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Some human called Liisa Direen on The Twitter:

I feel like the whole world is sick and somebody put all the dads in charge of looking after us, except for New Zealand who have a really cool mum and they all get chicken soup.

I think the first version of OS X I used was 10.3 Panther, on a Power PC G4 Mac Mini. In any case, I’ve set my current background to the 10.5 Leopard one from this trip down memory lane. It makes me feel… comfortable for some reason.

An email I recieved from eBay today:

We have an important policy message for you. However, your communication preferences are set up to accept text-only emails, so we couldn’t send it to this email address.

So… a message saying I have a message.

It then attempts to bully me into updating my communication preferences, and tells me I’ll have to go hunting around My eBay for the actual message they’re trying to send me.

Sit up and listen: email is plain text. HTML email has never been turned into a proper standard, and the current hacky implemetations all suck. Plus security, masked links, tracking images etc. etc. Start with a plain text email - which renders perfectly in every client every time - and then add an HTML MIME part if needed. And don’t make users choose which type they want to recieve - including multiple MIME types in one email is a standard.

The inclusion of HTML entity “’” in an intentionally plain text email complaining about plain text emails is particularly funny though, I’ll give them that.

Daring Fireball title:

Our Long National Nightmare Is Over: Netflix Makes Preview Autoplay Optional

Global nightmare Mr Gruber. Halle-bloody-lujah.

Fascinating project, but this is a spooky read.

Our expectation is that you didn’t need the definitions of software, computer, and other terms. We imagine you have computers of your own, probably vastly more advanced than ours, and possibly fundamentally differently architected.