Posts from 27 September 2021

This week, our main story is the debate over whether companies (and employees) should be happy to disclose salaries, in an attempt to drive pay equality, a chat made somewhat harder by Neil's repeated inability to pronounce the word "equality". We get deep into discussion about our experiences with knowing (or not knowing) how our colleagues are paid, companies and countries who we've seen get the balance right, and the challenges of introducing salary negotiations in the job-hunting process. But there's more! We'll also be talking about a secret new privacy-shattering setting in Chrome which is enabled by default, and bemoaning the lack of accessibility options in some modern games (and championing others which lead the way). You'll also hear what we've all been up to this week, including a top quality J-Lo story from Sanj, unexpectedly relevant election news from Neil, and Gwen basically doing everything under the sun. Plus there's an awful lot of Diablo II discussion for a podcast which isn't from the year 2000. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Start   02:02 The Stand-Up   14:43 Social Engineering   21:46 This Week's Epic   44:00 News Bytes   52:22 Competition Time   53:09 The Wash-Up LINKS DISCUSSED THIS WEEK: Incident.io Ministry of Testing: Test.Bash() 2021 YouTube: Neil's Continuous Quality with Postman session Jamie Tanna: Providing a Public Salary History page GOV.UK: Equality Act 2010 Blind social network YouTube: Kevin Goldsmith: How does Salary Work? (LeadDev 2019) The Verge: Apple keeps shutting down employee-run survyes on pay equity - and labour lawyers say it's illegal The Register: Google emits Chrome 94 with 'Idle Detection' API to detect user inactivity amid opposition IGN: Deathloop's Lack of Accessibility Options Is Disappointing Players Tweet thread from Courtney Craven (Can I Play That) outlining Deathloop's issues