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What happens to Spring and suite of family?

I think many people from the Global South would agree with you and not just Africans. That was also exactly my thought when i read the headline, even though he did nothing against …

>Many Ethiopians speak a Semitic language (Amharic) for reasons unknown to us. Amharic isn't the only Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia. We have other Semitic languages spoken bo…

Similarly, I can no longer browse HN on a Firefox browser on Android. I am not really sure what exact settings changed. This started a few weeks ago.

Now, i am also tempted to search this but will pass.

No it isn't.

I ordinarily use Firefox on my mobile devices. Now, HN feels all zoomed out and not easy to browse. I am not sure whether this is a setting change on my end but somehow convinced i…

For one to use WhatsApp to make calls, for example, one would need to provide it with permission to view the call logs without making WhatsApp the default app for calling.

The Guardian changes to the Gaurdian then to the Grauniad and then, finally, the Guarrdian. Innocent typos or there is some joke i missed. Edit: as per other comments this seem to …

owasp-change.github.io

Winget is a new thing in Windows one could use though sometimes it has issues.

A different pet peeve of mine on iOS is the USSD menu which is center-aligned, and i find that very ugly. Maybe the usage of this menu isn't universal but for someone from a develo…

Checked MySQL and i see almost everyone pronounces it as My Sequel. Well, with the exception of Marten Mickos, who was the CEO of MySQL before same was acquired by Sun Microsystems…

Might probably be corrected but his first name was Mehran rather Merhan.

Reminds me another short story i once read, Lexicographicide, by Taban Lo Liyong. The dictator, every year, eliminates certain letters from the alphabet, or was it words from the d…

Samsung has now decided that for me to use the camera on my Android phone, i must give full permission to something called Nearby Devices. Thankfully, i can live without the camera…

7. Rinse repeat.

A few times, I almost emptied some scraps on my plate together with a spoon or a fork directly into a rubbish bin. Since observing that, I have always wondered how many other spoon…

https://mobile.twitter.com/mmnjug/status/1472480938248617986

Sometimes this doesn't work like what happens on the desktop with Google, for example. English is my default language, and in country where English is also the official language bu…

I saw Kenyan police use it on a bus I was in. At the time, I didn't think much about it for being asked to alight the bus and be searched was already an inconvenience for. Not shoc…

Firefox has been my primary browser for years now. I mostly use Chrome for Gmail and other Google services. Typing this from a Firefox browser on Android. I also mostly use a small…

Romeo and Juliet, for those that may not get it.