Does #tories latest bad idea include a #cure for #longcovid or any of a thousand other debilitating conditions?
Of course not.
Luckily I don't have to claim #benefits as I 'languish' at home with #trigeminalneuralgia after 7 yrs training to get my #job. But just like those who have to claim, I'd jump at the chance to have my #health & #working life back.
More than any other #Government, this one is so deluded they all think they're #medical experts.
My fiance is still at #work. I thought I'd be diligent and cut some #firewood with a wood splitter. Oh that was #hardwork! The wood kept getting stuck in the cutter blade (branches made cutting difficult)! I had hit the wood with the poll of an ax to get it loose. I had to change all my clothes after 45 minutes because I was so sweaty. #working#suomimastodon#finland#countrylife#superwoman#workout
In a new Social Science History paper Magnus Bergli Rasmussen investigates the role of political parties in the regulation & reduction of working hours in Norway 1880-1940. Analysis of parliamentary debate & voting confirms class & rural/urban differences shaped party preferences for reform. https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.18
Seriously, how can I ever go back to life before AI?
Running gh copilot suggest "Squash the last 5 commits into one commit" spits out git rebase -i HEAD~5, which I'm knowledgeable enough to know I need but not knowledgeable enough to remember off the top of my head.
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A rare, intimate setting with the Iron Maiden legend.
Related to a previous post about Thunderbird collecting 6.4 million dollars in 2022 and KDE only 200k, I’m wondering why people do not donate or do not donate more to KDE....
I donate periodically to KDE, but my major gripe is that I don’t know where the money is going. They have no financial reports that can be easily found
this is because giving money individually to a KDE subproject is a lot of logistic and unless the project is big and receive a lot of money, the amount collected for the individual project won’t be enough to do anything meaningful for the project. But we had a trial with Kdenlive specific fundraising, which worked reasonably well last year so maybe we will see more subprojects specific fundraising in the future.
there’s no public tracking of their income or expenditure like on opencollective
yeah aside from the graphs in ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2022/#working-groups_ we don’t publish detailed logs of every single transactions as they contain private details like how much our contractors are getting paid. KDE e.V. is a registered non-profit in Germany and the tax offices is very vigilant that nothing weird happens.
it’s not easy to find KDE devs (aka who is actually on the KDE team) so that one could sponsor individual devs
This developers accepting donations often have this info on their website. It’s also possible to find KDE related people on liberapay liberapay.com/search?q=kde
I can’t find KDE’s financial report, but in a video I watched it was claimed that Thunderbird collected more donations than KDE. It seems quite hard to believe, but in 2022 Thunderbird collected more than 6,4 ....
I always wonder if the people who write job postings realize that "fast-paced, dynamic environment" sounds like code for "chaotic, messy workplace with loads of pressure". I feel like some of them think it sounds cool, and so they put it in, even when the workplace actually has things under control. But I see it and I think, "Do I even want to apply there?" — and I'm sure I'm not the only one. #jobhunt
"Fun work environment" <- Our CEO or loves talking at the staff during our monthly in-office afternoon tea. You better have a damned good excuse not to attend the "fun"!
"Tasks include report writing" <- The CEO is too dumb to find the sales figures in our CRM system. You'll need to regularly, manually copy and paste them into a pretty PowerPoint slide deck that he'll probably never look at.
"Multitasking" <- We'll make you do the work of three people.
"Fast-paced" "tight deadlines" <- We overload you with tasks with unreasonable deadlines. There's no way you can get this project completed and signed off by everyone before the end of the week. We'll expect you to have it done by the end of the hour.
"Managing offsite teams" <- We outsourced our business processes overseas. You'll have to clean up the mess.
"Staying on top of market trends" <- Our CEO looks at the ways other companies in our industry enshittify their products or gouge their customers and says "let's do that too"!
"Agile work environment" <- You'll be micromanaged using daily standup meetings, JIRA, and kanban boards.
"Engaging with consultants" <- The CEO is being paid a five-figure salary to play Solitaire on his PC. Actual management decisions have been outsourced to KPMG. You have to deal with them.
"Some manual data entry" <- All the data is already in our core business systems. Unfortunately, management decided it was too expensive to pay for a Zappier integration to move it into our e-commerce platform, or for enough IT staff to set it up. So you'll need to input it manually, or else everything breaks. We'll hold you personally accountable for any errors.
"Supporting legacy applications" <- Our critical core business systems were originally written for a VAX machine and a Z80 system running CP/M. The people who wrote them are long dead. There's 40 years of cruft code. None of it was documented. They somehow sort of interface with the obsolete SAP and Oracle systems we picked up through a long-forgotten merger.
Data integration? Well, Anne from admin uses a Visual Basic front end to manually download a spreadsheet, which she then uploads into a Salesforce system that some of our departments switched over to during a failed IT transformation project 10 years ago.
Oh, and some of our backups are on Bernoulli disks in the cupboard. If by chance you see a working OS/2 machine pop up on eBay, make sure you bid for it.
Oh, and if there's any downtime, your job's on the line.
I'll try to be at work tomorrow for hiisikoloART and reply emails, work on commissions, and all that jazz.
However, if I am not replying or seem to be still off this week it's because I am going to start new medication for chronic pain tonight and don't know if it is going to give me side effects that halt my ability to work. If the issues dont pass in a week or so, I'll go off the meds and just deal with pain so I can work.
I wish you all an excellent start to a new week. Mine is at this moment fucked. :) Joint pain from hell. I am sneezing and coughing. My kids had it last week. You could have set the timer.
does #anyone else hate that #work takes up like 90% of your #life and you literally are always #working and have to form plans and important things and even seeing friends or eating meals around work. it's always just work. im spending my life just being At Work. i don't have time for hobbies or for seeing friends bc it’s always Work. like two days off a week isn't even enough because my days off aren't consecutive so i just spend those days exhausted or doing errands or house chores. there is not enough Time. all the time goes to Work. WHY IS LIFE THIS WAY. #humans were not meant for this
They realized the #pinkwashing wasn’t #working and instantly shifted gears into literally dressing and acting as hateful gay #stereotypes to make a #video basically just saying #lgbtqia+ #people are terrorist loving antisemites and posting it to the official #israel account. that was so fast
Why don't you donate (or donate more) to KDE?
Related to a previous post about Thunderbird collecting 6.4 million dollars in 2022 and KDE only 200k, I’m wondering why people do not donate or do not donate more to KDE....
Is it true that Thunderbird collected more donations than KDE?
I can’t find KDE’s financial report, but in a video I watched it was claimed that Thunderbird collected more donations than KDE. It seems quite hard to believe, but in 2022 Thunderbird collected more than 6,4 ....