Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

The survey also found that remote workers were 23 percent more likely to say they have "a psychologically and emotionally healthy workplace," 19 percent were more likely to cite "high levels of cooperation," and 18 percent were more likely to say that people avoid office politics and backstabbing.

#RemoteWork

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/remote-workers-are-27-percent-more-likely-to-look-forward-to-work/

what do you call a tiny model of an alstom coradia train?

pocket lint.

Saw someone elsewhere assert that Britain is “one of the least corrupt countries in the world”, and couldn’t let that go unchallenged, so here’s what I said:

Only because of this one weird loophole, which I will explain below:

For the last decade, the previous government has been awarding public contracts for infrastructure, etc, to what are essentially shell companies run by their mates. These companies then do the bare minimum for as long as possible, which if you drive round the UK, is why you see all those road “improvement” works which do nothing and take forever and never seem to have anyone working. It took two years to replace a roundabout with a set of traffic lights near my apartment, for example. Other examples: large amounts of “PPE equipment” during Covid which turned out to be useless junk.

Obviously they aren’t actually spending anything but a trivial amount going through the motions, so what happens to the rest of the money, which let’s remember, was raised by taxes.

Well, it gets donated back to the ruling party as “political donations”, and then if the pretend contractor does a good enough job of this, they get an knighthood, or even a seat in the House of Lords for “services rendered”.

Now you might think that this sounds corrupt, and you would be right. It sounds deeply corrupt, but apparently it’s not because a lot of the global agencies which work out corruption indices are based in, checks notes, London, and are probably in on the scam, and get to define what “corruption” means, and define it to mean, “not this”.

Et voila! You have a country with one of the biggest wealth gaps in Europe funnelling vast amounts of public money to populist spaffers in government, all legal, laundered and sanitised.

The whole of UK society is like this. It’s how it works, and once you see it you either join in, or walk away in disgust.

Can I just say again to everyone in tech doing DEI: It is immoral and unethical to recruit women to a fundamentally unsafe environment

heat PSA:

get your meds into as cool and shady a place as possible, we're reaching temps that can render gels ineffectual for example

The fact Dwarf Fortress is decades in development shows that a great work can be a labour of years.
So don't beat yourself up if you can't manage something so great in the span of months.
Or something.
It's reassuring, in a way.

Language drift is an interesting thing. It used to be, twenty to thirty years ago, that "media" was just the plural form of "medium". Now "media" is its own (uncountable) thing and the plural of "medium" is "mediums".

1. hydrate yourself and others!

2. spend as much time as possible in the (indoor) shade!

3. give money to people who are unhoused!

4. try to account for your body experiencing heat stress when talking to other people or making decisions!

why is it that every time I go to a protest, I see the same faces?

is it because they are the only people rich enough to skip work? the only people white enough to avoid police violence? the only people cis enough to risk jail? the only people who can afford to post bail?

no, they are poor people, people of color, trans people.

so where is everyone else?

There is a realistic chance that Google's funding of Firefox/Mozilla through default search engine deals will be struck down by a court in the current antitrust case.

If that happens, I do not think Mozilla can survive financially on their own, at least not at the scale they are operating at right now, despite their half-assed attempts at "creating other revenue streams" over the years. I also question the maintainability of their existing browser codebase.

So. If you've been contemplating whether to start building a new browser engine... now's the time to start. This is your advance warning. Make sure it's one you don't need millions of dollars for to maintain.

It's going to take a while, most likely, for all of this stuff to go through the courts, so there's time. But building a browser engine is a big task, too, and ideally it should be started *before* things implode over at Mozilla.

chat i request the following from you:

information about dutch folklore/tales/myths/legends whatever, especially characters/entities from such stories (regardless of the region of NL it comes from)

i shall cook

Coole Aktion von #Rewe.

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