Rich Wareham

@richwareham
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I am staggered by the sheer hugeness of this.

The #WelshGovernment has a policy of bilingualism. All meetings include translators, so that speakers of English or Welsh can participate equally. But every member of the Welsh Cabinet is a native speaker of #Cymraeg, so the Cabinet meetings will be held in their native lsnguage.

#PlaidCymru #Wales

Imposing the #EnglishLanguage was a key component of the imperial project of Britishness. But the tide has turned. ๐Ÿ’š ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ

Remember 100 years ago when radiation was new and exciting and poorly understood, and companies were putting radiation into everything?

Thankfully we learned our lesson and will never make that mistake again.

Call me old fashioned, but I still think it's important to understand what you're doing.

GitLab is pivoting to "the agentic era."

If you can afford it, donate to Codeberg. Right now.

https://docs.codeberg.org/improving-codeberg/donate/

Donating to Codeberg | Codeberg Documentation

GitLab claim in their docs that you can verify your GitLab profile page on Mastodon by adding the Mastodon link to your GitLab profile but that's just false (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/599766).

That being said, I just verified my GitLab and codeberg profiles links by temporarily setting my website on both to my mastodon profile and switching back. A bit messy and I do wonder if the green tick will eventually go away next time the mastodon server checks.

Amount of AI I use at work: 0
Amount I am falling behind my peers: Also 0

Maybe AI is a thing for some people but not for me.

If you care at all about whether public bodies, like the NHS, publish the code you paid for, you probably want to take a look at https://keepthingsopen.com

#openSource

An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open.

Code paid for with public money should, by default, be open to the public.

I couldn't stop thinking about this so I had to make it and share it

Now That's What I Call A Music Duration Summary!

Here's a graph showing the lengths of every song on the first 100 Now! albums.

Bonus points for guessing the four outliers!

I have to tap the sign.