Best posts made by blek
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RE: WTF Bites
I just randomly discovered something: The EU has a system for sharing information about dangerous consumer products, so when something is discovered to be dangerous in one country, they can share the information with everyone else and everyone can have it pulled off the shelves very fast. The system is called "Rapid Exchange of Information System".
Apparently, someone realized that the full name doesn't roll off the tongue very nicely, so they wanted a short name. A sane person would just call it REIS, it's nice enough. Not enough for the EU though, the short name is RAPEX, which totally doesn't sound like Elon Musk's next project featuring some kind of a high tech rape factory to rapidly populate his Mars colony.
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RE: TRWTF is that they had to write this
We once got a bug report from a customer saying that while our product starts up, if you keep clicking the left mouse button in the console (and I mean keep clicking like it's the goddamn Cookie Clicker), the product might stop accepting mouse and keyboard input after startup completes. It wasn't even 100% reproducible, it only happened on certain kind of hardware and even then only occasionally.
Developers looked at the report, did a double take, and collectively went "we're not going to hunt that bug down and fix that, what the fuck is wrong with you". The customer didn't like that and was absolutely adamant that if it's not fixed, it should at least be documented, and so it landed in my bug queue.
I spent half a fucking day trying to figure out how to say this without using words like "retard", "how did you manage to presumably reach adulthood", or "you goddamned manchild, go play with your foreskin, not the mouse" - 'cause, you know, none of these are compliant with our style guide. The result is that our documentation, the part where it describes startup, contains a note saying something like "avoid providing excessive keyboard or mouse input while the application is starting".
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RE: In other news today...
I can't find an article about this in English, only in Russian and Czech, but it's the funniest thing I've read all week so I'm going to do a rough translation just for you. Russia isn't a country, it's a lifestyle.
Flight attendants announced a malfunction, passengers started drinking and preparing for death
When panic started on a flight between Vladivostok and Seoul due to an engine malfunction, passengers lost all semblances of civility, lit cigarettes, and started drinking heavily thinking it was the end.
An Airbus 319 took off on Thursday from Vladivostok, heading for Seoul. Onboard of the Aeroflot jetliner were many Russian fans headed to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. As they were flying over the Sea of Japan, the crew noticed a malfunction on one of the engines - later identified as a faulty oil pressure gauge. However, when the flight attendants announced that the plane would be turning back, rumors of a catastrophic engine failure started spreading among the passengers, and the deck was consumed by panic.
Witnesses reported that stressed-out fans got hold of alcohol, and disregarding any rules of conduct of air travel started lighting cigarettes. "They all started drinking like mad, smoking, and preparing for death", said one of the passengers according to newsru.com.
The Airbus returned to Vladivostok 40 minutes after takeoff, to be greeted by ambulances and fire engines on the runway. Passengers who lit their cigarettes have been fined 500 rubles (~9 USD).
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Tinder is shit
Tinder is such an amazingly shitty piece of software I'm almost speechless. It's particularly interesting because... well it's big, isn't it? Everyone under the age of like 30 knows what it is, it's so much a part of popular culture, there's actually a good amount of people from Blekistan on it, and I'm not even anywhere near the capital where all the cool and hip globetrotting people who speak English live. For comparison, OKCupid as well as pretty much any local dating site are barren wastelands that God forsake, with literally 10 or fewer people roughly my age active in the last month within 50km of me.
(On one of them I keep getting messages from dudes. "Where do you work out?" Mother fucker, if I ever walked into a gym, they'd have to call a priest of Brodin to reconsecrate the place. I also got a message from one chick with an obvious skinhead fetish and one ~40yo Nazi who must have fallen out of a 1930s "Slavs are Untermensch" propaganda poster. #justbaldthings)
Aaaaanyway, back to shitting on Tinder. This app is so unbelievably bad, it's like some kid coded it as his first mobile project after only reading the table of contents of App Development For Dummies. It does absolutely nothing right. It's staggering for something this popular. Yes, I know being garbage and being used a lot isn't mutually exclusive, shush.
