Cannot stand Duo and Microsoft Authenticator. Proprietary MFA clients should be ridiculed.
Hyperbolic and lacking nuance? Yes. But I came here to shout into the clouds, not to be fair.
The “reject all cookies” button
Go to your browser settings and click “reject 3rd party cookies”. This will block all cookies, except for the domain you are visiting. But it might break some things and have to readjust for some domains.
Otherwise use ublock and noscript, prevents your browser from loading things you never wanted.
The cookies being rejected should’ve been the standard. Instead they gave us shitty popups that didn’t solve anything.
Units of measurement. Imagine if there was one universal way of measuring something, be it temperatures, weights, pressure…
We’re close on this one but there’s a couple of holdouts.
We should really standardise standards
Police education requirements. In North America, there are like hundreds of different police forces with vastly different requirements. Some will hire highschool dropouts while others require a university education.
Oh they have standard training. That one guy who goes around training them all they will have the best sex of their life after they kill someone. See, nothing to worry about perfectly trained!
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/jun/05/architect-of-controversial-killology-police-traini/
That man is very gross. It’s even right there in the name.
False. Police agencies are the only institutions legally allowed to discriminate based on intelligence when it comes to hiring. Jordan v. City of New London set the precedent that its okay for police forces to refuse to hire a person because they are too smart. The reasoning in court was that those who are too intelligent face the risk of finding the work boring or becoming distracted by issues outside of the scope of their work. What that means from a practical standpoint is that they want dumb, obedient candidates for police positions rather than logical critical thinking individuals who might actually follow the law over orders from superiors. Its the same thing in the military too.
In the face of the facts, university education is probably more often a disqualification for actual law enforcement.
As I said, it varies depending on the police agency. The RNC in Newfoundland requires a university education. I noted in my comment that I was referring to all of North America
You think think its practical to have the same training for police in Mexico and Canada?
“Congratulations, you’re everything we’ve come to expect from years of government training.”
Job ads.
To hell with all the bullshitting.Title. Basic duties. Salary. Upload resume.
Account metadata. I should be able to keep my contact info, personal data, friend list(s), notification settings, etc. on a server (personal or trusted) and use that account on different websites. There’s no reason for these sites to all keep a separate incompatible record of these things!
Ah but see, how are they gonna sell your data if that happens?
Won’t somebody think of the corporations???
It looks like it is going to get solved with license plate readers, but toll road transponders. Make everything EZ Pass, that is what it was designed for.
Human rights
Education
Levels of medical care
Income / maximum wealth (wealth caps)
Income / maximum wealth (wealth caps)
Min and max.
Just set a ratio cap. If you really think this system makes everyone better off then it should be fine.
Women’s clothing sizes. My size varies wildly depending on the store and every woman I know says the same thing. It can be really upsetting and at best it’s a massive PITA
before transitioning i literally never knew my pants size because it was different for every brand. now that i shop in the men’s section post transition, i can now buy pants without needing to worry if they’ll fit. it’s the same measurement every single time no matter what brand. men’s sizes for pants work like 30x35, with the first number being the waist and the second being the length. plus, pockets! we seriously need better women’s clothes.
I have definitely run into men’s sizes that are the same size, brand, and style but fit different. Sometimes the cuts are off. And different brands cut differently, so while there may be more consistency than women’s sizes it definitely has a lot of inconsistencies as well.
That’s my anecdotal experience though.
I’ve got a pair of 36 and 46 that both fit. Usually shoes are fairly normalized, like an 11 usually fits across the board for me, but I got a pair of dress shoes one time and needed an 8. I put on an 11 and they were like clown shoes.
Dress pants for me are a shot in the dark. I’ll find 40" waists that I cant put my hand in my pocket and then I’ll find a 36 that both hands fit in fine and fit well. And I never get anything listed as skinny, I just always assume my phone would just bend around my leg at that point. The brand name doesn’t even matter, same brand will have different fits even in the same pant “style.”
Tshirts are a shit show because I’m not skinny anymore. If it is going to not show my stomach when I raise my arms I’d need like a 3XL, but if I get a 3XL it is extremely loose everywhere because a large or XL is a more proper fit width wise.
all clothing sizes. 34 means 34 inches, but it’s 30-32 inches in asia.
size 12 shoes are different between US, EU and UK. Why the fuck.
Headlights that don’t blind oncoming vehicles
The headlights themselves should be mounted at a standard height. Taller vehicle? Mount the lights lower on body.
