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jfc, indeed. Impressed by how crypto has such jfc staying power

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I deleted a tweet yesterday about twitter finally allowing alt descriptions on images in 2022 - 25 years after they were added to the w3c spec (7 years before twitter existed) . But I added the point that OCR recommendations for screenshots of text has kinda always been possible, as long as they reliably detect that it’s a screenshot of text. But thinking about the politics of that overwhelmed me, hence the delete.

Like, I’m kinda sure they already OCR all the images uploaded for meta info, but the context problem would always be there from an accessibility POV.

My perspective is that without any assistance to people unaware of accessibility issues with images beyond “would you like to add an alt description” leaves the politics of it all between the people using twitter. I don’t really like seeing people being berated for not adding alt text to their image as if twitter is not the third-party that cultivated a community for 17 years without ALT descriptions, then they suddenly throw them out there and let us deal with it amongst ourselves.

Anyway… I will stick to what I know in future

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I maintain that people not having to work is a worst-case scenario for silicon valley VCs who rely on us being too fucking distracted by all their shit products to have time to think about whether we need their shit products

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for the sneerclub fans, this vid about MS Satoshi was pretty funny. All the Adam Something videos are entertaining for a couch sneer www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv4H4trnssc

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I wanted to post this here so bad that I found another vulnerability in my weekday social media block out system to get on here.

“There should be a license you can lose when you write this kind of trash. That license, in this case, would be permission to use words like “intelligence” and “intuition” in a sentence for publication.”

😘

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Do you mean that as an example of brand taking a back seat by becoming bland and homogenous?

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yes, still very much in that zone too. The web has been design system’d to death. I don’t think you can even find out what the thing is via the site now, I guess that’s a big part of my ranting, that they really don’t want to assert what it is too clearly. Hence the “but it’s so easy to use” being the brand.

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or the “we made our own design system that we’ve open-sourced for no reason other than to say we open source”

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I agree, I don’t think many of the things I criticise about the UX industry are the result of a conscious decision, but no less insidious. It’s a good point though, I also remember the emergence of UX as a thing when there would be talk about it being everything - as if things like usability, accessibility, customer service, QA, etc never existed before.

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What does this mean regarding their claims that data is encrypted at rest and in transit? slack.com/…/slacks-enterprise-security-features

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ah ok, so if it’s not at rest and it’s not in transit, what else is it?

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is it that easy to sell this shit to the average CTO?

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they use it for their matrix screensavers

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I’ve done UX on a few B2B SaaS things and the U meant CTO in most (sanctioned) cases

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sort by controversial did not disappoint :)

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just want to share my article from this week. It’s about products that account for their lack of usefulness with ease of use. Using the gpt-4oh as an example. fasterandworse.com/known-purpose-and-trusted-pote…

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I can’t imagine signing that - unless I was being paid a lot of money

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oh that reminds me of Anthropic’s company values page where they call it “unusually high trust” to believe that their employees work there in “good faith”

Unusually high trust

fasterandworse,
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thanks! I think I began saying that when I moved from digital marketing agencies to startups around 2011

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haha, thanks for this. those three are my go-to “big 3” examples because I’m convinced one of them will acquire and absorb the other two

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I didn’t know about Slack and Salesforce. But, man, what a perfect match of captive userbase softwares

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Sorry I missed this, especially as a mod of this sub. It was a great post, so I’m assuming all the good feedback below was helpful

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