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Whether the labor market is weak or strong, taking away conditions workers value carries a cost for employers: higher wages or the loss of the most mobile workers. Bosses have been very slow to work this out.@johnquiggin Corollary: those of us who are more mobile than average, are obliged to exercise that privilege. -
I would love to do a piece of research where you present Europeans with a list of other countries and ask if they're white or not, because I'd be *fascinated* to see the results by country.@stavvers If it wasn't this, Eurovision would just be a collection of forgettable songs. -
i think masto should let me schedule a toot@Alexis Am I allowed to advocate for Friendica here? That's crass, right? Shit. -
Mind you, I too have signed an NDA whose existence I can not acknowledge, by the terms of said NDA.@mpesce Is there any legitimate use of such a clause, which might mean we shouldn't just ban terms like that outright? I mean beyond libertarian "people should be allowed to sign any contract they want" nonsense. -
Raw Milk Enthusiasts Demand Milk Infected With H5N1@mpesce Sigh. <Goes back to edit the dictionary entry for "avoid like the plague" AGAIN> -
TIL the term "soft skills" refers specifically to the ability to lead a troop of men into gunfire.TIL the term "soft skills" refers specifically to the ability to lead a troop of men into gunfire.
I, uh, do not have those.
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You know the early humans who lived in Europe 25k years ago? The ones with stone tools who carved thicc portable woman statues?@mckennas I didn't mean it that seriously. I just like the idea of a bunch of people taking one look at glaciated Europe and noping right out of that. -
You know the early humans who lived in Europe 25k years ago? The ones with stone tools who carved thicc portable woman statues?@llewelly @futurebird @mckennas Australia was fully populated by 25kybp, millions of people. Probably makes sense for a species that evolved at the equator to hurry on through Europe as quickly as possible 🥶
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eurovision"The Fuck England Flag was originally known as the Transgender Pride Flag. However, in the early 21st century it was increasingly adopted by..." #eurovision -
What the...What the... what? Who came up with the idea that dark grey text is more legible than black text? More importantly, how is it that every single google result sagely backs that up? Just... what?
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Secure Encryption has long been discussed as a possibility in the <a class="hashtag" data-tag="fediverse" href="https://social.wedistribute.org/tag/fediverse" rel="tag ugc">#Fediverse</a>. Now, one of ActivityPub's co-authors is looking into making it ...@hello I wonder whether MLS/RFC9420 and the work of the MIMI working group can/will be incorporated into this? It would be cool to E2E message Matrix users from an AP account.
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Are there any software #testing frameworks that support testing outcomes other than PASS and FAIL?@J12t @philip The testing mantra is, every test should test just one thing, and I don't see a good reason to depart from that rule here. If there are two things that can go wrong, run the test twice. Efficiency shouldn't be a concern at this point of the pipeline.
"Degraded" doesn't really say anything actionable to me as a developer or a user. I'd be better off just looking at a straight percentage of failed tests, and diving into the details of the ones that "fail". I'd certainly much rather have a clear yes/no answer to each individual question.
I certainly wouldn't choose my testing framework based on the requirement that it doesn't just pass or fail. Best to treat your difficulty in finding such a thing as a message.
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What a weird article.@johnquiggin @NewtonMark Actually kinda still reeling from the news that people fly from Seoul to Busan at all. Perhaps we could convince them to just take the train FFS and donate a few of their spare airlines? -
Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, GermanyLübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany -
What a weird article.@johnquiggin @NewtonMark I'm also conditioned to accept that Australia is just too small a market for more than two airlines. So I wondered if I could find any other markets with healthy competition on only three heavy routes. From Wikipedia, maybe Korea is doing better? Australia only has half the population, but is much more reliant on air travel, so it seems a legit comparison. Is there something Korea is doing well that Australia is doing badly? Are there other examples? -
Latest #FOSSAcademic post: "Decentralization or Noncentralization, Bluesky or the Fediverse?"@rwg It's nice to see a mention of Relays as the defining design feature of Bluesky. I would argue it is even more important than Tenor or Twilio. You can remove those two and the network will still function, but that's not true about Relays.
I would offer Matrix as an example to challenge the decentralised/noncentralised distinction. It's still very much centralised around Element. But they make their money selling entire networks to governments, promising to deliver "digital sovereignty". It's not easy to unilaterally "alter the deal" when your customers have, at the end of the day, nukes. So it is possible to irrecovably decentralise and become noncentralised.
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Fehmarn, Schleswig-Holstein, GermanyFehmarn, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany -
This apparently touched a nerve; I had no idea. Check the comment thread.My own major gripe with passcodes is that I could never find a simple straightforward explanation of what they were and how they were to be used. I have a decent understanding of ...@timbray The problem, visible in this thread and elsewhere, is that nothing anyone ever says about passkeys is reliably true. It "may" be true. It may be "typically" true. It may, "for example", be true. If you make an objection, someone will always explain how your worries are unfounded assuming one particular set of coordinates in that vector space. But none of that lets you conclude "ah, I get it now, I will use passkeys from now on", because that explanation will bear no relation to how it actually really works on the 100 real websites you have to use.
And this, of course, is because any conversation about technical behaviour is an irrelevant, probably deliberate, distraction. The real conversation is about power. And the power to decide which "may" actually happens lies with the tech giants, not with you.
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Article vs. Note vs. Page@pfefferle @julian @nutomic After the last conversation I saw, I was movitated enough to write a whole philosophical treatise on the subject: fedi.exon.name/2024/04/21/conv…
The conclusion I came to: Mastodon is probably more-or-less doing the right thing by refusing to render articles, but perhaps it would be nice to have a pop-out view for reading them. Friendica and Wordpress, however, would do better to give authors explicit control over the post type of each individual object.