I'm trying to pay my Virginia income taxes online, and they have disabled paste in any field of consequence. Paste in a password? Nope. Your bank's routing number? You're gonna have to hand-key that. Your bank account number? You better believe you're typing that in.
If you wanted to force people to create crappy passwords and cause them to accidentally siphon money out of strangers' bank accounts, this is how you'd do it. And somebody went to extra effort to make it be like this!
Awhile back on Twitter, I wrote a small thread called "Notes for UI Designers Who Have Lost Their Way". Recently @louie asked if I brought it over here yet.
Well, here is the original post. I'm hoping it will engender a great discussion as it did on Twitter, as these issues still exist.
I’m really sad that there are literally generations of people on the internet who think the purpose of the internet is to sell things/themselves to other people.
NYT: President #Biden's State of the Union address drew roughly 28 million viewers, exceeding last year's audience, according to early figures released by Nielsen on Friday. It's likely to end up as the second-most-watched of Biden’s speeches to Congress. #SOTU
Hey #retrocomputing nerds… I have a newton MP 2000 upgraded to a 2100 that I used as my laptop back in the day. The digitiser no longer works (ie, no tapping). What are my options for getting it fixed, and am I bonkers for wanting to try?
Apple has a history of buying a company, shutting down their products, then making crappier versions of what we lost. Sometimes they do that to their own apps! ::cough:: iphoto ::cough::
