@steveportigal đ Oh you even read the Swedish post(!) Good example of something I wanted to have time to translate to English.
I am becoming somewhat better at just letting go of stuff. đ
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@steveportigal thanks Steve, I've made some good progress this week. The op was on Monday. Today I was able to walk a bit (ever so slowly, but still) without a walker. On Tuesday I couldn't walk at all.
I'm at peak hospital experience as I lay alone in the rehab center bed, just taken my pain killer for the night, and am watching Aussie Pickers followed by Aussie Gold Hunters.
Min öppna hjÀrtoperation har gÄtt bra. Jag Àr oerhört trött men förstÄs ocksÄ oerhört tacksam. Jag hÀnger pÄ KS i nÄgra dagar till och sedan pÄ rehabcenter i cirka en vecka. Jag blir sjukskriven ett par mÄnader för att trÀna upp styrkan och lÀka ihop.
I söndags, kvĂ€llen innan operationen, skrev jag den hĂ€r texten. Oavsett upplevelse kan jag inte undvika att prata design. â€ïž
https://axbom.se/hjartoperationens-logistik-och-therblig-moment/
@cgruenloh Thank you. đ
@mapto I'm expressing how designers used the book, not how Steve intended it. Hence "designers used" and "backfired".
But yes, it's more of a word play post than anything else. đ
In 2000 Steve Krug wrote a book for web designers called "Don't Make Me Think".
With an intent to make the web easier to use, designers used the book's recommendations to help users think less, removing the need for anything resembling rumination over different options.
This fostered a behavior of, you guessed it, not thinking.
And here we are.
Wow did that backfire.
Note that I don't place blame the book. It's a fun and easy read. It was just a little too successful.
On a more serious note, a book that I believe truly contributed to the digital messes of today is Hooked, by Nir Eyal.
https://axbom.com/nir-eyal-habit-danger/
@brand Det Àr verkligen surrealistiskt hur dessa dödsfall viftas bort.
@johanc Tack Johan, och notera att den finns pĂ„ svenska ocksĂ„ đ
https://axbom.se/ai-arbetsblad/
The âAI Trial and Evaluation Worksheetâ is a result of listening to managers and practitioners struggling with expectations of integrating AI into their work.
Often this happens without any structured evaluation at all, and without expressing expected outcomes(!) Which of course is ludicrous.
The worksheet applies a classic structured approach to evaluation and forces teams to also spend time on considering system effects and experienced losses.
https://axbom.com/ai-worksheet/
@callisto Would it be okay for me to quote you in my blog post? It's a really great quote đ
"I thought to myself, that's not the kind of viruses I used to worry about catching in a public bathroom ..."
@simonrjones @Edent And needing to educate people on the fraudulent dangers of queuing was not the digital future I was hoping for back in the day.
We're adding a lot of cognitive load.
@considermycat Exactly this. đŻ
@callisto Ha ha, well put.
@h5e @ansuz Yes, and in the case of the queuing system I mention, they use a 3rd party provider so the app provider url is something completely different than the care provider url... and this still doesn't make people think twice.
And don't get me started on payment gateway urls... people just trust any form fields where your credit card number is asked for.
@DrVeronikaCH I actually haven't, but I've had it recommended to me before! Will add it to my Kobo reader đ
It's called quishing when a criminal gets you on the hook via a QR code and you hand over personal information such as credit card details, passwords and your home address.
There are many hooks in our everyday environment today.
QR codes are found in hotels, gas stations, museums, restaurants, medical centers and many other places you trust. It takes a second for a criminal to cover a QR code with his own sticker. How would you tell the difference?
Via the fake QR code you are guided through a flow that feels like what you expect. It's just controlled by someone with nefarious intent.
The German magazine Auto Motor Sport reported earlier this week about how this affects gas stations. https://per.ax/autoqr
Imagine scanning a QR code at a charging station to start charging your electric car. You enter your credit card details and press start. But the charging doesnât start. Because you just gave your card details to a criminal who put their own QR code sticker on the charging station.
A clever criminal will perhaps display an error message on the web page and redirect you to the real supplier, enabling you to start charging for real. In which case you may not even notice that money is being covertly withdrawn from your account until much later... or blame the charging supplier who is completely unaware...
But of course it doesn't just affect charging stations. It can happen anywhere.
Queuing systems at sampling locations increasingly rely on QR codes here in Sweden. Let's say a criminal covers this code with their own. You will arrive at a page that asks if you want to join the queue or pay the patient fee of 50 kronor in advance. You may know that you do not have to pay a patient fee. But does everyone know that? Maybe some will bite and pay.
If you join the queue, you will be directed to the correct queue. So not much to react to. And if you have paid the 50 kronor, you will then also be led to the correct queue.
The fake QR code can therefore go undetected for a long time.
As a company, do you know if someone perhaps has already covered your code and is quietly using it to create intermediate flows that steal personal data, or money? Do you have routines to check this? In some places, fake QR codes may live on year in and year out. Like a dripping data leak.
QR codes are in many cases a really, really bad idea from a security and privacy perspective. And it can be a real setback for your brand if people are duped on your premises. Or on your products.
So, do you encourage people to scan, or do you warn?
If I see a QR code in everyday life, I also see many ways to intercept and abuse it.
How did this vulnerability appear just about everywhere? It's as if QR codes have completely gone under the radar of security departments.
I will restructure this post for my blog/newsletter later, but didn't want to wait with my warning, after seeing the clear example from charging stations.
@steveportigal Incredible. Had not expected it to be this good.
Watching Good Will Hunting for the first time. Yup, the first time.
Well, I loved it. I feel like films arenât made like this anymore. The dialogue is some of the best Iâve experienced in a long time. Sure, some of it is certainly dated, but it came out 27 years ago.
As a Robin Williams fan itâs kind of wild for me to have missed seeing it for all these years.