friendlyHornet
I wonder if this tradition influenced Halloween in any way
Note: my family are Orthodox Christians from Jordan, but we celebrate this festival slightly differently than what is described in [0], but I know predominantly some Christian towns celebrate it as the article describes even today
I recently flew on long flight with Qatar Airways and their library is massive. Almost any movie, show or album I could think of was in there
It's a podcast where the host reads a soothing story she wrote where very little happens
Themes include a huge range of topics such as working in her garden, stuff she sees while hiking, preparing a gift for a friend's wedding, etc
The stories take placr in a village called Nothing Much. Each story is independent but there are recurring characters
I often fall asleep before the episode ends
Money. I want money. That's the reason I am applying to your job offer. I found a job offer that meets my skillset and I applied to it because I want an income.
But this isn't what you expect me to write, is it? You want something more, so I'm going to bullshit you so I can get the job that will allow me to get money
I am
- procrastinating less
- having less headaches
- coming up with more creative solutions at work
- being more attentive and present in social interactions
- ACTUALLY FEELING HAPPY AGAIN
I don't know how much of this is placebo, but ever since the corona lockdown started here in Germany, my sleep has been completely messed up. For the last two years, I felt like a zombie, like I was kinda living my life but not really there. I came to a point where I said to myself "I can't remember the last time I was actually happy or enjoyed anything".
So I've been trying to take better care of my health and fitness overall, and sleeping better is one of the thibgs I started doing
Facebook has already been found to be storing passwords in plaintext [0]
How can you trust them, or any other social media for that matter? Even if they do everything right, you are increasing the chance of giving your id to s service is that will get hacked by just giving it to more services
* [0] https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-passwords-plaintext-cha...
There is absolutely no chance that it will ever get leaked, misused or stored unencrypted
I don't know the reason it was removed but it was like a I was pinched and realised how little control I have over my favourite music.
The album is still on YouTube but I don't know for how long.
I bought the vinyl, even though i currently don't have a record player but plan to get one
I have to start preserving DRM free or physical copies of media I like. I always knew there was a risk of stuff being removed but always put off thinking about it for convenience, but not anymore
I really hope it doesn't get dropped; it is unreasonable to live permanently in a country without speaking the local language
There are other types of residencies available if someone is an expat and doesn't plan on staying permanently
And it's not like they're asking for a high fluency; with B1, you can barely hold a simple coherent conversation
But my cousin is doing an internship in Munich. She spent the past two months looking for an apartment and got rejected so many times that she started considering not doing the internship at all. She eventually found an apartment but it's a much smaller apartment than mine, while being triple the rent. Also wtf is up with those HUGE deposits? Almost every apartment she came across is asking minimum 2000 euros deposit, even unfurnished ones that are just a small studio that looks like a hotel room. It really was shocking to me how huge the difference is. And SOOOO many unbelievably entitled and outright insane landlords. One landlord even told her that she will rent her the apartment, as long as my cousin doesn't cook any meat in the apartment (and how is the landlord even supposed to check this?), while another asked to USE THE APARTMENT on weekends. So many strange things. Those are just two of the examples off the top of my head of landlords asking outright illegal things in exchange for renting her the apartment.
The password itself was generated randomly and I managed to memorise it (it took a while).
Elon is not a child, he is responsible for his actions.
Ever since then, I just can't unsee how inaccessible a lot of modern websites are, especially the modern fancy ones. I like to sometimes just test how easily navigable a website is with only a keyboard, how ready it is for screen-readers, color blind support, high contrast mode, etc
I know a lot of these are hard to implement and I don't blame developers for not bothering. But I do think it's quite sad, especially with how integrated the web has become in day-to-day life
I am no longer working on accessibility but when I am working on the frontend of my current project, I try to make it more accessible, at least for keyboard users and screenreader users, while trying to to spend too much time on so I can finish the issues planned for the current sprint, even though it is not a requirement or even a concern to the product owner.
Syriac script looks completely different to Arabic but has the same issues when rendered
The smokers in my class (thankfully I never smoked), use to use even more Axe to cover the smell of cigarettes after they smoke, but the funny thing is that we could still smell the cigarettes on them, but now it's mixed in with headache inducing levels of body spray
I really don't envy my parents for having to deal with that version of me, and I did so much stuff I regret.
My self-esteem back then was hair-thin; I use to obsess about EVERYTHING, from what I say, to how I talk, to how I smell, to how I walk, to the music I listen to, etc
Though tbf, the number of wonderful people was much greater, but I just couldn't take the negativity i was getting from a not insignificant minority of manchildren who have probably never heard the word "no" from mommy and daddy while growing up
That reminds me of the show Person of Interest