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Web developers please stop fixing things that aren’t broken challenge (impossible)

Look I know y’all are in the unenviable position of having to justify your jobs on a weekly basis to a scrum master who needs you to jargon up an explanation of what you did all week and occasionally provide a demo proving A. it actually exists, and B. it will have an impact they can actually pass to their manager. I get it, it’s annoying and you’re probably more annoyed about it than me.

But can we please stop making those targets “Fix a UI that doesn’t need fixing” and choose things that...y’know...don’t make the entire experience of using the website worse

[tecdisha]

iOS 18 Update Arrives Today: Explore Groundbreaking Features, Supported iPhones, and Everything You Need to Know!

The iOS 18 update is now being released across multiple regions, including India, where iPhone users can access it from 10:30 PM IST today. Initially revealed at Apple's WWDC event in June 2024, the update has been eagerly anticipated. Read full details

[gallusrostromegalus]

Move To A Darker Place

This is a story of Man Vs. Machine.

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Last March, my father attempted to file his Taxes.

My beloved father is a Boomer. Unlike most Boomers, my father is rather handy with technology because he was one of the people that had a not-insignificant hand in Developing a hell of a lot of it. He was studying Computer Science at Cal Poly before the computer science degree existed. I have many fond childhood memories of skipping through the aisles of various electronic and computer part warehouses while Dad described something that either terrified the staff or made them worship him as a God.  He taught himself how to use his smartphone.  Internationally.

So when he saw the option to file digitally with the IRS through the “ID.me” program, he leapt at the chance to celebrate the Federal Government finally entering the Digital Age.

It was all going swimmingly for about six hours, until he was ready to file and the system told him that it needed to verify his identity. 

“Very Well.” said my father, a man unafraid of talking to himself and getting something out of the conversation. “It wouldn’t do for me to get someone else’s return.”

The System told him that it needed him to take a “Digital Image ID”.

a.k.a: A Selfie.

“A-ha!” Dad beams. Dad is very good at taking selfies. He immediately pulled out his phone, snapped one, and tried to upload it.

Please log into your Id.me Account and use the provided app to submit your Digital Image ID. The System clarified.

“Oh. You should have said so.”  Dad pouted, but used his phone to log onto the ID.me account, do the six security verification steps and double-checked that the filing looked the same as it did on the desktop, gave the IRS like nine permissions on his phone, and held up the camera to take his Federal Privacy Invasion Selfie.

Please align your face to the indicated grid. Said The System, pulling up a futuristic green-web-of-polygons approximation.

“Ooh, very Star Trek. Gene Roddenberry would HATE this!” Dad said cheerfully, aligning his face to the grid.  My father is a bit… cavalier, when it comes to matters of personal information and federal government, because he’s been on FBI watchlists since the late 60’s when he was protesting The Vietnam War and Ronald Regan before he’d broken containment. Alas.

Anyway, there is very little information the federal government does not have on him already, but he’s as good at stalking the FBI as they are at stalking him, and had worked out a solution:  He has something approaching a friendship with the local Federal Agent (Some guy named “Larry”. Allegedly), and got Larry hooked on Alternative Histories and Dad’s collection of carefully-researched “there is very likely buried treasure here” stories, and Larry is loath to bother his favorite Historical Fanfiction author too much.

But I digress.

After thinking for a minute, The System came back with an Error Message. Please remove glasses or other facial obstructions.

And here is where the real trouble began.

See, my father wears glasses that do substantially warp the appearance of his face, because he is so nearsighted that he is legally blind without them. His natural focal point is about 4 inches in front of his nose.  While Dad can still take a selfie because he (approximately) knows where his phone is if it’s in his hand, he cannot see the alignment grid.

He should ask someone to take it for him! I hear the audience say. Yes, that would be the sane and reasonable thing to do, but Dad was attempting to do taxes at his residence in Fort Collins, while his immediate family was respectively in Denver, Texas and Canada.  He tried calling our neighbors, who turned out to be in Uganda.

He looked down at the dog, Arwen, and her little criminal paws that can open doorknobs, but not operate cell phones.

She looked back at him, and farted.

“Well, I’ll give it a try, but if it gives me too much trouble, I’ll call Larry, and Larry can call the IRS about it.” Dad told her. 

