“Paid time off work” =/= time off work at your normal pay. There is a very significant drop in income for most people, down to £70 per day, which is £10 an hour if you work 9-5 with a 1 hour lunch or £7 an hour if you normally work 10 hour days. That last one is less than the under 18 minimum wage.

so the Unions are using that to force the government’s hand. Give us what we want or the city suffers.

This is disengenuous when the other side of the argument is “we dictate the terms of your work”. Working isn’t slavery, it’s voluntary, and has to be agreed by both parties. It isn’t “give us what we want or the city suffers”, it’s “give us a fair deal or we stop working”.

I don’t think either approach is working, do you?

In this kind of negotiation nothing “works” until the negotiations are concluded.

Sounds like the Alcoholic’s Anonymous loophole will work, you just need to decide your higher power is a doorknob or whatever.

Denmark is already doing the same thing anyway. You haven’t highlighted any particular advantages of KylinOS over other variants of Linux.

I don’t think it would be wise to install an operating system developed for the Chinese military. That’s just moving the problem somewhere else - instead of trusting Microsoft and the US, you’re trusting China. China are much more likely to have off the shelf hacking solutions for their operating system than whatever variant of Linux you freely choose.

Lmao at David Campbell, City of Bradford MDC Biodiversity Officer’s comment, stealing her thunder right at the top:

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill very much sits in the space Attenborough was aiming at when he said “We have a finite environment—the planet. Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth in a finite environment is either a madman or an economist.”

The reason Attenborough et al are screening it for these politicians is because they’re doing things wrong.

They are, in fact, biscuits. They are cooked twice, baked then dried.

But they’re also cakes. It’s like a dried cake. Biscuit cake.

is labouring under about £20bn of debt and is running out of cash.

Claw back the money from investor dividends and management bonuses then.

I heard he was actually a king from Madagascar, and he likes to move it move it.

You put the mug in the microwave, that’s how.

Just the mug and water, mind. You microwave the teabag separately.

They are scones. Savoury scones.

Biscuit literally means twice cooked, from the French, originally from Latin. A biscuit is first baked, then dried. These scones are cooked but once.

What’s really weird is that the dish originated in the British Channel Island of Guernsey, where a lot of people speak French (it is close to France than England), most of their roads are French, and they have their own French dialect. And yet they cooked something once and called it a biscuit.

For me, the bigger problem with how Lemmy is federated is the way comments and posts have unique IDs for every instance. You can’t easily find a comment or post from one instance on any other instance. With users, you just have /user/username@instance, what we need is /post/###@instance or /comment/###@instance. Instead, we just have /post/### and the ### is different everywhere (I think it’s just sequential for every post/comment the instance federates).

Maybe there’s some reason they did it this way, but it feels like the better solution is to have the original host instance decide the number, then every other instance just use their number and their @instance.

Pretty sure that was on the bug list 2 years ago.

Dunno, I was already here :o) just thought it was worth mentioning in a community on feddit.uk hah.

lemmy.zip doesn’t allow users from the UK.

To be fair, lemm.ee didn’t really act as host to any major communities to begin with. So communities aren’t really the loss here, and it could be that having at least a few big active communities on an instance is a key part of maintaining its long term viability.

Also, all the text posts and comments from lemm.ee will still remain on other instances. I’m sure the instance could also back up content, if the specific admin so desired to re-host.

But those other 2 are chock full of extremists.

I always saw those two as something like far left indoctrination camps where people learn and practice astroturfing techniques.

The lemm.ee admin is a shit hot developer though, his instance was generally more robust than all the others, and he helped other instances when they had various problems. It’s a shame he wasn’t the lead lemmy developer, although I’m sure he doesn’t have the time for such a big undertaking.

Paywall.

It does happen often, and it changes over time. For example, my HSBC app used to work just fine without Play Store at all, then it requried some integrity, now it requires strong integrity.

Yeah it’s very hit and miss though, and potentially the bank could require strong Play Store integrity, which can only be achieved with a clean keybox file (hard to find).

With regards to contactless purchases, you’re actually better off doing it with the physical card contactless, in terms of consumer rights. A contactless card purchase is processed as “Cardholder not present”, where the seller assumes some of the liability for verifying the transaction is legit. With such a purchase you can easily argue that someone stole your card and made transactions without your permission, making it easier to claim under consumer protection laws.

This type of purchase has existed for decades and was used for catalogue purchases as well as early internet purchases. If you make a purchase with your card and PIN, or your phone with its PIN, then the purchase is considered authenticated by you and it will be harder to argue it wasn’t you. These days a lot of internet purchases are also authenticated (often by SMS or apps) but a contactless card purchase is not.

Magisk (root) plus possibly modules. I don’t think Revolut requires that, I think you can just set Magisk to Zygisk domain and hide root by putting Revolut in the deny list.

If it requires more then you’ll need to look into MicroG implementations on your device. Assuming Pixel devices (because the user above said GrapheneOS etc), then you’ll be installing MicroG as a Magisk module along with Play Integrity Fix, Shamiko, Tricky Store and Zygisk Assistant, at least for Android 14. You’ll need a clean keybox file though, and those are very tricky to get, if you want to pass strong integrity but you should be able to get most Play Store Integrity checks to pass then. Without the keybox though some banking apps won’t work (because those banks are bastards) without passing strong integrity.