One of the more popular DOS-based BBS software platforms of the early 90s was VBBS. It was interoperable with WWIVnet, which is part of why it was popular.
Its author/developer/maintainer was blind. You can imagine how well it worked with screen readers and other accessible technology (which was primitive at the time, and yet somehow better than it is today).
Text on a terminal is much better suited to accessibility technologies, whether readers or braille terminals. BBSes were all about text on terminals, and it was a place where folks who used accessibility tools could choose whether to identify themselves as someone who needed it... and most of the time if they chose not to make it known, none of the other users had any idea.
"You are your own words" is a BBS-ism. For people who are in the deaf community or who used tools because of their sight, being able to be known primarily by their words and not by the way that they used them was absolutely incredible.
I want to see a documentary of this in the style of alternating scenes of a) narration over still photos and b) contemporary music alongside silent video of the people behind this community.
Sort of. Global Entry also includes PreCheck -- your global entry ID number is also your PreCheck ID. PreCheck does help (quite a bit) with the TSA security lines/etc., so in a way, GE does help you more than just at border crossings.
A friend of mine had one of these in the 80s in suburban DC, very briefly before the whole project failed. You need to not think of this cable modem as a network adapter, because there basically wasn't anything (except the cable company) that it was connected to. The network basically operated as a shared storage area -- to the end user, that cable modem functioned more like a disk controller.
What it really did for most users was serve as a catalog of software that you could load and run, at speeds that were not inconsistent with floppy drives of the era. So, if you wanted to play Zork I or Miner 2049er, you could do it without "buying" the game -- you were paying a monthly fee for access to a library of software. IIRC, it was a Z80 under the hood, probably running some flavor of CP/M.
As a concept, it wasn't a bad one. In practice, the BBS and piracy scenes of both the Apple ][ and C-64 communities made "a shared library of software" less of an exclusive commodity than Nabu's backers planned for.
The folks who make up "human capital" have been reducing the value that they place on Google the employer, too.
I mean that in several ways: Google doesn't have nearly as good a record of successfully recruiting (or retaining) top-tier talent as they did just 5-10 years ago. It is no longer seen as a dream position, or even a strong candidate's first choice. Similarly, hiring managers who see Google on a resume don't treat it as highly as they did 5-10 years ago.
Google is rapidly on its way to becoming just another big boring technology company, like SAP or Salesforce or Oracle. Now the culture of those around it has finally started to catch up.
Anecdata: Spouse was let go from Salesforce in the January round of layoffs, after 2 years there. She received 6 months salary, was allowed to keep RSUs that would have vested within 90 days (which amounted to another ~2 months salary), and the company paid for COBRA for her and family for 6 months.
That was very generous, but it's not at all unheard of. There are people who were on her team who got more than 12 months. They had been there quite a bit longer.
I’ve been on the company’s side of a few RIFs lately, it’s not fun for anyone, and clearly worse for the employees. But even for brand new employees we do at least a month’s severance + health care etc. For many, it’s 90+ days. Unless your company is at urgent risk of bankruptcy, just be a normal human and spend the few extra dollars so a bad day is a as good as possible.
Because GamePass outside of the US does (in addition to the on-demand and condensed games and "all 22" stuff that the US GamePass gets). It's kind of like NFL Sunday Ticket but delivered by akamai instead of satellite.
The apple magic mouse also works just fine with nix and windows machines. It's just a fancy bluetooth mouse. Basically any bluetooth mouse will work, assuming your nix machine has bluetooth hardware that it can connect to.
So, it's an ad for a service where email goes through your servers before reaching mine, for the purpose of removing tracking and hiding my address. This isn't onboarding, this is cross-promotion of another service and it's really F'ing gross.
Messing with the integrity of a web page's content without your users' consent is a gross violation of trust. Doing it inside of a browser extension is adware. Doing it as a privacy-focused company is... a fast way to destroy your image as a privacy-focused company.
If you're manipulating the display of a page that I'm visiting, without an opt-in, and you're being shady about calling it advertising, why should I expect that you're going to treat email with the level of integrity required/expected?
This is a hard red line that you've crossed, especially as a privacy-focused company, and instead of backing down, you're blaming your UI design? Stop. There is no amount of UI work that makes it OK to silently insert your ad into someone else's content.
If you want to cross-promote (please don't, but if you must), you need to do it in a way that makes it clear it's coming from the extension, and not manipulating third-party content without user consent. The second you start inserting your message into a page that I'm reading, is the second that I uninstall your extension and never use it again.
Which is a shame. I like your search product, and I thought that I liked your company's philosophy and goals. Oh well.
I installed this extension a long time ago, as a browser tracking protection tool similar to PrivacyBadger. I think it is objectionable that the nature of the extension has been changed to one that injects notifications into the contents of the webpages I visit, with the only alert to me of that change being the injection of notifications into the contents of webpages I visit.
And for what it's worth, I use a password manager and have used a few over the years, and I've never encountered such an obnoxious UI from one.
Its author/developer/maintainer was blind. You can imagine how well it worked with screen readers and other accessible technology (which was primitive at the time, and yet somehow better than it is today).
Text on a terminal is much better suited to accessibility technologies, whether readers or braille terminals. BBSes were all about text on terminals, and it was a place where folks who used accessibility tools could choose whether to identify themselves as someone who needed it... and most of the time if they chose not to make it known, none of the other users had any idea.
"You are your own words" is a BBS-ism. For people who are in the deaf community or who used tools because of their sight, being able to be known primarily by their words and not by the way that they used them was absolutely incredible.
(edit: typo)
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