Post AwkmvH6vgDphP1YFAu by jgoerzen@floss.social
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(DIR) Post #AwkmumSTe3eKKsOVxQ by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T00:48:41Z
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Small things that annoy me, a rant/There are a lot of serious things in the world that bother me.Today, I present, a good, old-fashioned, Lewis Black-style rant about some of the small things in the world that annoy me.Please join in. This is the one time Caps Lock makes sense. 1/
(DIR) Post #AwkmundrFELa0Sj7Kq by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T00:50:27Z
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Small things that annoy me, a rant/Today I tried to call the pharmacy. "Please tell me what you're calling about." It clearly had no idea how to route my call. "Did you want hours?" "NO I DID NOT, YOU STUPID MACHINE"Eventually I got to someone.Twist: there were about 8 menu options, none of them relevant to my query, but only 2 people working there.IVR PROGRAMMERS: IF MY QUESTION WAS EASY, I WOULD HAVE USED THE $#@#$ WEBSITE!
(DIR) Post #AwkmuoirE7wNMG4clc by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T00:52:27Z
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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/How many emails a week do I get asking for feedback?As if it's somehow my responsibility to feed data into your massive spreadsheet just to be ignored.I stayed at a hotel recently. A COUPLE LITERALLY WAS TRAPPED IN THE ELEVATOR WHEN WE GOT THERE. "Please rate the quality of the facilities." 0. Explain. I did. Some PR type asked me to give them another chance.FIX THE DAMN ELEVATOR FIRST, PEOPLE!
(DIR) Post #AwkmupjFU9qcTlGS12 by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T00:55:18Z
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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/Why is it that the most important sites/apps are the crappiest? Every airline on earth has more bugs than a piece of raw meat that's been sitting in the sun for 3 days. American: "It's time to check in online." App: "We can't check you in online." United: rejected logins if you use uppercase usernames LIKE THEY WRITE THEM. British Airways: "Check in with our partner airline." Partner airline: "Check in with BA."IT'S 2025 PEOPLE!
(DIR) Post #AwkmuqWsVdXwxgU5NA by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T00:56:22Z
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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/Websites that time out a session when there was no need for one.Airlines and rail sites, I'm looking at you. I'm just checking the train status. Hit reload, "I'm sorry, but your session has timed out" and I have to fill it in again.WHAT WERE YOU TRACKING A SESSION FOR? IT'S JUST A SIMPLE FORM!
(DIR) Post #Awkmv0WBN4vpwQEfg0 by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T00:57:49Z
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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/Newspapers: "We'll show this content for free if you tell us your email address."Oh yeah? What do you need my email address for then? Some sort of tracking? Gonna sell it to spammers?No thanks. I'd rather subscribe than get into that hive of wretched villainy.
(DIR) Post #Awkmv8kImSynSWu3nM by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T00:59:23Z
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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/Videos with those annoying captions that flash with every word.WTF IS THIS FOR? Watching the bubbly captions of a guy talking on a muted video is called READING. Make me an article.Or at least do proper subtitles that aren't so distracting. And make them optional so that those that need them can have them.Or... maybe... if the entire video is just somebody reading something, MAKE IT AS A BLOG POST INSTEAD SO I CAN READ IT MYSELF!
(DIR) Post #AwkmvH6vgDphP1YFAu by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T01:01:36Z
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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/Why do so many phone menus now use the worst text-to-speech system I've heard since 1993? Your bakery menu isn't changing, why not have a human record it? Instead, it's like "Press... ONEifyouwant... CUPcakes..."The worst-voiced person on your staff will sound better and more professional than that swill.Half the time when I get something like that, I think I've dialed a wrong number and got a scammer instead.
(DIR) Post #AwkmvPGnLQTghwEEfA by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T01:02:59Z
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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/To combine most of the above into a single super-annoying thing, there are a bunch of videos on Youtube that are nothing but a computer-generated voice reading junk for 20 minutes while there are pictures of irrelevant things, and half the time those annoying popping captions.AND PEOPLE UPVOTE THEM!Why? Good grief, let me read the blog article rather than some grating synthesizer.
(DIR) Post #AwkmvXR0zJPG1x4Vhg by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T01:04:00Z
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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/I recently got an Amber Alert on my phone. It contained a link to x.com, which is even more desperate for you to log on than the newspapers are.NO THANKS PEOPLE, HOW ABOUT A LINK TO A REAL WEBSITE? LIKE, YOU KNOW, A GOVERNMENT ONE THAT YOU RUN?
(DIR) Post #AwkmvfgCKkIxbMEkTo by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T01:06:30Z
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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/STOP IT WITH THE NOTIFICATIONS.I do not want my day to be interrupted by a device chiming because you have a sale, your partners have a sale, your computers are feeling lonely because I haven't visited them today and would like some attention (looking at you, #Facebook), you have some new feature I will never use because it's annoying.Every time I get a new phone, I spend a couple days disabling bunches of notifications. LEAVE ME ALONE!
(DIR) Post #AwkmvnPpZTxxaudn4y by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T01:08:26Z
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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/"To serve you better" is the most false sentence in the English language in 2025. Every time I hear it, I know that somebody is about to remove a feature I rely on, charge me more, or generally make life more annoying.IT'S NOT SERVING ME BETTER AND WE ALL KNOW IT, DAMMIT.Just once I'd like to see "Because we're greedy bastards, we're adding another $2.50 fee to your phone bill."I'd be less mad about it if they were truthful.
