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@michal@sapka.pl
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I’m a little shocked that #germany is requiring workers to get a doctor’s note for any sick leave. It’s such an insanely high barrier for people. I’m sad to see such an important member of the EU go in such an anti-worker direction.
I can say as an American who has had jobs with that requirement, the result is “people come into work sick all the time”. Truly the sickest I’ve been in my life have been places that mandate that, to the extent that one of the two that did ended up rolling it back when an intern threw up in a trashcan in front of our largest customer.
@matdevdug this always seems so wild to me, there's such a wide gap between "too sick to work" and "sick enough to go to the doctor". 90% of the time I just lie on the couch and feel miserable for a day or two then I'm good. Why do I need to go out while I'm sick to find a doctor who'll say "yep you're sick!". I know that already.
@matdevdug @buherator Always has been that way. Most employers ask for the note starting at day 3, and I doubt this will change. What Merz is doing with the day 1 note rhetoric is virtue signaling his commitment to waging class war to his 1%er buddies.
@matdevdug
How much a US employer is paying a blue collar worker who feels ill and stays home for three days? How much such an employer pays the worker if they stay bedridden for a month? For three months?
@matdevdug Is a big problem in the USA. I've seen a sick worker come in and just sit there all day doing nothing. Well spreading whatever shit they have to co-workers.
https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/an-update-on-playstation-store-for-ps3-and-ps-vita/
Looks like it's finally time to dig up my old PS3 and look for a solution to run 'backups'.
Also, check if there's better or updated one for Vita.
Heh... :(
@michal That's what I meant. It's 2026 and I still have non-jailbroken PS3 somewhere. Time to fix it. :)
Sony is closing the PS3 and Vita digital stores https://www.theverge.com/games/960168/sony-playstation-ps3-vita-store-shut-down
@michal
I use local one in hope that's better at local prediction. I haven't seen any benchmarks to support that though.
@michal I go with https://www.met.ie/ in browser, or MeteoBlue on my Android smartphone.
https://www.meteo.pl/meteogramy?lat=50.0619474&lng=19.9368564
@michal may I suggest...#FediMeteo? 😆
Promo picture from #Commodore for their new flip phone.
Remember back in the 80s, when all our CRTs were widescreen? 🤦♂️
@82mhz Yup I still remember. We also connected stuff to the USB-A ports in the front of our 1541 floppy drives in that branch of reality.
Fajnie by było mieć w internecie miejsce do gadania o ogrodnictwie i tematach pokrewnych, ale żeby to miejsce było takie sensowne, bez artykułów sponsorowanych i tekstów "10 sposób na perfekcyjny trawnik"
Może fedigrupa? Nie wiem, ile jest osób zainteresowanych tematami ogrodnictwa, ale kilka widziałem. Sam bym poczytał ;)
@m0bi @Barbara_Sliwinska co jakiś czas chodzi mi po głowie założenie własnego forum :)
Super by było :)
Discourse daje radę, Flarum godne zerknięcia.
Ja bym jeszcze zerknął na projekt FediBook.net, tam też są grupy, jak fora, w tym zamknięte, a UI byłoby przyjazne dla osób w kryzysie Facebooka ;)
Bo w czasie gdy fora idą coraz bardziej w stronę federacji, może coś "od razu" w federacji?
btw, fedibook ma ciekawą architekturę, może Ci się spodobać do selfhostingu 😉
@stfn take młotek mi wyrzuca:
- ogrodniczo-działkowe forum,
- forum ogrodnicze oaza,
- forum ogrodnicze ogrodowisko,
- forum poradnik ogrodniczy,
- forum ogrodowe,
- forum ogrodnicze świat kwiatów
...na początek. warto przejrzeć, na ile tam ruch bieżący. obstawiam, że nie wszyscy miłośnicy roślin siedzą tylko na gupich fejsowych zaśmieconych ejajami grupkach itp.
@m0bi
Zaraz tam zakładanie. Dołącz do zlosniki.pl. Stare forum, utrzymywane przez kilka osób i chętnie przyjmiemy nowych userów bo trochę sie tam robi ghost town.
@stfn A nie wystarczyłby jakiś hasztag na Fedi? Osoby niezainteresowane mogą sobie odfiltrować taki hasztag, a osoby zainteresowane mogą obserwować hasztag, czytać i włączać się do rozmów. Gdzie wady? @m0bi @Barbara_Sliwinska
@stfn nie wiem czy takowe jeszcze są.
Ostatnio wpisałem zapytanie w qwanta jak długo gotować by otrzymać jajko na miękko i dostaje info na 3 strony
Dzięki wszystkim za sugestie <3
Mam takie zboczenie że moją pierwszą myślą jest zwykle "ale bym to selfhostnął", podczas gdy to nie zawsze ma sens.
Trochę mi brakuje starych forów i na początku myślałem o pójściu w tę stronę, ale inne opcje też są warte rozważenia.
Reddit odpada, bo wolałbym coś bardziej lokalnego, polskiego.
