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Cake day: June 28th, 2024

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  • You would be correct: https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/1654458?ln=en&v=pdf

    At the 44th meeting, on 6 November, the representative of the Russian
    Federation, on behalf of Algeria, Armenia, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bolivia
    (Plurinational State of), Burundi, China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,
    Eritrea, Kazakhstan, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mali, Myanmar,
    Nicaragua, the Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Russian Federation, the Sudan, the Syrian
    Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Viet Nam
    and Zimbabwe, introduced a draft resolution […]

    At the [48th] meeting, the representative of the Russian Federation made a statement.

    Also at the same meeting, statements were made by the representatives of Kyrgyzstan (on behalf of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, composed of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan), Belarus, the Russian Federation and South Africa.



  • English needs a major spelling reform, but there’s no way to actually implement one. In order to match spelling to pronunciation, you would be to have a well-defined “high English” pronunciation.

    But any semblance of uniform pronunciation doesn’t even exist within the UK (or even just England), much less across the entire English-speaking world, including places like Canada, Kenya, Nigeria, Australia, New Zealand, India, and many, many more countries.

    And even if you somehow manage to create something (this is basically how “high German” was created, after all), good luck getting all the different governments to adopt the reformed spelling.



  • +1 for Home Assistant

    I have it running on a Pi 5 (although a Pi 4 is more then enough), with a 15€ USB ZigBee antenna from AliExpress (to connect IKEA devices).

    The best thing about it is that it seamlessly integrates all devices with each other, so you can use cheap ZigBee buttons to control your Philipps Hue lightbulbs, for example.