She continued to watch him. Arwen is an Australian Kelpie (a type of cattle-herding dog), going on 14 years old, deaf as a post and suffering from canine dementia now, but she still retains her natural instinct to Micromanage. She was also trained as a therapy dog, and even if she can’t hear my dad, still recognizes the body language of a man setting himself up for catastrophe.

So, squinting in the late afternoon light next to the back door, Dad attempted to line his face up with a grid he could only sort-of see, and took A Federal Selfie.

The System thought about it for a few moments.

Image Capture Failed: Insufficient Contrast. The System replied. Please move to a darker place.

“...Huh.” Dad frowned. “Alright.”

He moved to the middle of his office, away from the back door, lit only by the house lighting and indirect sunlight, and tried again.

Image Capture Failed. Please move to a darker place.

“What?” Dad asked the universe in general.

“Whuff.” Arwen warned him against sunk costs.

Dad ignored her and went into the bathroom, the natural habitat of the selfie. Surely, only being lit by a light fixture that hadn’t been changed since Dad was attempting to warn everyone about Regan would be suitably insufficient lighting for The System.  It took some negotiating, because that bathroom is “Standing Room Only” not “Standing And Holding Your Arms Out In Front Of You Room”.  He ended up taking the selfie in the shower stall.

As The System mulled over the latest attempt, Arwen shuffled over and kicked open the door to watch.

Image Capture Failed. Please Move to a Darker Place.

“Do you mean Spiritually?” Dad demanded.

“Whuff.” Arwen cautioned him again.

Determined to succeed, or at least get a different error message that may give him more information, Dad entered The Downstairs Guest Room.  It is the darkest room in the house, as it is in the basement, and only has one legally-mandated-fire-escape window, which has blinds.  Dad drew those blinds, turned off the lights and tried AGAIN.

Image Capture Failed. Please Move To A Darker Place.

“DO YOU WANT ME TO PHOTOGRAPH MYSELF INSIDE OF A CAVE??” Dad howled. 

“WHUFF!” Arwen reprimanded him from under the pull-out bed in the room. It’s where she attempts to herd everyone when it’s thundering outside, so the space is called her ‘Safety Cave’.

Dad frowned at the large blurry shape that was The Safety Cave.

“Why not?” he asked, the prelude to many a Terrible Plan.  With no small amount of spiteful and manic glee, Dad got down onto the floor, and army-crawled under the bed with Arwen to try One Last Time. Now in near-total darkness, he rolled on his side to be able to stretch his arms out, Arwen slobber-panting in his ear, and waited for the vague green blob of the Facial grid to appear.

This time, when he tapped the button, the flash cctivated.

“GOD DAMN IT!” Dad shouted, dropping the phone and rubbing his eyes and cursing to alleviate the pain of accidentally flash-banging himself. Arwen shuffled away from him under the bed, huffing sarcastically at him.

Image Capture Failed. Please move to a darker place.

“MOTHERFU- hang on.” Dad squinted.  The System sounded strange. Distant and slightly muffled.

Dad squinted really hard, and saw the movement of Arwen crawling out from under the bed along the phone’s last known trajectory.

“ARWEN!” Dad shouted, awkwardly reverse-army crawling out from under the bed, using it to get to his feet and searching for his glasses, which had fallen out of his pocket under the bed, so by the time he was sighted again, Arwen had had ample time to remove The Offending Device.

He found her out in the middle of the back yard, the satisfied look of a Job Well Done on her face. She did not have the phone. 

“Arwen.” Dad glared. It’s a very good glare. Dad was a teacher for many years and used it to keep his class in order with sheer telepathically induced embarrassment, and his father once glared a peach tree into fecundity.  

Arwen regarded him with the casual interest a hurricane might regard a sailboat tumbling out of its wake. She is a force of nature unto herself and not about to be intimidated by a half-blind house ape.  She also has cataracts and might not be able to make out the glare.

“I GIVE UP!” Dad shouted, throwing his hands in the air and returning to the office to write to the IRS that their selfie software sucks ass. Pleased that she had gotten her desired result, Arwen followed him in.

