including those laid off, since some are still hoping to find jobs elsewhere at the WMF, and others are depending on severance pay
Am I too european to understand this? If they "get jobs elsewhere at the WMF" this is not a layoff, is it? I know the US has nearly no worker protections, so maybe that makes it a layoff. Do they need to interview for these positions again?
If this were something other than Community Tech, maybe I could convince myself it's all just a coincidence. But the WMF has been on a generally upward trajectory at avoiding decisions that will piss off the entire community. "Don't disband CommTech" might as well be the "don't mess with the pancreas"of WMF governance. The only explanation for the WMF doing this—not just reörganizing but outright laying off the team—is that they are so determined to prevent the union from becoming official that they are willing to risk the massive community blowback (which, from a corporate-brain point of view, is a greater downside than the five people left jobless).
That paragraph I don't understand. Why is union busting the only explanation?
From one of the comments of that Reddit thread:
the union was apparently formed exactly 90 days prior to the layoff announcement; under california state law (where they are located) “a termination within 90 days of protected union activity creates a rebuttable presumption that the termination was illegal retaliation”
I think that is an interesting detail here, though I have not bothered to go through the sources for this.
Where they actually fired? From skimming your linked article it was more of a restructuring, moving them to different positions. The restructuring might be ill advised, though I could not find real information about any connection to the union topic, besides someone from the community claming that, without further information on that connection.
the thing is FB, Instagram or X are US based firms (so AU legislation has no jurisdiction).
They are headquartered in the US, but in fact they are multi nationals, doing business in many countries. If you do business in a country, you have to abide to the local law. SM companies are seeing, how difficult that can be in the online space and are trying to avoid following the law.
AV is kind of a bad example of that, since it is flawed in so many ways, but the principle of jurisdiction is important and needed. Just as Apple has to use USB C (like any other smartphone company) in the EU, or the upcoming (I think) legislation about replaceble batteries in products.
Of course Apple, Facebook, Google etc could just decide to move out of the market, and for smaller markets that already happened in the past. Though moving out of any bigger market (eg the EU or China) will cost them so much more. And in addition other companies would fill the space left behind. So by moving out of a big market, the company would create its own big competition - and no big company likes competition.
For proxmox on a VPS beware: Some hosters are using a kind of virtualization, that is more like a container instead of a VM. This means, that if you need kernel access (like changing active modules) you will fail. Proxmox probably won't run on such a VPS.
Also: A VPS is already virtualized. Running nested VMs (some VMs on your Proxmos VM/VPS) will hurt the performance. Better stick to containers on a VPS.
Ah, and we also read Proxy by Aiki Mira. All three protagonists are kind of queer, though one of them is a trans femme singer struggling between their virtual and real life identity.
Though I myself didn't like the writing style of the book. Others in the book club didn't have problems with it.
A while ago we read Pet by Awaeke Emezi in our solarpunk bookclub. The protagonist is a young trans girl. Though the book doesn't make it a big thing. Its more about finding a human monster (meaning abuser). It's a really good read and rather short (like 130 pages).
Ich fand interessant, dass die Menschen in dieser Welt scheinbar sowohl im Einklang, als auch abseits der Natur leben. Je mach lokaler Auffassung der Bevölkerung gleicht die Natur in den Städten und Dörfern eher einem Garten, um den man sich kümmert. Aber es gibt eine klare Abgrenzung zur wilden Natur außerhalb des menschlichen Gebietes. Dex hat über viele Dinge umd Gegebenheiten in der Wildnis keine Ahnung, ja ist sogar ziemlich naiv was das angeht.
Es wird ja auch aufgegriffen, dass Menschen sich gerne ihre eigene kleine Welt schaffen, sich.von der Natur abkanzeln. Das geht ja sogar soweit, dass eigentlich unproblematische Ausflüge in die Wildnis, zB von Wissenschaftlern, nicht stattfinden. Es geht einfach niemand mehr in diese Gebiete. Mir scheint, die Menschen haben mit ihrer Einschränkung auf 50% des Planeten nicht nur die Natur entlastet, sondern sich selbst willentlich aus der Natur herausgenommen. Man gibt sich zwar keinen Illusionen hin (zB dass man über die Natur.hinausgewachsen ist), aber wirklich als Teil der Natur sieht man sich auch nicht wirklich.
Letztendlich macht die gesamte menschliche Gesellschaft dasselbe, was Dex mit their kleinen Wohnwagen auch macht. Eine Schutzschicht zwischen sich und der Natur zu errichten.
