paulschreiber

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troublemaker / factotum / smartass.

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Comment · 10 days ago
iCloud will sync your contacts, Notes, Keychains, and other data on macOS.
Comment · 5 months ago
What's weird is that they are still pointing at the Automattic (WordPress VIP) IP address and redirecting via a WP plugin. So the content is likely still there.
Comment · 1 year ago
People are _still_ doing this shit. Unsubscribe links. Official government site. Fucking terrible.
Comment · 1 year ago
I've seen "DMARC: 'PASS'" on Show Original for a long time (years?).
Comment · 1 year ago
Per https://www.elliott.org/company-contacts/amazon/ you can email [email protected] or an exec listed there.
Comment · 2 years ago
How are you answering? Is responding with STOP not working?
Comment · 2 years ago
This is great! Suggestion: it shows 10 trains per station, which means fewer stations per screen. Perhaps show the first 3 and show the rest under a disclosure? Or add a settings for this?
Comment · 2 years ago
Nice to see there are humans here!

- Going from the beta to the prod app erases all of my favorites

- many stations (like Atlantic Ave-Barclays) have to be added two or three times under favorites

- under nearby, each bus location is listed twice (one per direction, cluttering up the list)

- would love to see a view that showed me all trains from the nearest N (three? let me pick) stations, so I could decide which one to walk to — currently have to swipe/tap back and forth between multiple screens (which typically lose state/position)

- in settings, two menu items refer to AAR. I am sure 90% of the users don't know that's "Access-a-Ride"; there's also no way to turn that off for the people who don't use it

- contact us isn't integrated into SalesForce, so you have to re-enter your contact info each time, and there's no way to follow up on tickets from the app

- would be nice to have live chat to customer service (like you can via WhatsApp)

- if you enter text into the search field, then shrink the window height by dragging it to the bottom, you lose your search field contents

Product-wise, you are still structuring this around the physical infrastructure (what's at station XYZ) vs the user need (how do I get to place ABC).

Hopefully you'll bundle TrainTime in soon, as well as add OMNY card management.

It is amazing (but not surprising) that MyMTA (which is ≈6 years old) was "unmaintainble" and had to be thrown out. Can't decide if it was because the city only paid $40K/year and couldn't hire anyone good or because they paid some consultant who is friends with DOITT staff $5MM/year.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Not requiring security keys for staff in 2023 is inexcusable.
Comment · 3 years ago
The EFF can help. Send an email to [email protected] and say you want some Coders Rights advice.
Comment · 4 years ago
I ran into a problem formatting numbers in the Italian locale back in 2014: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+...

It turned out to be a low-level bug in glibc: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10797

It got fixed five years later, long after I had worked around it and left the job where I found the bug.

Comment · 4 years ago
Mandatory Yubikeys should be on your list.
Comment · 4 years ago
Amounts should be $20-39, $40-69, $70-99 to avoid overlap.
Comment · 4 years ago
The EFF has a cooperating attorneys list. They can refer you to someone who can help.

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