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Is the House of Lords really so hard up for washed-up, ageing bigots whose wives hate them that they now need to invite Graham Linehan in to make up the numbers?
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Angepain posted:terf island continues quote:Fair Play for Women had argued that, unlike a birth certificate, a person's sex on a passport or other legal document such as a driving licence can be altered without a formal legal process.
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Mar 9, 2021 21:18
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Maugrim posted:Congrats on starting your new job in the industry! Thanks for the congrats, it's pretty exciting and feels like what I've been wanting for a long time. I'm used to working at massive, massive corporations where they're all secure to a proper mad degree and only managers get to work from home and and then I was furloughed for the early part of last year before they ever figured out how to sort out everything for us. This is pretty indie by any measure of comparison I haven't installed anything either so hopefully you're right. If not I'll manage, will just have to massively shift some stuff around I guess.
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Mar 9, 2021 21:19
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thebardyspoon posted:I have a question for UKMT goons who work in games, I know there's a couple at least. I've asked my new job this question as my first day was ending but am curious so thought I'd ask. They've given me a PC to work from home on but it's absolutely massive, doesn't fit into the only area suitable as a workspace at all and is also worse than my actual PC performance wise. I'm not sure if it's mandatory which is what I've asked them. Is there a great reason why it would be? I guess like, security concerns and if they want to monitor me would be the main reasons. They only had it delivered today in the afternoon after I started and didn't give me any measurements or I'd have flagged it up beforehand obviously. Don't do professional/third-party development on your personal equipment without personal liability insurance. You don't wanna be the dev that accidentally leaks the source code for an upcoming game, nor the dev who's held financially liable for it.
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Mar 9, 2021 21:20
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GET THIS MAN ON OUR TV SCREENS https://twitter.com/henrymance/status/1369375869655977990
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Mar 9, 2021 21:25
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Angepain posted:terf island continues "It's self-ID via the backdoor!" I'd like them to explain why that is bad? It's only bad if you don't use enough lube.
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Mar 9, 2021 21:26
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thebardyspoon posted:I have a question for UKMT goons who work in games, I know there's a couple at least. I've asked my new job this question as my first day was ending but am curious so thought I'd ask. They've given me a PC to work from home on but it's absolutely massive, doesn't fit into the only area suitable as a workspace at all and is also worse than my actual PC performance wise. I'm not sure if it's mandatory which is what I've asked them. Is there a great reason why it would be? I guess like, security concerns and if they want to monitor me would be the main reasons. They only had it delivered today in the afternoon after I started and didn't give me any measurements or I'd have flagged it up beforehand obviously. It's a bit weird to end up in this situation I think, the games studios I know of range from very protective of their internal setup to more or less bunker mentality with NDAs for anyone who might even consider glancing at their office. I would have thought that if you joined the latter you would already have signed a bunch of contracts and other documents regarding their security policy etc., in which case it should only reflect badly on you if you have indeed received (and maybe even signed) those without reading them. The correct approach kind of goes for any company though - the policy itself is more important than the technical controls, because people will always find a way around technical controls if they are obstructing their work, and it's hard to blame them if it's not specifically disallowed. So it's kind of a bad sign in my opinion if they haven't communicated a policy, and worse if there's a policy you haven't been told about that is enforced by stuff on the PC. As far as monitoring goes, enforcing a web proxy is fairly universal (and again, in a correctly set up workplace that might flag some alerts if the logs show you accessing sites used by malware or porn, but there shouldn't be anybody poking around a user's logs just to see what they find). Tools monitoring your normal use of the PC (like the ones with enforced webcam etc) are a massive red flag and should be avoided anywhere. There are plenty of games studios really struggling to adapt to WFH though, for many studios they haven't even needed to consider it before lockdown. e: for an indie studio there's a decent chance they are winging a lot of this, and although they might expect you to develop on that machine with just the normal tools on and no monitoring stuff, they might not have thought about whether you would want to use your own. Scikar fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Mar 9, 2021 |
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Mar 9, 2021 21:27
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bessantj posted:GET THIS MAN ON OUR TV SCREENS Jesus, how much commission does Steve Coogan have to pay him?
