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Additionally, the common pronouns (he, she, they) only really need a mechanism to tell a speaker which set to use - "he/his" is a label for a set, not the set itself.
For neo pronouns, I agree, it's probably best to lay them all out to reduce ambiguity.
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Does your grandma have printed out backup codes?
My grandma just creates a new google account whenever she gets locked out and it doesn't matter because she doesn't use email for anything important. I'm starting to wonder if she's the smarter one.
If a large percentage of computer users who use the library exclusively have ID, the library could purchase a MF device or cheap android phone running an MFA app and use the same device for every user or many users: show your ID, librarian verifies that you're registered, and then come over and log you in with key + username (user still enters password). Would it be possible for some nefarious person to grab these ke…
> This elderly woman, looked to be in her 70s, might lose the roof over her head, due to being unable to log into her Google account, because she lost her old phone and with it, her phone number. I think the real issue is outside of Google's reach. You shouldn't have to lose the roof over your head just because you don't have access to your emails. Sure, it sucks that Google doesn't care if these people lose their ac…
I dont think it is unreasonable for the 22 trillion dollar a year, 250 year old institution of the US government to solve the problem of why it is denying welfare to its own citizens.
Or maybe the US government monopoly should be broken up into smaller governments to foster a spirit of competition in the marketplace if it can't meet the needs of its customers.
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More than all the antitrust regulations being thrown at Google, I'd like to see regulators force Google to provide users customer support.
Customer support that has access to google accounts, that can give everyone telling a sob story to some customer service rep access to your account?
Maybe, just maybe, if people are sobbing, maybe there's a good reason why! And maybe, just maybe, if you don't want to receive such support, you can advocate for a system in which you could opt out of all such processes entirely, instead of arguing that any form of account remediation shouldn't exist.
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Maybe I should have mentioned I'm a programmer and a librarian, and my suggestion is one of tactics/strategy. I care more about getting the problem fixed than the writer's feelings not being hurt, and I think that things would be more likely to change if she'd written it differently.
sure, maybe you do get more bees with honey. or more often than not you never get seen. we live in a sad era where the only way to get real attention from large companies is to embarrass them in public. this is by their design. > I care more about getting the problem fixed than the writer's feelings not being hurt i don't really follow how the writer's feelings could be hurt in any case. you seem to have an odd persp…
That doesn't make me 'cringe^inf' or boil down my tactical critiques to '"she's not asking nicely enough'. I presumed you were attempting to call me out for tone policing, and usually the point of that call out is to protect the feelings of the person being critiqued. Or to prevent the person making the tone argument from making it for biased reasons, but as I am ALSO a female librarian, that doesn't really apply here.
> you seem to have an odd perspective on all of this.
Yes, I imagine I would. I differ from both HN's average readership and the average librarian enough that my views on things are odd. I also did some time in communications work and I can't turn that off either. It's like seeing poorly written code for me.
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She/her covers 3 of the 4 you mention, and the fourth form always ends in an s. So it's not really necessary to hit all 4 in a signature line. Additionally, the common pronouns (he, she, they) only really need a mechanism to tell a speaker which set to use - "he/his" is a label for a set, not the set itself. For neo pronouns, I agree, it's probably best to lay them all out to reduce ambiguity.
> he/his" is a label for a set, not the set itself.
I did not think of this. It makes a lot of sense.
More than all the antitrust regulations being thrown at Google, I'd like to see regulators force Google to provide users customer support.
Customer support that has access to google accounts, that can give everyone telling a sob story to some customer service rep access to your account?
They could preauthorize a random token amount on credit card with matching details, have you call the number on the back of your card to figure out that amount and then you have to input that number to authorize the access in an oath like flow.
Please tell me if you see something wrong with my procedure?
edit: I saw something wrong, I have forgotten about the vast unbanked population in the rest of the world as we don't have that problem in Canada¹
1) https://www.gfmag.com/global-data/economic-data/worlds-most-...