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Continuing today's theme, the folks who maintain the Massachusetts E-Z Pass website have decided there's no need for them to allow people who are traveling outside the U.S. to access their E-Z Pass accounts. Because it's not like anybody in Massachusetts might need to do so while traveling, eh?
(It works, when I turn on my VPN, which geolocates to Texas. It sure makes a lot of sense to let people in Texas access a Massachusetts site, but not people in foreign countries, eh?)

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When I go to log into the #NYULangone #Epic #MyChart page to help my uncle manage his healthcare, it claims I can't use MyChart from outside the country.
This is apparently a lie, since I'm currently in Australia and I was able to log in just fine and use the site.
Two shitty things here: (1) coarse geographic exclusions ("in the US" vs "not in the US") are excessive and unjustifiable; and (2) regardless, they shouldn't say they're enforcing things they're not.

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When I visit the Boston Public Library website from Australia to cancel a hold that is going to expire before I get back, so somebody else in line can have the book, the page reloads several times and then I see the error below.
If I activate my VPN whose exit node is in the U.S. I am able to visit the site with no trouble.
Two shitty things here: (1) it shouldn't block non-US traffic; (2) if it's going to block non-US traffic, it should do it clearly and openly.

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My credit card bank, #PenFed, sends me an email message: "Your Conslidated Statement is ready", with a button: "Review Now".
I click the button. I get the error below in my browser, after first getting a "too many redirects" error which turns into the one shown below.
If I log into the PenFed website in my browser and _then_ click the button in the email, it works fine.
Do companies just, I dunno, not bother to test their websites anymore, or what?

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I'm flying to Australia in a few days. Qantas sends me email encouraging me to (among other things) confirm my baggage allowances. To do that, I click the "Manage Booking" link in the email. I get this.
This error happened in Vivaldi. I tried to access the page in Firefox and it worked.
There's no excuse for this. I'm not using a VPN, not doing anything else suspicious. #Qantas and #Akamai just suck.
#infosec

It amazes me how frequently #Google breaks basic, important functionality seemingly on a whim.
They recently moved reminder functionality on #Android from the Calendar app to the Tasks app. Since then, whether tasks generate reminders to the user is completely a crapshoot. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. I say to my phone, "Remind me in a half hour to do <x>." It creates a reminder. A half hour later, no reminder. YOU HAD ONE JOB, GOOGLE.
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I recently registered for an account at https://exchangerate.com. I used a unique email address to register. Today I received spam at that address from https://assembla.com, which on its face seems to be an entirely unrelated company, but deeper investigation reveals that they are both owned by https://www.ideracorp.com/. Apparently Idera thinks if you sign up for an account at one of their sites, you've consented to all of their companies spamming you. Assholes.
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#TechIsShitDispatch what kind of monster displays a perfectly normal, non-error-related mesage like this in a red box with a white platform? smdh
(The answer, FWIW, is the people who maintain https://exchangerate.host.)

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My wife and I are in the process of applying for a new home equity line of credit to replace our old HELOC that is about to "mature" (i.e., stop letting us draw money from it).
Our bank uses #Blend <https://blend.com> for online loan applications.
Today the bank emailed me and told me I need to upload a document through Blend.
I tried to log in.
It said it was sending me an authentication code via text.
It did not, in fact, send me an authentication code via text.
😡

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OK, so, I just spent 50 minutes on the phone with #Kroll, the settlement administrator for the #Naviance #classAction lawsuit.
To recap, my wife received two emails from Kroll containing student class member IDs, and I received two emails from Kroll containing parent class member IDs, and I was supposed to be able to use the student class member IDs to file a claim, but neither of them would work on the website.
Earlier thread: https://federate.social/@jik/116631133703901962
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