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Mar 9, 2021 21:29
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Speaking of Linehan my ma said he'd recently signed up to some women-only dating site declaring he's obviously a woman and they should stop discriminating against him? It was even more psychopathic when I looked into it https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/21/graham-linehan-women-her-dating-app-trans-transphobia-backlash/ I'd been struggling to get mum to not listen to the TERF bullshit in the mid-2010s and one thing that's helped has been her seeing the declining sanity of JKR and Linehan as the TERF Brain became terminal
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Mar 9, 2021 21:32
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critical support for graham linehan in his quest to make all terfs look like howling apes flinging their own poo poo everywhere
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Mar 9, 2021 21:36
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Guavanaut posted:That does sound bad. Maybe we should stop recording sex on birth certificates. generally cameras are better suited for the purpose
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Mar 9, 2021 21:40
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Marmaduke! posted:Jesus, how much commission does Steve Coogan have to pay him? I'm still laughing at the quick sand one.
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Mar 9, 2021 21:41
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big scary monsters posted:Well that's all well and good, but then afterwards I'd be on the Isle of Wight.* It’s actually rather lovely, around 20% cheaper than equivalent sized properties on the mainland, has lots of lovely sunshine and is getting an island wide fibre to the home rollout that should allow for better telecommuting. Historically some issues with education but i think they’re improving. Would rather move to Ryde than Portsea or anywhere in Southampton tbh.
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Mar 9, 2021 21:44
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big scary monsters posted:The SeaCat was so cool, I took it from Troon a couple times. Bring back that and the Dover-Calais hovercraft, all the ferry services are boring now. Went down a bit of a wiki hole on this because the first time I left the country was on a Sea Cat. Roaring across the channel to Calais for a week filled with pornographic playing cards, cheap fireworks and not very much French practice. Turns out they are basically aquatic concordes. The Stena Sea Cat sailing out of Harwich used as much fuel as the rest of their North sea fleet combined. The fossil fuel age was fun while it lasted.
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Mar 9, 2021 21:51
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Bit late to Cat Chat but Marcie is now 8 months old. I wanted to get a rescue but they make it almost impossible here so we got one from a local farm. 
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Mar 9, 2021 21:52
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Total Meatlove posted:It’s actually rather lovely, around 20% cheaper than equivalent sized properties on the mainland, has lots of lovely sunshine and is getting an island wide fibre to the home rollout that should allow for better telecommuting. Historically some issues with education but i think they’re improving. Would rather move to Ryde than Portsea or anywhere in Southampton tbh. I enjoy cycling on it, especially since the resurfaced the entire coast route.
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Mar 9, 2021 22:00
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Total Meatlove posted:It’s actually rather lovely, around 20% cheaper than equivalent sized properties on the mainland, has lots of lovely sunshine and is getting an island wide fibre to the home rollout that should allow for better telecommuting. Historically some issues with education but i think they’re improving. Would rather move to Ryde than Portsea or anywhere in Southampton tbh. Full of Tories though
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Mar 9, 2021 22:05
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Those would be the wights, one assumes.
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Mar 9, 2021 22:06
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Mar 9, 2021 22:06
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 OwlFancier posted:Those would be the wights, one assumes.
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Mar 9, 2021 22:08
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Guavanaut posted:Isle of wheats Isle of Wets, please dust them.
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Mar 9, 2021 22:16
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After a day and half of being forwarded every extremely low effort Meghan and Harry meme in existence, it's good to see the cask aged weird ones reaching maturation Also I don't who's who on the UKMT podcast, but goddamn that bit about "anti-radar icing" had me howling with laughter
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Mar 9, 2021 22:16
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An American journalist doesn't understand what OFCOM does lol https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1369397029261172737
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Mar 9, 2021 22:26
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Anyone got any experience of setting up salesforce for non-profits? We are completely at our wits end and getting no help (just generic emails) from the salesforce people. My colleague responsible for setting up the platform just needs to talk through with someone who knows what they're doing.
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Mar 9, 2021 22:37
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Bin it and use SugarCRM instead. An online cloud platform that gives you no actual support is useless, no matter how many features it has.
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Mar 9, 2021 22:58
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serious gaylord posted:Bin it and use SugarCRM instead. An online cloud platform that gives you no actual support is useless, no matter how many features it has. Too late, they've already paid out for it. Tiny budget. I'm sure it will be ok if we can just get over this initial hurdle! One volunteer knows how to use it once it's set up. I'm good at the relational database side, getting the data out of the old Access system.
