The UK also relaxed its recruitment rules in 2022, allowing citizens with foreign-born parents to join security agencies, to increase the labour pool.

You could have foreign-born parents before 2022, it just had to be from an ‘approved nation’ (no prizes for guessing which nations those were).

Most countries don’t, it’s important to remember that the country isn’t Taiwan but the Republic of China and it continues to lay claim to mainland China, so any recognition would sour relations with the PRC.

This must be what other countries feel when they see stuff like this:

What is this country coming to that you can pressure your adolescent son into doing cocaine and having sex with a prostitute and be called a bad farther? It’s not trauma, it’s character building!

How could Anna Isaac be such a scab /s.

In response to the decision to strike, Tortoise issued a statement saying that it was saving the Observer from its decline into “irrelevance”.

I’m not the biggest fan of the Observer (it’s where the TERFs are), but this is quite the statement to make about an asset you want to buy. It’s also obviously false, the thing James Harding is after here is the prestige of an established and (somewhat) trusted name.

Read the change log for 0.19.6 (0.19.7 is a very small bug fix release). The big change is the parallel sending of activities, though it’s meaningless for us. It’s for .world-> far away instances (e.g. lemmy.nz) as world sends more activities than network latency allows.

Other than that, some good bug fixes, like the controversy ranking changes that will be most of the downtime. The relaxed cookie permission in lemmy-ui is going to, personally, be a great relief. (If you’ve ever run into the issue of clicking a feddit.uk link but Firefox refusing to say you’re logged in, this should fix that)

One issue though is that Lemmy now applies size limits to thumbnails, which is great for storage space, but some apps where build around the assumption that thumbnail_url in the API was just a local copy of the original image. There’s also an issues with lemmy-ui that image posts without a thumbnail don’t display as image posts, so I’m leaning very hard in the direction of disabling local thumbnail generation until apps update and the lemmy-ui issues is resolved.

I get your point, but this has such “it’s gnu/linux” energy.

Yeah, to go with my Detective Comics Comics comic books.

🤓 ☝️ Actually black and white are shades, not colours.

By launching his illegal and unprovoked full-scale war of aggression in Ukraine 1,000 days ago this week, not only did Vladimir Putin accelerate the largest war on the European continent since the Second World War, he also sought to rewrite the international order.

This is also why we continue to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all hostages, the massive scale-up of humanitarian assistance, and the cessation of violent settlers’ activities in the West Bank in the interests of both Israelis and Palestinians.

Compare and contrast when a UK/French ally commits ethnic cleansing vs when a UK/French geopolitical rival does it.

Also, real absurd that these paragraphs:

In those exceptionally challenging times, we believe that the most pressing global problems need multilateral solutions. After the Bletchley Park AI Summit last year, we will work together to make the AI Action Summit in Paris a success in February.

We will address the challenges and seize the opportunities of AI, and ensure we narrow the digital divide between developed and developing countries.

Are followed by this:

Protecting our populations also requires protecting our planet. We will step up action on climate change through the implementation of the Paris Agreement. Ten years after its adoption, we will keep pushing for the highest possible level of ambition, on the road to COP30 in Belem. The ocean is one lung of our planet. After adopting the BBNJ treaty, we now need to push the ambition further towards the UN Ocean Conference in Nice, next June.

It seems the bridge didn’t see the reply. Might be something worth making a bug report about. (Also, ignore the update profile entry, I clicked the icon by accident)

Your reply is there? Did it just take a while to go through?

One day someone will read the two line sidebar.

If I was to seriously pick a food for ambrosia contender, it’d be a curry, probably rogan josh.

Also, a pudding was not what I expected when I looked up watergate salad, honestly the most American thing I’ve seen today.

The chip butty (with chippy chips) is the closest a human can get to eating ambrosia and it’s sad you’ll never experience it.

Screaming at my single-threaded, synchronous web scraper “Why are you so slow, I have a 4090!”

Why would an RTX 4090 make Python faster?

You can, it’s just that individual accounts need to opt into the bridge.

At this rate, the closest thing to a new Disco Elysium we’re getting is the book on all these disputes.

This might be a db0 issue tbh, here’s that 196 post on .ml and slrpnk and it works fine.

The reason the AI posts works on previous versions is probably (I know nothing about how lemmy-ui works) because lemmy-ui sees a URL with an image extension and puts it in an <img> tag, they must’ve stopped doing in 0.19.6 and stated using the MIME type in the API instead.