It consistently fails to send notifications, I open the app after not thinking about it for a week and suddenly see I have new matches. YOU HAD ONE JOB, YOU USELESS PIECE OF SHIT. Do I need to pay them for that now or something? I did get a notification about a match like once or twice in the past, but nothing in ages. If they did actually turn that into a premium-only feature they did a really bad job at communicating this...
The "membership" is also really steeply priced, and by the way, it blows my mind that they offer discounts if you pay for more than one month. What kind of train of thought goes through someone's head when they pay for 12 months of premium Tinder? "I wanna find matches better and meet that special someone, but realistically, I'm gonna need at least a year to find someone worthwhile, so I might as well save half"? That might be realistic but it's so totally sad and defeatist, I'm pretty sure it's a self-fulfilling prophecy because I don't think anyone finds that attractive. Seriously, who thinks like that? Also, who spends 5 to 10 dollars a month on this shit?!
You can't even log into the fucking thing without a Facebook client installed on your phone. Of course, I don't want any dating profile to be in any way associated with my actual facebook profile, even if I just use FB for chat and the occasional event organization - so I have a second one that's completely blank just to get around this. Good thing I don't care about FB Messenger on mobile, because having to switch back and forth between multiple profiles... ugh.
For the longest time it was almost impossible to scroll between multiple photos on the same profile profile and to get to the profile details on the 1st try because somehow, they managed to fuck up swiping on an app that's literally built around the swiping motion. If you ask anyone if they know what Tinder is, they'll probably answer "that's the app where you swipe left or right on people, isn't it?". They fixed that some time ago by changing the UI so you tap on the sides/bottom to move between photos/see details. It works alright now, except when it doesn't, which I'm about to get into.
Yesterday this piece of shit got an update, which also reminded me it existed in the first place, so I opened it again. First thing I saw was some dude's profile. Good job, Tinder. (Ok, maybe it wasn't the app's fault and some genius just fucked up his profile settings, even though sex is the almost only thing you can actually set there... anyway, no thanks.)
The next profile was a woman (yay!), so I tap on the bottom to see the bio, and the app crashes. NICE UPDATE YOU FUCKING SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MAGICIANS. Let's try one more time! I open the app, see another woman (the original one is presumably lost in time forever, THAT COULD HAVE BEEN MY SOULMATE, THANKS A LOT YOU USELESS DICKS). Try to get into profile details again, the piece of shit crashes again.
Then I opened it for one last time time and now it just says there isn't anyone near me. Maybe my city just got nuked and the house I live in just has so much lead paint on the walls it's like a nuclear bunker... OOOOOOR MAYBE THIS APP IS JUST A COMLPETE TRAINWRECK. God damn.
Another problem is that when you actually match with someone and try to have a conversation, you'll quickly discover that you need to find literally any other way to talk, because the incredibly primitive messaging "system" is, you guessed it, also absolute fucking garbage. If you get a message, a lot of the time you don't see a notification (do I have to pay for that, too?!). Sometimes you do. When you do and you tap that notification to open the app, it takes forever as usual, then the message window finally loads, and sometime later that week the actual new message you got finally loads as well. I'm not talking about messages with several megabyte GIF here, just short plaintext messages, which Tinder already has, because it (maybe) showed me a notification which included at least a part of said message, so it's already in there somewhere, it just takes ages to actually appear in the message window.
I'm not even going to go into how I hate the entire way this app works - I know it was meant for hookups and I'm using it wrong (I'm not the only one, but it's really the only decently active service like that around these parts). And it's Garage material anyway. Problem is, the way this app actually works, which is barely, is a huge clusterfuck.
inb4 "you should get grindr instead"
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RE: Students must install this GPS app to get 10% of their grade. Not creepy at all...
So what happens when a student doesn't have a smartphone? Or has an unsupported system?
And why is this guy advertising his app with a Google doc when the doc itself contains a link to the app's website? Why not just put the text there?
Is California even a real place or is it just an elaborate joke people run on the internet to see how far they can push the insanity before people start questioning things?
Edit: Also is tracking attendance even necessary in a university? I always thought students should be allowed to ignore lectures (just lectures, not practical exercises, lab lessons or whatever) as long as they can catch up and pass exams.
