Tech you miss/ new tech trends you hate - ok boomers

moocow said:
Fun fact: the misspelled ones are more effective, whether a popup or email spam. Someone dumb/illiterate enough not to notice (or mind) the misspelling is far more likely to actually fall for the scam. It's an easy filter, guaranteed to weed out people smart enough to notice.
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unfortunately companies saw that idiots were stupid enough to fall for it and decided that technology needed to be dumbed down for everybody, with no option to take the training wheels off
 
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moocow said:
My current employer requires sixteen-character local workstation passwords, with numbers, mixed case letters and special symbols. "Muh password manager" people, welp, too bad since that's on your fucking workstation. That's fixable by keeping your password manager on your phone or another system though, assuming company policy permits that, of course.
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Your employer is fucking retarded. Making people use passwords that humans can't remember, but crackers can crack, so not only are the humans forced to write them down somewhere easily found, but they can be cracked anyway. Absolute gibbering dumbfucks.
 
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AnOminous said:
Your employer is fucking retarded. Making people use passwords that humans can't remember, but crackers can crack, so not only are the humans forced to write them down somewhere easily found, but they can be cracked anyway. Absolute gibbering dumbfucks.
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Preaching to the choir, friend. I've pointed this out several times, and it's always fallen on deaf ears. To their (minimal) credit, they are trying to convince people now to use passphrases instead of passwords, but the problem with that is some older systems (and sites) don't actually accept longer passwords.

My preference has always been hardware tokens (like those Yubi keys, or the now-ancient RSA dongles) plus a PIN or simple password; it satisfies the "something you have, something you know" point of 2FA and remains easy to use. If someone's going to steal a hardware key and beat a PIN out of me, they can fuckin' have it. Whether it's a PIN or a password doesn't matter one damned bit at that point anyway.
 
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Civillian 18 said:
"Password cannot be one of the previous 24 utilised passwords." while also as has been said, having a length limit to prevent you from using a passphrase.
In effect, there will be a very large number of people with CompanyNameSeasonYear! as their password.
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Nah, I just start with 'a' and work my way up.
CompanyNameSucks!1a
 
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davids877 said:
Nah, I just start with 'a' and work my way up.
CompanyNameSucks!1a
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My latest job wont let you do that if its too similar to the old password, they can only do that because they make you enter the old password though (since it has to be stored hashed) so I will need an alternating base password plus the rotating element
 
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It's one thing for automakers to try to implement tech in their cars, but it's another thing if they implement them in a shitty ass way. The new Mercedes-Benz E-Class is an example of the latter.

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The E's most dramatic changes are inside. Mercedes's latest MBUX infotainment gets a much-simplified menu structure, which is welcome, but from there, Mercedes loses the plot. Built-in Zoom functionality for the optional selfie camera on the dash (yes, really) allows users to call in to meetings sans phone. But the entire app, not just the video portion, works only when the car is parked. And our fellow meeting participants made fun of the poor image quality and fisheye effect of the camera, which (sigh) allows you to save photos to a portable storage device plugged into one of the USB ports. TikTok is also built in, but its vertical format means it occupies only about a third of the E's giant 14.4-inch screen, and the swipe action isn't nearly as fluid as a phone's. And why can't you post directly using the selfie cam? The Angry Birds video game—remember when that was a hit over a decade ago?—is available to play on the center screen, and an optional passenger screen allows for YouTube and internet browsing but no TikTok or Zoom. These are Mercedes's best ideas? Less capable copies of smartphone functionality?

Another new feature, the ability to create if-this-then-that routines, seemed to hold more promise. We figured we could use it to avoid cooking the cabin in the midday sun and automatically close the sunroof shade when the car is parked. But among the numerous options—including changing the music source each time you open or close that shade—this is not possible.
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And the fact that you can get a 4-pot Mercedes, for $82k, is even more of an abomination to cars today.
 
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@moocow

Can't reply to your post for some reason. On Framework, my research revealed the same thing regarding build quality.

The second gen just dropped for the Framework 13 so going to see if there's any improvements.

