It seems to be working pretty well. There’s the occasional transgression, but by and large we only get spam that is actually addressed to us.

The Netherlands, at least.

It would crash every fifteen minutes…

Ah, OpenDoc. It was a good start, back in the 90s, and now is seen as an impossible pipedream. Ah well.

I’ll second this. Only podcast I actually subscribe to the ad-less version, to support it.

No more nails construction adhesive..

Someone mistyped ‘morals’? Ysk.

I’ll just leave this here:

What about code reviews?

You might want to travel, visit the Netherlands or Denmark. Bicycles and public transport allow you to have a wider circle, and connect them!

It’s very hard to start writing tests for a codebase that was not tested while it was being written.

“Be more careful” is obviously just wishful thinking, but the pain apparently hasn’t become bad enough for the need to better quality to have become apparent to everyone.

When people say “we can’t test the UI”, there’s often a reason that they are reluctant. One reason can be that they think you want to test through the UI, and write slow and cumbersome end-to-end tests. Those tend to become unmaintainable at record speeds, and if you’ve experienced the amount of work and aggravation that can cause, you tend to become reluctant. When you ask for ‘integration tests’, this might be the thing people are hearing.

That being said, there’s plenty of ways to test UI code locally, at the unit and component level. Depending on your tech stack, of course. Those types of tests you can just start creating without a big investment. In a codebase that’s not tested, that can be difficult, but try and make the changes you need to make to isolate logic, so it can be tested as a unit test. It’ll give you better code, and teach you a lot about structuring code so that you separate responsibilties.

Ah, you’re right. It does work with dynamic addresses.

It works like this for me, currently:

I do have a bunch of IP reservations. I don’t really know how you’d do port forwarding without subs static IP address to forward to. I have not seen any of the data sharing options, but it could be that I gave those permissions years ago and forgot…

It’s still there for me in “Advanced networking”->“Port Management”.

It’s a term coined by Cory Doctorow, Sci-Fi writer and ex-EFF, who has been writing about (tech) monopolies, and in particular monopsonies, and how those types of two sided markets originally grow by given users something they need, often for an artificial low price or even free, until they dominate that side of the market, after which they focus mostly on the other side of the market, in this case advertisers, and step by step, slowly dismantling the reason users originally liked their product… Enshittification.

Doctorow has lots to say, so here’s a link.

I was also using b&bw, but it’s been impossible to find locally (the Netherlands).

Thing is, none of the other shower gels I’ve tried foam up in the same way. Which means using a lot more than I would of the b&bw gel.

Anyone know if something that works comparably and is widely available in Europe?

We’re more in a suburb type environment, but yeah, I don’t see that happening in a busy city environment…

Actually, our cats often join us when walking our dogs. We have two dogs, and when we walk them leashed, at night, one to three of our (six) cats come along and walk around us. They dart out in advance up to ten meters, using available cover (cars) to hide, and often laag behind in those places to ensure it is clear that they are not being walked but are simply following the same route of their own accord.

Not sure how this happened, so I can’t help you with training advice. But maybe it’s just our regular schedule of walking that does it?

Of course, if one employee being away would cause a company to fall apart, us Dutch would conclude management is completely incompetent, and tell them that.

A 3 week vacation is pretty normal, here. But we do plan those ahead. That means you might not be able to take it on the specific dates you have in mind. But not that you won’t be able to take it!

Having a ‘sick leave’ limit is just incredibly weird. As if you could just stop being sick when the time runs out!

I mean, we do get a company/regulatory doctor assigned if we’re sick for a longer period of time, and after, like, a year you will go to a reduced insured income. But counting it as if it were discretionary does not make sense.

“20 years from now, people are still discussing moving to Linux!”