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RE: WTF Bites
I'm moving to a new place. It's a completely new building so the apartment didn't have power - everything was set up but the power meter wasn't installed, I had to have it installed myself.
The technician was supposed to come today, between 8:30 and 9:30 AM. So I got to the apartment before 8:30, went inside and spent over an hour assembling some furniture. Nobody knocked, nobody called me... when it was past 9:30 I was getting nervous thinking they never came. So I went outside (I don't know what I expected to find there really, it's not like the technician would just squat outside looking hopeless or something); first I wanted to go check the front door in case I see their car there but on my way out I checked the box in the hallway where the meters are stored.
Guess what I found? A brand new goddamn installed meter, with an installation protocol tucked behind it and a note about me having to flip the main breaker. Dude apparently came in, installed the meter like a ninja, and then disappeared like a summer breeze. I'm happy to have power now, but what the hell.
Also there's a one time fee of about 350 dollars for the meter and now I have no goddamn idea where to send it. Sigh.
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RE: We need to be more user hostile to help them embrace freedom!
@Zerosquare People who go to install parties are nowhere close to normal. Hell, I had no idea those were still happening.
Anyway, instead of the devil having, well, a devil mask, they could dress him up as Bill Gates.
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Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself
You apply for promotion by assembling a “promo packet”: a collection of written recommendations from your teammates, design documents you’ve created, and mini-essays you write to explain why your work merits a promotion.
A promotion committee then reviews your packet with a handful of others, and they spend the day deciding who gets promoted and who doesn’t.
(Wasn't there a topic for random articles, kinda like WTF bites? I can't seem to find it. Good things threads are free.)
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RE: After reading some UX stuff on Medium
Any time anyone says or writes the letters "UX" together I black out for somewhere between 15 minutes and 18 hours and then I wake up covered in someone else's blood. This thread alone is responsible for at least three deaths.
But anyway, developing a decent UI is so hard it seems to border on the impossible. You can either let developers do it, in which case it will likely end up looking like @dkf's post above (or fucking GIMP). It makes sense, the person who made wget gave it all those 108+ options for a good reason, they're all essential, and so they need to be represented in the GUI as well, right? (Sure, that GUI probably wasn't made by whoever actually made wget, but it was obviously the same kind of person.)
Or you can let some kind of UI specialist do it, but then you run into the opposite problem - the specialist won't be entirely familiar with the program, more than likely they'll actually be entirely incompetent in the technical department, and so they'll never see the whole picture. They won't be able to think of all the ways people might want to use the application in question, because they never did that themselves.
Of course, the UI person could just ask developers about use cases and shit, but that brings another bunch of problems into the mix. Generally, developers want to code, they don't want to explain everything to some random jackass. Some developers do want to talk to some jackass, or really anyone who will listen, but those will go on endless, unnecessary detailed diatribes about irrelevant details... and the biggest problem is - let's face it - with "general purpose" applications like wget, even the developers don't actually know about every use case themselves. They just code stuff and people use it in various and sometime really bizzare ways.
So... wat do? You could find someone who actually understands your software and its capabilities, as well as applicable real-world scenarios, and at the same time has enough experience and common sense to know how and why people might want to it. In other words, someone who can actually understand your software, has some sysadmin experience, and understands UI design. And at the same time you likely want to hire them for less money than a dev (and definitely for less than an entirely useless middle manager), because they're just making mockups and writing stuff, so they can't be more expensive than actual developers, right? Yeah, good luck with that.
The same applies to documentation, too.
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RE: WTF Bites
My car needs servicing. I'm looking around for a good garage; I find one that has good reviews, and hey look, it has an online form so I don't have to spend half an hour on the phone with some barely literate greasemonkey who can't speak any human language like with some of the other garages I tried in the past!
Some fields in the form autocomplete using some kind of widget, so when I start to type my street name and building number, it suggests the city and ZIP code. When that happens, I get an error saying along the lines of "Your postal address is incomplete, you're missing the street name, building number, ZIP or city. Please add them to the fields below." and 3 new fields appear in the form. I'm not missing any of those fields and I have no fucking idea what the form expects from me, there's no indication anywhere on the page. The three new fields don't autocomplete and don't clear the error either. I think only the original field is validated and the 3 new ones do nothing.
