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Any meaningful UX testing in 2023 needs to account for ad blockers and password managers.

If your site or app doesn’t work with popular ad blockers, or it refuses to allow logins pasted in from password managers, it’s broken.

Yes, some executive type will want to argue about this because they think ad blocking will go away or they misunderstood some now outdated infosec guidance. They’re wrong. Users use ad blockers and password managers and if your stuff doesn’t work with them, it’s broken.

—@tommorris

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Just saw a blog post about someone just… feeding tons and tons of personal information into a GPT4 model for personal assistant purposes and I don’t get it. I just don’t get it. It doesn’t matter how many times we shout the dangers of not caring about privacy from all the roof tops in the world. People just don’t care. What’s the point. Gah this is so damn demotivating. OpenAI even tells you that they’ll totally use that data and you shouldn’t give it to them. You have to click next like 5 times before you get to the point of being able to do that very thing. And people still do. This is why we’re losing. It’s actually insane.

—@talon

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Congrats to Bob Zeidman, who just won $5 million from Mike #PillowGuy Lindell by proving that Lindell had nothing but fake data to back his claim that the 2020 election was stolen.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/05/26/my-pillow-mike-lindell-investigation-00097903

Zeidman voted for #Trump twice. But he did a good thing and made this good point:

“If more people sought truth, even when that truth is contrary to their beliefs — such as when a #Republican like me destroys a Republican myth — then I think we really can save #democracy in America.”

—@petersuber

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The cashier/barista at the café where I sat and worked yesterday was a trans woman.

I didn’t feel any Satanic vibe in the café or smell sulfur. I heard no nearby children declared their intention to become trans, nor to my eyes did any suddenly engage in “sexualized” behavior.

I guess I need to develop my radar for the presence of evil.

—@jjgass

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Which multi-million-dollar-funded overlay company is out there testing bugs with display properties in browsers, tracking results, pressuring browsers, monitoring the spec…

Or maybe their overlays are fixing this for their customers by removing display properties dynamically and replacing them with something else? And not bragging about it?

Just a reminder that accessibility overlays do not give back to the community, let alone fix problems. Overlay makers are a parasite.

—@aardrian

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danielle kefford (@quephird@queer.party) (Queer Party!)
My hot take is that Target, and any other organization for that matter, that decides to do something that promotes/supports/celebrates marginalized people needs to anticipate potential backlash, _and_ plan on continuing that support when it happens. If they aren't prepared to do that, then they shouldn't do so in the first place, and they aren't real allies. They're merely opportunists.
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The term #Algorithm is Al-Khwarizmi translated into #Latin

The #scientist & #mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi lived from 780 to 850 AD in Persia & #Iraq.

Also known as the father of #algebra,
Al-Khwarizmi’s #book, “Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing” introduced systematic methods for solving linear & quadratic equations.

Using letters as symbols to represent unknown quantities, lay the foundation for symbolic algebra.

#Islam #Muslim #science #math

—@EgyptianAphorist