Notices by Taco Dave (dave@puz.fun)

@bmacDonald94 @MalcolmNance so you’re defending the Nobel committee sliding along that Overton window like the Democratic Party, or…?

@bmacDonald94 @MalcolmNance there’s no racism here — he prolonged war efforts needlessly and should not have been qualified to get that peace prize.

@MalcolmNance @bmacDonald94 after Obama it became pretty clear that Nobel peace prizes are meaningless garbage now.

Cigna is the fucking worst. I needed to use their piece of shit app to access my ID cards because they haven’t mailed me physical cards yet.

1. Their login screen in the app doesn’t correctly specify the domain for their credentials so 1Password makes me search for my credentials and confirm that I want to fill them, which is annoying.

2. The button to go to the ID cards from the Home Screen of the app goes to my dental cards by default.

1/?

3. Going to the menu to see ID cards just brings up dental again, no option for the other cards. No way to view them at all.

4. I go to the menu to contact Cigna to tell them their app is absolute dog shit. I tap the “contact” button. The screen that comes up is the screen to select which ID card I want to view.

2/?

5. I finally open by medical ID card. It’s a tiny JPG with tiny tiny text in a small, hard to read font. There’s no option to copy and paste my ID and group and phone number. So I have to memorize a bunch of digits, switch apps to my medical supplies provider, type the numbers I can recall, and switch back. The app switcher clears the screen from the Cigna app so I have to fully switch back to it and wait for the screen to reload to see the next set of digits.

3/3

Found out this afternoon that the software I’ve been working on for eleven years is being sunset sometime next year. Tomorrow morning I will find out how it directly affects my job (if I still have one).

Saw someone mention the LGBTQIA2S+ community but the font made the S look like a five and I thought it was “25+” and I was like “oh fuck, young gays have decided us elderly gays are a whole different group now.”

If I was a hacker I would just find a way to load an audio file over WiFi to every Roomba so at a random moment it will say “Activating Horse Mode!” preferably at like 2am when you get up to piss.

@mattl maybe. I’m still trying to figure out how to recover from burnout enough to learn Java and relearn Python so I can apply for jobs though, idk if I have the mental bandwidth to try learning Lua as well.

@mattl QuesadillaHunt.com — I was going to make a browser-based pixel art RPG game about a peacock whose feathers were missing so it was trying to find wedges of quesadillas to replace them.

@mattl Real recognize real.

https://hiremeyoucoward.biz/

@feld @Viss it’s very good! Got about halfway through season 1 with the homies last night and we’re planning to finish it later this week or next weekend.

I’m so pleased to announce that I wrote roughly 10-15 sudoku variants this past weekend at SudokuCon and none of them are supported in SudokuPad at present time. 🙃

Fuck tall people that go to shows and stand in front of short people and then spend the whole fucking show looking at their phone and blowing vape clouds.

@dansup they look nice! Can you speak to the reasoning behind the icon spacing being different on the left vs right, other than the obvious personal attack on people with OCD?

@jackeric aren’t modern excel documents just some xml and dog shit in a zip file trying to get into a rated R movie?

@Leyonhjelm @feld my job keeps me too exhausted to even look for another one. Started eleven years ago as a front-end guy in a team of 23. Now we’re down to 2 and I’m struggling to manage 7 apps/services and devops for an 8th, and routinely get yelled at by infosec from my job’s newest parent company because they installed monitoring software on our cluster and get alerts about routine Linux operations. They even chewed me out over Teams in a hotel room on bereavement leave after my dad died.

@feld you’re not wrong, yet somehow the apps I work on use them 🫠 I grimace every time I have to make a change. It’s like playing Jenga.

@Radical_EgoCom not sure, but more importantly, what alternatives to PayPal exist that aren’t doing equally heinous shit?