Jeremiah Lee @jeremiahlee@librem.one

The Facebook SDK for the second time in less than 3 months is causing many apps to crash at launch. Facebook, once again, considered harmful. #DeleteFacebook

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23790089

Insightful article on user name UX and technical considerations https://lord.io/blog/2020/usernames/

I dare someone to change the MDN docs list to `["my parents", "Ayn Rand", "God"]`.

https://www.dictionary.com/e/s/serial-comma/?prev=t#6

The new `Intl.ListFormat` in JS gets so much right.

1. Serial/Oxford/Harvard comma is used for American English (en-US)
2. `en` behavior is that of American English, not British English

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Intl/ListFormat

I wish I knew the carbon offset of maintaining house plants because I really want to justify a €30/month plant subscription. #NoOxygenFreeloaders

The year of Linux on the desktop will be the year after Web apps supplant OS-dependent apps.

EU startup idea: Wirecutter for EU since none of its recommended products are available outside the US. #SthlmTech

Alrighty, let’s make this happen. If you care about this, tell this email list. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/vcarddav/FCjVznQHsmtPPLmv2z69OcxL8u0/

Now that I have watched #HamiltonFilm, I have canceled my Disney Positive subscription. $7 well spent.

IETF RFC nerds: how do we get `pronoun` added as a non-enumerated string to vCard?

Pronoun should be a standard field in our contacts apps.

“I’ve always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.” —Terry Gross

9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules Facebook widgets can be considered wiretaps #surveillanceCapitalism https://gizmodo.com/court-rules-facebook-widgets-can-be-considered-wiretaps-1844245159

TIL Securitas, the omnipresent rent-a-cop employer, is a Swedish company.

Sciences and liberal arts were not always separated. Not surprisingly, sexism and capitalism are to blame. #longRead

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/07/02/just-use-your-thinking-pump/

“I sense great confusion in you, sir, great confusion. Not because you do not know, but because you are afraid of what you know.” —Cassidy, Red Dead Redemption 2

My husband and I hiked from Stockholm to Tyresta National Park and camped overnight. We hiked further southwest today and then caught busses home because public transit here is amazing. Hike was tough, but glad we did it.

Not a single nurse at the Stockholm tick-borne encephalitis vaccine clinic was wearing a mask.

How many asymptomatic nurses are spreading COVID-19?

Who called it ‘mocktail’ and not ‘cocktease’?

Anyway, I am experimenting with Seedlip distilled non-alcoholic spirits because alcohol is a carcinogen.