The "prefered appointment date" field is even dumber than that. First off it literally doesn't matter because I will eat my own shoes if my preference matters in the slightest. I've seen a field like that before, I used it to pick a date about a week from now, and then I got a mail back saying the best they could do was 2 more weeks from that date. So fuck you, why is that there? Just call or mail me back with a couple of dates and we can figure something out.
The even dumber thing about this field is that when you click it, a calendar widget pops up that allows you to select the date instead of typing it. However, the widget produces a date as MM/DD/YYYY, but the form demands a date in form of DD/MM/YYYY. You can't type in the date in the correct form either because the widget refuses to accept that, hitting 2 in the first part automatically corrects to 02 and refuses to go over 12 - so it's impossible to set an appointment for later than the 12th of each month, and god knows what sending the form like that would actually do.
This is an authorized dealer/service, by the way, not fucking Ling's Car Garage. Good lord.
Oh and I just noticed, there's a photo of some dude to the right of the form and he has an incredibly unnerving grin. Look at those eyes. He's staring right at the name field. I think I'll just get my car serviced somewhere far away from this place.
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RE: Administration/Moderation Changes & New Admin Team Nominations
@apapadimoulis said in Administration/Moderation Changes & New Admin Team Nominations:
As the (temporary) sole administrator/moderator/dictator, I want everyone to have FUN
Is... is it mandatory, your highness?
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
So I got to drive on the Autobahn for the first time - I was visiting a friend in Aachen, Germany, so I had to drive through most of Czech Republic and across Germany and then back. Some things I've observed:
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Waze is way less useful in Germany than it is in the Czech Republic. Around here the ministry of transportation maintains an up to date map of traffic information, so for example when there's roadwork going on somewhere, Waze knows about it pretty much immediately. In Germany I had to drive through some stretches of highway that were being worked on, clearly for weeks, with temporary speed limits (usually 100 or 80 kph), and Waze wasn't showing me a speed limit at all.
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I had my brakes (pads everywhere and front rotors) replaced about 2 weeks ago, and thank fucking Christ for that, because otherwise the Feuerwehr would still be pulling me out of some poor guy's ass. Somewhere between Frankfurt and Köln I was in a group of cars in the leftmost lane, doing about 150 kph and passing everyone, and then suddenly brakes, BRAAAAKES! I had to hit the pedal so hard my hazards automatically came on, which I didn't even know my car could do because this hasn't happened before. After a moment it became clear what happened: some idiot 2 cars ahead of me decided he wanted to get out at the exit we were about to pass, so he hit the brakes and went from 150 to like 20 in two seconds, and then waited for an opening to the right to cross three lanes and take the exit. After we started accelerating again, my friend who was with me goes "oh my good, look at this motherfucker", so I look right, and I see the same asshole doing a U-turn right after the exit and rejoining the highway again. Whoever you are, get fucked by a cactus. Thank god people behind me were paying attention too.
Oh yeah and the rotors are now warped, I think it's because of this incident. You stupid goddamn asshole.
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On the way there I was briefly following a guy in a beat up 1st gen Škoda Octavia with a small trailer that was rated for up to 80 kph. We were doing about 140. It was pretty funny but I passed him the first chance I got.
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Germans don't seem to signal when changing lanes surprisingly often, I'd say Czechs are better at that. I was really surprised too, I expected it to be the other way around.
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The A3 going through the middle of Frankfurt airport is amazing, you're driving straight ahead and there's an endless string of airplanes landing on either side of you because there's a runway on each side. It's a sight to behold.
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Since Aachen is right at the border with both the Netherlands and Bel*ium, we decided to travel a bit and go to Liège, it's about 50km from there. The town was alright enough, and we stopped for some absolutely delicious lunch (boulets with fries and an amazing black pepper sauce), but Jesus tittyfucking Christ I did not expect to find a western European city with roads more fucked up than my hometown. The traffic was terrible too, not just because of the roads but because Bel*ians apparently drive like the French (I've never been there but I've heard horror stories). On the way out I saw a fairly small, single lane roundabout where these people managed to form three lanes of cars furiously honking and flashing high beams and weaving around each other. Thank god I only needed the first exit, otherwise I'd probably still be stuck there today.
