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@variablepulserate You’re in good company! George Bernard Shaw endowed a huge reward for a better writing system in his will. It got spent fighting off greedy museums and such mostly, but still funded selection of a winner and a print run of Androcles and the Lion in the Shavian alphabet. The wacky thing is that stock OSs have fonts that support it - check out https://www.shavian.info/ and https://www.shavian.info/alphabet/.

(The creator of that, Kingsley Read, went on to do a more cursive v2 called Quickscript, or the Read Alphabet. It is not natively supported everywhere alas.)

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@joeo10 I’m always like, “Oh good they support 2FA! No good it’s just SMS only. And now they will nag me for all eternity before probably forcing me to adopt it. How about they fix their ‘12 chars max and use special chars but not THOSE special chars’ password restrictions instead?”

@matigo 🤦🏽‍♀

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@matigo I remember it by the colorful etymology of “as the ox ploughs”.

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@matigo kvetching: the true american pastime

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n-gate does it again with an excellent summary of all the Zoom panic this week [n-gate.com].

@matigo Cool. There’s so much buried in Settings these days, you never know what someone’s found or not. :)

I leave it on. I find the three finger gestures less reliable. But then I find myself fruitlessly shaking it because the app author decided not to make my last action undoable and there’s no visible signal whether you can or can’t undo. I bet it looks hilarious.

I didn’t realize the iPad had shake to undo though. That’s just ridiculous on the bigger ones. Like shake to undo on a laptop.

/@jextxadore

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@axodys Huh. Desktop Mac users get screwed along with the Android users. Wonderful.

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@matigo You can disable Shake to Undo under Settings > Accessibility > Touch.

(Its replacement since iOS 13 is a three-finger touch and hold to summon a floating bar that includes undo/redo, or directly swipe left with three fingers to undo, right to redo.)

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@peemee And the tie has since been cut: https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/03/27/zoom-use-of-facebook-sdk-in-ios-client/

/@sumudu @joeo10

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