I use it a lot and, despite the occasional encryption issue, it seems to work pretty smoothly for me.

You drank the horse? No wonder it got mad.

Win the very first game of any sport.

I have yet to win any game of sport, unless games count.

I’ve previously posted my thoughts here: Should the UK government embrace the Fediverse? but a quick summary would be:

• They could run internal messaging through Matrix instead of the mess of WhatsApp groups.
• They should migrate to Mastodon, as the Beeb has. With Musk’s recent political interference on Xitter it makes even more sense.

I have double-checked to make sure it’s not satire.

So we need to move to nationalised breeding programs and state raising of children.

That’s been tried, didn’t work out well.

Oh I’d be toast in Logan’s Run but the sacrifice would be worth it to keep the Tories out.

Logan’s Run it!

Ouch

If anyone has an issue with the appropriateness of an article for a community feel free to report it and let the Mods decide. There’s no need to make a big deal about it.

I’m now locking discussion here as it has become uncivil and, ironically, off-topic.

I’m somewhere in between - I rarely pay with cash, largely only using it in restaurants as it’s easier to divvy up the bill that way. However, I also rarely use my phone - most of my payments are with a card and my phone is back-up in case I forget my wallet.

Most of my friends down the boozer pay with cash as they reckon it stops them getting carried away but I don’t see it making much difference. However, I don’t drink so what do I know?

Interesting example of how the same information is spun differently as the Reuter’s headline is: UK cash usage falls to record low share of transactions in 2023

A government can get rid of them, as in 2010’s “Bonfire of the Quangos” (under the guise of austerity) but they can no longer meddle directly with Non-Departmental Public Bodies since the Nolan Report in 1995, which made sure the people appointed to them are truly independent.

Indeed - it’s political trolling. I seem to recall them doing the same a while ago under the Tories.

The ICO was established in the purely coincidental year of 1984.

Such bodies tend to operate independently from any government of the time and are often a thorn in their side.

I think this is key - it’s early days and the new government are still figuring out the size of the mess they’ve been left with. What they’ve announced so far are the big policies that they’ve done their sums on in advance. Scrapping the cap will require them to find a bullion quid from somewhere and that might take time. I have to assume the SNP amendment was at least partially them messing with Labour as they knew it wouldn’t get through.

It has a huge number of plugins - this is a list of the productivity ones. You’d need to do some reading to see if it has what you require.

As far as I can tell, you can do.

Obsidian has a huge number of plug-ins, that cover a wide range of uses. I also use Zettel Notes as a quick md file editor and that has the ability to capture pages in markdown to read later. And/or you can use Omnivore.

But the Independent Workers’ union of Great Britain (IWGB), says their members have been overlooked.

It represents some gig economy workers, such as Uber and Deliveroo drivers, who aren’t explicitly mentioned in the new bill.

Because they are seen as self-employed, they aren’t entitled to benefits such as holiday and sick pay.

General secretary Henry Chango Lopez says this makes them “some of the most precarious and exploited in society, lacking the most basic rights and remaining unsupported by legislation”.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) estimates more than 4m people in England and Wales work in the gig economy.

So it’s been carefully worded to include the 1m people on zero hours contracts but not the 4m in the gig economy, although I can’t figure out there’s much of a difference.