Being able to self host a git forge was always possible, even before forgejo. Besides the gitea controversy I thought the federation to be the real killer feature.
So I guess I have to wait a bit more for the federation.
OOTL Wasn't there something about forgejos capabilities to federate? I had the impression, that it would go the fediverse route with many interacting instances. Then everyone can make their own rules. There are many reason to moderate repos. So why is this such a big thing (if forgejo federates as I remembered from the back of my head)?
You don't want the target site to have your identity (nor your age, only the information, that you are old enough). Though you also don't want to tell the government, which age restricted sites you are using (imagine the government getting having a list of all your porn site usage).
There are ways to do this, though the implementations in most countries don't adhere to these requirements (either by giving your identity to the target site or the government collecting your usage data).
I might remember that wrong, but I think I heard a proposal in germany, that would fit the requirements. Something about, that you can generate up to 30 cryptographically signed tokens (don't know why the limit was included) from the government, that the target site can use to verify their age limit. No communication between the government and the site. Though I don't know, if that proposal got any track.
We will probably also see, that nearly all websites will need age verification, since there is a lot, that is not suitable for very young children. A bit older children and teenagers will also have to use that verification workflow quite often. Adults way more often. That is a lot of friction easily avoided with a VPN.
And of course the governments would also need to block every site, that does not comply to the local regulations. Different worldviews make this impossible. A small blog about queer education in europe would need to implement age verification, because the US and russia hate queer people.
This is not mandated at EU level afaik. Though I found this compare page. Though I'm not sure, what these number include. For example germany is listed as free, though you pay I think between 300 and 400€ per semester. Though that includes a public transport ticket for all of germany (Deutschlandticket). And of course no housing included.
Also often they would not need to pay anyone. Especially for cases like china or the US there are already enough people, that are so deep in the ideology, that they will do it in their free time. Lots of of such people everywhere.
But a lot of e-Readers tend to be quite expensive.
Have I missed something? If you are ok with a basic e-reader (not high end) you can easily get one for 100 to 150€. Only the cheapest smartphones cost in this range. So they are NOT expensive in relation to smartphones. Especially, when you consider all the people having iPhones or other expensive phones, ranging from like 500€ to over 1000€.
The tolino shine color is 150€. I don't know about jailbraking it, though it works perfectly fine offline with placing ebooks via USB, without any changes.
Ah, ok. That exlains it. It's really a shitty move. I guess no CEO or other high up manager in the US would do this differently. What a shit
That's not union busting, is it? I understand the leadership problems, but we were talking about union busting specifically
I was speaking of union bustion actions in WMF. I already know about these law firms
Am I too european to understand this? If they "get jobs elsewhere at the WMF" this is not a layoff, is it? I know the US has nearly no worker protections, so maybe that makes it a layoff. Do they need to interview for these positions again?
That paragraph I don't understand. Why is union busting the only explanation?
From one of the comments of that Reddit thread:
I think that is an interesting detail here, though I have not bothered to go through the sources for this.
Where they actually fired? From skimming your linked article it was more of a restructuring, moving them to different positions. The restructuring might be ill advised, though I could not find real information about any connection to the union topic, besides someone from the community claming that, without further information on that connection.
Do we have any direct signs of union busting? It seems these law firms do other things for WMF.
They are headquartered in the US, but in fact they are multi nationals, doing business in many countries. If you do business in a country, you have to abide to the local law. SM companies are seeing, how difficult that can be in the online space and are trying to avoid following the law.
AV is kind of a bad example of that, since it is flawed in so many ways, but the principle of jurisdiction is important and needed. Just as Apple has to use USB C (like any other smartphone company) in the EU, or the upcoming (I think) legislation about replaceble batteries in products.
Of course Apple, Facebook, Google etc could just decide to move out of the market, and for smaller markets that already happened in the past. Though moving out of any bigger market (eg the EU or China) will cost them so much more. And in addition other companies would fill the space left behind. So by moving out of a big market, the company would create its own big competition - and no big company likes competition.
For proxmox on a VPS beware: Some hosters are using a kind of virtualization, that is more like a container instead of a VM. This means, that if you need kernel access (like changing active modules) you will fail. Proxmox probably won't run on such a VPS.
Also: A VPS is already virtualized. Running nested VMs (some VMs on your Proxmos VM/VPS) will hurt the performance. Better stick to containers on a VPS.