To Dad’s immense surprise, the computer cheerfully informed him that his Federally Secure Selfie had been accepted, and that they had received and were now processing his return!

“What the FUCK?” Dad glared. “Oh well. If I’ve screwed it up, Larry can call me.”

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I bring this up because recently, Dad received an interesting piece of mail.

It was a letter from the IRS, addressed to him, a nerve-wracking thing to recessive at the best of times.  Instead of a complaint about Dad’s Selfie Skills, it was a letter congratulating him on using the new ID.me System.  It thanked him for his help and expressed hopes he would use it again next year, and included the selfie that The System had finally decided to accept.

“You know, my dad used to complain about automation.” Dad sighed, staring at the image. “Incidentals my boy!  My secretary saves the state of California millions of dollars a year catching small errors before they become massive ones! He’d say. Fought the human resources board about her pay every year.  I used to think he was overestimating how bad machines were and underestimating human error, but you know? He was right.”

He handed me the image.

My father was, technically, in the image.  A significant amount of the bottom right corner is taken up by the top of his forehead and silver hair.  Most of the image, the part with the facial-recognition markers on it, was composed of Arwen’s Alarmed and Disgusted Doggy face.

“Oh no!” I cackled. “Crap, does this mean you have to call the IRS and tell them you’re not a dog?”

“Probably.” Dad sighed. “I know who I’m gonna bother first though.” he said, taking out his phone (Dad did find his phone a few hours after Arwen absconded with it when mom called and the early spinach started ringing). 

“Hey Larry!” Dad announced to the local federal agent. “You’re never gonna believe this. My dog filed my taxes!”

Larry considered this for a moment. “Is this the dog that stole my sandwich? Out of my locked  car?” he asked suspiciously.

“The very same.” Dad grinned.

“Hm. Clever Girl.” Federal Agent Larry sighed. “I figured it was only a matter of time before she got into tax fraud.”

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I don't think people realize how absolutely wild Linux is.

Here we have an Operating system that now has 100 different varieties, all of them with their own little features and markets that are also so customizable that you can literally choose what desktop environment you want. Alongside that it is the OS of choice for Supercomputers, most Web servers, and even tiny little toy computers that hackers and gadget makers use. It is the Operating System running on most of the world's smartphones. That's right. Android is a version of Linux.

It can run on literally anything up to and including a potato, and as of now desktop Linux Distros like Ubuntu and Mint are so easily to use and user friendly that technological novices can use them. This Operating system has had App stores since the 90s.

Oh, and what's more, this operating system was fuckin' built by volunteers and users alongside businesses and universities because they needed an all purpose operating system so they built one themselves and released it for free. If you know how to, you can add to this.

Oh, and it's founder wasn't some corporate hotshot. It's an introverted Swedish-speaking Finn who, while he was a student, started making his own Operating system after playing around with someone else's OS. He was going to call it Freax but the guy he got server space from named the folder of his project "Linux" (Linus Unix) and the name stuck. He operates this project from his Home office which is painted in a colour used in asylums. Man's so fucking introverted he developed the world's biggest code repo, Git, so he didn't have to deal with drama and email.

Steam adopted it meaning a LOT of games now natively run in Linux and what cannot be run natively can be adapted to run. It's now the OS used on their consoles (Steam Deck) and to this, a lot of people have found games run better on Linux than on Windows. More computers run Steam on Linux than MacOS.

On top of that the Arctic World Archive (basically the Svalbard Seed bank, but for Data) have this OS saved in their databanks so if the world ends the survivors are going to be using it.

On top of this? It's Free! No "Freemium" bullshit, no "pay to unlock" shit, no licenses, no tracking or data harvesting. If you have an old laptop that still works and a 16GB USB drive, you can go get it and install it and have a functioning computer because it uses less fucking resources than Windows. Got a shit PC? Linux Mint XFCE or Xubuntu is lightweight af. This shit is stopping eWaste.

What's more, it doesn't even scrimp on style. KDE, XFCE, Gnome, Cinnamon, all look pretty and are functional and there's even a load of people who try make their installs look pretty AF as a hobby called "ricing" with a subreddit (/r/unixporn) dedicated to it.

Linux is fucking wild.

