: [rubs temple] Okay, shit happens. I guess it goes out as 10%. That's not too bad a hit.

    L: Uh, it didn't meet 10% tolerance, either.

    B: What? How bad is it? 20%?

    L: Uh...

    B: It's *worse* than 20%?

    L: Most of the parts are barely within 50% tolerance.

    B: ...

    L: So, uh, we should probably ...

    B: Who was running the line?

    L: ...

    B: It was Chuck, wasn't it?

    L: ... yes.

    B: Was he drunk again?

    L: I don't know. I sent him home.

    B: Nobody's made these components in 50% tolerance for thirty years. Where am I going to sell them?

    L: ...

    B: Okay, AliExpress it is. Go to the noodle shop across the street and offer him some new boxes if we can have the ones his supplies come in. No way I'm putting these parts and the company name in the same room together.

    (inspired by some parts I received today...)

    #electronics #hobby #AliExpress #tolerance #components #ShortFiction #qwality #ShipIt #scene #business #Chinesium #YumCha

  30. Line manager: Uh, Boss?

    Boss: Yes?

    L: We finished that new run of the component. We sent it to QA.

    B: Okay? Is there a problem?

    L: I just got the report back. This batch, uh, didn't meet the tolerance goal.

    B: [rubs temple] Okay, shit happens. I guess it goes out as 10%. That's not too bad a hit.

    L: Uh, it didn't meet 10% tolerance, either.

    B: What? How bad is it? 20%?

    L: Uh...

    B: It's *worse* than 20%?

    L: Most of the parts are barely within 50% tolerance.

    B: ...

    L: So, uh, we should probably ...

    B: Who was running the line?

    L: ...

    B: It was Chuck, wasn't it?

    L: ... yes.

    B: Was he drunk again?

    L: I don't know. I sent him home.

    B: Nobody's made these components in 50% tolerance for thirty years. Where am I going to sell them?

    L: ...

    B: Okay, AliExpress it is. Go to the noodle shop across the street and offer him some new boxes if we can have the ones his supplies come in. No way I'm putting these parts and the company name in the same room together.

    (inspired by some parts I received today...)

    #electronics #hobby #AliExpress #tolerance #components #ShortFiction #qwality #ShipIt #scene #business #Chinesium #YumCha

  31. So, when you buy a bag of metric 304 stainless hex nuts, and each nut is attracted to a magnet by a different amount of force, that's a sign of quality, right? 😂

    #quality #qwality #chinesium #M3 #nut #HexNut #stainless #304Stainless #ferrous #magnetic

  32. So, when you buy a bag of metric 304 stainless hex nuts, and each nut is attracted to a magnet by a different amount of force, that's a sign of quality, right? 😂

    #quality #qwality #chinesium #M3 #nut #HexNut #stainless #304Stainless #ferrous #magnetic

  33. So, when you buy a bag of metric 304 stainless hex nuts, and each nut is attracted to a magnet by a different amount of force, that's a sign of quality, right? 😂

    #quality #qwality #chinesium #M3 #nut #HexNut #stainless #304Stainless #ferrous #magnetic

  34. So, when you buy a bag of metric 304 stainless hex nuts, and each nut is attracted to a magnet by a different amount of force, that's a sign of quality, right? 😂

    #quality #qwality #chinesium #M3 #nut #HexNut #stainless #304Stainless #ferrous #magnetic

  35. So, when you buy a bag of metric 304 stainless hex nuts, and each nut is attracted to a magnet by a different amount of force, that's a sign of quality, right? 😂

    #quality #qwality #chinesium #M3 #nut #HexNut #stainless #304Stainless #ferrous #magnetic