No idea. Picture it: Late summer, 1998.
I was working on the Jungle Cruise at Walt Disney World, and had a VIP group get on my boat with one instruction: no Brazilian guests could share the boat. Nice enough dude, built, good lookin’ dude.
As we moved down the dock to load the rest of the guests, a Brazilian tour group saw who was there and COMPLETELY LOST THEIR MINDS. Americans, including me, had no idea who it was.
Went through the ride, they got off the boat, left via the back way.
She’s very very safe here in Seattle, I can tell you that.
I can tell you that at least for stuff I work on, every single comment entered into those little dialogs is read by a human that actually works in a meaningful role on the product.
Comments that curse and complain with no topic in mind are useless, and easily ignored. Take two seconds and tell them exactly what is bothering you and what you’d rather see, and things might actually get better.
Anyone that gives anyone in the service industry less than a 10 on those support/delivery surveys is a cop.
Most contracts are through contract companies, who then employs (ala W2) the workers.
I could see all tech workers that work for these companies forming a union—that could make a real, honest change in the tech workforce overall.
Well, yeah, it’s Amazon
UESP is one of the best parts of Elder Scrolls games; forever may it reign
Pre-Eternal September.
I don’t trust Google with a goddamn thing, and Microsoft couldn’t get its shit together.
All the more reason to not reuse passwords, use a password manager, and turn on 2FA.
Bring back big Usenet!
I already learned my lesson when I signed up to the big Mastodon instance hosted on the other side of the world—found the second largest US-based server I could find, signed up there, rock solid so far.
I would if I could get anyone to fill my fucking prescription