Offtopic, but the site is super annoying - auto playing video, and even when you pause it, it restarts automatically on scroll. Shouldn't fortune.com know better?
This bullshit is a growing problem on sites all over the Web. They deliberately disturb coworkers, wake companions, and otherwise grossly disrespect their readers.
COMPLAIN using any feedback mechanism available. Google, which has decided to "punish" certain types of sites, should drastically demote any that use this offensive garbage.
But then, Google perpetrates hypocrisy all the time. They announced that they'd punish non-moble-friendly sites, and yet their own mobile pages DISABLE ZOOMING on mobile browsers. WTF? They deliberately disable a crucial browser feature that has been standard for almost a decade.
Interesting. I just tried brave against this link (with a few reloads) and it said it blocked 22-24 ads / trackers. UBlock Origin on Chrome blocked 44-50.
Interesting. I use uBlock Origin for Chrome on my iMac, but most browsing I do is on my iPad, so having Brave ready to go with its ad blocker is a must some days.
To be fair, with the macintosh they went completely the other way. You could customize/translate and do many, MANY things with just ResEdit, and many 'power users' did just that...
To be more accurate, ResEdit was a tool for developers. It wasn't really designed for the user to tweak things, but of course that's how things eventually happened.
It's interesting to see Randy write, in his memo from 1979, whom he thought would be most competent to break the protection scheme: "should Steve Wozniak, Dick Huston, Andy Hertzfeld each take over 1 hour to break it?" (page 6). Andy Hertzfeld is primary author of folklore.org and one of first ~5 or so people in the Mac team (and was also a friend of Randy), but who's Dick Huston? Well it turns out there is only one story on folklore.org mentioning him:
Later in the day, I talked to Dick Huston about what had
happened. Dick was an early Apple programmer who had written the
boot ROM for the disk controller card, who was an astute observer of
Apple politics and was friendly with Scotty.
Tangential anecdote about Randy Wigginton: At a previous internship at Square, I was very pleasantly surprised to see him commenting on my design document. He really is super cool.
Side note, if these notes were stored on a (possibly copy protected) floppy disk, or on a 1980-state-of-the-art hard disk it would have been very improbable hat they coud have been discovered ...
Relevant: A lot of the documents reference the "SARA" project, which was the code name for the ill-fated Apple III. The Apple III was aimed more at the business market than hobbyists, which is probably why some of the discussion about the copy protection mentions how it doesn't have to be as effective against "experts" (business people are less prone to researching how to pirate stuff than Apple II hobbyists).
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But then, Google perpetrates hypocrisy all the time. They announced that they'd punish non-moble-friendly sites, and yet their own mobile pages DISABLE ZOOMING on mobile browsers. WTF? They deliberately disable a crucial browser feature that has been standard for almost a decade.
[0]: https://brave.com
Interesting that Apple saw this as a problem that long ago.
It's interesting to see Randy write, in his memo from 1979, whom he thought would be most competent to break the protection scheme: "should Steve Wozniak, Dick Huston, Andy Hertzfeld each take over 1 hour to break it?" (page 6). Andy Hertzfeld is primary author of folklore.org and one of first ~5 or so people in the Mac team (and was also a friend of Randy), but who's Dick Huston? Well it turns out there is only one story on folklore.org mentioning him:
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...That same story also has Andy working on disk diagnostics.