Notices by John Francis (johnefrancis@mastodon.social)

@nixCraft a liquid that does not contain enough money to live on

@nixCraft it's not a normal legal requirement for employees to give any notice in Canada. Pay & benefits must be settled up to the day of resignation regardless of notice, no penalties for lack of notice.

Can be different under a CBA or specific contract terms, but generally it's a courtesy for resignation notice.

Employers HAVE to give 2 weeks notice. Not employees.

@foone that's how I want to spend my final days, high on strong opiates, shitting my pants, making the blinds go up and down with a tablet.

$500M fine for Weston/Loblaws in 14 year bread price-fixing scheme.

Loblaws revenue is $60B this year. It would have averaged less 2001-2015, but it would have been over $100B, so the fine is 0.005...

Assume you did well over 10y, making $100k/year, accumulating $1M, this would be a fine of $5000.

Hardly a punishment at all.

#canada

Loblaws army of accountants and tax planners will carefully shuffle it around to make it even less painful.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/loblaw-bread-price-settlement-1.7274820

@arstechnica 36s to pick up from a mains failure? Seems excessive.

@arstechnica is it hallucinating URLs?

@arstechnica ewww...no bathrooms

@nixCraft fiat money is infinite, and is only for the dynamic float over a much, much larger asset value base.

It's a phenomenal sum but a $7T investment isn't impossible.

It's a fucking terrible investment idea and would be a complete waste of the real resources that $7T can bring. The real resources need to go into important things that improve the world, like climate change mitigation and a pile of social spending.

@Gargron @mastodonmigration I still have a lot of concerns that by making something public, that anyone finding it considers themselves entitled to use it for any purpose. I suspect there are several content licenses that provide solutions. It's probably not a Mastodon concern, but maybe it's something that belongs in ActivityPub.

@arstechnica good luck getting one to show up. Maybe try sawing a large corner off your motherboard while the system is running, the kernel devs probably didn't think of that.

@Gargron @YurkshireLad thanks for clarifying.

Are there separate settings to opt out of commercial search engine indexing via web crawling, but opt-in to Mastodon's search indexing? I want the good people of Mastodon/Fediverse to find my content, but would rather not give it to Google etc.

Google has long been present on some instances with it's usual web crawling. I'm uncertain of the latest developments, but I think that mastodon.social both allows the crawlers, and might be selling a privileged view of instance data to Google or data brokers.

I'm fine with crawling and indexing, but the sale of privileged data that helps the ad-hawkers will cause me to leave this instance eventually.

Interesting, a high-interaction post I made yesterday has been already indexed by Google and produced a Google Alert notification within 6 hours.

@YurkshireLad @Gargron there was some grumbling months ago.

Still, people's labour costs money, I'm happy to be listed as a sponsor, for now.

But I don't want data to be sold into the advertising and marketing industry, even if it manages to be anonymized and GDPR-legal.

@arstechnica "you think that's air you're breathing?" 🤨

@davidho I still think the popup bollard that only lowers for buses is my favourite. A van tries to tailgate a bus and sneak onto the busway and the bollard pops up and rips off the oil pan, engine dead, oil everywhere, could not ask for a better video.

Still, these narrow bollards are a lot more practical and cheaper.