Mark and his wife have a baby, so he is also looking to escape the travelling life. S has some conflicts at home along with the issues that come with the job, so she's attempting to change both at once.
I have not yet spoken with K or Kenny or Steve or Carlos or ... . I will probably just send a goodbye e-mail blast to most of my co-workers.
β² @clacke@libranet.de: Manager: I'm trying to set up my phone so I can receive work emails. Did you get it to work? Me: Never even crossed my mind to try. Mgr: Why? Me: Because then I would receive work emails on my phone.
Since I'm rearranging my life, I'll be quitting $EMPLOYER pretty quickly. I had intended to wait until I have a replacement, but I think it is better to change everything at once and walk away now.
I had a nice evening yesterday at the offline at the KDE Plasma 6 release party https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/. Guess the most important thing is, that the cube and wobbly windows are back π₯°
Not that I really used it in the past, but I remember having it active during some Linux presentations and it was always an eye-catcher to have to show off the capabilities of this other OS that is for free and runs on old hardware.
He was concerned about the strict rules that most major Mastodon sites have, so I pointed out that he isn't limited to Mastodon. I also told him that there are some wide-open instances, but that they tend to attract some vile people. It is probably best to find an instance with rules that are "loose enough" to let you be yourself but strict enough to kick those vile people out.
I'm not a fan of dictatorial admins, but if you don't have some sort of rules, you get nicecrew.digital or poa.st (or left-wing equivalents of these right-wing sites).
One could easily wish that these extremists (right and left) would be exiled to some island, where they can torment one another but cannot contact the rest of us.
With all that is happening, it is quite difficult to force myself to do these courses every day ... but I try my best to participate in both of them (and some #Udemy courses that I paid for in the past) despite the obstacles. I'm nowhere near 100% successful, but I'm doing my best.
It's just the greatest when you add automation, it's impossible to get any of the affected people to verify that it's working correctly and helping them, so you just have to move on and hope that they'll contact you if anything's wrong.
... and then three years later they tell you btw, that thing you added made things worse because it did 70% of the work and we've been manually canceling and redoing the work ever since.
"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
If you have not yet updated to the 2024.03-RC, personally I would encourage you to do so (or to the latest development branch, there the fixes are included as well). The RC branch is pretty stable and we aim for a release as early in March as possible.
In case you have not installed Friendica using git, but with the archive files, please have a look at the 2023.12 release notes https://friendi.ca/2023/12/24/friendica-2023-12-released/ and pick the latest archives from https://files.friendi.ca/ (there is already a friendica-full-2024.03-rc archive, but for the addons you need to take the friendica-addons-2024.03-dev archive as the RC branch had not seen any commits for the addons so far).
At the very moment of the release, yes. The RC branch is merged into stable and this is merged with develop afterwards. So you can switch from develop to stable at the release point. (And likely a bit afterwards until the next changes to the DB hit develop, after this you should not switch back)