Great Moments in Computer Programming

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I was sent a resume through the app "Signal" and tried to download it. It tried to display it, let me edit it, save "as" something, turn it into an image and then when I finally think I had it downloaded, I got to play directory hunt.

Or am I alone? Is this just me? Brah. BRAH??

[AArdvark]

My browser downloads stuff to a weird folder, I agree.


THE
0FILES.ANDROID.WHERESWALDO
NOTHERE.HIDE@SEEK
AARDVARK

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

This is the new worst bug I have ever seen in my life, only it is a bug that is so bad it is an obvious design decision.

My wife uses Yahoo Mail for her main email address. She has put the app on her phone.

She was trying to mail her resume, which was inside Yahoo Mail, to her gmail address. So that on my Mac she could login and open up gmail and then Google Drive and work on it.

She went to send it through the Yahoo Mail App. She typed in her address. You are not going to believe the following. I didn't either until I saw it:

1. The Yahoo Mail app recognized her gmail address as being a contact.
2. It stated that the app did not have permission to access the phone's "Contacts."
3. IT WOULD NOT LET HER CONTINUE. IT WOULD NOT LET HER SEND THE GODDAMN EMAIL.

If it can't access the phone's contacts, of course, then how did it know it wasn't a contact? But more - how *dare* that piece of shit app not let a person send a mail because it thinks it knows something about the sender. It's a mail app. It exists to send mail.

I searched to see if there was a way to turn this constraint off, but like all other help pages on the web, if it was ever true it sure as shit isn't now. You would have to change permissions on your phone to let the mail app work.

[AArdvark]

It keeps the other mail apps from working so you are forced to use the one THEY want you to use. I hear the same thing happens with Apple messenger via Android messenger

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Just balancing checkbooks today! Taking a look at my statement from June 18th - July 19th!! You know, the way fucking months work.

Also, I've ranted about this before but HOLY SHIT do banks need to calm the fuck down when it comes to logging us out. It's going to take 40 minutes to do this and I will have to login to 5 sites 2 times each. Fuck.

[pinback]

Oh yeah, my parents told me about "balancing checkbooks" when I was 17 and moved out on my own.

One of these days I may look into it.

[AArdvark]

Please tell me you're kidding

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Oh yeah, my parents told me about "balancing checkbooks" when I was 17 and moved out on my own.

One of these days I may look into it.

Hmmmmmmmm?

Don't ya balance your expenses??

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Please tell me you're kidding

Right. This is an egregious admission. We will meet to the bottom of it.

[pinback]

Please tell me you're kidding

No.

Don't ya balance your expenses??

No.

This is an egregious admission.

No.

[AArdvark]

If it works for you then it works. I won't tell my wife because she has been in banking for the last 30+ years and nothing annoys her more than customers who want overdraft fees waived but have never kept a register, or worse, tap the side of their head and say: "I dont need a register because I got it all up here".

There was one customer who couldn't believe her account wss overdrawn because she still had some checks left in her checkbook.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I have gotten burned enough times where I try not to pay for things with my debit card unless it is just going to be easier that way. Additionally, I get "points" using my two credit cards, which just turns into a credit to my account.

As a result, I have transactions hitting the credit cards that eventually have to be paid with the debit card, so I gotta keep track of it. But also, as I was doing a large review of all financial things yesterday, there were a couple of (I think) repeating charges that should not be.

I also think, and this is a credit to pinback, that he isn't constantly making purchases of electronic crap like I do.

[pinback]

I see the balance every once in a while. Unless there's something obviously major off, I'm okay. If I get screwed out of a few bucks here and there, it has no bearing on my or my family's happiness, so fuck it.

I'm not too worried about overdraft charges. /blows on fingernails, scrubs on lapel, sips Dom.

[AArdvark]

As it should be. It's the people that live from paycheck to paycheck but forget about those trips to Target and the nail salons that get hit with fees

[Jizaboz]

I have had a bank account at 33$ and some change before, but NEVER had an overdraft charge. The concept itself too is fucking stupid to me. If the money isn't there, it should just be declined. Don't just fucking "lend" me money I don't have only to turn around and fee me for more money I don't have. Just seems like a way for banks to milk people with money problems even more.

[Casual Observer]

Just seems like a way for banks to milk people with money problems even more.

I haven't used checks in a couple of decades but when I did, Chase did this cute thing where they would make sure the largest check went out first so that a few small ones would earn them overdraft fees. I think banks got in some trouble for that at one point but they probably still do it.

[pinback]

Yeah, that's the other thing. What is a "checkbook"?

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Yeah, that's the other thing. What is a "checkbook"?

Oooooh. Um.

Commander?? Help!!

[AArdvark]

I've read these responses to my wife and she is cringing, actually cringing. As a rule of thumb, banks will pay high dollar amount debits before low debits.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I've read these responses to my wife and she is cringing, actually cringing. As a rule of thumb, banks will pay high dollar amount debits before low debits.

Right. But we agree that is so shitty and anti-consumer and predatory that the government was right to tell them to stop doing it?