Next time I'm taking the train.
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RE: WTF Bites
I'm looking at a theater's website. The info page for the play I'm looking at has a sidebar that shows all the dates they're showing it, which is pretty helpful. The problem is, the sidebar is ordered by day of the week, instead of by, well, date. And even that's wrong because we're in Europe and our week starts with Monday, not Sunday like this list.
- Sunday June 25
- Monday September 25
- Monday June 26
- Wednesday September 27
- Thursday September 21
- Thursday September 28
- Friday September 22
- Friday June 23
And the final entry is, for some reason:
- Sunday September 24
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RE: In Defense of Electron
@lb_ This is only tangentially related to the topic but you reminded me of something - I think I might have mentioned it around here before but it bears repeating. I think the company I work for will cause the end of humanity.
I'm a technical writer - I write manuals, which are available online at our website. Most of them are published in multiple formats at once: ePub, PDF, multi-page HTML (one page is one section), or single page HTML where the entire manual is on one page. This is very useful for searching - if you want to look up what some command or config file does, you open the single page document, hit Ctrl+F, and find exactly what you're looking for if you're a bit smart about it.
Some of these manuals are huge - the biggest one I've seen was close to 800 A4 pages in PDF, and 400-500 pages is not uncommon. That used to be just fine years ago, but then some genius decided to redesign our customer portal. During that process, they came up with a ridiculously ugly style sheet (the text is gray, headings gray, admonitions have a gray background... the website seriously is like 50 shades of gray), but that's not the main problem.
The main problem is that they decided to use some sort of javascript library that relies heavily on regular expressions to do syntax highlighting client-side in the HTML versions. Before, syntax highlighting was done during the build. When we published a guide, the build job that generated the HTML and PDF and ePub did this, once, and then when anyone opened a document in their browser, the browser just rendered any code samples as plain HTML plus some CSS. It was lightning fast. But now, instead of doing this once, it's done "dynamically" on your system every time you open any document, because "that's how modern websites work" or some shit like that. I've never heard a satisfactory explanation. When you open some of our developer documentation that contains a lot of code samples, it brings lesser machines and browsers to their figurative knees. Single-threaded browsers like Firefox without Electrolysis literally hang for minutes at a time, even on fairly powerful hardware (like my desktop with an overclocked i5-6600K and 32 gigs of RAM) - while the fans scream like banshees.
This isn't some kind of small company, it's an international corporation that's basically a nerd household name. We get millions of hits on our docs per month. This one fucking javascript library alone is probably responsible for billions of tons of pollution to be released into our atmosphere over the few years it's been used, for no good reason. Customers complain that they have to use PDFs because they literally can't work with the HTML versions. The website people have been aware of the problem for years. I even made them fix it a little bit so the problem isn't as severe as before - but that just means Firefox now hangs for a minute instead of five minutes. All of this could be very easily avoided by ditching the JS library and doing highlighting at build time, but no, that's not fucking web 4.0 enough. Fucking hell.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@benjamin-hall Sure, but 122MM MULTIPLE ROCKET LAUNCHER
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RE: WTF Bites
I just found out that Czech UniCredit Bank has had massive issues with its online banking for more than a week now. I can't find anything in English on this but it seems like a massive and a migration gone wrong in biblical proportions.
