glans

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[–] glans@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Next one up is where they ban the use of pronouns in schools.

[–] glans@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So are you aware that sterilization has been and is a requirement for change of name documents and other aspects of transition in various places?

Not sure if this is supposed to be clever or something.

[–] glans@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG

In computing, WYSIWYG (/ˈwɪziwɪɡ/ WIZ-ee-wig), an acronym for What You See Is What You Get,[1] refers to software which allows content to be edited in a form that resembles its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product,[2] such as a printed document, web page, or slide presentation. ... In general, WYSIWYG implies the ability to directly manipulate the layout of a document without having to type or remember names of layout commands.[4]

History

Before the adoption of WYSIWYG techniques, ... Users were required to enter special non-printing control codes (now referred to as markup code tags) to indicate that some text should be in boldface, italics, or a different typeface or size.

[–] glans@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh sweetie you didn't understand the question.

[–] glans@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Sound good!

Don't hesitate to contact any and all unions available to you. Even if they don't seem like they typically organize your industry. They can tell you No but sometimes shops end up in a union that sounds kind of weird because it was the best fit. If there have been any local struggles you've heard of where it seemed like the union did a good job, contact them. Even if they are in a totally different industry you might get some intel on your options. And if you know anyone who is a member of any candidate unions, ask them what they think.

There is probably a District Labour Council for your area and they are probably worth talking to as they will know the lay of the land.

And of course when I say "you" I mean your committee because its important that these tasks be spread out democratically. Everyone needs to participate equally.

[–] glans@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I and most other people understand this.

It doesn't mean websites can't do their best to help their users out.

No reason to make things easier for an adversary.

I feel like I'm here talking about treating municipal drinking water and you just wrote a long post explaining that not all diseases are transmissible via water. 30 years ago everyone knew that you can get the flu or cancer or eczema no matter how clean the water is..... But all this eternal September riff raff thinks if you just clean the tap water all other problems magically vanish. Sigh.

[–] glans@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Ya but it's unusual to be doing that.

In tests I was able to retrieve the text of comments deleted a year ago, when I had never even participated in lemmy. Certainly I have no archive of anything and if I did it wouldn't extend so far back.

I think it's fair to allow people to get rid of the low-hanging fruit if they want. Even though the internet is forever. Depending on the threat model, it might be good enough.

[–] glans@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well on the bright side I was unable to retrieve the text of the original "comment 1". So it seems you can overwrite content somewhat persistently. At least superficially.

[–] glans@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Ya I went into old threads to test and found comments which were apparently deleted about a year ago still available.

[–] glans@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

People really don't notice the brilliant evil of the canadian labor legislation. It is singular. In canada unions don't just lack power because of the general global class war thing. They are totally tangled up in the enforcement of capitalism, more than in other places.

The whole No Strike being required in every contract is an example. First, you guaranteed to have this devastating agreement in your contract. It really fucks over the workers. An agreement that in other places, like the US, strong unions do not enter into. But in Canada, there is no choice.

Who is responsible to make sure it's adhered to? The ministry? The employer? The police? The workers themselves? No: the Union. Not just the organization, but the officers of the Union as individuals. The officers of the Union are held to be personally liable if workers become too militant or disruptive. They can have their assets seized and become incarcerated. They and their families can lose their homes!! They can go to jail. For the actions of other people! It is a kind of accountability that basically doesn't exist anywhere else.

So think about it, over the decades, the workplace culture of the people who are employed at the Union. They do not want worker control over the Union. They do not want militancy. Not just because the status quo is kind of working for them, but because they are personally afraid of the consequences of it. Worker control, democracy etc immediately lead to militancy. Which they are on the hook for. We are taught that workers are meek and afraid, but it's not true. Workers are brave. It's probably already happened, but if not, you are soon going to start hearing about people's fantasies of doing a big strike. People love the idea of showing the boss who's boss. But the system in canada, really more than elsewhere is set up to scare unions away from this.

[–] glans@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well that's handy, because in many cases the way to get around No Strike has to do with refusing unsafe work. You "always" have the right to refuse unsafe work, even if you do it collectively. (Assuming your jurisdiction/industry doesn't have some weird exception or carveout... consult relevant laws to be informed before you break them.) And you know what I mean when I say you have "rights" at work.

Of course the classic thing for unsafe equipment is that sometimes it gets broken worse so that it cannot be used and must be repaired/replaced. That's kind of the nature of not keeping up with routine tasks. But on the other hand it's cool to act as a group to educate the employer as to the wisdom of proactively conducting maintenance and repairs. Perhaps they can be made to see the light.

It doesn't sound to me like you are in a hot shop. From what you've shared, if I was your boss, I'd go for the carrot not the stick. Give some sort of transient but significant in the short term concession that shows the company is willing to "work on the issues". Everyone (or even more effective: some people) gets a $1 raise, or fire an unpopular manager, or promise to buy new equipment.... next year. Maybe you or someone else in your group will get promoted into management or some sort of fakeass supervisor role that just came into existence. But all that depends if they are smart enough to hire and take advice from anti union consultants. If they are too cheap and go the DIY route there is basically no predicting what will happen. At the end of the day a DIY anti-union effort is governed by the inner emotional lives of the individual people who have power. Logic and even class interests may fly out the window.

Have you discussed with your committee what would happen if suddenly there was pizza, beer, sports tickets, extra days off, etc? Not just that you won't be swayed by it but what about every other person on the job? Pizza is delicious. I wonder if it was in fact invented as an anti union tool.

[–] glans@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No because you compose in one window and you see it in another. WYSIWYG means there is just one window and it correctly displays however the end result will be. Like using Word. It just isn't the same thing.

Split window + live preview is presumably much easier to program and requires less resources. It is perfectly serviceable in some situations. But for working with complicated documents: tables, images, nested lists, long URLs etc, a WYSIWYG editor is the best choice.

I'm not sure if it's impossible to create a proper WYSIWYG editor without electron or just nobody has bothered.

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