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Xeno Arena: „No Man’s Sky“ bekommt „Pokémon“-Schlachten
Kreaturen sammeln und sich dann mit ihnen duellieren: „No Man’s Sky“ bekommt eine neue Spielmechanik.
https://www.heise.de/news/Xeno-A…

USB-C-Anschlüsse: So funktionieren sie beim MacBook Neo
Kein Mac hat derzeit so wenige Anschlüsse wie das MacBook Neo. Für viele Anwendungen wird es Dongle brauchen – aber es hätte schlimmer kommen können.
https://w…

#Rant
Rob Shaw is solidifying his position as the new Dean of Right Wing, anti-Worker Legislative Reporters in British Columbia.
With these gems, it's incredible that he has an education or goes to a doctor at all…
"The BCTF is typically one of the most militant unions, and quickly prone to job action.”
BCTF Strikes since 2000:
2005
2014
phew! almost got to three!
Remember that this was at the time of a union-busting BC Liberal government that had to go to the Supreme Court of Canada to get told that they ripped up union contracts unconstitutionally and were *forced* to compensate many years later.
"The ratification is a win for a New Democrat government. And extraordinarily expensive for taxpayers, too."
“extraordinarily expensive. Really? How is a wage increase that is *barely* in line with inflation after literally decades of below-inflation increases, “extraordinary”? I'll wait.
"Teachers can thank the BCGEU for turning what was an initial 3.5 per cent wage offer over two years by government, into a more than 12 per cent increase over four that is now forming the baseline for all other union deals."
Indeed! For those who can do math, that means 3% each of 4 years instead of 3.5 over two. But thanks Rob for making it seem like 4 times more!
Thanks BCGEU members for your solidarity and perceverence! I have been on strike. It sucks HARD. But it was worth it and it works.
"The ratification by the BCTF means roughly half of the 450,000 public sector employees now have deals of some sort with the province. Two majors left on the table are nurses and doctors.”
Oh no! Let’s not pay doctors and nurses! Surely they'll stay regardless in our incredibly overworked and under resourced healthcare system!
Like how does Mr Shaw believe we are to stay competitive or attract people. Or is he just not worried about getting sick….
"The skyrocketing deficit has the NDP government inking sweetheart deals with organized labour on the one hand, while pledging to cut public sector jobs with the other.”
Ya, we could have kept those public sector jobs if it weren't for fools like you who demanded governments cut taxes over the past 20 years instead of reasonable rises to... again…keep up with inflation and retain service!
It is a crappy balancing act that the NDP is doing and I do not like a lot of it. At the same time as Mr. Shaw complains about "sweetheart deals" for people in post-secondary, I am seeing historic cuts in that same sector. It's a blood bath actually. So the potential wage increases are going to be welcome, but feel pretty hollow as so many collegues have left.
Rob Shaw would have had us all lose our jobs and take a pay cut at the next one for good measure.
Thanks but no thanks Rob, your world view sucks.
https://www.nsnews.com/economy-law-politics/rob-shaw-ndp-deal-with-bc-teachers-sets-another-costly-precedent-for-public-sector-talks-11966874

There’s life beyond VSCode… thought I’d share my dev setup:
• Main monitor: WezTerm¹ running in a three (sometimes four)-way split with Helix Editor² as my main editor, a terminal pane for general commands while working, and Yazi³ usually running in another for working with files/directories in a project.

• Other monitor: Sublime Merge⁴ always running full-screen so I can immediately see exactly what I’ve changed (in real time) as I’m working.
Others (not shown): Br…

As many as 150 U.S. troops have been wounded in the 10-day-old war with Iran,
two people familiar with the matter told ‌Reuters on Tuesday.
The casualty figure has not been previously reported.
Prior to Reuters' publication of the figure, the Pentagon had only disclosed eight U.S. personnel seriously injured.

Exclusive: As many as 150 US troops wounded so far in Iran war, sources say
As many as 150 U.S. troops have been wounded in the 10-day-old ​war with Iran, two people familiar with the matter told ‌Reuters on Tuesday.

Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at Japan’s loosening of its privacy laws in the name of AI competitiveness, bumper quarterly results from Asia’s biggest chip giants and Korea's response to soaring RAM prices.

In Japan it’s AI first, privacy last - Asian Tech Roundup
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at Japan’s loosening of its privacy laws in the name of ...

Südkorea: Mobilprovider versprechen einheitliche Mindestdatenrate von 400 kbit/s
Die größten Mobilfunkprovider Südkoreas wollen mobiles Internet auch nach Ausschöpfung des Datenvolumens künftig nicht mehr unbenutzbar langsam drosseln.

An asteroid that NASA used for target practice a few years ago
was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun,
findings that could help divert a future incoming killer space rock, scientists reported Friday.
It’s the first time that a celestial body’s orbit around the sun was deliberately changed.
The asteroid that NASA’s #Dart spacecraft slammed into was never a threat to Ea…

Spacecraft's impact changed asteroid's orbit around the sun in a save-the-Earth test, study finds
A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun. It's the first time that a celestial body's solar orbit was deliberately changed. Scientists reported Friday that the 2022 impact by the Dart spacecraft not only trimmed the asteroid's orbit around its bigger space rock companion, but also around the sun. Researchers say their findings could help divert an incoming killer space rock given enough advance…

Everywhere you look, the news isn’t merely bad. It’s terrible.
We’ve seen numerous examples in these last 13 months of Trump’s mendacity and malevolence.
Unfortunately, a lot of Americans will never see him that way.
There are those who adore him unconditionally, but beyond these dead-enders, there are others who know he’s not a good person but aren’t all that bothered by it.
That’s hard for millions of us to accept.
But I hope to God that these people are final…

How We’re All Now Paying the Price for the Myth of Trump’s Competence
The administration’s war with Iran is setting a mountain of taxpayer dollars on fire every day—mostly because he doesn’t know what he’s doing.

The UK’s top diplomat on Thursday rejected Iran’s toll plan for the Strait of Hormuz, characterizing the effort as a “hijacking” of the crucial transit route.
Iran is reportedly planning to charge firms in cryptocurrency to pass through the strait
— $1 per barrel of oil
— a move that reflects how the regime’s digital currency ecosystem has grown due to sanctions and the rial’s devaluation, The Wall Street Journal wrote.
Global powers are watching closely:
US Gr…

UK rejects Iran’s Hormuz toll plan
The UK’s top diplomat on Thursday rejected Iran’s toll plan for the Strait of Hormuz, characterizing the effort as a “hijacking” of the crucial transit route.