Programmer Humor

Microsoft "stay signed in?" screen is the most useless thing ever programmed by man

Finally got motivated enough to change the lock screen from other peoples photography to my own. Spend an hour going through shots and make a folder under 'Pictures' root folder called 'Lock screen', go to the settings for lock screen and select that folder as the slideshow source. "We can't use that folder so it was removed". Hmmm. Ok, let me add it to 'Documents' instead. Same issue. Hmmm, ok.... I hate it, but let me move it under c: - ok, it accepted it, sweet. Lock the screen, not showing anything... Hmmm ok, google it. Apparently it fails silently when it needs permissions. Hmmm, Ok... workaround is to select 'Photo' mode instead of slideshow mode, lock the screen. Ok, shows the photo. Ok, now go back to slideshow mode and it should work.

Wrong place for this rant I know but windows just seems progressively shittier over the years, if that's even possible.

The design is very human. All you need to do is close all tabs where a Microsoft service is potentially running, find all the cookies used by Microsoft's domains (there are only like six of them) and delete them, then restart the browser.

I actually recently added the Microsoft logout page to µblocks domain filter at work, since it would every now and then trigger a logout the very first page load after I'd log in to the email there.

This has also somehow caused a bunch of other AD-connected systems to suddenly behave a lot better when it comes to session termination.

Edit: Since people were asking for it, this is what you need to add to the "My filters" tab in your UBO config;

||login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/logout^$document

This will prevent any requests from redirecting you to log out, timeouts etc will still invalidate your session.

What is it with Microsoft and not being able to manage something as simple as a session? Why are sessions so majorly over complicated that singing in is one of those fun things that can take half an hour?

Fuck everything about incompetent evil Microsoft

Reminds me of the w10->w11 upgrade in one of my former jobs.

For most of the upgrade process, there was the common Windows blue screen. In the foreground, a big fat clickable 'OK' button, and right underneath, the phrase 'Your upgrade is underway. Do NOT press OK!'

I have now a bunch of browser profiles to keep each login separate. The joys of having one Microsoft account, linked to multiple systems, but none of them want to run in the same browser profile at the same time.

Do you think Microsoft understands consent?

[ ] - Yes

[ ] - Ask again later

as an aside, my god, imgur has gotten so much worse in recent times. It's a truly horrible site. it won't even load with an ad blocker running anymore.

my morning work routine includes cursing out microsoft

don't get me started how bad outlook is in ff despite using about 1gb of ram