What would you change in your life if you had guaranteed basic income for yourself and your family? What would you do if there was no requirement to work for money to provide basic needs?
@lgatto I think I’d reduce my work hours (probably do more open source sciencific software & hobbies), but worry about what UBI would do at social level and how long the upheaval would take to settle down…
@b0rk very clear, thanks. I might use this next time I try to teach git for The Carpentries.
Can you expand on the difference between the alternate ways to merge two branches? Beyond the picture I mean - is it just what branch is pointing at the merge-commit, or is there some asymmetry in the merge-commit wrt it’s two parents? TIA
Colleagues would like to open source a piece of software to support lab biologists. One option is to create a new org on GitHub; another would be to put the project's repo under another org to make it more findable. What are plausible options for the latter? thx
News flash that should surprise nobody: studies show that employees do not like #ReturnToOffice.
This is a down time for desk workers as it has become fashionable for large companies to shed as many employees as they possibly can. But the day will return when companies need to rehire, and the conversation around #FlexibleWork and #RemoteWork will become salient once again.
People who relocated away from expensive metro areas thanks to the pandemic lockdowns are now commuting in to the office for mandated RTO; they are not relocating back near their work. You can bet these folks are waiting for the chance to accept a remote position elsewhere when the market picks up.
@drahardja@failedLyndonLaRouchite@robby1066 Not as good perhaps (depends which you prefer), but with children, hybrid beats working from the office - e.g. can have one parent at home during school holidays
@chrisshaw There was me thinking Windows 11 was OK after macOS - but I am using it as provided by work specifically in order to access the Microsoft provided email (Outlook), office suite, file sharing (SharePoint) etc.
Can't say I'd want all that on a personal machine!
The Capita breach starting to feel rather seismic. Now they’ve finally admitted it, we’re seeing more and more notifications from affected companies, about what was actually taken, the quantity, and how little is going to be done about it.
Several offers so far of free subscriptions to various normally paid services for Identity protection services and… antivirus software (not even the good ones) - which to be frank, is fucking insulting.
What’s worse is that I suspect this goes way beyond pensions given the amount of pies Capita had its incompetent fingers in.