Instead of playing whac-a-mole with passwords, why not eliminate that avenue of attack outright? That’s our mission.
Source: Goodbye, passwords | 1Password →
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Over the years, critics and audiences alike have re-examined the film and found, like the ship itself, it is a bit of a wreck.
Source: Titanic at 25: like the ship itself, James Cameron’s film is a bit of a wreck →
It keeps mistaking skiers, and some other fitness enthusiasts, for car-wreck victims.
Source - My Watch Thinks I’m Dead - New York Times →
Finally, if you were subscriber to Twitterrific for iOS, we would ask you to please consider not requesting a refund from Apple. The loss of ongoing, recurring revenue from Twitterrific is already going to hurt our business significantly, and any refunds will come directly out of our pockets – not Twitter’s and not Apple’s. To put it simply, thousands of refunds would be devastating to a small company like ours.
Source - Twitterrific: End of an Era • The Breakroom →
I had missed to post this, but this passage was painful to read.
In general, what characterizes this phase of the tech giants’ development is a shift from unlocking user creativity and customer value to doubling down on surveillance, usually augmented by AI.
Source: Two ways to think about decline →
[W]hy do layoffs at all if they don’t actually work? “People do all kinds of stupid things all the time,” Pfeffer says. “I don’t know why you’d expect managers to be any different.”
Source - Why so many tech companies are laying people off right now - The Verge →
Cracks, like scars, tell a story. They are not only beautiful to look at, they are also lessons in survival and perseverance
Source - Scars are beautiful →
Customer satisfaction, though important, is not as much of a priority as customer demand — and getting your customer to crave a food item because they never quite feel satisfied after their last taste effectively establishes long-term and lucrative demand.
Source - Why are we addicted to junk food? →
Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the social media site against impulsive billionaires who wanted to use the reach of its platform for their own ends, and then one made himself the CEO.
They may seem the cornerstone of democracy, but in reality they do little to promote it. There’s a far better way to empower ordinary citizens: democracy by lottery.
Source - The Case for Abolishing Elections - Boston Review →