I really want to support them and I hope they get it right. I'm sick of everything becoming a closed black box, impossible to repair or tinker with. So while I am willing to put up with some cons (eg. paying a bit more or a slightly louder fan), I'm not going to take a bad deal.
 
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JT Marlin said:
@moocow

Can't reply to your post for some reason. On Framework, my research revealed the same thing regarding build quality.

The second gen just dropped for the Framework 13 so going to see if there's any improvements.

I really want to support them and I hope they get it right. I'm sick of everything becoming a closed black box, impossible to repair or tinker with. So while I am willing to put up with some cons (eg. paying a bit more or a slightly louder fan), I'm not going to take a bad deal.
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It's a thing with bigger posts, if you highlight a portion of it the reply option will appear
 
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moocow said:
My current employer requires sixteen-character local workstation passwords, with numbers, mixed case letters and special symbols. "Muh password manager" people, welp, too bad since that's on your fucking workstation. That's fixable by keeping your password manager on your phone or another system though, assuming company policy permits that, of course.
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That's fine. Your domain password on any important system should be a long passphrase anyway.

Like, 'theC10ISAF@GGOT'
 
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I was going to buy headphones, my old pair broke. Found an awesome item, shiny, stylish, cool name, detachable cord, the works. $200. Configurable with software which probably doesn't have a Linux version (I didn't check) but fuck it, yolo, whatever, shiny.
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They need to be charged to work over the analog cord. Was about to check out, gave myself one last chance to see competitors' prices, found a 1-star review mentioning that. Now I have an extra $200 to blow on collectible teapots.
 
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I had to use a windows 11 computer for work and the start button is centered. What the fuck, why would you do that? Whoever is responsible for final approval of that design decision please commit seppuku. This is a retarded decision, things that are always present on the screen, clock, start button, were in corners for a reason, they're out of the way and easy to find via muscle memory. I went back a few pages and saw other complaints about that on here, rate me autistic if not but I think this is the single dumbest windows 11 design change I've found, though my daily use is still on a windows 10 machine that is personalized as much as possible to look like old windows.

Thiletonomics said:
And the fact that you can get a 4-pot Mercedes, for $82k, is even more of an abomination to cars today.
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Cars are over as far as I'm concerned, and I love cars. Modern tech trends have swallowed cars and now cars are becoming smartphones you can drive. Screen is modern and piano black is modern so now even that $80,000 mercedes has an oceanic expanse of reflective surfaces in its interior which is retard-tier design. Piano black really pisses me off because it looks and feels cheap and ages poorly with all of the plainly visible microscratches and finger prints. Will those giant screens be covered in hard glass like my phone is or will they be plastic which is going to be covered in visible swirls and scratches in a year? It's probably plastic with a plastic film which is going to look bad, but all that matters is dealer lot appeal, not the durability of the finish.
 
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sweater_supremacy said:
there is an option in settings to change it back
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Good to know. I didn't look, it was a customer provided computer and they are locked down pretty well. I will be using it periodically so next time I have to I will look for the setting and other visual personalizations which hopefully isn't one of the things locked down under policy.
 
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Dante Alighieri said:
I've had to change my password TWICE in the less than 6 months I've been with my current company. WHY
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I have one customer it's every 60 days. I made a keyboard emulating USB stick/password safe so I never have to remember. Luckily I work from home so it's just hooked to the KVM for the laptop they sent me. I imagine I'd get a ration of shit if I tried that in an office.
 
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davids877 said:
I have one customer it's every 60 days. I made a keyboard emulating USB stick/password safe so I never have to remember. Luckily I work from home so it's just hooked to the KVM for the laptop they sent me. I imagine I'd get a ration of shit if I tried that in an office.
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(Or asked to make more of them for everyone)
 
davids877 said:
I made a keyboard emulating USB stick/password safe so I never have to remember.
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Is this like one of those old USB Rubber Duckies? The little plastic ducks around a micro board (Arduino?) that you would program with a payload by specifying keystrokes?
 
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