Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Joined March 2008
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Just found (well hidden in fcitx-configtool) that Ctrl+Shift+F switches between simplified & traditional Chinese in Google Pinyin + fcitx.
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On the other hand, I don't use bluetooth, and now I intend to make sure it's always off, and intend to avoid things that use it.
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I'm guessing they only bothered with the security update on top of Oreo... but the Oreo update has only been offered to some users.
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Given the major Bluetooth vulnerabilities announced yesterday, why is my supposedly-supported Nexus 5X lying to me?
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I think I spent a bit of time looking at the official advice about how to *write* the name of the OS, and mostly ignored how to say it.
OK, I misremembered. Found the Jobs keynote introducing Jaguar, and he called it "Mac O S Ten". youtube.com/watch?v=24jKGoA9…
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San Juan radar shows Hurricane #Irma passing north of Puerto Rico. Looks like the worst is staying barely offshore:
radar.weather.gov/radar_lite…
Hurricane #Irma Advisory 31A: Eye of Category 5 Hurricane Irma Passing Just North Of Puerto Rico. go.usa.gov/W3H
San Francisco broke its all-time (June 1874-present) record high:
old record 103⁰F / 39.5⁰C
new record 106⁰F / 41⁰C
Normal high 70⁰F / 21⁰C
Previous all-time record high in Downtown #SanFrancisco was 103 set on June 14, 2000. High so far today: 106! #CAwx #CAheatwave
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My to-read pile is distributed across a few ikea.com/us/en/catalog/produ… . (The price of the wood-veneer ones went up, though!)
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But part of the lesson of the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orovil… seemed to be that untested infrastructure might not work.
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Good updates on Addicks & Barker Dams: facebook.com/GalvestonDistri… . Addicks (but not Barker) starting to flow into auxiliary spillways @ ends.
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Though bugzil.la/237585 and bugzil.la/332636 were corrupted well after filing.
I first learned of this bug when I wrote a multi-paragraph bug report about editing non-BMP text with an example in Shavian near the start.
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Smallpox vaccine is pretty dangerous stuff:
fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsB…
(which is linked from cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/cur… )
So vote for politicians who want more government: higher taxes, more education, more health care, and more aid to those in need. (7/7)
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A good government is can also see and act on the big picture, e.g., by encouraging development to move to places that don't flood. (6/7)
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