Its a british thing. If a company wants to lay off a large amount of employees, they have to go through a process called consultation. This obliges them to sit down with your trade union rep (if you have one) and tell them why your job is being cut.
Not sure how much difference it makes in practice, but at the very least it guarantees a 40 day period between announcing redundancies and actually firing people.
He’s resigning but contesting the resulting by-election.
I guess the logic is that he’s about to get suspended, which would likely trigger a by-election anyway, so he’d rather do it in his own terms.
Funny thing is that winning this self-imposed by-election doesn’t necessarily stop the recall election from happening shortly thereafter. He’s just as likely to get suspended if he wins again, and it still only takes 10% of the electorate to be pissed off with him to trigger it again.
Maybe he’d win both contests, but I could also see the people of Clacton deciding that he’s become a liability and opting for e.g. a Restore candidate instead.
Honestly I’m wondering if this is his way of trying to make an exit but saving some face and blaming the establishment?
I had no issues when my domain was registered with GoDaddy. It was shortly after switching to porkbun that the issues started. Porkbun blamed nominet and nominet blamed porkbun. Not sure what actually happened, but it does seem related to nominet’s policy about who can hold a .uk domain
Nominet manages the .UK domain, and they’re a bit funny about proof of residence. Not sure I had to give Porkbun any photo ID, but the did temporarily suspend my domain. Took forever to clear up.
IMO the moral if the story is avoid ccTLDs (though now I have it I’m sticking with it for as long as I can).
Its a fair point, and well explained. However, I think it implies that illegal immigrants are fine so long as they’re not more criminal than the general population.
Generally if somebody is using crime statistics to argue for more immigration control, they’re probably the kind of person that believes the only acceptable amount of crime for an illegal immigrant to commit is zero crime.
To be honest, I’m starting to drink the Sourcehut coolaid here. We have a distributed method of interacting with repositories: Email.
Don’t get me wrong, the current user experience of email-based patches and discussion isn’t great because it’s too easy to send a badly formatted patch. But if we invested time in making email patches easier to use (e.g. sending them through a web ui for people who prefer github style PRs) then we could skip all the architectural pains of solutions like forgefed.
Appreciate the sentiment but can we please stop proscribing things? Surely we should have learned by now that this has an unacceptable effect on freedom of the press and the right to protest.
I do not want to see proscription become a cudgel wielded by successive political parties to ban support for any organisation they oppose.
MacOS Requirements: 💵💵💵
Debian 13.
Tried open suse, but on my laptop it was slow and loud and the battery would die almost instantly (had to make it hibernate rather than suspend if I wanted it to make it through the night).
Installed Debian 13 and it feels like a new laptop. Not sure what exactly made the difference between the two but I’m not complaining…
I was referring to the text at the bottom of the press release:
By signing the petition you take a stand against a false narrative that downplays Africa’s vast size and diversity as the second-largest continent, reducing its perceived importance in global politics and economics. You can correct the narrative.
It seems to single out Africa because this campaign is led by Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa. I just thought it was amusing that the campaign text mentions Africa repeatedly but only indirectly mentions south america when referring to the global south.
Firstly, I do think that projections which enlarge Europe and north America relative to the global south are a problem and every curriculum should include education about how this happens and what the world really looks like.
But also, kinda funny how this project is very specifically about fairness for Africa. Why not include south America in there too?
To put this into context: Labour currently has an estimated 300,000 members, a figure which seems to be declining rapidly. (Its hard to get exact figures since they stopped publicising them…)
Obviously there’s a much lower barrier to entry here, but for that many people to be that engaged already is frankly astounding to me
Witcher 1 really has old-school difficulty syndrome. Getting past act 1 was a nightmare for me, then somewhere around late act 2 the combat became trivial and I could just stunlock everything.
Its actually GNU image manipulation program, so pretty much.
Or “Green Is My Pepper” if you ask RMS…
Just to lob a controversial thought in there: There may be some challenges the game industry faces that aren’t solely “capitalism bad”. The most compelling one I’ve heard is that, as games as a medium they have to increasingly compete with a growing back catalogue of classics.
Between that and the rise of indie games, it gets increasingly risky to invest in large projects.
(To try and preempt some comments: I am not saying that investors are “right” to pull out of the games industry. I just want people to consider whether the problem, and hence the solution, is more complicated than they first thought)
Guy Fawkes wanted an absolute monarch beholden to the Catholic Pope. Just because someone wants to tear down a bad system, doesn’t mean that they actually want a better one…
There’s a river Foss that runs through York. Brings a new meaning to sending patches upstream…
Yeah, I’m leaning toward this option tbh.
If we got to the point where popular machines had custom images with all the necessary extra drivers etc, it might be a value add. But for now I’m not seeing a huge benefit
Yeah, thinking I might have to do something similar to start the services after login. Unfortunately they need to run as root, so it’ll be tricky to avoid having a second password prompt every time I login
I dont get why they didn’t just call that update 11.0? Or use that for this update?
I guess if you’re changing the semantics of your version numbers its also a good idea to introduce a deliberate discontinuity to mark the change?