I don't think Gitlab have ever moved functionality from Community to any paid version, but you should understand carefully if the functions in the paid (and not open) versions of Gitlab would ever come on your radar. It's not unlikely as user numbers and user organisations increase. It'll be exactly at the point switching to eg Forgejo will be painful enough to pay. Switching when still small is easier.
So happy to see they're ingesting voting data again! They stopped a few years ago (which is also a few elections), which I thought was such a shame. Knowing what representatives actually do, and not just promise, is really the only thing that matters.
Elwin had some trouble with getting the API going. I ended up helping out, but I was in a big time crunch at the company I was working for at the time.
That's vastly different now, so I want to take a look at how we can properly do ingestion. Currently it's an ETL that is pretty flakey, even with tests. The backend-frontend is also a mess, wondering if we can just go vanillaJS without the mess that is pgtyped/prisma.
I'm kind of wondering if we can use ATProto too, but I'm not too familiar with it.
Elwin is also looking at municipality-independent instances (this is less about code and more about communicating with municipalities). They all want money, which is fair, but we're not sponsored or funded anywhere. Supporting this is fruitful thinking on our side.
The code is still on my gh [0], but i might make an org on codeberg for this and mirror to this back to gh
On one hand, it makes representatives accountable to the public, which is good. On the other, it heavily encourages voting among party lines, and makes lobbying a lot easier (as the lobbyists know whether the representatives voted the way the lobbyists wanted). This effectively moves the heart of government from the representatives themselves to lobbyists and high-level party officials.
It's a bad idea in the same way letting you photograph your ballot and upload it to social media is a bad idea; there's a reason most democracies disallow that.
That just means the forms of lobbying being permitted are antithetical to democracy, and is just bribery in a different form. The problem is with the lobbying, not the accountability.
Consider that you may not be doing this very well. Or that it is even possible to even know what your audience is (going to be). I have found the less I assume about my audience, and thus the more verbose and elaborate I am, the better the reception of my communication tends to be, on the whole. I'll save the terse and meticulous for people who I know and level with in terms of that preference.
Communication is all about adaptation. It is a dance, in that what you think is precise and clear is never going to be shared among every person you are trying to communicate with. Clearly if your manager passes your doc through an LLM, you made an error in judgement. If this upsets you (and I don't have unlimited energy for this either), you should find more likeminded, or at least sufficient numbers of likeminded people so that it doesn't take all of your time and energy away. There is after all a reason why you get along better with some than others, and communicative preference is one reasons why I think.
Sometimes I thoroughly enjoy having to stretch my mind though. I'd hate to work with only people like me (I have!).
> I have found the less I assume about my audience, and thus the more verbose and elaborate I am, the better the reception of my communication tends to be, on the whole.
I think knowing your audience is key. Am I creating something meant to be read in 90 seconds by high level leadership to reinforce the importance of the project, or to another team meant to help inform them what is needed on their end, or as an enduring detailed document record meant to show due diligence and proper protocol? I could write a document that contained all of those things and more, and no one read it.
You rarely have no idea who your audience is likely to be. Your town’s local paper, national paper, and financial paper are all written differently for different audiences and different assumptions on shared information, priorities, etc. A local paper is going to focus on impacts to Smalltown USA, where a financial paper is going to focus on market effects and will likely assume its audience has a higher baseline understanding of financial concepts than a local paper would.
People that can tell a good joke is another version of this. If it is the wrong audience or the wrong situation, that joke will fall flat. You have to be able to “read the room” to get people to laugh with you.
"Clearly if your manager passes your doc through an LLM, you made an error in judgment"
It could also be the PM, passing everything through an LLM to make it "more understandable". Clearly, they didn't care enough to check the result.
Really, there are apps that will intercept and exfiltrate your bank one time code sms that are just sitting on the play store? First I'm hearing of this, what's the name of one?
I may or may not use a single char password on a certain machine. This char may or may not be a single space. It may or may not be used in FDE. It's surprising what (OS installers) this breaks.
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