I always find it tricky to understand how tools all relate to each other in an ecosystem and this is a great example of why: the fact that Ansible can do this task, but Teraform would be better suggests that they are tools that have different purposes, but some overlap. What would you say is Ansible’s strong suit?

I’m super dubious because Starmer has done very little to earn my trust, but I would be very keen to be surprised, or even proven wrong

Who is David Kinne and what did he do?

Congrats! I appreciate this post because I want to be where you are in the not too distant future.

Contributing to Open Source can feel overwhelming, especially if working outside of one’s primary field. Personally, I’m a scientist who got interested in open source via my academic interest in open science (such as the FAIR principles for scientific data management and stewardship, which are that data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable). This got me interested in how scientists share code, which led me to the horrifying realisation that I was a better programmer than many of my peers (and I was mediocre)

Studying open source has been useful for seeing how big projects are managed, and I have been meaning to find a way to contribute (because as you show, programming skills aren’t the only way to do that). It’s cool to see posts like yours because it kicks my ass into gear a little.

I need to add that to my quotes book, it’s great

Last year, I called out a friend for excessively blaming the Greens for various local council decisions/inefficiencies. They had the impression that the Greens had far more seats than they actually did (iirc, they only had 2, out of a total of almost 40). When I pointed this out to them, they were surprised, and we later reflected that they had likely inadvertently bought into propaganda that scapegoats the Greens.

One of the projects that the Greens had most loudly been opposed to in the area was one that looked like some genuinely pretty dodgy developments as part of a failing scheme led by councillors who had approved a bunch of other half complete failures.

Elsewhere in this thread, you mentioned that Immich has great documentation. Are there any other FOSS projects that stand out to you as having great user documentation?

They sound like they’re a bit muddled about how the Equality Act actually works though, bless them, based on this other quote from the same article:

“The qualifications of an ethnic group, there are five of them, and we hit everyone straight in the bullseye.”

There are another few instances where the guy specifically says “ethnic group”, and I even chased up the source to check it wasn’t just rubbish reporting, because as you highlight, it’s not too farfetched that they might be considered a protected minority group, but that’s entirely different than them being considered a minority ethnic group.

Unsurprised that the pro-fox-hunting people have more money than sense. I imagine their lawyers are better versed on the equality act than their spokesman, and are making the beliefs argument rather than the ethnic minority one.

My impression is that homes in the US tend to have more wood involved in their construction generally, so it seems plausible to me that US construction methods may be more experienced with ways of managing wood moisture

I went to a Know Your Rights training ran by the green and black cross, they’re great.

I had to do it for the first time last year and I was slightly giddy from the novelty of it.

Based

I found it much easier to cope with the world when I acknowledged that the system isn’t broken, it’s working exactly as intended. Sounds cynical, but I have found a lot of comfort in solidarity with people who feel similarly, and that gives me more hope than I have felt in years.

Once upon a time, a thing happened. And then there was a facsimile of narrative conflict, but everything worked out in the end, because that’s how all the short stories by LLMs seem to work.

My (somewhat speculative) impression is that the shock that he expresses about receiving the letter isn’t just at the letter itself, but at a legal system that is letting this happen to the extent that it happens at all. By that, I mean that the rule of law is most powerful when it’s acting preventatively — when people are deterred from breaking laws before they break them.

The people who sent the death threats believed they could intimidate without fear of reprisal from the law, and it seems they were right. I can imagine how this might be jarring to someone working to fight modern slavery, where the law is one of the tools used against employers who are exploiting workers in this manner.

This is an excellent comment, thanks for writing this up

There are 650 seats in total. 326 seats are therefore needed for a parliamentary majority. Labour are predicted to get around 410 seats, which would give them a majority of 84 seats (a huge majority). The 170 figure is how many seats they have gained this election. i.e. in 2019, they got 240, I think (410 - 170)

The opposition (Labour) isn’t much better, especially when it comes to equalities. I am not looking forward to this Thursday, and having to think a lot about how grim it all is.

Yeah, stuff like this is messy. I like that we’re all muddling along and figuring things out as they go. Much of this is a problem with distributed social media — but not “problem” in a bad way, but something to overcome.

Practically, I don’t know if there’s a better way to do it, because as you say, there’s not a one size fits all solution. I just wanted to say thanks because I probably wouldn’t have read the article myself if I had to get a no-paywall link myself, so the little conveniences help.

Which they would know, if they had read the article, right?

Edit: I shouldn’t comment just to express salt at someone, so actually also, thanks OP for the no-paywall link.