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CCPA states that data is valuable and specifically calls out trading for "other valuable consideration" as part of selling.

Therefore (in my read) if your business is "giving away" data, it would inherently be for "other valuable consideration".

Especially since the law calls out 4 cases where sharing data is NOT a sale or valuable consideration: 1) When a consumer is sharing data with your business so that you can help them interact with a 3rd party business 2) Your business is sharing data to tell 3rd parties a consumer now wants to opt-out 3) Your business transfers data to a 3rd party to get a service from a service provider (and the data stops there, it can't be sold on) 4) Your business is acquired

Edit: typo, confusing sentence

Interesting. That is a separate experimental low-data setting that's been around for a while in Chrome, but isn't supported by Safari [0]. Haven't run across it before, thanks!

For low data mode specifically, looks like you can easily get "allowsConstrainedNetworkAccess" from an iOS app [1], but don't see anything comparable available for Safari or Firefox.

[0] https://caniuse.com/#search=save-data [1] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/712/

Edit: typo

The page load doesn't seem to change with "Low Data Mode" enabled on Safari (seeing ~30MB).

Does anyone know if there is a way to detect that setting from within Safari? Would be cool to provide a low-fi version of a page if that was detected.

Decided to put together a (hopefully!) more readable version of the legal text of CCPA.

Felt that the one on the .gov site [0] that was lacking even basic indentation was a bit hard to follow! :)

Not exactly light reading for a Friday night, so also put together a tl;dr if you are just curious what the new law covers! [1]

[0] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.x... [1] https://hq.services/blog/intro-to-ccpa

As a long time player of the game Taboo, I liked this. :)

Couple of thoughts: Nice that you didn’t force an account, but might be nice to claim the account to come back?

I’d work on the alignment of buttons and timer on mobile - things don’t stay centered with the keyboard up on my phone, rule button shows while done button is hidden

Decide if you want people to write a dictionary definition or a single synonym - either way is fine, but seems like some people just tried for one word, so I felt like I was cheating when I wrote a long clue

Make it clear if I am getting points from clues or answers - I saw below this might be because you have so many clues mine isn’t likely to be seen? Maybe just show a spot where I would see the points from those, that way it’s clear it’s working.

Anyways, fun game! Thanks for making!

Glad to see more innovation in plastic recycling. Reminds me of this interview about making medical devices from recycled plastic in Gaza[0]:

“Let’s talk about how your medical devices are printed on the ground in Gaza. 3D printers use plastic to create objects. Where do you get the plastic?

It’s recycled ABS plastic. Gaza actually has a 100 percent recycle rate because no plastic is allowed in.

Really?

Yeah, almost everybody’s plumbing in Gaza is made out of recycled plastic. It’s really quite wild. For the printers, we use recycled ABS and we mix in as much virgin plastic as we can get because you always need some virgin plastic — there’s no such thing as 100 percent recycled plastic — but sometimes it’s not very much.

Where do you get the ABS from? I’m imagining a bunch of plastic bottles.

You’re halfway there. Plastic bottles are made out of a material called PET. We don’t use PET; we use ABS, which is the plastic that’s in Lego pieces. It’s also in chairs and tables, picnic tables, shit like that. What happens is: you take those plastic parts, you grind them down, you wash them and dry them. Then you melt them and extrude them into spools of “filament,” which is what 3D printers use to make things...“

Article goes on to explain some of the machinery people are using.

[0] from https://logicmag.io/bodies/tarek-loubani-on-3d-printing-in-g...

ImageOptim also strips out a lot of (all?) the image metadata which is often a place people leak data unintentionally.

I like using storymaps to outline/manage projects. https://storiesonboard.com is a good collaborative tool for that or you can just use sticky notes on the wall if you are co-located. Here’s a blog post that explains the concept (he also wrote a book) - https://www.jpattonassociates.com/the-new-backlog. You might also want to check out Gantt charts (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart) if you have a lot of dependencies.

Seems like having more than one way to solve the puzzle could be fun. Next time you see if you can pick an alternate ending. Or providing extra “tools” to newbies that make the time pressure much more intense if you don’t have them the second time around.

Awesome, nice to see quick iteration!

This is really interesting. I've run into an issue finding qualified participants for user research studies many times. The companies focused on that space tend to be very businesses. Will take a look next time I have a survey!

A tiny thing I noticed on the site. If you change the estimated time on your "Study cost calculator" and hit tab, you are bounced down to the next section on the screen so you cannot see the results. I believe adding "tabindex=0" to the HTML on the result would solve this. I kept getting confused as to where the result went. :-)

Good luck on your project!

Edit: typo

Agreed! That story was an unexpectedly hilarious find in the comments. Direct link to that comment: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2019/07/23/my-300-mile-lyft-ride...

Confirmed issue - https://status.stripe.com. Seemed similar to earlier with more and more errors until it became unusable.

Looks like it is struggling again.

I think there’s a headline in there with the double meaning of “Save the web.” Something like... “Save the web. Polar helps you archive, search, and take notes on what you read online. Whether it’s the web-based documentation you need to keep that one piece of infrastructure running, that PDF for your dissertation research, or anything else online you’d like to keep your own copy of, Polar can help. Plus we think by helping people save their copy of the web, we can fix the web too. Learn more.” But with better examples from how your customers are already using Polar. I’ve been looking for an open source solution to this problem (basically, how can I have my own search engine built from things I’ve read) for a while now. I’m not ready to add a new tool quite yet, but am keeping an eye on this. Good luck!

