Post #7126 M: SOHO Debate: Did the U.S. provoke Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? ; New Rule: Newer, Not Better; Airport Searches, Wrong House Raided, and Gov't Not Paying Damages

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SOHO Debate: Did the U.S. provoke Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?

This may be my favorite favotie sOHO debate to be clipped to date. I always enjoy listening to Scott Horton, but Eli Lake was also compelling and I thought had the better argument

New Rule: Newer, Not Better

This bit is hilarious to me; usability is a topic i've written about in a major article and book chapter, and I've talked about some usability issues in technology in my Softdoc blog. I'll give one minor example here. I've used the Thunderbird email client since Microsoft desupported Outlook Express. (The successor, Mail,  at the time took forever to load if you had any big email folders, a good example of Maher's point.)  Thunderbird has its own frequent update process often applied after restarting the software. Quite often I'll find  one or more of my add-ons are disabled due to incompatibility with the new version client and it may take weeks for add-on publishers to catch up. Well, one update somehow flipped the display mode from the usual "table" thin mode to  thick label-like card mode. I really wasn't aware of card mode and wasn't sure how to Google what changed.  I went through menus trying to figure which option changed, like I occasionally have seen  my folder pane gone. Long story short, the top right corner of the email display is a toggle switch of table/card modes I eventually discovered playing around with the interface

Airport Searches, Wrong House Raided, and Gov't Not Paying Damages

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