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@ bugsmith @programming.dev

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  • Recycling: Plans for electrical goods to be included in UK collections

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  • My district council has collected small electrical items for asong as I can remember. I was surprised to find out that not all councils do this.

    As much as I think it's a good thing for councils to have control over their local budgets (so long as they're funded adequately...), I think it's a poor system to let councils take on individual recycling contracts. The buying power alone should make a unified contract more economical. It's mad that moving from one town to another can put you into a council that offers a poorer service, likely for a similar cost (if comparing neighbouring councils).

    Link to the recycling policy for my district

  • 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!!

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  • Care to give a summary on why you think they should be blocked ahead of any bad acting? Yes, there is some concern about Meta attempting EEE, but ultimately they're a large platform that can bring a lot of users and attention to the Fediverse. There's nothing preventing large instances from blocking them down the line, and with user level instance blocking coming in 0.19 to Lemmy (not sure if Mastodon et al have something similar), you can block them personally yourself if you wish, rather than having that thrust upon you by your instance admins.

  • Woodpecker CI

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  • I've just transferred it over to you :)

  • The instances blocking Zuckerberg's Threads.net

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  • Yes. I get the idea, because federating with them is the "negative" option, but honestly it's just confusing and overly opinionated for an infographic.

  • Memoristik - (Open Source Project/Protocol Workgroup)

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  • Great. I've appointed you as mod and transferred the community.Reach out if you have any issues!

  • Woodpecker CI

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  • Memoristik - (Open Source Project/Protocol Workgroup)

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  • Hi @lanartri@programming.dev.I have created your requested community: !memoristik@programming.dev. As this is your own project, I have not created sidebar descriptions or anything like that and will leave this for you to do.

    Please make a post in the community and I will grant you mod status and transfer the community to you. I'd then ask that you get some rules thrown up in the sidebar, as a minimum.

  • Why do programmers need private offices with doors? (Do Not Disturb)

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  • I particularly enjoyed a recent company meeting that spent considerable time talking about the importance of flow state. It had an awkward pregnant pause when someone (usually very quiet) unmuted to ask, "is the policy to increase the number of days we must spend in our open-plan office kind of undermining this?". Literally all of our directors just shifted on their seats hoping another would answer that.

    Eventually, HR director stated "Not at all, that's what headphones are for!"

    Which was particularly delightful, as our tech director had only 20 minutes before stated how he would like to discourage people sitting in the office in silos with their headphones on.

  • Have your say: What is and isn't acceptable speech in the community.

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  • Absolutely second this.Let's not throw blanket bans out and create an echo chamber whilst stifling discussion.Those who break the spirit of the rules will be called out, downvoted, and argued with. This isn't a bad thing. Serial offenders will be apparent and can be dealt with on a case-by-case basis, with warnings and bans.

    I say this as an admin of another large instance, having to deal this this myself.

  • Have your say: What is and isn't acceptable speech in the community.

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  • I'd throw another one in for being against word filters. I think it's condescending, and ultimately words are really only bad in context. What if I want to quote someone who used the word? Or what about if a bread making community takes off, where the word is pretty appropriate.

    Certainly it's acceptable to remove posts, etc, when some words are used in certain ways, but I think this should be left to the discretion of the moderators.

    Ultimately, anyone here who wants to ignore the rules and use those words will get around the filters anyway.

  • Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive

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  • They're not really blaming capitalism for anything though? They're just explaining how it works, and they're right. In a market driven economy, you are paid for having a skill or some knowledge based on the demand of that skill or knowledge and nothing else. In the same way as the quality of your house has little bearing on it's value when compared to it's location. Not a criticism of capitalism.

  • Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation

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  • Teaching programming to raise money for my local cardiology ward

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  • Thank you, that's very kind of you - and I completely agree, healthcare works are so undercompensated for what they do, and yet so vital. I feel the least they deserve is a Christmas meal to celebrate the end of the year together.

    I really appreciate your offer to contribute and share this on.

  • Ex-PM David Cameron appointed foreign secretary in Cabinet reshuffle

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  • Well yes. They are usually elected members of parliament. They don't have to be of course, as is apparent.

  • Digital accessibility

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  • I mostly browse via the website on a desktop. For mobile, I use a mix of Jerboa and Lemmy Sync, the latter has much better moderation tools currently.

  • Digital accessibility

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  • I've added you as a mod. I'll also stick around as a mod on this one for a while. I think this has potential to be a valuable community.

  • Digital accessibility

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  • I went with "Accessibility" as it is shorter (so perhaps more accessible?).

  • Digital accessibility

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  • Community for Ada and related techs

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  • The community has been created here: !ada@programming.dev. If you go ahead and make a post there, I will make you a moderator and transfer the community.

  • Erlang

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  • Done. I've also transferred the community to you and dropped from the mod team. Feel free to update the side bar, add some rules etc.