The timeline of articles about this is pretty interesting to read:
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Oct 10: UniCredit Bank has a problem with internet banking update, customers can't transfer money
After planned downtime of their internet and mobile banking application over the weekend, UniCredit Bank systems have been affected by outages of their key services. Some client are unable to transfer money or view important information about their accounts and cards. The bank confirms the outages and claims technical difficulties. -
Oct 11: UniCredit Bank internet banking is back online after longest outage in history
Clients of the fourth largest Czech bank UniCredit Bank have been dealing with service outages since Monday. Some could not log in to their internet and mobile banking applications, others managed to log in after several tries, but could not transfer money, view account history, or display information about their credit cards. On Wednesday the bank managed to bring its services back online. -
Oct 12: UniCredit Bank online banking still doesn't work, claims GLS transport company
European parcel company GLS has been continuing to face problems with UniCredit Bank online banking even on Thursday. This proves false the bank's Wednesday claims that the internet and mobile applications now work. Other clients report continued problems. UniCredit Bank is preparing a statement. -
Oct 16: UniCredit Bank problems: online banking outage and thousands of clients unable to access their accounts
For nine days have some UniCredit Bank clients been unable to access their accounts online. Some problems have still been persisting even throughout last weekend. The service outage is caused by a software update.
The last article also notes that the bank claimed that regular outgoing payments were still working fine, which was apparently true, but incoming payments weren't being processed. Most people here get paid monthly on the 15th of each month, so right in the middle of this clusterfuck (15th was Sunday, so a lot of people got paid on the 13th). Which means if you had a set payment for rent or utilities for the 16th, for example, and not enough cash in the account to pay that without your next paycheck, the payment didn't happen. Fun!
At this point it's probably better to shutter the whole thing and leave town before they get chased out by a furious, hungry mob.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Luhmann shut up, if there's one thing the Germans know that doesn't involve armor plates, it's delicious sausages
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RE: The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card)
It gets even crazier when you live in a country that adds VAT. In the Czech Republic the MSRP for the top Xs model is 43 500 CZK, which at today's rate is 1,978.44 USD. That's getting dangerously close to the "this phone is more expensive than my car" territory.
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RE: Sofort banking
They ask you for your bank username and authentication details
That can't possibly be real. Can it? It can't, right? Nobody would do that, right?
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
@boomzilla GTA 6 graphics look really good
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RE: Server cert expired!
The irony of an expired cert happening to a forum about IT fails is absolutely delicious.
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The largest navy in the world is TR:wtf:
I'm stealing a post from another forum which shall not be named because this is just too funny. My country doesn't have a navy and it's still better than this. It's like if 4chan ran a warship. Pissbottles and everything.
The report of the investigation into the USS Fitzgerald accident has been released. I'm not going to include all the text of the articles, because Navy Times has several, and they're long. I will say that they're filled with comedy gold (of the military schadenfreude variety).
Obtained by Navy Times, the “dual-purpose investigation” was overseen by Rear Adm. Brian Fort and submitted 41 days after the June 17, 2017, tragedy.
It was kept secret from the public in part because it was designed to prep the Navy for potential lawsuits in the aftermath of the accident.
When Fort walked into the trash-strewn CIC in the wake of the disaster, he was hit with the acrid smell of urine. He saw kettlebells on the floor and bottles filled with pee. Some radar controls didn’t work and he soon discovered crew members who didn’t know how to use them anyway.
About three weeks after the ACX Crystal disaster, Fort’s investigators sprang a rules of the road pop quiz on Fitz’s officers.
It didn’t go well. The 22 who took the test averaged a score of 59 percent, Fort wrote.
“Only 3 of 22 Officers achieved a score over 80%,” he added, with seven officers scoring below 50 percent.
The same exam was administered to the wardroom of another unnamed destroyer as a control group, and those officers scored similarly dismal marks.
He found a pee bottle that had tipped and spilled behind a large-screen display. Fort’s eyes started to take over for his nose, and he took it all in.
“There was debris everywhere,” Fort said under oath. “Food debris, food waste, uneaten food, half-eaten food, personal gear in the form of books, workout gear, workout bands, kettlebells, weightlifting equipment, the status boards had graffiti on them.”
“I’d never seen a CIC like that in my entire time in the Navy,” the surface warfare officer of more than 25 years recollected.
The more Fort looked, the worse it got: broken sensors that were reported for repairs but never fixed, schedule changes ordered by superiors high above the Fitz’s command triad that delayed crucial maintenance, taped-up radar controls and, worse, sailors who had no idea how to use the technology.
