PhobosAnomaly

63 weeks!!! That's wild!

Not to be a Debbie Downer about it, but I'd honestly be bricking it that the company goes bust in the interim, and that accruement would be for fuck all.

I can only speak for the UK, but it's rarely an entitlement to have annual holidays paid, rather an option.

My currently employer will pay out if you've demonstrated that you've tried to take leave through the year and it's been declined for whatever reason - they'll pay the remaining balance. It's done that way to discourage people from hoarding their days off to try and get a monster payday at the end of it, rather than work themselves into a breakdown from not having any time off work which I can see the benefit of but still not entirely sure it should be at the discretion of the employer.

That, and taking the holiday days is effectively tax free. If you take a week off on a 40hr per week contract, then you get 40hrs worth of time off. If you get it paid, then you'll get at least 19pc of the leave pay going as tax, depending on where in the UK you are.

I've seen previous employers going with the flow and allowing employees to take their leave as paid if they want to, but effectively buying the leave pack at two-thirds rate for payment.

An old place I used to work for went halfway, allowing the carrying of ten days leave into the next year, but anything above that is forfeit.

As always, the devil is in the detail.

HouseHouse really need to make another Untitled Goose Game, or even just an expansion pack. That was great fun.

Absolutely love that CCC talk, very interesting and quite entertaining too.

Cheeky bastards.

The waste is a fair point - storage isn't a long term solution but then I suppose it can be managed in the interim, not like the effects of climate change.

I'm not seeing your point of "nukes" though?

I encountered Quishing the other day - the inadvertent scanning of QR codes that take a browser to a malformed URL or site with malware embedded.

Back in my day, it was just called "being a bit dense", especially as most cameras/QR readers will offer you a prompt to go to a website first.

Looks decent. The opening reminded me of Everybody's Gone To The Rapture.

I think it'll be unfair to call it "Fallout but without the nuclear bomb, more of a nuclear accident", but I'm looking forward to it all the same.

How is someone getting control of their data by paying a ransom?

The opposing actor still has your data, so it doesn't really matter how much you pay, you'll never be able to mitigate that security issue, surely?

All I needed was a reason

Ah I see you like the idea of England then 🔥🔥 💯

Nah seriously though, if someone paid me off to GTF somewhere warm and slightly less comfortable, i'd be all over that like a cheap suit.

His voice isn't much different!

I watch his videos because it's nice to have an insider view of what was the formative years of Microsoft's ~~assimilation~~ creation of a common office workspace. The anecdotes are deliciously 90's, the openness is refreshing, and the implementation detail is quite interesting.

My other half likes the videos because he has that quite monotone voice, with quite an even canter and the odd lingering pause that can send her to sleep.

Win win.

That's really cool, thank you for the explanation and example!