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C.<a href="https://mstdn.moimeme.ca/@EdwinG" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@EdwinG</a> I've run into this with a number of businesses. I'm also with you that as far as I know, there's no way to text a "regular" landline.The stupid part of this is that this problem is both solvable *and* detectable in advance. I've written integrations with the big communications providers, that you use to let your application/website send texts - there is a mostly-reliable way to query "can this number receive texts?" before you try to send a text, and they generally also give you the option to send a robot-voice message, so you can fall back to that.Without being too much Old Man Yells At Cloud, I'm pretty much in agreement with others that say that these kinds of fails are the result of young / inexperienced designers or developers not considering anything outside of their personal experience - most of them have never used a phone that couldn't send and receive texts. They don't even contemplate the possibility of a user of their system not being in exactly the same circumstances as themselves. This kind of oversight should be caught by project management, but ... 🤷 <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/phone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phone</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/landline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#landline</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ancient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancient</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WebDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WebDev</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/designer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#designer</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/comms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#comms</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/SMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SMS</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/API" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#API</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/management" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#management</a>

Jack Daniel (often offline)Artificial, it is. Intelligent, it ain't. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a>

Albert CardonaLogins are out of control. On aggregate I must spent hours weekly awaiting for logins and re-logins, largely automated from cookies and saved passwords, to the same pages from the same browser tabs, that haven't been closed in months on a desktop computer that hasn't rebooted in ages.How is any of this computer security?<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a>

Brian Davis<a href="https://vmst.io/tags/oldmanyellsatcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oldmanyellsatcloud</a> A few months ago work switched us all to iphones and I grumbled under my breath because I am a licensed and certified Old Man Who Hates Change but my complaints are mainly against the corporate MDM platform and the concept of smartphones in general, so I kept it under my breath.However! They recently gave us air pods to go with it and these are bad in specific and objective ways which I shall now enumerate.Keep in mind my benchmark is a pair of shitty knockoff BT earbuds so it's not like I have unrealistically high standards.1/

C.<a href="https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ifixcoinops</a> You are preaching to the choir - it's actually kinda difficult to get a well-designed case *without* a window - but it makes us old farts fossils in the gamer kids' eyes.Same with internal components encrusted with programmable LEDs...<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossil</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OldFart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldFart</a>

afreytes 🇵🇷 ☭When I say I have a Queue I mean it, LOLI don't religiously update it, but it is there.BUT...Bro, why is selecting text on Mastodon's default web so freakin hostile? trying to copy an account name is an exercise in frustration <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a>

Jamie Gaskins<a href="https://hachyderm.io/@norootcause" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@norootcause</a> I think about this a lot. I'd never heard the term "AGI" until basically all statistical algorithms were labeled as "AI".I think LLMs are neat and useful, but before 2014 or so, "AI" meant something far more advanced than anything we're labeling as AI today. It frustrates me that it's been cheapened to something that is only capable of replicating the unearned confidence and complete lack of self-awareness exhibited by the worst people you've ever met.<a href="https://zomglol.wtf/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a>

C.Things from the 1970s that are difficult to explain to today's generation:Soap-on-a-ropeSuggestions?<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/1970s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#1970s</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/70s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#70s</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/weird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weird</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/oddity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oddity</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/explain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#explain</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/justify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#justify</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/thing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thing</a>

C.A couple of days ago, I watched Jaws (1975) again. It turns 50 this year, and is widely credited as being the first "summer <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/blockbuster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blockbuster</a>" <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#movie</a>, which (for better or worse) has set the tone for Hollywood studios ever since.The movie holds up really well.A couple of days before *that*, I went down a rabbit hole of the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/production" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#production</a> costs of the most expensive films ever made. To pick one example near (but not at) the top of the list, there's Avengers: Infinity War (2018). Adjusted for inflation, its production cost is over US$400M.Four hundred million US dollars.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Jaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jaws</a>, not adjusted for inflation, cost US$9M. Nine million. Its budget was originally set for $4M, but because of shooting on the ocean, which hadn't been done for a major feature, there were unexpected costs, and the mechanical <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/shark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shark</a> effects ended up costing a lot more than planned. Adjusting for <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inflation</a> gives a number somewhere in the neighbourhood of US$50M.Jaws is a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#film</a> people remember. It has a good story, relatable and likeable characters, action, suspense, etc, etc.The <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Avengers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Avengers</a> movie cost eight times as much and ... I barely remember it. It had lots of <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/pixels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pixels</a>. It had wooden acting. It was utterly forgettable, even though it was supposed to be the climax of the "<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MCU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MCU</a>". In fifty years, will anyone remember it, or any <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Marvel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Marvel</a> film? Doubtful.I wish <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Hollywood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hollywood</a> would get back into telling <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/stories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stories</a>, rather than trying to be <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/videogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#videogames</a> you can't play, just watch.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a>