A dead radar control button had been “covered by a piece of masking tape,” but Fort’s investigators couldn’t locate a casualty report chronicling the malfunction.
Beyond talking to each other inside the CIC or conversing with the bridge during their watch, the sailors there also had “zero communication” with other onboard departments for vital tasks like turning the radar, Fort later testified.
“Most of these folks we interviewed were not even aware that the radar-set controller was out of commission or what functionality they did or did not have, or what ability they had to even control it,” he said.
While the crew could’ve turned to an auto-track feature on the SPS-67 radar, they didn’t use it “because they ‘don’t want to mess it up,’” the report states.
That’s why a CIC petty officer worked in manual mode, punching a button 1,000 times in an hour just to track four of five vessels, when the radar could’ve auto-tracked 50 contacts for him, Fort testified.
“That’s a lot of activity, but it’s not really what I would call vigilant activity,” Fort said.
Fort’s report found that other sailors barely fathomed the rudiments of radar.
“One watchstander said he has routinely seen the radars poorly adjusted to the point that visible targets would not show up,” Fort wrote. “One watchstander stated seeing other watchstanders seek out (a supervisor) for help on radar tuning, and receiving the response, ‘do it how you like it.’”
For example, Navy leaders have publicly stated that the crew was not using the ship’s Automatic Identification System, or AIS, to gather information on nearby vessel traffic.
But Fort determined that Fitz’s sailors avoided the AIS laptop because it constantly crashed. It couldn’t be moved because jostling a cable would short out the array.
Fort found it tucked behind other consoles in the CIC. Onboard technicians had told their shipmates not to budge the laptop “because the cables were sensitive,” he wrote.
Furqan testified that when she served on the Fitz, the AIS had been loaned to the warship so they were limited in the upgrades and maintenance they could perform on it.
“During my tenure, the laptop failed at least once so we had to…wait for a new laptop to be mailed out to us,” Furqan said. “It would periodically lock up, and we would be unable to unlock it even with the correct password, so we’d have to reboot the entire laptop and try again.”
Coppock wasn’t communicating with her CO or his XO but she also wasn’t talking to the ship’s electronic nerve center — the Combat Information Center, or CIC.
Bridge and CIC teams are supposed to constantly share information on what they’re seeing and their sensors detecting, working together to navigate a ship safety through the night.
But Coppock wouldn’t talk with the CIC because her counterparts there “had given her bad information in the past,” according to the report.
The CIC was led by Lt. Natalie Combs. Testifying under oath at a hearing last year to determine if Combs should stand court-martial, Fort said it was “unfathomable” that the bridge didn’t talk to the CIC on the night of the disaster.
But Fort found that was far from the only fissure splitting the warship’s crew, a systemic problem of mistrust that he believed superiors failed to properly address long before the catastrophe.
Another junior officer told Fort’s investigators “she could not trust the person next to her.”
The 2017 survey results “identified continued and significant issues with communication throughout the command, concerns for stress being levied on the crew by the ship’s OPTEMPO, and significant concerns for the leadership and effectiveness of the Command Master Chief,” according to Fort’s investigation.
The 2017 survey results arrived shortly before Shu handed over command to his XO, Benson.
“Shu stated he was generally happy with the results and did not wish to stand up a Command Assessment Team … to conduct small group discussions with the crew following the survey,” Fort wrote.
Fort’s report faults the Fitz’s command failing to act on the “volume of comments” compiled in the 2017 survey, which “were well articulated and a clear case for change.”
“Although conducted under CDR Shu, CDR Benson was XO during the 2016 and 2017 surveys, and once in command should have been attuned to the fact that command climate had taken a turn for the worse,” Fort added.
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RE: The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!
@Groaner You caused this by going to sleep! Never do that again!
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RE: Tinder is shit
@boomzilla God dammit, there was another paragraph there that would make that make sense, but I got rid of it because it was Garage material and I wanted to focus on why the app itself is garbage, not why it pisses me off. Yes, buying 6 or 12 months at a time makes sense if you treat it like a steady source of ass. You can use the money you save on premium to buy your gonorrhea meds, it's actually really smart.
