Moonrise2473
@Moonrise2473@feddit.it
- Comment on Forgot a number in my address... 3 days ago:
As a customer I hate those “smart” address form as they don’t accept my real house number but I need to put the generic one and hope the delivery guy is smart enough to read notes
- Comment on Forgot a number in my address... 3 days ago:
I work in a e-commerce and the amount of people that forgets the street number is insane.
We send email to ask clarification: no response (probably filtered by the artificial stupidity classification in Gmail, everyone only reads the main category)
We call them to ask clarification: nobody picks up because they assume it’s telemarketing
I blame the Google chrome auto fill, because it fills the whole form automatically instead of line by line like on Firefox, so people assume that it’s filled correctly while instead the browser decided to omit the street number
- Comment on Oops, something went wrong! 1 week ago:
Same for Windows hello. “Sorry something went wrong”
What went wrong, so I can fix it??? It needs a reboot? Restart the camera on device manager?? My face is not clear??? I need to update drivers?? Just logout???
Client side software must always give clear indications about what’s the error. Write in tiny 6 points grey text on a white background but give hints about the solution, don’t play a game , thanks
- Comment on Oops, something went wrong! 1 week ago:
Exactly, it’s especially infuriating on newpipe. WHAT went wrong? It’s an error 500 from YouTube (rare, unfixable, try again) or Google changed something and need to wait for a client fix? Or simply Google blacklisted the IP address or put some captcha that prevents playing the video??
- Comment on Trust us, we didn't steal anything 1 week ago:
- Submitted 1 week ago to [deleted] | 1 comment
- Comment on Sam Bankman-Fried is angling for a pardon from Trump 2 weeks ago:
After all the president, while pretending to care about fentanyl pardoned THE guy that did the most work in facilitating online sales of fentanyl
- Comment on The Humane Ai Pin Has Already Been Brought Back to Life 3 weeks ago:
100% faking that. Yesterday the esims got remotely disabled, the server shut off so it’s impossibile to push any OTA update.
If they really wanted, the fact that a loyal customer that paid almost one year of subscription had access to a certificate is completely irrelevant to publishing said OTA update
- Comment on On May 5, Microsoft’s Skype will shut down for good 3 weeks ago:
You joke but their idea is to migrate all the remaining skype users to Microsoft Teams (consumer edition, incompatible and not interoperable with Teams business edition, they have the exact same icon but with the colors reversed)
It’s the same stuff, but worse™️
- Comment on Our local newspaper is trying way too hard to insert these casino ads on their site. 3 weeks ago:
News? Which news?
- Comment on What is with volatile QR codes in membership accounts? 3 weeks ago:
What about Lux - it’s now discontinued but on my xiaomi mi 5 with a faulty brightness sensor that always reports full sunshine (and android 7) is doing miracles with the rooted plugin
- Comment on What is with volatile QR codes in membership accounts? 4 weeks ago:
When rooted a Xposed module might intercept and stop changing brightness level
- Comment on Google binning SMS MFA and replacing it with QR codes • The Register 4 weeks ago:
The real reason is that they want to save money on the text messages (outside of the US they need to pay $0.05 each time), not because they actually care about user security.
Like when xitter ran out of money and didn’t pay their sms bills and people were locked out of their accounts
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 49 comments
- Comment on Elon Musk and Wikipedia are feuding 4 weeks ago:
Do you think he got obscenely wealthy paying armies of people?
He’s famous for firing people, not hiring
- Comment on Microsoft to remove the Location History feature in Windows 5 weeks ago:
List of applications that depended on it:
- Comment on Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO 5 weeks ago:
They’re not apple, if they increase the price it means they think most of the competition will increase the prices or nobody would buy their stuff
After all, the margins are thin and the tariff is high
- Comment on Ads are coming to bit.ly links 5 weeks ago:
They’re useful for printed media
“Find more info at bitly/event” instead of “find more info at facebook.com/unnecessarilylongurlthatnobodyisgoingtotype”
Or for a qr code where it needs to be small and somehow your URL is too long
But yes, relying on a third party company for something that needs to last a long time isn’t really smart. There are many books that have online content now inaccessible because they used a link shortener that’s dead or that doesn’t let you update the redirection without paying a ransom (need to pay $120/year to bitly if you need to change the redirection)
- Comment on Ads are coming to bit.ly links 5 weeks ago:
I remember blackberry using bitly links in their developer emails in 2013, and at the time it was possible to see the stats of any link by just adding “+” at the end of the link (now requires authentication or maybe only paid users can lock that page)
It was dismaying to see that it got only 50 clicks or so lol
- Comment on Ads are coming to bit.ly links 5 weeks ago:
It is (was) a service that redirected a short URL like bit.ly/customurl to www.example.com/extremely/long/path/to/share/and/type?parameter=crazy&anotherparameter=long
perfect for sharing
- Comment on Ads are coming to bit.ly links 5 weeks ago:
Well, they give the option to remove the ads altogether for just $120/year 😉
Although literally nobody would pay that ransom (100000x the actual server expense) to remove ads from their own links
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 25 comments
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 2 comments
- Comment on Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website 5 weeks ago:
This level of incompetence is unheard
- Comment on CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google 1 month ago:
No it exclusively works with recaptcha github.com/dessant/buster
- Comment on CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google 1 month ago:
A reminder that recaptcha is no longer free, but since a few months ago now the website owner needs to pay $0.001 each time a verification is performed
cloud.google.com/recaptcha/docs/compare-tiers
Free tier is only 10k verifications per month and must link a valid credit card so they can charge you immediately when you reach higher level.
Hopefully this kills the product in the long term as bots solve recaptcha faster than humans, so it’s just for slowing down humans than actual security. I personally use a browser extension that solves them with a click in a second.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 1 month ago:
That’s “useful” when you can effectively only use it for Baidu, rednote, TikTok (the local version that’s isolated from the rest of the world) and WeChat
- Comment on Who's going to watch departure times on the departure board? Let's use it for ads! 1 month ago:
yes, they say (weirdly only in italian and not in any other language) that the departure board can be accessed via their chatbot on whatsapp
- Comment on Who's going to watch departure times on the departure board? Let's use it for ads! 1 month ago:
Rome
- Submitted 1 month ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 51 comments
