cjblack
I love thinking about the impacts of tiny improvements at scale like this, might do some napkin math on it later and see if I can come up with something in the right order of magnitude.
I haven't tried, but what do these little TikTok, LinkedIn apps even do? I imagine they don't install a local version of LinkedIn to peruse, right? I don't totally understand how the economic incentive for MSFT and manufacturers can be high enough to make these actively user-hostile actions worth it.
Maybe I'm cynical or naive
I did notice that his site was renewed on 2022-06-09 16:56:27 UTC, although from a comment on Emaculation it appears that this is exactly one year to the day that it was last renewed, meaning it was probably done automatically.
If all the cash evaporated from my company's account, we were forced to declare bankruptcy, that's pretty much game over. The employees would be among other creditors figuring out their turn to pick over the remains. The employees may end up near the top of the list, but they wouldn't get to hold the C-Suite or shareholders accountable on a personal level.
They're contractually obligated to pay their employees, but that contractual obligation rolls up to the company level, not the people who run or own it.
I've found that our youngest employees are coming out of school with little-to-no knowledge of how to work spreadsheet software - even those who are otherwise pretty technically proficient.
While programmers tend to eschew tools like Excel, in consulting (or at least the consulting we do) it's critical to being able to understand how a process works before designing an automated solution. Excited to potentially have a way to share that understanding.