[oimauzix]

Elon Musk anuncia rebranding do Twitter e o transforma em X

O Twitter está se transformando em X. O anúncio foi feito no domingo (23), pelo empresário e proprietário da rede social Elon Musk, que fez uma série de postagens com a letra X e ainda pediu que os usuários da rede mudassem a cor padrão da plataforma para preto.

O antigo logotipo do pássaro do site foi substituído por um novo logotipo X oficial. Musk, sinalizou a mudança com uma série de tweets, começando com um que dizia: “e logo daremos adeus à marca do Twitter e, gradualmente, a todos os pássaros”.

Agora X substituiu o logotipo do Twitter na versão web, sinalizando o início da mudança para a criação de um superapp que ele originalmente imaginou logo após comprar o Twitter por US$ 44 bilhões no final de 2022. A tendência dos super aplicativos iniciou com o WeChat na China e já vem sendo incorporada por grandes empresas, como o Meta, que lançou o Threads recentemente. O logotipo X substituirá o logotipo do pássaro nas versões móveis dos aplicativos assim que forem atualizados. As referências ao Twitter ainda permanecem no prompt principal de login da web, mas o endereço “x.com” já redireciona para “twitter.com”.

[tecnowiz]

Come fare lo SPID da soli a casa

Se sei alla ricerca di un modo facile e veloce per ottenere lo SPID (Sistema Pubblico di Identità Digitale) senza dover uscire di casa, sei nel posto giusto. Con l'avvento della digitalizzazione sempre più diffusa, molti enti e servizi pubblici richiedono la registrazione tramite SPID per poter accedere ai loro servizi online. In questo articolo, ti spiegheremo come fare lo SPID da soli a casa, senza dover ricorrere all'aiuto di un intermediario.

Vediamo passo dopo passo come fare lo SPID da soli comodamente da casa. Segui le istruzioni e in pochi minuti avrai la tua identità digitale pronta per essere utilizzata in tutta sicurezza.

Una volta avuto lo SPID (Sistema Pubblico di Identità Digitale) il cittadino Italiano può accedere ai servizi online della pubblica amministrazione e dei soggetti privati aderenti con un'unica identità digitale. Bene detto questo sei pronto a sapere, come fare lo SPID da soli a casa in pochi semplici passaggi.

Cosa serve per fare lo SPID

Per fare lo SPID, ovvero l'identità digitale che permette di accedere ai servizi online della Pubblica Amministrazione e di altri enti, sono necessari pochi requisiti fondamentali. Per richiedere lo SPID, è necessario avere: - Un indirizzo email valido - Un numero di telefono cellulare - Un documento d'identità valido (carta d'identità, passaporto o patente di guida) - Il codice fiscale - Un dispositivo con accesso a Internet (computer, smartphone o tablet) - Un metodo di pagamento (carta di credito o bancomat)

Come fare lo SPID da soli a casa

Bene ora che ti sei munito di tutto quello che ti occorre andiamo con i passaggi successivi e vediamo come registrarsi per ottenere lo SPID in poco tempo. Passo 1: scegliere il provider SPID Il primo passaggio è quello di scegliere il provider SPID a cui registrarci. Ci sono diversi provider tra cui scegliere, come Poste Italiane, Sielte, Aruba, Tim, InfoCert, e altri ancora. Ognuno di questi ha i propri costi, procedure e livelli di sicurezza. Ogni IDP offre diversi metodi per ottenere lo SPID, come la registrazione online, l'identificazione tramite videochiamata o l'utilizzo di un'app. È possibile consultare la lista degli IDP autorizzati sul sito ufficiale dello SPID. Passo 2: fare la registrazione Una volta scelto il provider, dovete accedere al sito web dell'ente e cliccare sul pulsante "Registra". Inserite i vostri dati personali, come nome, cognome, codice fiscale, data di nascita, indirizzo email e numero di telefono. Inserite i dati del documento di identità e caricate la fotocopia del documento che avete pronta. Passo 3: conferma dei dati Una volta completata la registrazione, il provider SPID vi invierà un codice di conferma via SMS o via email. Il codice vi servirà per accedere al sito web del provider e confermare nuovamente i dati immessi in fase di registrazione. A seconda dell'IDP scelto, la verifica dell'identità può avvenire in diversi modi: - Videochiamata: Attendere la videochiamata di un operatore che verificherà l'identità confrontando il viso con il documento fornito. - App: Scaricare l'app dell'IDP e seguire le istruzioni per effettuare la verifica tramite il proprio smartphone. - Servizio CIE: Se in possesso di una Carta d'Identità Elettronica (CIE), è possibile utilizzare il servizio di verifica online fornito dall'IDP. Passo 4: Pagamento dello SPID Una volta confermati i dati, dovrete procedere al pagamento. A seconda del provider scelto, potrete pagare tramite carta di credito o bancomat, oppure potrete pagare direttamente presso un ufficio postale. Passo 5: Creazione delle credenziali SPID Dopo aver superato la verifica dell'identità, l'IDP invierà un'email con il nome utente e le istruzioni per impostare la password. Seguire le istruzioni per completare la creazione delle credenziali SPID. Passo 6: Attivazione del servizio: Infine, l'IDP invierà un SMS con un codice di attivazione. Inserire il codice sul sito web dell'IDP per attivare il servizio SPID. Una volta attivato il vostro account, potrete utilizzare lo SPID per accedere ai servizi online dei vari enti pubblici, come l'agenzia delle entrate, l'INPS, il servizio sanitario nazionale e molti altri ancora.

