In other reporting it did seem he was proactive in contacting the parliamentary authorities once he received advice on the donations. The spouse situation is tricky because his wife isn’t an elected official or even a political operative. However I doubt the donations would have been made of she doesn’t sometimes appear with her husband on official occasions.

Also the pearl clutching by the Tories is hypocrisy of the highest order given some of the stuff their members got away with.

Still it’s not a good look and hopefully the party officials are making sure other ministers are up-to-date on all declarations. You don’t want this to be the start of a string of stories.

Magic Wormhole - it’s been around awhile but it’s super useful for moving files from your internet connected server to your phone without going through multiple hops copying stuff to you local machine and finding a cable.

That’s how it starts. Before you know it you’ll be buying no-name smart bulbs from Ali Baba and investigating custom firmware for full local only control.

Very binary, much wow.

That was my thought at the time. There were multiple Brexit’s being discussed during the referendum. It was a recipe for no one being happy with the result.

If we ever decide to go back in I hope we’ve learnt our lesson and either make parliament make the deal and be accountable for it or a two stage referendum, in principle and then on the negotiated entrance terms.

Quite. Go to the big services that know how to moderate and maintain (and importantly pay for) a public square. But also encourage the interesting ones enable federation for wider coverage.

There are some advantages to algorithms for discovery - it’s certainly is more user friendly. It’s just a shame they tend to enshitify or become toxic. Bluesky seem to offer an API of sorts to plug in feeds you create. Perhaps open algorithms are more accountable?

They won’t directly support it because in their view the Google Play process is a more secure way of verifying they supplied the binaries than is possible of f-droid. If reproducible builds were possible maybe there could be some mechanism to verify a given binary is built from a given commit of the source tree.

Other way around. Loyalty cards have always been about getting that sweet sweet data about customer habits.

When did this change? AIUI creators got a larger cut of YouTube premium views compared to ad share.

I’m watching Voyager with my kids. Janeway is pretty bad ass given her position as the sole federation representative in the delta sector. We are however using a watchlist and skipping the filler episodes rather than going for the completionist approach.

My Organic maps has a download screen for the maps which regularly update outside of the app itself.

I think you underestimate how much storage those tiles take up compared to the vector map data.

The data updates are handled separately in app

Won’t it? I thought you just needed to enable the apps you want. My fdroid AntennaPod is certainly usable in it.

I’m very lucky that I get to work in an upstream focused open source job. But I also maintain a few small packages personally and those only get attention when there are contributions to review or I have a personal itch to scratch. I’ll leave enhancement requests in the trackers and just mark them as such and occasionally have a go at them if I feel the urge. No one not paying should expect anymore from maintainers.

It does seem more and more like she was deliberately trying to get sacked.

It’s super frustrating after several years of Stamers “ming vase” strategy the Labour party is managing to have a split over the definitions of ceasefire and humanitarian pause. Whatever motion eventually gets carried will have no actual effect on the ground in Gaza.

A couple I’ve enjoyed recently:

Kleo - an ex Stasi assassin adjusts to the fall of the Berlin wall and takes revenge for her betrayal by the state (German)

Extraordinary Attorney Woo - a legal procedural following the autistic Woo as she navigates the law and life. You wouldn’t think it was my thing but I found it very charming (Korean)

The Risa community seems by far one of the more participatory ones and their meme game is strong. But I am slowly seeing engagement go up on other subs. I’m patient.