No second headlights on trucks either
i’m not normally in support of taking control away from owners, but automating headlights seems like a big one. make radar and/or lidar, along with LED headlights, a requirement on new vehicles and have them automatically reduce brightness when a vehicle approaches. my old mazda would at least automatically turn the high beams off if a vehicle was a certain distance away from me.
Seriously… I hate my own damn headlights! People flash their high beams at me as if I have mine on, but they’re just the stock headlights… I’ve been seriously considering going to a mechanic to have dimmer lights installed lol
Your headlight level adjuster might be stuck or broken. Have your mechanic check that it works.
A lot of vehicles have a beam dip adjuster in the cab. Mine pops out when I press the center of the light control selector.
Officially, they are to correct for a heavy load in the back. Unofficially, if you tweak them, you can flip between longer range, and polite as required.
If you watch your lights, there should be a fairly sharp cut-off at the top of their coverage. If that line ever hits a window or mirror, it will look like you are flashing them. If it’s too high, either fix it yourself (generally quite easy) or get it fixed.
If people regularly flash their lights at you over it, you probably should.
Aim them yourself. You’ll spent more time finding a good spot to aim them then actually doing it.
If they’re LEDs or HIDs they’re probably just a screw you turn to aim them. If they dont then it’s basically the same thing, but in a less convenient spot. Look up the proper aiming procedure for your car, or just wing it by finding a car in a parking lot.
I know the feeling. I had a rental car once for two weeks and I was more than once road-raged because of the lights. Everyone thought I was high-beaming it, but nope.
My cars low to the ground and only has halogen lamps, so if I’m ever flashing high beams at an SUV with overly bright lights, it’s only so I can continue to see the road. LEDs are insane and the governments too busy facilitating record defense contractor earnings to do anything about it.
If you’re in Canada, they’re developing standards and they’re asking for feedback. There’s a survey to fill out on the Transport Canada site.
They won’t do shit unless the US does it first. Government loves to consult and ignore.
That’s what sealed-beam headlights used to be before composite housings which are proprietary to a given vehicle were legalized.
In fact, sealed-beams are still widely used in commercial vehicles because of their standardization to a point where they can be picked up anywhere and they’re just gonna work.
OMG, light pollution in general has become my current “white whale,” and the gods awful headlights on these ridiculous cars makes the most of it!
We should be able to see the stars at night, I don’t think we have to sacrifice a dark night for the sake of “safety,” maybe use a different color of street lamps, or get the lights on the walkway with just enough to find your way around
Please, I don’t want to lose the Night!
On my car I have matrix headlights. I think every car should have them it’s honestly awesome technology and it’s a lot safer than normal lights. Hard to explain how they work just go look up a video and see for yourself
No; personally i find those annoying as hell when a car with those is behind me. Having partial high beams on either side from behind, that also come on and of with oncoming traffic, is really distracting. Never mind the “less good” implementations, that blind you through your side mirrors.
Hard to explain how they work
Not well at all when it comes to avoid blinding bicyclists, that’s for sure.
Just another tech developed by the car industry pretending there are only cars in the road.Reminds me of the Simpsons episode, where they design the “perfect” family vehicle - and it costs too much for a middle class family to afford.
Meanwhile, it’s impossible to find and affordable car with manual transmission, locks and windows.
Just don’t make headlights stupid bright.
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weight measurements in baking recipes (instead of or in addition to volumetric measurements)
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password requirements. Not using the same password for different sites, just using a formula, but it’s hard when some sites require the use of characters that others forbid, or some sites cap password length at a character limit lower than other sites require as minimum.
Yep! Or at least put the fucking formula by the login to prompt which one you used when you registered
Make it automatically readable for password managers
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Feet, yards, inches should be replaced by the metric system.
Metric ftw!
There are 2 types of countries in this world: 1. Those that use the metric system and 2. Those that put a man on the moon ;)
Funny thing is, NASA uses metric.
But their independent contractors use imperial and convert back and forth. This is how the Mars Climate Orbitor was botched.
Interesting flex. Apollo Guidance Computer was working with Metric SI units internally.
Calculations were carried out using the metric system, but display readouts were in units of feet, feet per second, and nautical miles – units that the Apollo astronauts were accustomed to.
and how did that Mars landing go?
When you can divide a meter evenly by 2, 3, 4, 6 we will talk. Until then take your crappy base 10 measurements and stefu!
Easy.
