rmuk @ rmuk @feddit.uk

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UK. 30 days plus Bank Holidays as paid leave. Also, we have a flexible working system where we can work additional hours to accrue up to five days' leave. Longest continuous period I've taken off was three weeks. It's also WFH four days a week.

When I was applying for this job I was offered - and accepted - a job at an American company which paid a few thousand more but didn't do flexi hours or WFH. It actually felt pretty good letting them know I wouldn't be starting and why.

Yeah, that was the "oh, shit" moment for me too. I bought into the bullshit until that point.

Centralised, monolithic online services. Even when they were 'good', I was leery of services like YouTube, Facebook and WhatsApp because they made no attempt to be interoperable or peerable. Two GMail users will have a richer experience emailing with each-other than they would with someone on, say, Yahoo Email or an Exchange server, but it would always work, eventually, somehow. Obviously we now have the concept of the Fediverse, but federated peers forming ad-hoc connections using an lowest-common-denominator protocol is the basis of the whole Internet.

You can use NextCloud as the front end for an SMB share, which is what I do. I can access all my file shares using a protocol designed for intermittent Internet connections, I can sync any folder I want for offline use and, because NextCloud support file rehydration, I can even sync folders bigger than my local disk and it will stream in the files as I use them.

Alchemy isn't real. What you just described can be adequately explained by Hawking Radiation.

I like it. The "progress bar" style fill is nice and clear, and it's so much better than having an icon with a number next to it. "BuT iT dOeSn'T lOoK LiKe A bAtTeRy" what, do you think your phone is full of AAs? A plain oblong is actually closer to the mark.

Can we acknowledge that, in hindsight, Mad World was some seriously trite, meaningless, two-dimensional bullshit? It's like the "you'll never understand me Mom" poetry of a fourteen year old who just discovered Hot Topic.

Yeah, if you're used to Microsoft servers and have a Microsoft network it integrates really nicely and is great to manage. Plus, it's free.

The LABiA pitches, the dinner party twats, the West Brom terror cell, the Daisy Harris murder inquiry, Ivan Dobsky... if anything, they've got better with age. Plus some, like Clive, are pretty timeless.

Did you ever see the movie? It's basically the creators bitching because they were shunned for the content while South Park was lauded because it came with a heavy-handed moral.

HEEEEEYYY Mister Passer-By! Crest-on-Birdman's-HELMET!

TGTTM is the beginning of a vast, graceful arc that leads eventually, inevitably, to Check It Out With Scott Clam.

Well, it was the best invention. Then, someone sliced it.

Roger's Profanisaurus calls it Wanker's Cocoa.

Yes.

Here are some complaints people have.

It doesn't use ActivityPub. So are we demanding that all applications use a specific protocol? Does that mean email, Matrix, the web, Nostr, Frendica, BitTorrent, etc aren't part of the Fediverse? Nostr, AtProtocol, ActivityPub, Diaspora are four popular, open protocols for federated social media - there are many more - and they're all part of a wider Fediverse.

It's owned by a corporation. Great! So if YouTube started to publish all their videos using PeerTube, that wouldn't count? If your local supermarket creates their own Mastodon instance and are active on it, is that a no-no? Does GMail not count as part of email, or Amazon as part of the world wide web for that reason? Are corporations not allowed at all? No-one is asking your opinion of corporate culture here.

It doesn't support federation. Yes, it does. Every part of AtProtocol is open source and free for anyone to implement, allowing you to create your own fully independent instance that fully integrated with both BlueSky and other, independent AtProtocol servers.

It's not open. Yes, it is. Fully open source and permissively licensed. Anyone can implement their own AtProtocol server, reusing as much or as little as they want. But AtProtocol does a lot more than ActivityPub, leading neatly on to:

It's too complicated. I see this complaint a surprising amount. AtProtocol's complexity exists because - let's be honest - ActivityPub doesn't provide any good way of discovering or searching. If you saw a load of fire trucks barreling down the street and wanted to know what was happening, a quick search on any AtProtocol relay will tell you if anyone on any instance has commented; ActivityPub doesn't work like that. Hell, it's hard enough to even find communities without resorting to non-ActivityPub services. AtProtocol's Relay Servers and Firehoses are demanding applications, but that is required for a true Twitter/Facebook/TikTok replacement.

So, yes, BlueSky is part of the Fediverse. Does that make BlueSky a good thing? That's a separate debate. But there are a lot of comments in this thread which amount to "no, because I don't like it" and it's important we don't let our personal hangups override our ability to be rational. Maybe instead of moaning about AtProtocol we should at least give a thought to why it's needed.

Eviscerating Sinister.

If you just want great scrambled eggs without adding anything else and can be arsed: separate the yolks and cook the whites to your preferred consistency. Then, turn off the heat and whisk in the yolks straight away. The residual heat cooks through but by cooking them less than the whites you get a lot more flavour.

Back in the days when you could dial numbers using the hook. Great for those taxi phones in supermarkets that had the keypad covered over.

Yeah, I wonder how robust an ereader and one of those solar phone chargers would be? I seem to recall English Wikipedia takes up about 5GB, so you could probably bring a good chunk of Project Gutenberg too.

Here's a good example of why you should read all the instructions before you begin. Also, if anyone reading this is planning in spending any time at the DeMonfort Vale Fisheries this weekend I'll warn you now: the fish are all fucked up.