Some good slide material (and even better further down this post) from [Wayback/Archive] Lou Creemers on Twitter: “Which of these software development books would you want? I loooved Blaming the User”:
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Lou Creemers on Twitter: “Which of these software development books would you want? I loooved Blaming the User https://t.co/VPEaaiOGId” / Twitter
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/24
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Dare Obasanjo on X: “If you’ve ever wondered why most business software sucks, it’s for the same reason as this cartoon…”
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/23
[Wayback/Archive] Dare Obasanjo🐀 on X: “If you’ve ever wondered why most business software sucks, it’s for the same reason as this cartoon. The person responsible for buying the software isn’t using it in the way the end users are.”
Google Lens found back the original 2019 Russia comic via:
- [Wayback/Archive] Who are we designing for?. Knowing your users and recognizing… | by Esteban Angulo | UX Planet (Original image from vk.com/piterskii_punk_wall)
- [Wayback/Archive] Взгляд снизу – ЯПлакалъ
- [Wayback/Archive] Does anyone know who drew this image? I’ve seen it in lots of places, but never attributed… : UXDesign
- [Wayback/Archive] Питерский панк | #комикс #стрип #comics #микрокомиксы #арт #art #draw #drawing | Instagram
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Malloy is an experimental language for describing data relationships and transformations (VScode extension).
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/23
This is cool!
[Wayback/Archive] looker-open-source/malloy: Malloy is an experimental language for describing data relationships and transformations.
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Jason Levin on X: “Jira marketing team was like “what infrastructure is as inefficient and frustrating as us?” and then puts ads on the New York City subway”
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/22
[Wayback/Archive] Jason Levin on X: “Jira marketing team was like “what infrastructure is as inefficient and frustrating as us?” and then puts ads on the New York City subway”
Picture via [Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON:
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Decodering van code uiterste verkoopdatum op groenten en fruit (via Joost Schellevis Twitter)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/22
[Wayback/Archive] Joost Schellevis on Twitter: “het blijkt geen algemeen gangbare kennis dat dit de uiterste verkoopdatum is. in dit geval: c = woensdag, 31 = week 31. (a = maandag, g = zondag. dus e40: de vrijdag van week 40). staat op veel voorverpakt fruit en groente. weet je dat ook weer.”.
Oh ja:
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AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect | Nature
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/17
LLM are just statistic text generators which depend on the texts they have been trained which and alleviating this usually makes things worse: [Wayback/Archive] AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect | Nature
Related:
- [Wayback/Archive] LLMs produce racist output when prompted in African American English
- [Wayback/Archive] AI worse than humans at summarising information, trial finds “A test of AI for Australia’s corporate regulator found that the technology might actually make more work for people, not less.”
Of course these issues are not limited to natural language LLM: artificial computer language LLM are also full of training issues that are likely very hard to resolve. What if covert organisations succeed poisoning LLM platforms with malicious code?
Via
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Kris on Twitter: “On a scale of 1-8, how pessimistic is your code?”
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/17
Interesting series of tweets about what to harden your application for in a reply to [Wayback/Archive] Kris on Twitter: “On a scale of 1-8, how pessimistic is your code? “Write code to provision a Google Chrome Extension for an end users Mac.”” which I saved to [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @isotopp on Thread Reader App (actually the scale is 1-9):
Extensions are stored in a 32 letter directory in the user profile in the Extensions directory.
i.e.
/Users/kris/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions/<32letters>
- The User has set up their Mac so that their home directory is not in /Users.
- The User has set up their Mac so that the home directory name is different from their login user name.
- The User has multiple user profiles in Chrome, so that the path is not
$HOME/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default, but some other profile directory.- The target profile is not “
Default“.- The target name is not a directory, but a symlink to some interesting system config file or directory instead.
- The target name already exists, and is a file, not a directory.
- The target name is a file, and has permissions set to
000(chmod a-rwx).- The file has an ACL that denies deletion to the user.
$ chmod +a "$USER deny delete" <32chars>- The file has been
chflags‘ed toschg(immutable; irrevocable, unless the machine is rebooted to single user mode).
The above idea was for Chrome Extensions, so the below links are relevant, but it could be extended to any installer use case.
- [Wayback/Archive] Apps und Erweiterungen automatisch installieren – Chrome Enterprise and Education-Hilfe
- [Wayback/Archive] Automatically install apps and extensions – Chrome Enterprise and Education Help
–jeroen
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Five Geek Social Fallacies – Plausibly Deniable
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/16
So relatable: [Wayback/Archive] Five Geek Social Fallacies – Plausibly Deniable
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Ian Coldwater 📦💥 on X: “It has come to my attention that there are younger folks who haven’t heard of Five Geek Social Fallacies. It was written in 2003 and the social dynamics stay real. Once you read it, you’ll see them everywhere.”
--jeroen
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Need to check out the Windows AutoLogonSID registry value and other autologon security features in Windows
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/16
On my list of things to look at via [Wayback/Archive] “AutoLogonSID” – Google Search:
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Accessibility Myths – debunked
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/15
[Wayback/Archive] Accessibility Myths has great debunks.
Quite a few of them are phrased with a web perspective in mind. That’s just because of prevalence. These myths are there on native platforms (mobile, Windows, MacOS and Linux) as well and can be debunked in the same way.
Similar myths are even there for real life: accessibility of buildings, signage, streets, you name it are just that and can be debunked with common sense.
An inclusive society actually is cheaper than a exclusive one, as it benefits everyone. The same holds for your software.
Related: [Wayback/Archive] Learn Accessibility | web.dev
Via:
- [Wayback/Archive] Accessibility Awareness on X: “When you make the pitch for accessibility, be prepared for pushback. There are several myths and misconceptions, so it’s good to be aware of what they are and how to dispel them.”
- [Wayback/Archive] Accessibility Awareness on X: “”Learn Accessibility” is a course that takes you through the essentials for building accessible websites and web apps. Created for both beginners and advanced users, this course can be taken beginning to end, or used as a reference for specific topics.”
--jeroen
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