(DIR) Post #AwkmvvF8T8AFs3hMWG by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T01:10:24Z
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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/Dumb rules for passwords tick me off. "Must have 8-16 characters, no more, including letters, numbers, and punctuation. But none of <, >, ;, ", or '."Like people, what's the matter with you? Are you parsing passwords with a shell script from the 80s? Hash that thing and you shouldn't care.And a MAXIMUM size limit? Nuts.Bonus for when they don't tell you there's a maximum, and then the password silently fails because it was truncated.
(DIR) Post #Awkmw3HYa0r2nstPP6 by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T01:11:37Z
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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/NO I DO NOT WANT TO SUPPLY A STUPID CODE EVERY TIME I LOG IN TO YOUR SITE.I get it, trying to be secure, blah blah blah. Seriously though, I just wanted to look at light bulbs.I have a FIDO U2F device. How about supporting some real security rather than SMS, which is probably worse than nothing, you morons?
(DIR) Post #AwkmwBDF5w9nOow4n2 by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T01:13:37Z
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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/"Your browser is too old and is insecure."NO IT'S NOT, YOU MORONS, IT'S FIREFOX ESR WHICH IS PERFECTLY UP-TO-DATE WITH SECURITY. It just means I get the latest browser breakages only a couple times a year instead of every few weeks.
(DIR) Post #AwkmwJd3npYvVD4o8u by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T01:15:20Z
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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/"You must use the app."YOU'RE A PHOTO-SHARING SITE, I HAVE A 32" HIDPI SCREEN HERE, AND I'M SUPPOSED TO SQUINT AT A 4" SCREEN TO VIEW LANDSCAPES?I spend most of my day near a large screen. I only use the phone when a large screen isn't practical for some reason. NO I DO NOT WANT A 90% DOWNGRADE JUST TO USE YOUR STUPID APP.
(DIR) Post #AwkmwRelxLgYOpwHvE by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T01:16:26Z
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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/Videos of landscapes that are vertical.TURN YOUR PHONE ON ITS SIDE. LIKE THE SHAPE OF THE SCENE, RIGHT? THERE. WAS THAT SO HARD?It's a lot easier than turning your 65" 4K TV on its side when you want to look at it with friends.
(DIR) Post #AwkmwZw5AsHk4q6E0u by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T01:18:20Z
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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/In the US, if you want to turn left, a green traffic light has meant "yield to oncoming traffic, but you can turn left when it's safe." For probably 50-100 years.For some reason, traffic engineers think we are all morons. Because now some places do that, others use flashing yellow arrows to mean that, others have excessive signage.WE ALL PASSED A TEST ON THIS. YOU'RE MAKING IT WORSE.
(DIR) Post #Awkmwi6IolDJOqwV3Q by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T01:20:13Z
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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/"Please allow cookies so we can share with our carefully-curated list of select partners."<clicks the "details" button>"758 advertising partners"HOW DO YOU EVEN MANAGE TO SHARE MY DATA WITH 758 PARTNERS? GOOD GRIEF PEOPLE, HOW DESPERATE ARE YOU?
(DIR) Post #Awkmwq5B8p4I9gTiPg by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T01:25:43Z
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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/Every machine asks me for a tip.Like really? This person that just handed me a can of Sprite from the counter needs a tip but the person at the grocery store next door doesn't?Look, I want to pay workers a living wage.Just make that the price and stop harassing me about tips for things that nobody ever tipped for ever until 5 years ago when y'all went nuts with your terminals.
(DIR) Post #AwkmwyIaaqY5daoXQW by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T01:29:21Z
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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/I typed a thing in the #search box. I even put it in quotes.I MEANT WHAT I SAID, AND I SAID WHAT I MEANT.NO, I DID NOT REALLY MEAN whatever it is you thought I really meant. I don't want some alternative sleazy thing from a company I've never heard from on your shopping site, and I definitely wasn't searching for some obscure Windows product on your search site.WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED HERE?
(DIR) Post #Awkmx6Lif5o2bcL9Ps by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T01:31:39Z
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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/And finally (for now), NO I DO NOT NEED AN EMAIL THAT STARTS WITH "REMINDER:". The fact you think I didn't open it means you're a creep, and I don't autoload external email elements because of creeps like you.That's the fastest way to get me to unsubscribe from the few email lists I actually want to be on, you jerks.That's it for now. Probably more tomorrow.Ahhh, that felt good 🙂
(DIR) Post #AwkmxEAJbNRAqZ49ke by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T02:05:13Z
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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/Why is it that hotels have the crappiest plumbing?Hot and cold hooked up backwards, drains that don't drain, etc.One business trip put up in one of the nicer skyscraper hotels in a large city. Walked into my room, saw the largest bathroom I've seen, spotless except for the tub, where vital plumbing parts were just sitting there.Who sees that and goes, "EH, THE NEXT GUEST PROBABLY WANTS HAIRY DRAIN COMPONENTS IN THEIR SPOTLESS TUB?"
(DIR) Post #AwkmxMccA2pN4eMryK by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T04:37:25Z
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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/"FAX this to the doctor's office."FAX? FAX??? Oh yes. 350 million people's health system is based on a FAX.My favorite is when somebody wants to FAX something to my employer."I haven't seen a working FAX machine at a company I've worked for since 2011."And they look at me with the same confusion I look at them with.But "FAX is secure." Hah. Probably goes over the Internet like everything else these days. (see T.38)
(DIR) Post #AwkmxUjzyTUIFrssam by jgoerzen@floss.social
2025-08-02T04:40:31Z
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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/I predict we will start seeing "top X of 2025" lists several weeks before 2025 is out.My favorite are the "most notable deaths of 2024" types of lists, usually coming out the first week of December.WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE PEOPLE THAT DIE ON DECEMBER 31???It's not "best of $YEAR", it's "best of the first 340 days of the year" because I can promise you NOBODY goes back to look at what happened on New Year's Eve last year for these lists.