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RE: Internet of shit
What on earth is happening here. Can’t remotely unlock the house for my Children. UPDATES URGENTLY needed please.
What the fuck is wrong with people?
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
Meanwhile in eastern Europe
ATTENTION!
In this town there are:- 56 cameras
- 6 speed traps
- 3 self-propelled guns
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
The whole video (the whole channel really) is driving anti-patterns but this one takes the cake
Grandpa in a red Hyundai stops in the middle of the road for no reason, the car behind him with the dashcam hits the brakes and stops as well, one of the motorcycles behind them manages to swerve around, the other one doesn't and hits the dashcam car.
Poster's roughly translated explanation from the comments:
Hi,
this Saturday we ran into a senile retard who, on a main road, hit the brakes and stopped right in front of us without any warning. I managed to stop as well, but one of the bikers following us didn't manage to avoid us and hit my car on the rear left side. Guy flew into the barrier, ended up with a torn thigh, arterial bleeding, broken calf and a twisted ankle, they had to airlift him out.The geezer who caused this stayed inside his car for the entire two hours it took the medics and cops to clear the incident. At one point grandma got out to check their bumper for scratches (I didn't even touch them), but that was it. As I was tying a tourniquet around the biker's thigh, grandpa shouted at me "hey, do you need me here, I need to go" - I'm sure you can imagine how mad I was. In the end we had to wait a while for the crime scene investigators to show up because the cops on scene smelled a grievous bodily harm charge. So far it looks like the grandpa made it out with a misdemeanor charge for stopping without a reason and he got off the easiest of us all because nothing happened to him and his car is fine. My car is all fucked up (we'll see what the insurance guy says, but it's not just body panels, the chassis is bent too) and the biker has a fucked up leg and a totaled 3 month old bike. Officially the biker is at fault for not maintaining a safe distance.
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RE: WTF Bites
I'm trying to "switch" cell service providers, except all I'm trying to do is go from O2 to a subsidiary of O2's where my work has some kind of deal.
number one: For some reason, when you're registering with the subsidiary, they ask for your SIM number. Of course, that's on the part of my SIM that I cut off when I was turning the ancient Mini SIM into a Micro SIM. Why the hell do they want that, though?! They're going to send me a new one anyway!
number two: I found the other part of the card and copied the number off of it. Then they asked me for a "CVOP" - a unique number that your old provider has to give you when you tell them you want to leave, so you can keep your number. EXCEPT THE OLD PROVIDER IS THE SAME AS THE NEW ONE, GOD FUCKING DAMMIT!
number three: In an attempt to avoid an hour-long conversation with some call center drone trying to sell me unlimited calls for "real cheap" to keep me from """switching""" I went to visit O2's sales point in person - there's one in a mall where I usually get my groceries, anyway. So I walk in there, explain to the guy what I want, he takes my info, verifies my identity... everything's going fine, he's trying to sell me random shit but he's not too pushy. Then he grabs the phone and starts calling someone who can approve the request for me, because that makes total fucking sense. The someone asks to talk to me, AND STARTS TRYING TO KEEP ME WITH THEM DESPITE ME NOT FUCKING GOING ANYWHERE! NO I DON'T WANT A PACKAGE WITH FIVE TIMES THE DATA FOR TWICE THE PRICE YOU STUPID WHORE, FUUUUUUUCK
number four: Eventually they generate the number, I sign the form saying I'm terminating my service with O2, and the guy asks me if I want a printed copy or if it's fine to only send it by e-mail. Well, if you send it in a mail, I don't really need a physical copy, do I? I only want one number off the form, after all.
WRONG, MOTHERFUCKER. Almost immediately after leaving the store I got a text with a password because apparently the form is encrypted. Ok, fine. Problem is, this was yesterday and this is all I ever got, the e-mail never got to me. What I think happened is gmail just threw it away, because the form was in a zip file with a really crazy random filename and gmail blocked it, maybe? It's not in my spam either, and the "My Documents" section on their self-service portal eventually shows empty after loading for like a minute.So now my cell service is being canceled and I can't switch to the """new""" ISP because O2's systems were designed by a brain-damaged Hitler clone.