iiiiiiitttttttttttt

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45232943

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/26908785

I was using 3 Firefox browser tabs and it just decided to use 4 gigabytes of memory

cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/20596730

Links

• Report;
• Letter to the Norwegian authorities;
• Letter to the European institutions.

Breaking Free.

In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it. The report shows how this phenomenon affects both consumers and society at large, but that it is possible to turn the tide. Together with more than 70 consumer groups and other actors in Europe and the US, we are sending letter to policymakers in the EU/EEA, UK and the US.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/46242893

In my 25 year career, I have never had to deal with such a garbage software vendor as this one. I don't want to go on a rant since I have other things to do today and could go on for hours, but here are the highlights:

• Application has like 30 modules. Each module has its own config file.
• Config files are not centralized and reside in the directory with each module.
• Vendor ships a zip file of slop code that requires manual assembly.
• Vendor provides no substantial documentation. Every request for technical documentation is met with "Let's setup a meeting to solve your immediate problem".
• Vendor ships dummy config files in every release necessitating manual backup/restore of the config for each of the 30 modules
• Vendor changes config file format every third release. This requires re-configuring the entire application stack and all 30 modules.
• Vendor puts the version info in the goddamned config file instead of building it into the compiled .NET application as a variable like a sane person would do.
• Vendor sends an update every week and gets pissy when we don't deploy it within 3 hours of their "we shat out an update" email.
• Vendor has been asked repeatedly to address this. The only response we've gotten to these complaints is the sound of crickets chirping. 🦗

To answer any questions:

1. Yes, I voiced my concerns long ago. They were ignored.
2. Yes, they are the "lowest bidder" and it goddamned shows.
3. Yes, they know I hate them.
4. Yes, I tried writing scripts to manage the config files. They work once or twice until the vendor changes the config file format every 3rd-4th release.
5. Yes, it is sunk cost fallacy all the way down, but I've been given my orders.

Crossposted from https://sh.itjust.works/post/55233414

This was in my Cisco training. Unidirectional line break.

No. I don't speak Japanese. Or whatever that is.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/25345577

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41246153

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/lemmyshitpost/p/903026/we-have-a-very-loving-relationship

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52638369

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/23098977

Got a new job in November. It's not in IT, not even adjacent. I'm not a coder, so i guess this post is IT humor rather than programing humor. Anyhow, I've been using Linux for over a decade, hacking countless devices, selfhosting, helping others etc. I proudly consider myself half a nerd. A passionate hobbyist.

My employer is modern enough to have the whole admin run online: there's a clock punching app and one for customer communication, and lastly a website for employees to look at their scheduled shifts, hours worked & salary paid.

My boss (who isn't my employer) miscommunicated with me from day zero. I got nothing from her. Whenever I asked about some technical info she either told me to call tech support or - as if begrudgingly - gave me a link or a passcode without explaining how to use it - or simply didn't reply at all.
To make matters worse, she clearly misremembered a few things, forgot about documents I already sent her, and mispelled my last name, but always blamed me.

Everything I got working was with the help of my coworkers, who aren't exactly tech savvy.

But I could not log into the employee website no matter how I tried (so many times) and so I couldn't see my upcoming shifts. One Monday I came late because of that. Of course this was perceived to be my fault. Unreliable. Too dumb to use the site. One Sunday I had to beg my coworkers to send me a screenshot of my shifts.

I now believe that my boss is actually the one who is clueless about these things. But because everybody uses Windows & Google, and all login and registering procedures are built along this path of least resistance, the whole thing kinda just works, even though nobody can trace the steps taken to get there.

It took a full month of me calling up the totem pole to figure out that all accounts require 2FA which nobody had told me - not even the web UI itself. To make that work, I had to log into a work laptop with my work account (and it worked immediately).

Afterwards we could not switch to the department account anymore because nobody remembered the login name - only the password which was taped to the laptop.

I had now "broken the computer". 2 coworkers nearly had an aneurism because of that. The fact that I had "fixed" it again after 15 minutes did not count.

In this workplace of tech-illiterate people, I am now known as the one guy who is utterly clueless about computers and must be kept away from them at all cost. Apart from feeling mistreated & misjudged, this hurts my ego more than I would have thought. But it's also kinda funny.

PS: There are more things fucked up here. Two more days and I'm out, and not looking back.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/centuriichan/p/817029/i-upgraded-to-windows-11-by-accidentally-pressing-spacebar-on-startup