Fedigrupa brzmi dobrze, już jest sieć kontaktów i nie trzeba nowej infry. Hasztag też :)
Fedibook zinwestyguję, bo nic nie wiem na jego temat i jestem zaciekawiony.
zlosniki.pl obczaję, dzięki Szymon
Ciągle mam w planach wkręcenie się w szmer i ciągle to odkładam, więc może to jest dobry moment.
Tyle opcji, tak mało czasu.
@stfn A jakie #ogrodnictwo Cię najbardziej interesuje? Ogrody przydomowe? Ozdobne? Dzikie? Permakultura? Warzywnictwo? Zielarstwo? Ogrodnictwo na działce? Na balkonie?
@stfn A sprawdzałeś forum muratora? Może brzmi śmiesznie, ale dla mnie to było kiedyś najlepsze źródło informacji w kwestiach około domowych: remonty, wykończenia itp. Może ogrody tez.maja u nich własne forum.
Schools: Your children have to wear white shirts.
Also schools: Your children are having spaghetti bolognese for lunch at least once a week.
@Nickiquote kiddo came home the other week with grass stains. I never saw any grass when we went to pick her up.
@Nickiquote If it's any comfort, our school made us wear light blue shirts, and spag bol doesn't come out any easier 😁
I speak as someone who has found that steeping in stain remover for several hours does not touch the sides.
@Nickiquote From my decades of experience, I would suggest white wine.
It won't remove the stain, but you won't care anymore.
I think setting my handle as crmsnbleyd on all social media was a branding error by 13 year old me. I should've picked puppygirlhornypost
@crmsnbleyd this except I did sounddrill
My friends asks me what I drilled the night before... Okay that's a lie I don't have too many friends
@sounddrill what did you drill the night before
@crmsnbleyd when I was 14/15 I signed up on some iOS modding forums as iRaid3r and that followed me for years
@vindo you're free now
@michal crmsnbleyd is such a random word it's available most everywhere. Sometimes I use drewsclues
@crmsnbleyd @michal were you a bayblade watcher?
@crmsnbleyd @michal ah I didn't connect it to rpg. I can only think of he-man when I see blade :P
@viz @crmsnbleyd @michal WAIT HUH? IT WAS CRIMSON BLADE?!
I know this information is going to mean nothing to me in 2 minutes but wtf?! Why did I never make that connection
@sounddrill @crmsnbleyd @michal I see that you're not a mnmnlst yourself (or are not familiar w SMS speech)
@viz @crmsnbleyd @michal I can barely decode UwU text
@viz @crmsnbleyd @michal I grew up privileged 😭 talktime minutes were cheap enough to not need to bankrupt my kiddy balance
And I only really needed to call parents at the time
@sounddrill @crmsnbleyd @michal I was too young to experience such constraints but that style def leaked through to other areas such as fb chat. (Sometimes I wish we would go back to limited talk time and SMS count. There is a romance to them that is missing in unlimited packs and WhatsApp et al., and they will probably improve my sanity idk.)
"Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told lawmakers that open-source AI is moving down a “very dangerous path.”
His warns that once powerful models are released openly, companies lose the ability to monitor misuse, revoke access, or update safety guardrails."
@golemwire @michal Microsoft had some success with calling open source insecure for decades, I guess Anthropic Is deploying the same strategy for the open weights models.
@golemwire @michal
It's amazing how shamelessly these people can lie...
@michal I'm amused how one simple trick to check is a thing a propaganda or a bullshit — works incredibly well here 
Just replace the main subject with something other, already existing in our world, and if text looks like as an utter idiocy or hipocrisy — then the original is the same 
Like: "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told lawmakers that open-source OSes is moving down a “very dangerous path.”
His warns that once powerful operating systems are released openly, companies lose the ability to monitor misuse, revoke access, or update safety guardrails."
P.S. Sorry for a lot of emojis, but I can't resist to insert them here :-)
What are some good Markdown to Presentation software (No AI please)
I would like it to include diagram functionality too. Search engines keep suggesting bad stuff
@joel something along the lines of pandoc? https://opensource.com/article/19/5/convert-markdown-to-word-pandoc it also depends on how complex is your md and your template to fill
@joel here's a list of markdown presentation tools: https://gist.github.com/johnloy/27dd124ad40e210e91c70dd1c24ac8c8
Also iA Presenter (Mac only): https://ia.net/presenter
have been using it for multiple presentations already and once you're set with a template and a personal cheat sheet it really lets you be efficient!
diagrams would be images tho...
Consider using plantuml or drawing for that.
@joel Quarto is neat. Though it uses pandoc in the background, it has great default templates which you can change. Haven't used it for two years though, as I've switched to Typst.
As expected, #EU #ChatControl is back on the table.
Despite being rejected a few times by the Parliament already, despite the unanimous legitimate concerns of many groups of experts called to express an opinion on the matter, Chat Control 1.0 is going to be resurrected by the EU Parliament president Metsola, despite the opposition of her own political group.
I guess that whoever is lobbying to enforce mass surveillance on EU citizens must be paying very well.
Ruben's Retro Corner: Lotus Organiser
@michal
No kidding... 38°C over here. Unbearable...
@michal @John_Ligher @82mhz True, way worse. As far as I know it might reach 40°C and more in Vienna in the next days...