Mastodawn

#curmudgeon #curmudgeonpower
#modernsoftware #fuckyou

something to freak out the zoomers with - from about 1950 through to somewhere in the 2000s, video and audio were ALWAYS IN SYNC except for accidents

MegatronicThronBanks 5d ago

There is absolutely no way The Rise Of The Machines would last more than about 7 minutes.

Not a chance.

#modernsoftware #ai

MegatronicThronBanks Jan 22

As a naive new receiver of AliExpress goods
... how the FUCK is the SEARCH so god fuckingly UNUSEABLY TERRIBLE!!!!????

On a site that wants to SELL YOU STUFF, you CAN'T FUCKING FIND the actual things you WANT TO BUY!!!!!

#aliexpress #alibaba #modernsoftware #china #nobodycancodeanymore

taylor Nov 25

Modern UX is so trash across the board. I shouldn't have this much trouble figuring out where I can safely click on a window's title bar to focus it now that title bars are stuffed with buttons, or to discover what fields in a view are scrollable now that scroll bars are verboten, or to even tell what on a view is clickable or not since styling makes links look like normal text and buttons look like anything but buttons (or even makes active buttons look disabled). Don't even get me started on the mobile "where do I need to hold, double tap, drag, or swipe to do what I want to do" mystery box.

Not a fan of any Windows version, but circa Windows 98, at least you could look at a view and know exactly what you could interact with and how. Now Windows, MacOS, and GTK/Gnome all do the same confusing crap in the name of "minimalism" at the cost of usability and discoverability.

#UX #UI #ModernSoftware #Rant

MegatronicThronBanks Oct 6

We'll do it in The Clown.

#software
#modernsoftware
#CloudComputing
#clowncomputing

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-10-01/national/socialAffairs/NIRS-fire-destroys-governments-cloud-storage-system-no-backups-available/2412936

NIRS fire destroys government's cloud storage system, no backups available

A fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) Daejeon headquarters destroyed the government’s G-Drive cloud storage system, erasing work files saved individually by some 750,000 civil servants.

MegatronicThronBanks Oct 2

The new version of Chrome is bad beyond all belief. Here is a site with all the Linux deb versions.

Download your current Chrome now. I think I'm finally moving back to Firefox for work usage.

https://mirror.cs.uchicago.edu/google-chrome/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/

#chrome
#google
#badsoftware
#software
#linux
#modernsoftware

Index of /google-chrome/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/

MegatronicThronBanks Sep 12

https://www.404media.co/the-software-engineers-paid-to-fix-vibe-coded-messes/

#software
#modernsoftware
#ai

The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes

Linkedin has been joking about “vibe coding cleanup specialists,” but it’s actually a growing profession.

404 Media

N-gated Hacker News Jun 6, 2025

Ah, the age-old debate: #SaaS, the eternal promise of liberation from technical drudgery, 🤖 only to ensnare you in a labyrinth of dependencies, mystery fees, and mind-numbing decision fatigue. 😵‍💫 But hey, at least your vendor lock-in now comes with a sleek, modern logo and the illusion of choice. 🎨✨
https://rwsdk.com/blog/saas-is-just-vendor-lock-in-with-better-branding #Dilemma #VendorLockIn #DecisionFatigue #TechDependencies #ModernSoftware #HackerNews #ngated

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