Notices by Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social), page 2

¹ Implied: the office has fewer desks than people, because why else would you hot-desk at all.

@fluidlogic "WFH ban" is shorter and more accurate.

The pinnacle of "return-to-office" ("RTO") stupidity is requiring people to be in the office some number of days per week, with first-come-first-served hot-desking. Leads to the fact that people who are ostensibly in the office "for improved collaboration" now sit at desks spread all over the office space, and then use their remote collaboration tools from the office. Including video calls.

Managers implementing this sort of policy deserve a bucket of ice water dumped over their heads.

Buddy you're a boy make a big noise
Playing in my feed gonna be a big troll someday
You fall flat on your face, you big disgrace
We'll defederate your ass all over place, singing

WE WILL WE WILL BLOCK YOU

h/t @dannotdaniel

#FediMercury #BrianMaystodon

From the America-is-odd department: what would my European friends say to a USian who told them, unironically, that an Italian restaurant they went to was not at all expensive, when in the same sentence they asserted it was typically $55 (€50) per person?

I mean, I don't hold it against anyone if they spend €200 on a table of 4, but I'd definitely not call that cheap.

It is now 0327 UTC on 2023-12-22, which means this year's December solstice has arrived.

Dear darkness, greetings from the northern hemisphere. Now fuck off.

@jwildeboer They call it the no-fry zone.

@jomppa We do, the technical term is "windows".

Yesterday I had a 90-minute "meeting". I was alone, in my office, doing a video call, in which I did a normal share of the talking.

The CO₂ level in my office was 700ppm at the start and 2000ppm at the end. Just from me exhaling while talking.

Cognitive function starts getting impaired somewhere between 1200 and 1500ppm.

Please draw your own conclusions as they relate to closed-door, in-person "executive committee", "company leadership", or board meetings.

Or ministerial cabinet meetings. 🥴

@phiofx

Note I did say it's "remarkably nontrivial", meaning it looks trivial at first and then it very much is not.

https://mastodon.social/@xahteiwi/111577791278480583

Hivemind, please help.

One thing that still eludes me is a way to lint #Markdown files to enforce a one-sentence-per-line rule. This is remarkably nontrivial.

Can somebody point me to such a thing? Ideally in #Python, but I'll take any language (even an emacs minor mode will help).

A bajillion bonus points if the thing can also unwrap wrapped paragraphs and automatically turn them into one sentence per line.

Boosts appreciated, thanks!

https://sive.rs/1s

Das was @sebwilken gerade macht, ist heldenhaftes Ringen gegen (vermutlich gezielte) Desinformation, die in ein großteils als seriös geltendes Medium durchgebrochen ist. Es ist damit auch eine Anwendung des Brandolini-Prinzips, welches besagt, dass du für die Richtigstellung einer Unwahrheit näherungsweise 10× soviel Energie brauchst wie für deren Verbreitung.

Fediversum, mach dein Ding.

https://mastodon.social/@sebwilken/111523410266091252

@roadriverrail I'm still happy to recommend the PBP if you want a low-power laptop and don't mind the US ANSI keyboard (they appear to not make the ISO keyboard layout anymore).

@roadriverrail Are you aware of anything in the arm64 space that's actually better than the PBP?

@roadriverrail I still haven't got anything new. 🙂

But @ainmosni has a review of my current top contender:
https://berlin.social/@ainmosni/111328855915133822

All right Fediverse to your thing: who has good suggestions for low-power, lightweight arm laptops?

I am currently on the Pinebook Pro but it's showing clear signs of wear and tear, plus there's the issue that it'll only really support Manjaro going forward (I want to run Ubuntu, armbian is OK) , and it's no longer available with my preferred keyboard layout.

Pinebook would be a downgrade. MNT Reform is way too thick. Huawei Qingyun is hard to get.

Any other ideas?

https://www.makeuseof.com/arm-laptop-linux/

This is good. (Found via @major's blog)
https://sive.rs/1s

The waterlily.

Out of 1200 #curl contributors, 800 have contributed exactly once, and all their contributions were valuable (paraphrasing @bagder).

Think of that next time before you speak disparagingly of "drive-by contributors".

#pyconse #pyconse2023

Things I didn't expect to see in 2023: speakers being notified that projectors at a conference use 1024×768 resolution.