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by digitalengineer 7y ago
So (to quote Woz): “a lot of Artificial and not a much Intelligence”?
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A lot of it is manual, but there is this handy chrome tool to catch the obvious problems: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wave-evaluation-to...
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> I don't know that a check box is a check box if it's only styled to look like one. ...a crime against humanity. Please style your elements and use alt-text, people.
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Is it? Everyone needs to read in order to learn and communicate. Websites (especially those on mobile) are hard to read. That makes information harder to understand. Sadly even the website mentioned here displays a tiny body text... which m
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I just posted this in the WCAG Facebook group and found out there’s this as well: https://www.texthelp.com/en-us/products/equatio/
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I think the people in former Yugoslavia and also the Middle East would love to see the army pick up after itself. Especially the depleted uranium ammunition turns the areas it was used in into a wasteland. I remember a British researcher pu
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by digitalengineer 7y ago
Relevant: “Consumers are becoming wise to your nudge” https://behavioralscientist.org/consumers-are-becoming-wise-...
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This. That is why people here prefer to go at it together. They’ve been joining forces for centuries to battle the water. (Next to the Afsluitdijk is the “Oude Bildtdijk“. It was made in the year 1500.
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by digitalengineer 7y ago
There is a Blue Energy project on it: https://deafsluitdijk.nl/nieuws/de-9-meest-gestelde-vragen-o...
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> They can't run Google Analytics for the visitors that don't check this box I don’t understand. They can. Just anonymize the ip. You can track all their activities. Am I missing something?
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Interesting question! FaceBook Alt Text feature is an after thought at best, so I imagine they never thought about it.
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Within 72 hours According to GDPR I thought? “ The GDPR introduces a duty on all organisations to report certain types of personal data breach to the relevant supervisory authority. You must do this within 72 hours of becoming aware of the
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by digitalengineer 7y ago
I’m on mobile, so I can’t check if you’re already using this technique, but you could always use the anonimize IP function. This way the last 3 numbers of the IP data will not be send through the Google Analytics script. More info: https:
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by digitalengineer 7y ago
The GDPR requirements are not that hard to follow. Yes, it takes time to audit your tech stack and website, but small companies can certainly get it to work without paying thousands of dollars. Tools like this one (It was just $49 bucks) he
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The website ‘Gata’ kept logs of a lot of the weird buying/selling behavior on the precious metal markets and reported about this and other rigging activities for over a decade: http://gata.org/
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Yes! Came here to say this. The f*ckery is indeed that. The near-miss makes it addictive. Logic and learning has nothing to do with it. I could not say it any better than how the game developers themselves say it: "“being the only good
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by digitalengineer 7y ago
Even worse for google image searches. Every search is invested with Pinterest results you can’t see without signing up...
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by digitalengineer 7y ago
This. Please spend a little more time on the css. And a somewhat bigger up/downvote arrow would be great. I don’t have fat fingers but still accidentally click the wrong one every now and then.
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Not in the article, but in the book it self: there is also the function of combating superstition! Lots of people believed incredibly dangerous things. Such as cutting of the (arm or) hand of a new born (and carrying it when you attempt to
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by digitalengineer 7y ago
Then ban advertising of ANY kind for tabacco-related products. No cool kids or influencers, no flashy magazines, no outdoor ads and so on.
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by digitalengineer 7y ago
> the government will lose its discipline We don’t have to wait several decades for that. The dollar lost about 70% of its value since the ‘70’s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar
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Then why would it make sense for a country like say China to build up massive (largest ever) hoarse of good? https://tradingeconomics.com/china/gold-reserves
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by digitalengineer 7y ago
So if gold is the only real money (and everything else is just debt)... What does gold’s year-long rally this year tell us?
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Yes, when you’re a whistle blower (no joke). http://www.againstchildtrafficking.org/2018/06/roelie-post-t...
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Thank you, a great story. One man trying to find the ‘code’ the universe was written with and discovering important parts.
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Perhaps because the generation making the laws are baby boomers? (And don’t want to loose their access to their cars?) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/17/generation-soc...
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In the forth quarter of 2018, 46.89 million iPhones were sold worldwide. That's just the iPhones. Wouldn't it be great if products from Apple were easier to repair or upgrade instead of encouraging consumers to buy the latest mode
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Looks like a large part of India could really use some advice from this book: https://basecamp.com/books/rework
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Too bad lawmakers must first experience the problem themselves, before they spring to action. I believe support for healthcare problems and modern-day solutions (such as s embryonic stem cell research) would benefit from showing more passio
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Not required. All Apple needs to do is allow the purchase of said item through your "Apple account". The retailer won't know who exactly bought what, neither will your bank. (In the Netherlands the banks are going to sell the

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