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Mar 9, 2021 22:59
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thebardyspoon posted:I have a question for UKMT goons who work in games, I know there's a couple at least. I've asked my new job this question as my first day was ending but am curious so thought I'd ask. They've given me a PC to work from home on but it's absolutely massive, doesn't fit into the only area suitable as a workspace at all and is also worse than my actual PC performance wise. I'm not sure if it's mandatory which is what I've asked them. Is there a great reason why it would be? I guess like, security concerns and if they want to monitor me would be the main reasons. They only had it delivered today in the afternoon after I started and didn't give me any measurements or I'd have flagged it up beforehand obviously. Welcome! Yeah it depends very much on the company and the company policy. Mine gives you the option to remote in if you can't have the big PC at home and they keep the PC at work and always turned on. They're pretty lassaise faire if I'm honest compared to most other devs. We only became bigger recently and I'm sure something will go horribly wrong at some point. Though after the CDPR thing recently IT conducted a false flag operation by making a phishing email of their own and anyone who failed it had to go do mandatory IT training which was quite funny. Where the problem arises are publishers. They can be absolutely assholish, from demanding that everyone changes their WiFi password to be secure or installs some byzantine software. We had so much trouble getting people to be able to take dev kits home as well. Try creating a local Coop mode on switches on ad box mode with an entirely remote team. Fun!
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Mar 9, 2021 23:02
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People know the Greek monarchy wasn't like, actually Greek right. Just about all those ex-Ottoman Balkan countries got seeded with western dukes and poo poo in some kind of weird early run at loving with post-colonial politics. Like imagine that the British monarchy turned out to actually be descended from some obscure backwater Central European margaveduchy. Like you think "British monarchy? Must be the house of Widdeleebum, house of Bollingford, house of Windsor or something" but you look and the actual dynasty name is Saxe-Coburg Gotha. Crazy stuff, hypothetically. Grape fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Mar 9, 2021 |
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Mar 9, 2021 23:11
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Wachter posted:After a day and half of being forwarded every extremely low effort Meghan and Harry meme in existence, it's good to see the cask aged weird ones reaching maturation  
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Mar 9, 2021 23:12
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You could put the rest of them in bovington tank museum next to all the other knackered nazi poo poo.
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Mar 9, 2021 23:12
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 this one's my favourite
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Mar 9, 2021 23:14
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Too late, they've already paid out for it. Tiny budget. SalesForce isn't easy. You probably need a day or so to chat it through with a specialist consultantancy, might cost you £1000 a day but will hopefully be worth it. I have heard Ignyto are good.
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Mar 9, 2021 23:16
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Zalakwe posted:SalesForce isn't easy. Yeah I said today someone somewhere might have to put their hands in their pockets. Original salesforce wanted £20k to fully implement it and the charity just does not have that kind of money.
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Mar 9, 2021 23:19
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Grape posted:People know the Greek monarchy wasn't like, actually Greek right.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Yeah I said today someone somewhere might have to put their hands in their pockets. Original salesforce wanted £20k to fully implement it and the charity just does not have that kind of money. Yeah that sounds familiar. I would drop Ignyto a line, you can probably get a reasonable idea of what you're dealing with before putting your hands in your pockets. It depends what you're doing with it. We're doing some work with Marcloud who are good but they are mainly Pardot specialists. Beware there are a lot of snake oil salesmen. Good luck, I work for a far bigger organisation and Salesforce is still more than we need, a bit of a behemoth.
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Mar 9, 2021 23:27
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Grape posted:People know the Greek monarchy wasn't like, actually Greek right. on the one hand, you're right on the other, congratulations you well actuallyed a jpg
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Mar 9, 2021 23:28
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Oh no Jeremy Corbyn WAS JKR THE WHOLE TIME https://twitter.com/MaskOffCons/status/1369412384054509586?s=19
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Mar 9, 2021 23:30
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I went and found the blog post because I hate my brain. I'm not going to link it but holy poo poo this bitquote:The promotion of body dissociation via [TERF poo poo] autogynephelia & its corporate rebranding to transgenderism is done with an eye toward total technological control of women’s reproductive capacities and human sexual wholeness reduced to parts: eggs, sperm, wombs, vaginas, phalluses, breasts, uteruses, synthetic breast milk, synthetic blood, etc. Research is already being contemplated and the propaganda being rolled out to provide wombs and uteruses for men and the invention of a complete external womb. Did you think that controlling women’s reproductive capacities meant denying access to birth control, abortion, and education? Wrong, woke brain, it actually means the complete opposite of that and reproductive medical technology is all terrible and actually a way of controlling female bodies by ?????????
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I assume it's stupid woo woo naturalism poo poo which often has a really lovely values element to it too. If your body doesn't work how I think it should work then gently caress you.
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