I remember cobbling something like this together myself using a Kodi plugin called PseudoTV a number of years ago
Definitely a lot more usable from a browser for sure. I'd echo other comments that a TV guide style interface would be a fantastic addition that would take this from a "that's cool" to something I'd potentially regularly use.
This is how these EU regulations get their teeth: turnover not profit and global not local to a region—they can't creatively account their way out of the fine and it's always going to be big enough to really want to avoid, no matter the size of the company. None of this "the fine is just the permit fee for those that can afford it" attitude.
I have to assume at least one company is going to try setting up a company, completely divesting from it, and contracting it to perform operations in the EU. With an open process for tender, even.
The exact example you're describing is what the ActivityPub spec and the resulting "Fediverse" are aiming to solve. Mastodon and compatible microblogging platforms are distributed versions of Twitter, Lemmy & Kbin are compatible distributed versions of Reddit/HN style link aggregators.
Given the boost both of these parts of the fediverse have gotten from Twitter/Reddit's series of missteps recently, they're starting to look like they could become viable long-term alternatives.
Any kind of life extension breakthrough is going to introduce heaps of problems in how our society functions. It is fundamentally not designed to cope with people not retiring and dying.
Plus, if we've not figured out how to live away from this planet in perpetuity around the same time, we're going to quickly run out of space too.
Yet we have seen that reducing disease, improving mortality rates, increasing life expectancy and quality of life leads to lower fertility rates. When people don’t have to put their children to work in the fields and factories, and children don’t die all the time from disease, people have less kids and focus more effort on them. Those were/are life extension breakthroughs that, while introducing their own societal problems and changes, were a huge benefit to society as a whole.
Living in a rich country vs a poor country is living with life extension breakthroughs. Living now vs 200 years ago is living with life extension breakthroughs. Saying that the breakthroughs up to this point were ok, but any more would be some sort of unnatural abomination feels myopic and short sighted. Plus the idea that it is better to let people die rather than figure out how to adapt our society feels grotesque. How is the right answer “don’t research this life saving thing because if we save people’s lives then they will keep hanging around existing”?
> Any kind of life extension breakthrough is going to introduce heaps of problems in how our society functions. It is fundamentally not designed to cope with people not retiring and dying
Looks like Japan is already there, and many developed countries are only increasing in population because of net immigration.
There is not much information about it, because that gone through as a change to IR35, so people slept on it, but in reality companies can only hire on "in-scope IR35" contract and bypass employment law altogether.
> No! We're just here to promote the use of NREs because we believe this is our chance to increase the productivity and fortunes of Great Britain, especially post-Brexit.
So, disingenuous as hell - it's totally a protest site but claims to be pro.
Native and Electron apps have two advantages over web though. Fist one is, that they do have access to the file system. This makes a whole range of applications (like Git Kraken) possible. The other is that an application has an icon in the taskbar/dock. When somebody pings me on slack I know where to go to read it. When somebody calls me in hangouts, I have to go fishing for the tab or window with the site open.
You're aware there's a mass of evidence that the DWP is, at best, ineffective and trending towards excessively cruel in its capability assessments? It's not exactly something that's gone unreported.
Your friend is lucky, I know several people personally who have been dragged through the courts for months before they were able to get their incorrect assessment overturned.
I used to be a welfare benefits adviser. Even under the old system, I saw absurd decisions that were overturned on appeal. Under the new system of ESA and PIP, assessments have become a complete farce. ATOS/Maximus assessors have no real training in health and social care and appear to be incentivised to reject claims.
The stricter regime for both ESA and JSA has created a dreadful gap in the benefits system - people who aren't sick enough to claim ESA, but too sick to claim JSA. Many people with health conditions that vary over time are refused ESA because their condition is quite mild at the time of assessment, then repeatedly sanctioned on JSA because they become too sick to keep up with their jobseeking activity obligations. There appears to have been a particularly severe impact on people with mental health conditions and learning disabilities.
Our benefits system has become overly complex and extremely unforgiving. A relatively minor error can leave someone completely destitute. The services that help people navigate the benefits system are under severe pressure due to austerity cuts. I'm no bleeding-heart liberal, but I think that our benefits system has become callous, unreasonable and ineffective in preventing poverty.
And (to address your other comment) I assume you aren't being literal with your specific example (because the guy you were responding to didn't literally mean people were assessed on their ability to walk to a shop specifically), but yeah there have been reports of people who can't walk very far getting told they're fit for work (For instance this guy: https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/photographer... from earlier this week)
'...and claim this doesn't count as real evidence?'
If the guy had replied saying he actually did know the person I would have to accept that as true. He didn't.
Despite recent evidence, this isn't The Guardian and I am willing to believe that most people here are honest and don't just make stuff up to suit their political agenda.
To answer your question, two lefty news articles and fakenews.com don't count as evidence, no. His word would have been good enough for me.
Even if there were govt reports on the topic they would be too dangerous to publish and if the parliament dares to force govt to publish them there weren't any reports in the first place...
Man, I'm happy not to live in the UK.
Definitely a lot more usable from a browser for sure. I'd echo other comments that a TV guide style interface would be a fantastic addition that would take this from a "that's cool" to something I'd potentially regularly use.