Ah, and we also read Proxy by Aiki Mira. All three protagonists are kind of queer, though one of them is a trans femme singer struggling between their virtual and real life identity.
Though I myself didn't like the writing style of the book. Others in the book club didn't have problems with it.
A while ago we read Pet by Awaeke Emezi in our solarpunk bookclub. The protagonist is a young trans girl. Though the book doesn't make it a big thing. Its more about finding a human monster (meaning abuser). It's a really good read and rather short (like 130 pages).
Ich fand interessant, dass die Menschen in dieser Welt scheinbar sowohl im Einklang, als auch abseits der Natur leben. Je mach lokaler Auffassung der Bevölkerung gleicht die Natur in den Städten und Dörfern eher einem Garten, um den man sich kümmert. Aber es gibt eine klare Abgrenzung zur wilden Natur außerhalb des menschlichen Gebietes. Dex hat über viele Dinge umd Gegebenheiten in der Wildnis keine Ahnung, ja ist sogar ziemlich naiv was das angeht.
Es wird ja auch aufgegriffen, dass Menschen sich gerne ihre eigene kleine Welt schaffen, sich.von der Natur abkanzeln. Das geht ja sogar soweit, dass eigentlich unproblematische Ausflüge in die Wildnis, zB von Wissenschaftlern, nicht stattfinden. Es geht einfach niemand mehr in diese Gebiete. Mir scheint, die Menschen haben mit ihrer Einschränkung auf 50% des Planeten nicht nur die Natur entlastet, sondern sich selbst willentlich aus der Natur herausgenommen. Man gibt sich zwar keinen Illusionen hin (zB dass man über die Natur.hinausgewachsen ist), aber wirklich als Teil der Natur sieht man sich auch nicht wirklich.
Letztendlich macht die gesamte menschliche Gesellschaft dasselbe, was Dex mit their kleinen Wohnwagen auch macht. Eine Schutzschicht zwischen sich und der Natur zu errichten.
Not federating at all would be a shame IMO. I'm really exited on this feature for git forges
Being able to self host a git forge was always possible, even before forgejo. Besides the gitea controversy I thought the federation to be the real killer feature.
So I guess I have to wait a bit more for the federation.
OOTL Wasn't there something about forgejos capabilities to federate? I had the impression, that it would go the fediverse route with many interacting instances. Then everyone can make their own rules. There are many reason to moderate repos. So why is this such a big thing (if forgejo federates as I remembered from the back of my head)?
But what about a dodeca-plo?
You don't want the target site to have your identity (nor your age, only the information, that you are old enough). Though you also don't want to tell the government, which age restricted sites you are using (imagine the government getting having a list of all your porn site usage).
There are ways to do this, though the implementations in most countries don't adhere to these requirements (either by giving your identity to the target site or the government collecting your usage data).
I might remember that wrong, but I think I heard a proposal in germany, that would fit the requirements. Something about, that you can generate up to 30 cryptographically signed tokens (don't know why the limit was included) from the government, that the target site can use to verify their age limit. No communication between the government and the site. Though I don't know, if that proposal got any track.
We will probably also see, that nearly all websites will need age verification, since there is a lot, that is not suitable for very young children. A bit older children and teenagers will also have to use that verification workflow quite often. Adults way more often. That is a lot of friction easily avoided with a VPN.
And of course the governments would also need to block every site, that does not comply to the local regulations. Different worldviews make this impossible. A small blog about queer education in europe would need to implement age verification, because the US and russia hate queer people.
It's a big clusterfuck
Snowcrash is also an example with the metaverse idea
This is not mandated at EU level afaik. Though I found this compare page. Though I'm not sure, what these number include. For example germany is listed as free, though you pay I think between 300 and 400€ per semester. Though that includes a public transport ticket for all of germany (Deutschlandticket). And of course no housing included.
Also often they would not need to pay anyone. Especially for cases like china or the US there are already enough people, that are so deep in the ideology, that they will do it in their free time. Lots of of such people everywhere.
Have I missed something? If you are ok with a basic e-reader (not high end) you can easily get one for 100 to 150€. Only the cheapest smartphones cost in this range. So they are NOT expensive in relation to smartphones. Especially, when you consider all the people having iPhones or other expensive phones, ranging from like 500€ to over 1000€.
The tolino shine color is 150€. I don't know about jailbraking it, though it works perfectly fine offline with placing ebooks via USB, without any changes.