Conclusione

Fare lo SPID da soli a casa è un processo facile e veloce, e vi permetterà di avere accesso ai servizi online dei vari enti pubblici in modo sicuro e veloce. Ricordate di scegliere il provider SPID con cura e di seguire le istruzioni con attenzione per evitare eventuali problemi.

Note finali

E siamo arrivati alle note finali di questa guida su come fare lo SPID da soli a casa. Prima di salutare volevo informarti che mi trovi anche sui Social Network, per entrarci clicca sulle icone appropriate che trovi nella Home di questo blog, inoltre se la guida ti è piaciuta condividila pure attraverso i pulsanti social di Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest e Tumblr, per far conoscere il blog anche ai tuoi amici, ecco con questo è tutto Wiz ti saluti. Read the full article

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heads up for anyone using Authy for 2FA

authy's desktop app is being discontinued on March 19, 2024-- apparently moved up from an initially-planned date of August 19 for some reason

i think authy gets recommended a lot specifically for having a desktop option, and the EOL announcement email ended up in my spam folder, so i figured i should try to spread the word.

as far as potential alternatives go, so far i've found ente Authenticator, which has apps for Android and iOS and apparently allows you to access your 2FA codes on web as well. there's also 2FAS, which is open source and has a browser extension, but it sounds like the extension still requires your phone and they recently launched an NFT project(???) so... ymmv!

(of course there are plenty of good mobile-only authenticators, but again, the appeal of authy was that it enabled you to access your keys even if you lost your smartphone or didn't have one in the first place)

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Today I was forced to do internet banking for the first time in like four years (sad) and they’ve put in a bunch of new security shit I don’t understand and all my info like my phone number and stuff was out of date, so I had to physically go into the branch and actually ask the teller “can you please help me do internet banking” like I’m some doddering old dear who doesn’t understand this newfangled World Wide Web thing and IT GETS WORSE, because they’re like ‘okay so the easiest way to deal with our security is if you have our app on your phone’ and I DO NOT WANT apps on my phone and I grumble about this in the most Old Man Way possible but they say it’s the easiest so fine, we can do that, only there’s an in-bank security step for authenticating the app so the lady helping me has to sit down and wait while I pull out my old scratched beaten-up dinosaur of a Barely Counts As A Smartphone, wait forever for it to wake up, and open the app store.

I do not know where the app store is.

Okay, this lady explains to me (she is very good at customer service and there’s absolutely no sign on her face that she is baffled how someone like me can even be alive, even though logically she HAS TO be thinking that), it should be in your apps. Look at your apps.

I do not know how to look at my apps. I use like 4 apps (call, text, photos, music) and I put them on the front screen thing ages ago. I push all of the buttons on the phone and apps do not appear. There’s nothing in settings or anything either.

Try swiping up, she says.

I try this a few times. My phone does not register the contact. On the fourth time, it realises that I want it to do something, and oh, there are the apps. We install the app. We do all the sign-in and authentification code shit and it does not work. We do it again and it does not work again.