Jason RushI hate this stupid bottle-episode trend. When TV used to be 24 episodes a season, sure, take an episode to do a random story. But with 10 episode seasons? Even if it's a good bottle episode (like tonight's Mythic Quest about Pootie) it's still robbing us of, like, a tenth of a season!<a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/amwatching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amwatching</a> <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/tv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tv</a> <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/grumpy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grumpy</a> <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/oldmanyellsatcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oldmanyellsatcloud</a> <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/getoffmylawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#getoffmylawn</a> <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/grumblegrumble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grumblegrumble</a>

Internet Rando<a href="https://mastodon.seattlematrix.org/tags/oldmanyellsatcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oldmanyellsatcloud</a> Learned a new acronym today, <a href="https://mastodon.seattlematrix.org/tags/DARVO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DARVO</a> Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.Holy crap, I've been trying to put into words what I've been seeing happen when people start their whataboutism and they're clearly punching down.. Punching up/down was already a great addition to my vocabulary for processing all the crazy crap happening in my country. <a href="https://mastodon.seattlematrix.org/tags/DARVO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DARVO</a> is such a great what's-actually-happening breakdown of words I've only been to label "nazi tactics" beforehand.

David CroyleAmazon has become more unreliable in the past year or two. Yesterday was my 5th late delivery of the year so far. The truck pulled up to my house *twice* from different directions, and eventually moved on without making the delivery. The driver clearly couldn't find the package in the truck. So I've stopped opting for any more relaxed deliveries because there's a high probability that they will be late anyway. <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a>

C.I've been in the software field for some time. Many - perhaps most - of the software and systems engineers that I've worked with have had an interest in system security, or at least in not introducing obvious security holes into what they were building.This was a good thing.But somewhere along the way, this kind of thing got normalized. We've taught a new cadre of programmers that security doesn't matter if it slows you down or inconveniences you in the slightest way. No one should ever be doing this, with the possible exception of the script you're fetching being one you wrote yourself, and even then I wouldn't trust that it hadn't been tampered with.As a result, I'm really not surprised at the level of (in)security in deployed systems these days.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#security</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#software</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#engineering</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/SoftwareEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareEngineering</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OldMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldMan</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/programmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programmer</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a>

Mayonnasie<a href="https://social.chiefgyk3d.com/@chiefgyk3d" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@chiefgyk3d</a> Bouncing off of this; When / why did web browsers start trying to up-sell some other service? Let my web browser be a web browser, and my VPN a VPN. Never have I thought: "Man, I love Firefox, but I would love it more if I could use it like an IDE (or some other unfitting service)." I don't know, I just find it odd. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a>

Edward L PlattCan someone explain the trend of devices with power buttons that need to be held X seconds but don't do anything until you let go? I don't understand why anyone would want that. <a href="https://greatjustice.net/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a>

C.Bets?<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/upgrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#upgrade</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/downgrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#downgrade</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/SAP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SAP</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cloud</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WhatsTheWorstThatCouldHappen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatsTheWorstThatCouldHappen</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MurphysLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MurphysLaw</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/CanadaPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanadaPost</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/bureaucracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bureaucracy</a>

C.<a href="https://mastodon.social/@religiousryan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@religiousryan</a> I'm not sure what a serious look at a voluntary union is supposed to accomplish. Even if you ignore the fact that Canadians would vote it down with at least 90% saying "no", it simply isn't possible. Canada joining the USA would require us to (seriously) modify our constitution.Modifying the constitution in Canada has been functionally impossible for a generation (more, really), and is likely to remain so for at least another generation.So, without voluntary union, you're left with the USA trying to conquer Canada and take it by force. That won't work. See: Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, etc, etc.So this type of post[1] is basically clickbait, and annoying <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/clickbait" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#clickbait</a> at that.I could do with a whole lot less of this type of thing.-30[1] It doesn't help that the post is "illustrated" with AI-generated slop. Which in a recent toot I noted just the sight of pisses me off.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MakeAmericaGoAway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MakeAmericaGoAway</a>

Super Default!American right wing visits to lecture Europeans about free speech. I almost find that funny. And last time I checked, my free speech was quite intact you creepy, fascist fucks. <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a>

Kagan MacTane (he/him)It's cloudy and looks like it might rain. 🌧 Gotta be DEI's fault!<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/BlameEverythingOnDEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlameEverythingOnDEI</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a>

Simon SjödinVisst Östersunds kommun. Snövallar behöver tas bort. Men det är inte akut som när det vräker ner snö. Så ett förslag är att köra traktorn med snöslungan och lastbilarna en annan tid än i rusningstrafik. Färre skulle reta sig på det och kommit sen till jobbet. <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/oldmanyellsatcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oldmanyellsatcloud</a>

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