That’s a strange choice.

Don’t hate the player, hate the game. There’s a ton of evidence out there that whether you like it or not these kinds of thumbnails are effective at driving views.

Eh… I like Steve for the most part, but he does complain a lot on top of his reporting.

Awesome work!

So, I think you’re bang on here. The exports reveal that the info is included like so:

item1.X-ABDATE:20160302
item1.X-ABLabel:Death

My cursory searching tells me that this isn’t outside of the CardDAV/vCard spec per se, but that the X- signifies “extension”, aka basically, info that is being included but may only be read by apps that specifically know to look for it.

Now I need to decide if I’d rather have them show up as death anniversaries on my android calendar but not show up at all on my desktop clients, or redo those dates to be maybe a note or something though then they won’t sync to a calendar, or remove it entirely from the contact and instead just have it as an event on my calendar that repeats. Hmm…

Thanks for the idea though, it got me to look at the file itself which was very helpful!

Interesting, I hadn’t even considered that the apps could have been doing something other than CardDAV. I’ll have to look into this angle more. Damn shame if true.

That is, in fact, not the problem in its entirety.

The move to CGI didn’t require stealing the artwork of the matte painters. The move to mocap didn’t require raping the land of all its water. The move to either didn’t require all of the world supply of computing power, leaving it only affordable for the world’s richest. The move to either didn’t create a corporate circle jerk that the damn near whole world economy was propped up by.

I like your energy but direct it entirely at the companies, not the consumers. It’s the same kind of energy as big corporate convincing people that personal responsibility will solve climate crisis. It’s great to vote with your wallet but really we need regulation and policy that protects consumers against this shit.

This is an impressive snapshot of what is wrong with pretty much all discourse today. There’s a wonderful article presented here and you have very clearly only read the title, misunderstood it, and wrote a 200 word reply that is completely off base because of it. Then, at least eight other people at the time of my comment did the same thing except they just upvoted you.

To anyone reading this who did not read the article… Just read the article! It will take you five minutes. It will enrich your brain. This applies to all articles you want to comment on, not just this one.

Autocorrect strikes again!

I use whatever my OS came with.

Tell your representatives.

You either know something that I don’t, or your mistaken.

I can’t tell if you got it or not, so just in case, I’m pretty sure OP was making a Wii/Oui joke.

Microslop*

Non-competes often have a time period after employment, like one year or such.

Also use solaar, which works for my Logitech mouse.