Broadcom ported my profile over from VMWare, and doesn't know how to handle my name now so I can't sign the download agreement. It also doesn't give me a way to edit my name, either šŸ˜›

I tried the support chat, and got an error instead.

What a shitshow.

I edited the page HTML to make the text field editable, and it worked.

Great validation, guys. A+

@stroughtonsmith I had a similar experience last week. Signed up with my email address (a custom ā€œ.emailā€ TLD). Had to auth into it from a 3rd party and got told my email address was invalid. Turned out the client-side validation had a {2,4} ending on the regex.
Good to know that sometimes my 5 char email is ok, but sometimes it’s not
@stroughtonsmith It’s times like these I’m less sad that browsers became the dominant platform. At least we can all trivially edit/augment website content.
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names | Kalzumeus Software

Classic essay about how software routinely bumbles human names.

@stroughtonsmith It’s been a tough week…
@stroughtonsmith you ain't see nothing compared to what businesses are enduring these days because of this merger.
@stroughtonsmith yikes. Does that happen often with a double-barrelled surnames or just incompetence?
@brzz you have to go really out of your way to whitelist a-z vs just taking regular ASCII, nevermind unicode names. So yeah, gotta be incompetence
@brzz @stroughtonsmith From personal experience, the standardised air travel systems (boarding passes, etc) drop hyphens from names. It depends on the airline whether their booking system keeps them. And then there’s the heart-stopping airline websites where the form for online check-in reports ā€œno booking with that nameā€ unless you manually remove the hyphen even though it appears in the booking confirmation email.
@stroughtonsmith My boss has been pressuring our team to move from Proxmox to VMware. I told him I would rather quit than deal with those blood suckers.
@stroughtonsmith None of my entitlements are showing up. I don't have a Site ID and can't generate one because VMWare Fusion isn't an accepted product in the form to supply a product serial number.
@alexr 'only active licenses were ported’, the rest is gone
@stroughtonsmith So there's no way to download old versions of Fusion anymore?
@alexr @stroughtonsmith I was afraid of this and therefore downloaded a few of the older installers just in case. Hit me up if you need a copy
@stroughtonsmith Yeah, the first letter of my surname is a (disallowed) ā€žspecial characterā€. Broadcom, I’d like to let you know that Unicode is older than you (as a company).