Can you quickly calculate how many gallons of water receptacle with dimensions of 5 inch x 3 feet x 1 yard can hold? Extra points if you can also calculate how many pounds it weight when filled.
So you imagine that USians somehow can divide inches with infinite precision?
50cm
33.3 cm
25cm
16.7cm
It can be done just like for feet and inches, look:
- a half meter: ½m
- a third of a meter: ⅓m
- a fourth of a meter: ¼m
- a sixth of a meter: ⅙m
Yet I only need an integer when using the imperial system, and I don’t have to repeat 3 into infinity.
If you only need integers, why are the measurements of your home hardware and tech specified in 1/8ths and 1/16ths of an inch? Stick to whole inches or shut up.
But then you’ve got a space that’s 5’ 7 3/8" and you need a clearance of 7/32" on each end, so your piece should be…uh… 5’ 6 15/16" long. So much easier than metric, right?
In metric it would be 1711mm (or 1.711m) and you’d need to take 5.5mm off each end, so it’s 1700mm. (For the record, I picked random numbers in imperial and only did the metric conversion afterwards, I just lucked into the nice round number here.)
I dunno. You need how many sig figs you need in whichever system, but switching between a factor of 12 for the feet, base 10 for the inches, and the equivalent of binary decimals for the partial inches sure does take getting used to. I’ve finally gotten used to it enough that I can do it in my head, but I prefer to work on metric for most things.
I acknowledge that machinists just use thousandths of an inch, which does greatly improve working with that system, but it also introduces a third kind of measurement that can’t easily be interconverted with the other two. I dunno. It just feels like we’re doing way too much work propping up this archaic system when literally everyone else in the world is using something simpler and we could just be on the same system.
⅓m is 1.093504 feet or 13.12205 inch. I don’t see how it’s more convenient.
Work in a machine shop for a week and get back to us
Uh? Done. What happens now?
What machines do u run in what country?
The entire planet’s machine shops do fine.
1x1x1 metre cube holds 1000L of water, and weighs 1000kg.
You only repeat 3 to the number of significant digits necessary.
Isn’t that grade 4 math?
I just want existing standards to be public and accessible, not locked behind
400600 € ISO. That defeats the whole point of standards.Btw, is there no torrent for should-be-free standards?
Sure, you can search for alternative sources, hope that the PDF is not just image-scans but indexed and searchable text, and that it has a jump-able table of contents, and that it has not been altered and is up to date. Or you can go through public implementations and try to replicate, infer, and follow implementations or third-party descriptions of the standard. But all of that is error-prone and time and effort investment.
It shouldn’t be like that. A standard should be public so that anyone can implement it, from either side. So anyone can verify and compare against the reference, and call out implementation misalignments.
Battery interfaces. We have a huge variety of batteries for a huge variety of devices. However, when you open the proprietary shell of these batteries what you often find inside is standardized 18650 cells. They have been playing us for absolute fools.
The ENG field has had two battery mount standards in the form of the V-mount and the Anton Bauer Gold Mount for decades now, and both are interchangeable; you could swap a Gold Mount plate for a V-mount plate or vice-versa.
And on the consumer front, Sony’s Infolithium might as well be standardized as there’s lights which use Infolithium packs and you can buy generic battery packs in that format and still be able to power your Handycam from the mid '90s, for example.
That’s true, but it’s also a bit more complicated - you can’t just jam a handful of 18650 cells together and have it work. They need to be matched with cells having similar capacity and internal resistance and depending on the operating characteristics the tolerance can be quite low.
So it is possible to make your own packs or repair ones, but you have to test each cell in the existing pack, as well as test each cell your want to replace in and make sure that they’re all in tolerance to each other.
It’s a similar problem to lead acid batteries. 2V cells are arranged in a way that will deliver 12V at sufficient current for a particular application. However the solution we have landed on is completely different to li-ion because you can take any suitably sized car battery from one brand of vehicle and put it in another. The reason for that is the interface is common to virtually all cars. This technology pre-dates enshitification. There is no good reason to tie any battery to any device other than it helps the shareholders. They are busy inserting barriers to re-use and modularity everywhere in technology, particularly software.
Button cells should be standardised to only two sizes.
They are a health hazard, a live cell can eat through the stomach of a toddler very easily.
The main reason this occurs is because people buy those multiple size packs because every device has a different size.
We, as consumers, really do need to step up our battery knowledge. I would say, general electronics should be a mandatory requirement. Heck it should be a major part of the curriculum.
