www.pewresearch.org How a glitch in an online survey replaced the word ‘yes’ with ‘forks’
Dating back to at least early 2023, a bizarre and alarming technical glitch started popping up in some organizations’ online surveys and forms.
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Software Gore @lemmy.world SlightlyNormal @lemmy.world Someone unplugged the wrong drive
Photo of a digital billboard displaying a boot device not found error.
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Software Gore @lemmy.world whoisearth @lemmy.ca Found at the grocery store
Someone boo boo'ed the label making
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Software Gore @lemmy.world goosehorse @lemmy.world Calendar app decides to get rid of month view on mobile
Woke up this morning to my work calendar app** with an "updated" UI.
A few months ago, they reverted a change that had made event names totally unreadable on mobile. Apparently, people complained that event names still weren't readable, so instead of implementing different view options (monthly, weekly, etc), it appears that their UX/UI team hit the crack pipe and decided to axe the month view altogether for mobile users.
No thanks, I don't want to "scroll in any direction across the calendar to view [my] events", I want to see what I have coming up later this week and for the next few weeks at a glance.
**I scrubbed the logo because this is (presumably) a small company with a specialized product for the industry I'm in. I scrolled back to December for the screenshot so as to not doxx myself with events from my work schedule.
Edit: The excellent help desk person passed along my complaint and sent word that they put in a toggle to allow for the full, 7-week calendar view. They g
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Software Gore @lemmy.world CMDR_Horn @lemmy.world Yesterday at Round1
After it started coming online, its language was in Japanese, and the time zone was set to Japan as well. I’m in USA
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Software Gore @lemmy.world aeronmelon @lemmy.world Might as well be minus infinity
Permute 3 just undid all digital video conversion in the history of mankind.
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Software Gore @lemmy.world JoeKis @lemmy.world Cough cough Windows Cough *cough
Bonus game: You've got 3 chances to guess where I am 🤫
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Software Gore @lemmy.world TanteRegenbogen @feddit.org Opera GX wanting to save the FB like button since new update.
Don't worry, I am leaving FB. Only had it because family who wont fucking leave the site and have no other socials.