First time as tragic farce, second time as farcical tragedy.
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In my defence there were hills involved.
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Two 10k walks in one weekend after a month of being a festive blob has thoroughly exhausted me!
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My plan to spend less money this year is off to a great sta...
Oh well, nevermind.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/picks-and-shovels-marty-hench-at-the-dawn-of-enshittification
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Some follow up points:
I am planning to discuss this with our accountants, but they're not likely to be familiar with the specifics of how and why a business would donate to open source projects, so having some input from others would be very useful.
And if there are barriers to making tax efficient donations from UK businesses to open source projects/organisations, then that's something we should be talking about as a community and industry so that we can get it fixed.
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I have a question for any other UK folks who run small businesses, please boost for visibility:
Do you donate to open source projects? If so, how do you make these donations?
My goal for this year is to donate 1% of the business revenue, split between social/environmental charities and the vital open source projects which we rely on.
My understanding is that, in the UK context, donations to charities and non-profit organisations can only be claimed as business expenses if the recipient is registered as charitable organisation in the UK. That would exclude us from claiming pure donations (where we receive nothing in exchange for the donation) to most open source foundations as business expenses as they're registered in the USA or Europe.
Many open source foundations offer "memberships" at different tiers for businesses but these are all well outside of our budget as a two person micro business.
Donating as a non business expense would need to be done after tax which would reduce the amount we can donate.
Am I missing something?
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You learn some fascinating things at Christmas...
Currently being told that the evidence for the big bang is circumstantial at best and that there's no such thing as an atom.
This is fun! /s
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Merry holidaymas!
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I saw Tom Scott a few seats from us on the train on Monday! It took all my self control not to ask him to say "I'm on a train" in his usual video intro form.
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I've long wanted to make an index of the coference talks and papers which I've delivered over the years... so now I have!
https://pbarker.dev/tags/conference-talk/
Each talk I've given has a corresponding post on my site. Where available, I've included the abstract, slides and video recording for each talk.
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Reading David Graeber's essay collection "The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World" today, this one stood out as particularly relevant today.
Titled "I didn't understand how widespread rape was, then the penny dropped", it has some choice quotes:
...my initial reaction of disbelief, "sure things are bad, but it can't be that bad".
Even a lefty academic versed in feminist theory instinctively rebelled against the idea that rich and powerful men regularly rape or attempt to rape...
It's of course this very disbelief that allows such things to happen.
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Zoom now describes itself as "The AI-first work platform for human connection".
Excuse me while I yeet myself into the sun.
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/26/watchdog-refuses-to-sign-off-uk-public-sector-accounts-over-unreliable-data
This is, in one clear example, the problem with Labour's attempt to be a competent manager of the current mess without being too radical. There is no way to simply patch up the damage caused by 14 years of Tory vandalism - radical change is the only way things are going to get fixed.
They're also blaming things on "failures" of the previous Tory governments. The destruction of public sector capabilities and trust under the Tories was no failure or accident.
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I know about polyamory but 1445 partners is a bit much!
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I've set up a Bluesky account, feel free to add me if you have an account over there: https://bsky.app/profile/pbarker.dev
I am staying exactly where I am online with this Mastodon account being my primary social network presence.
My plan is to use the Bluesky account to extend the reach of blog posts, professional updates, etc, with most of what I post on Bluesky just being a re-post of things I've posted here. That's the same way I use LinkedIn.
[#]Bluesky
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@warthog9 How do you feel about unblocking bsky.brid.gy? I'm giving Bluesky a kick to see what it's like and it'd be good to link things up.
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As part of my work in the Linux kernel for Renesas, I am now co-maintainer of the RAVB Ethernet driver used by many R-Car and RZ SoCs.
[#]LinuxKernel #OpenSource
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Folks need to learn to satisfy their bootlicking fetishes at home, not in the voting booth.
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Very few bands can capture the appropriate emotion today, but Ashenspire definitely do it.
https://ashenspire.bandcamp.com/track/cable-street-again
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The move of several work related contacts to LinkedIn is frustrating, because now there are valuable discussions I want to participate in (e.g. posts about the recent Open Source AI Definition from the OSI) next to utterly deranged LinkedIn bullshit.
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