Yes, this is the way.

Sure.

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I don’t follow Meta services, but for the record, I think you’re talking about the EU Digital Markets Act and its interoperability requirements of gatekeepers.

https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/gatekeepers_en

https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/questions-and-answers/interoperability_en

A good tool improves the way you work. A great tool improves the way you think.

Or a projector, or a gaming console display.

Someone with undetermined/unknowable gender would use the pronouns they/them, never he/him.

We’re not discussing what someone would use for themselves. We are discussing what someone would use when writing about a hypothetical person.

If you believe that he or him would never be used in this case, then I suggest you do some research on the history of language.

Edit to clarify: And by history, I include recent history, meaning usage by people alive today, who learned it in school not terribly long ago.

Either a male person or a hypothetical person whose gender is unknowable.

None of what you claim was done in the document being discussed.

It isn’t a fucking “convention” to push women down

No, but choosing either the male or female pronoun when writing about a hypothetical person has been the convention for a long time, and using the male one has been the usual default for far longer than any of us has been alive. It’s not to push women down; it’s a grammar compromise, and is not exclusive English.

You are misunderstanding the language as it was used, and you have jumped to a false conclusion that seems to make you so angry that you think it’s okay to publicly vilify someone… for your own mistake.

I hope things get better for you.

Good day.

Certain forms of singular they are old, but the drive to make it the general convention when referring to a hypothetical person is new.

“Personal politics” is a vague phrase that generally just means someone’s views and priorities. There is nothing pejorative about it, nor in the way he used it.

In other words, Andreas insists the OS developer be referred to as “he/him” instead of not assuming gender.

The build instructions in question follow English language conventions that have existed for hundreds of years (and are shared by more than few other languages). All he did was decline someone’s proposed change that would have applied a very new convention regarding pronouns for a hypothetical person. This is not the same as insisting that anyone refer to anyone else in a particular way.

It’s also not unreasonable. We can ask people to adopt new conventions, but we don’t get to expect or demand it.

Change to a language takes time.

It’s textbook misogyny.

No, it is not.

I followed the links to see what he actually wrote. There’s nothing transphobic or misogynistic about it.

If you are referring to some other incident, then please link it so we can see for ourselves.

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Doesn’t Apple Contacts support CardDAV natively? These sites say it does:

https://sabre.io/dav/clients/ios/

https://devguide.calconnect.org/CardDAV/Client-Implementations/

I’ll never be happy about almost every smartphone user I know happily putting my personal details into their phone, which then sends them to the likes of Google, Apple, and Facebook.

I de-googled my phone and sync my contacts to a trustworthy server. I hope this will eventually be easy for everyone.

Well, look at that. The Kiwix offline reader is in Debian already, so getting it couldn’t be more convenient.

Thanks!

Is an archive of their repair manuals available for download? Would you mind sharing the link?

Unfortunately, that doesn’t help, since most DVDs in the world were not manufactured in the first production run.

No, it is not. I just scrutinized half a dozen DVD cases with a magnifying glass. They had copyright dates, but no disc manufacturing dates.

I wonder if the numeric codes printed around the hubs of the discs can be decoded into manufacturing dates.

How does one find the manufacturing date of the discs?