“If I had a checkbook I’d be out of here by now,” I say. She laughs because it is true. We’ve been here for twenty minutes. I restart my phone to see if that’s the problem and grumble under my breath about how banking never used to be so complicated. As I open the app again, I ask how people do internet banking if they don’t have phones.

She seems puzzled by the question. “We have ways for them to do banking,” she says, “but most... most people have phones.”

She’s probably right. You probably need a phone to survive if you’re homeless these days.

The program loads now but catches us in an endless sign-in loop and the problem, we learn from a supervisor who’s wandered over (presumably to see how helping one idiot put an app on their phone could possibly be taking so long) is actually not on my end. There’s something wrong with the version of the app that the woman assisting me has put on my account on the computer (that’s her half in this operation), so we have to uninstall the app on both systems and reinstall it. Fine. I uninstall the app. Now to go to the app store.

I have forgotten how to access the app store. I push all of the buttons on the phone and apps do not appear. There’s nothing in settings or anything either.

Try swiping up, the woman says.

Oh. There’s the app store.

We install it and get caught in an endless loop again but I am computer savvy enough to know that if restarting and reinstalling doesn’t work then sometimes just trying the same thing over and over again will make it work for no reason, and it does, after I sign in three times in a row we can FINALLY authenticate the app and I can FINALLY use it for two-factor authentication and I CAN FINALLY DO INTERNET BANKING AGAIN.

“Thanks for your help,” I say.

“No problem.”

“I’m sorry it took so long,” I say.

“It’s really not a problem,” she says, and because she’s a professional it’s totally convincing, but I have helped people with tech before and I know how much it sucks. I look at this woman who, on any other day, would be a good few years older than me, but not today. For today, I am a doddering 96-year-old woman who wishes for a simple chequebook and does not like smartphones.

I get up, and I pick up my bag and my walking stick, and I leave the bank, thinking about the scarf I’ve been knitting and how much more work I have to do on it. I wonder if I should bake scones tonight.

I have already forgotten how to open the app store.

[xanderisbraindead]

Im gonna try to switch to a flip phone

Ive wanted to do this, or at least unplug a little from my smart phone for a while, but I always cave and reinstall my apps and start using my phone again. My screen time was 10 hours a day average last week and that is absolutely embarrassing to me. To keep myself accountable, I'm gonna list my reasons why I wanna do this.

Mental health: High smartphone usage is being linked to higher rates of mental health especially among teens. Social media and the constant bombardment of information is very stimulating on the mind and thats turning out to not be very good for you.

Attention Span: My attention span is kinda dogshit... I catch myself opening my phone to scroll social media while my sims game is loading WHILE I'm watching youtube...

Dumb shit: I see a lot of dumb shit (mainly on twt and insta) and it makes me so angry but then I catch myself wanting more and more of that. I know I have anger issues and for myself, I shouldn't be purposefully doing that. Internet discourse takes up too much of my brain space to where I'll talk about it in real life...

General dependence: It's just a piece of metal, why does it feel like a limb I need to have on me at all times? I don't need to fall asleep and wake up with this thing in my hands.

Oversharing: I overshare a lot to the point I get embarassed about it. It's a little harder to do this when you're using your computer because you have to be intentional about your internet use. You have to sit down and some features are limited on web (ie insta stories) so you can't just say anything.

I want to appreciate other things: As I said, I spend an average of 10 hours a day on my phone and I feel like I'm wasting my time. I don't feel like im doing enough in my days because most of it is going into staring into a screen. I want to read more and remember to flip my compost and do more things in a day than sit hunched into a screen.

Physical health: I have bad eyesight and a bad back. Staring into a screen is not helping either of those.

Compulsive shopping: I have got some cool stuff, but again, I want to be more intentional in my actions, including shopping. I've found myself spending money a little too loosely lately, and I'd like to think my purchases through more.

There's probably more, but thats all I can think of right now. I'm gonna make a big shift tonight and sleep without my phone in my bed. That sounds silly to make a big deal of, but ive done it for maybe 4 years now, even when I was on vacation last month.

So yeah, thats my new adventure: Beating the addiction to my phone.