#qwality — Public Fediverse posts

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

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. https://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

One of Microsoft's [1] recent #Windows 11 updates improves Windows security via the extremely effective tactic of making the C: drive inaccessible.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-11-25h2#3801msgdesc

[1] AKA #Microslop these days.

#security #WeveHeardOfIt #WindowsUpdate #WindowsUpdates #Windows11 #WindowsSecurity #oops #brick #quality #qwality #Microsoft

One of Microsoft's [1] recent #Windows 11 updates improves Windows security via the extremely effective tactic of making the C: drive inaccessible.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-11-25h2#3801msgdesc

[1] AKA #Microslop these days.

#security #WeveHeardOfIt #WindowsUpdate #WindowsUpdates #Windows11 #WindowsSecurity #oops #brick #quality #qwality #Microsoft

One of Microsoft's [1] recent #Windows 11 updates improves Windows security via the extremely effective tactic of making the C: drive inaccessible.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-11-25h2#3801msgdesc

[1] AKA #Microslop these days.

#security #WeveHeardOfIt #WindowsUpdate #WindowsUpdates #Windows11 #WindowsSecurity #oops #brick #quality #qwality #Microsoft

One of Microsoft's [1] recent #Windows 11 updates improves Windows security via the extremely effective tactic of making the C: drive inaccessible.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-11-25h2#3801msgdesc

[1] AKA #Microslop these days.

#security #WeveHeardOfIt #WindowsUpdate #WindowsUpdates #Windows11 #WindowsSecurity #oops #brick #quality #qwality #Microsoft

One of Microsoft's [1] recent #Windows 11 updates improves Windows security via the extremely effective tactic of making the C: drive inaccessible.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-11-25h2#3801msgdesc

[1] AKA #Microslop these days.

#security #WeveHeardOfIt #WindowsUpdate #WindowsUpdates #Windows11 #WindowsSecurity #oops #brick #quality #qwality #Microsoft

"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

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