Gloria
@Gloria@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Trump expected to sign order designating English as the official language of the US 4 weeks ago:
Not russian?
- Comment on The UK will neither confirm nor deny that it’s killing encryption 4 weeks ago:
And for that feat, UK will not rejoin the EU for another decade. This is a very undemocratic move the UK is doing here.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype 4 weeks ago:
Well, bad news for your skype-faucet. Water will stop running in Mai.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May. 5 weeks ago:
Some nostalgia: Skype Ringtone
I’m instantly 20 years younger when I hear that sound.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype 5 weeks ago:
They are not killing Skype, they just now bury the corpse. Skype died by malnutrion and bad parenting by MS a decade ago.
- Comment on US consumer watchdog drops case against Capital One over cheating customers 5 weeks ago:
Consumers Watchdog becomes Billionaires Labdog
- Comment on Microsoft tests ad-supported Office apps for Windows users 5 weeks ago:
Of course they do
- Comment on The hardest working font in Manhattan – Aresluna 1 month ago:
Very long, but crazy well made presentation of the topic. Facinating.
- Comment on Why do so many email apps add calendars? 1 month ago:
I think this is mostly by the creation of WebDAV
WebDAV began in 1996 when Jim Whitehead worked with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to host two meetings to discuss the problem of distributed authoring on the World Wide Web with interested people.[4][5] Tim Berners-Lee’s original vision of the Web involved a medium for both reading and writing. In fact, Berners-Lee’s first web browser, called WorldWideWeb, could both view and edit web pages; […] The WebDAV working group concluded its work in March 2007, after the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) accepted an incremental update to RFC 2518
and the further devlopment of CalDAV
The CalDAV specification was first published in 2003 as an Internet Draft submitted to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) by Lisa Dusseault. In March 2007, the CalDAV specification was finished and published by the IETF as RFC 4791, authored by Cyrus Daboo (Apple), Bernard Desruissaux (Oracle), and Lisa Dusseault (CommerceNet). CalDAV is designed for implementation by any collaborative software, client or server, that needs to maintain, access or share collections of events. It is developed as an open standard to foster interoperability between software from different vendors.
Since then email and calendar are closely related in protocol and handling. You send invitations via email and the same service is able to handle and hold(!) reseverations/events. Software-wise It comes for free, but many developers had to suffer great pain to implement or debug *DAV (until this day).
- Comment on UnitedHealth updates data breach impact to 190 million people, nearly doubling previous estimate 2 months ago:
There ain’t no “You”, in UnitedHealth
There ain’t no “Me”, in the company
There ain’t no “Us” in the private trust
There’s hardly humans in humanity
- Comment on 'ELIZA,' the world's 1st chatbot, was just resurrected from 60-year-old computer code 2 months ago:
Is this the program that was mentioned in Century of Self?
- Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money? 2 months ago:
It is a mental desease. If I hoard umfathomble amount of newspapers, I would be called a messi. If it is capital wealth, someone is a genius. They collect to fullfill an emptness in themself. It is a delusion. It is never enough and only the continiues ammassing can give them the feeling of success and control. Consumption as a Stimulus. It is not about the amount, it is about the growth. The way you took to the next number/amount. Distancing yourself further from the others. While getting confirmed by enjoying, what many can not affort. Wealth is the main storyline that is understood by every generation and culture around the world and is a globally accepted metric for desire and standing.
There is no Endgame. But a good perspective for them would be something like Elysium, while for us it is more like Gattaca - at best.
- Comment on US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies 2 months ago:
Weapon of Mass Distraction.
- Comment on what exercises work for you to avoid back pain? 2 months ago:
Using a real wooden Chair. For 20 Years now, I use a normal wooden chair for my PC Work instead of a office chair. If I want to turn around, I (my back) does it, not my chair. If I want to get closer, I do it, not my chair. Up? Down? Change sitting position. I have no scientific proof, but I feel like moving my own body, finding positions to sit and moving around on it did better to my back than sitting motionless in a padded office chair swiffeling around while my back degraded further and further. At least my office-chair-colleague around me constantly talk about back problems and then go and buy an even more expensive office chair where they even have to move less. But you want to move more, not less for your back to not deteriorate
Buy a chair where you yourself move with your back, not a chair that prevents your body from moving. Also, switch between standing and sitting multiple times a day if you can. Keep Moving. Keep those joints and muscles in motions.
- Comment on Russian food prices are soaring — but no one dares blame Putin and the war 4 months ago:
Ultimately, the goal of our sanctions is to make this a strategic failure for Russia. And let’s define a little bit of what that means.
Strategic success in the 21st century is not about a physical land grab of territory. That’s what Putin has done.
In this century, power – strategic power is increasingly measured and exercised by economic strength, by technological sophistication, and your story – who you are, what your values are, can you attract ideas and talent and goodwill. On each of those measures, this would be a failure for Russia.
Daleep Singh, 22nd Feb, 2022
Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics
- Comment on Anger in Taiwan over reports SpaceX asked suppliers to move abroad 4 months ago:
Trump said at one point that he would not come to Taiwans help if China attacks. With the stagnating chinese economy, China has 4 years to attack Taiwan without the US intervening. Musk tries to move his supply chain out of Taiwan before China makes the move.
