French gonna french. I have always been fascinated by their engineering. There was this joke that Renault headquarters is 16 floors, on the 16 is the top brass, on the 15 are the engineers that design the cars, and the rest 14 floors try desperately to figure out how to assemble them.
For instance, the Library of Alexandria had up to 500,000 scrolls (which of course were all handwritten). And it was partly stocked by confiscating all the books from any ship that happened to dock in the nearby port.
I'd never heard of it either. A comment further down suggests it is Japanese.
Digging deeper, the kyu -- or Q for quarter millimeter -- is apparently a foundational distance measurement in Japanese typesetting, which is metric and operates on a millimeter grid.
It's probably the sanest adaptation of the point to the metric system. A traditional point is close to a third of a millimetre, but that's too weird.
Since the Q is close to 3/4 of a traditional point, it's also quite easy to convert from traditional multiple-of-three point sizes: 9 pt -> 12 Q, 12 pt -> 16 Q, etc.
Although it's even easier just to call those 3 mm and 4 mm!
- KeePass files synced between laptop and phone on OneDrive, DropBox, etc
- KeePassXC on Windows and Mac
- Keepass2Android mobile client
- Browser integration on mobile.
- On laptop, I prefer no browser integration; Copy username and password with Ctrl+B and Ctrl+C
Slightly off topic, I use KeePassXC on Mac and browser integration almost never works for me. It never picks up the usernames, passwords for me, even if the entry has the url in it.
It is if your country isn't in the US and (a) GDPR requires data residency in UK/EU; (b) you're concerned about capricious actions by the US govt cutting off access to US-controlled services (cloud, payments systems, etc).
There was an article in the FT back in March [1] with the headline "NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform while also advising company".
Amusingly, the person concerned has the surname "Swindells"...
As opposed to premature deaths from fossil fuel emissions, deaths of rooftop solar installers (surprisingly common), wars in the Middle East involving oil interests, drowning and environmental damage from dam failures, etc, etc.
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