By self-hosted you mean you have hardware geographically distributed? Like… boxes at friend’s houses or…?

All of these were taken by the state, not the workers, which was the question.

I know it’s asking a lot, but you could give an example instead of insulting me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I can’t think of any examples. Taking over the company requires capital, which is the one thing that capitalists constantly extract from workers so they don’t have any.

The workers of xs4all tried when their new corporate owners, KPN, decided to dissolve them. But a combination of lack of funding and unfriendly courts prevented that. They did end up starting a new company though…

We’ve already got free software for filing taxes, kthxbye!

Is it? Almost every time I use it I end up hitting a bug or missing feature. Just last week I was trying to get Word in Office365 to keep some lines together. I followed the instructions from Microsoft’s help and it didn’t work. Last month I was trying to get “slide M of N” on the bottom of PowerPoint in Office365, but apparently getting the N is just not supported.

LibreOffice almost always works for me, far more often than Microsoft Office.

I put a tl;dr sentence or two at the top of any e-mail more than a couple of paragraphs. Sometimes for those too.

I run my own email and I have to say I wouldn’t recommend it.

The biggest hassle is dealing with either Spamhaus or Microsoft, who apparently at random decide to put my IPs on blacklist, and who provide hurdles to working around this (for Spamhaus) or just say “no” (for Microsoft).

I was about 80% successful switching to Signal from Telegram. So worthwhile.

A huge portion of the Netherlands works part time by choice. So, yes, many people voluntarily waive parts of their salary.

Can you? When all businesses start using AI for customer interaction…

I use Edge on Linux for working with Microsoft stuff on my corporate laptop. For everything else I use Firefox there. Privacy preserved, basically.

I just use restic.

I’m pretty sure it uses checksums to verify data on the backup target, so it doesn’t need to copy all of the data there.

Why did you write this?

Nothing above indicates this is a new revelation.

And even if so, we should welcome new comrades to the struggle. That’s how we build solidarity.

From the link you provide:

In 2012, Australian psychologist Gina Perry investigated Milgram’s data and writings and concluded that Milgram had manipulated the results, and that there was a “troubling mismatch between (published) descriptions of the experiment and evidence of what actually transpired.” She wrote that “only half of the people who undertook the experiment fully believed it was real and of those, 66% disobeyed the experimenter”.[26][27] She described her findings as “an unexpected outcome” that “leaves social psychology in a difficult situation.”[28]

I mean, maybe it shouldn’t have been done?

Reading this made me wonder if I was having a stroke, because it seems like English but I don’t recognize so many of the words. 👴

Met CO₂ het laaghangende fruit is stoppen met fossiele bedrijven subsidiëren. Dat kunnen we niet doen, waarschijnlijk. 😔

https://t.me/A12supporters

Is dat waar? Ik dacht de grootste deel van de stikstof probleem komt uit boerderijen? Dus geen oplossing zonder minder vlees productie. Klinkt moeilijk.

My point is that if your variable can be None then you need the same pattern for the length check.

So for the Pythonic version:

if (foo is not None) and not foo:
   ...

For the explicit length check:

if (foo is not None) and (len(foo) == 0):
  ...

Honestly you’re probably better off using type hints and catching such things with static checks and not adding the None check.

You’d need to explicitly check for None if using the len() construct as well, so this doesn’t change the point of the article.