That makes sense, thanks for the reply. I hadn't thought about low vision users using screen readers.

Very timely! I've been working on making a site accessible to screen readers and people who navigate via the command line. One thing I have been wondering is how often people who use screen readers are navigating with CSS/styles turned off. It seems like screen readers would work better without CSS (for example on semantically correct elements that are getting decorated with CSS), but I don't know if that is common or not. Anyone have any experience with that?

Neat! Happy it works on mobile web. FYI, there’s a short pause after getting a wrong answer that almost seems like the app is waiting for me to try again. Sadly if I tap during that moment, the ui updates and then I get the next one wrong too. Maybe hide or grey out the answers once you get a question wrong? Or as a sibling comment said, just show the extra info right or wrong. Thanks for sharing!

I recently wrote an article[0] about how I use my iPad. A few of my favorites are: I write in Apple Notes and Working Copy[1] (for markdown). I wireframe and do basic layout design with Keynote. Keynote is surprisingly good for this, especially because I can collaborate easily with other team members. I also use Procreate[2] for sketching. I do some server management (mainly connecting to a RaspberryPi I carry) using Blink[3].

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[0] https://medium.com/@headquartershq/how-to-use-your-ipad-to-d... (fyi: there are some links to products we carry in this article, all app links are non-affiliate.)

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/working-copy/id896694807

[2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/procreate/id425073498

[3] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blink-shell-mosh-ssh/id11567...

Thanks for the response! I can imagine how losing privacy would be extremely frustrating.

I played with an iPhone app[1] version for a while and was able to get moving pretty fast. It makes text input feel like a game. Also, I realized that a lot of the colors are customizable in the settings.

Looking into the project further, it looks like it was run by David MacKay's research lab (Inference Group) and he unfortunately passed away a few years ago. Will continue looking to see if I can find anyone still working on it. Most interesting innovation in input tech that I have seen in a while!

Do you use Dasher for coding as well?

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dasher-mobile/id1304772617

I checked out your site[1] and stumbled upon Dasher[2]. That is an amazing way to type! Do you still use it? I would love to think further about the typography and spacing to make it clearer, but curious what your experience has been.

[1] https://inventability.net/articles/reviews/dasher.html

[2] http://www.inference.org.uk/dasher/DasherSummary2.html

Sounds like you are looking at more automated solutions anyways, but if you end up making a backup from a Drive that is synced to your computer, realize you are only backing up links to google sheets, docs, and slides, not the actual files. In the case that those files disappear from the web your “files” will no longer open.

As far as I can tell, your only option is to export them in their native format (e.g. .docx) if you actually want the data. Learned this the hard way!

1,2: Awesome, excited to see the updates

3: Cool, sounds like you are thinking about this in a similar way. The one place where there might be issues is when using opacity, i.e. the color is defined in hex in one place and as rgba in another. I am not sure how to solve it, but might be something to keep an eye on. :-)

4: I did notice the history tab, and I think that is very helpful for seeing where an edit went off the rails. I was more meaning 2 completely different edits for the same page side by side. For example, here is what a page looks like with new-font-x vs new-font-y. Thinking about it more, maybe you could just import the page into your system twice? Not sure if you are preventing dupe URLs.

This is cool and solves some of the issues around staying organized when creating a final polish punchlist that come up, even when I'm doing the design and dev myself :-).

Couple thoughts -

When adding a new comment, I was surprised that mine became "1" which reflowed all the numbers. Seems like it would be helpful to append the comments so that the numbers stayed static.

Also, it would be neat if I could change the styles of all the similar elements at the same time. For example, when editing the .storylink class, it would be neat if I could choose to edit all similar elements or just that specific instance (like I can in the normal inspector). That would make it easier to preview my changes and make what I am trying to change clearer to the developer.

Another feature this brought to mind would be a way to preview all the colors in use on the page, kind of reverse engineering SCSS color variables. That way a designer could preview what changing orange --> green across all uses might look like before committing to it. The designer could also suggest a new color be added to the palette. In a dream world, this would also work for all font styles in use. Basically creating a reverse style sheet so you could see and consolidate minor differences. Maybe this is what you mean by style and component linting?

Finally, it would be cool to have "versions" or "groups" of the edits. We often debate whether we should go one direction or another, and being able to flip between a few options without fully coding a solution would be neat.

Cool project and good work!

TIL, you could subscribe to podcasts via RSS on iPhone via the Podcasts app. For those who also didn't know, you go to Library and hit edit at the upper left to get an "Add podcast by URL..." button. Interested to check it out, thanks!

I have been telling this story to UX designers since I first read it. Fun to see it pop up again, it's one of my favorites.

My favorite part of UX is getting to go on site to see people's workflows in action. An example that comes to mind was working on an early iPad app for EMS / first responders. They already had toughbook-style computers in the ambulances, but had lots of complaints. One thing we noticed immediately was that they couldn't use the computers when they were wearing latex gloves. They actually tracked vital signs by writing them on the gloves themselves and attempting to transcribe them when they got back to the computer.

A fast way to work around apps that can't strip formatting on paste: command+spacebar (open spotlight search), command-v (paste), command-a (select all), command-x (cut).

Not from Watsi, but I’m curious about this. Is there a link to learn more?