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Why Return-to-Office Mandates Aren’t Worth the Risks | Gartner, 2024-05-20

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/14

After decades telling management that remote work is best for most of the IT-teams, or in more general white-collar workers, Covid-19 proving it does, some managers still don’t get it.

After years of the Return-to-Office movement trying to get people back to the office, Gartner finally found out that RTO is a major risk of losing talent or not even acquiring talent.

[Wayback/Archive] Why Return-to-Office Mandates Aren’t Worth the Risks | Gartner

  • Nearly three-quarters of executives say return-to-office (RTO) mandates are a source of leadership conflict.
  • Lack of work-life balance ranks among the top five reasons employees quit.

Via [Wayback/Archive] David Chartier: “The Data Is In: Return-to-Office Mandates Aren’t Worth the Talent Risks …” – Toot Café

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A big oops: “Researcher finds a way to invisibly reverse Windows updates • The Register”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/07

Keeping an eye on this: [Wayback/Archive] Researcher finds a way to invisibly reverse Windows updates • The Register

--jeroen

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The 2002 “Cruft Force” scale in Aug02: The New Adventures of Verity Stob

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/05

All computers acquire cruft over time, though with the ever increased data storage space capacities, nowadays it usually takes much longer to notice the effects of the Second Law of Thermodynamics on your computer until it is way too late.

I got reminded of the “Cruft Force” scale in the 2002 DDJ column [Wayback/Archive] “Aug02: The New Adventures of Verity Stob” by [Wayback/Archive] bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺: ‘…”cruft force 9″…’ – Fosstodon

Spent the best part of a day attempting to recover a friend’s Windows 11 machine that had shat itself. Was reminded of the most EXCELLENT description of Windows putrefaction by Verity Stob www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~susan/475/cruft.html “cruft force 9” – in this case, Adobe had deposited a new Adobe Reader install one directory lower apparently every time it had been used (!). There were also 34 numbered Teamviewer binaries getting progressively bigger.

Having known Verity Stob from DDJ (often named “Dr Dobbs”, but officially named “Dr. Dobb’s Journal”) and El Reg (officially named “The Register”). Until recently totally unaware .EXE Magazine had existed, I didn’t know that before DDJ she wrote columns for it nor that DDJ took over after it got renamed to “EXE Magazine”.

Learning new things every day: I love it!

--jeroen

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Trekkous kabeltrekken – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/02

[Wayback/Archive] Trekkous kabeltrekken – YouTube

Niet goedkoop, maar wel praktisch.

Officiele benamingen:

--jeroen

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CrazyMyra: “After AI took his job as an online assistant, Mr Clippy was obliged to seek work in other sectors…” – beige.party

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/30

I love the new title-text for the 2018 “Clippy” picture at [Wayback/Archive] CrazyMyra: “After AI took his job as an online assistant, Mr Clippy was obliged to seek work in other sectors…” – beige.party

A metal toilet paper holder in a corner od a bathro,with an empty roll, that looks similar to a large paperclip

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NLZorg on X: “Klacht: Elastieken schieten steeds los vanwege dikke tempurmatras en nemen dan het hoeslaken mee. Een gebruikte beenband is voor zoveel van nut!”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/29

[Wayback/Archive] NLZorg on X: “Klacht: Elastieken schieten steeds los vanwege dikke tempurmatras en nemen dan het hoeslaken mee. Een gebruikte beenband is voor zoveel van nut!”

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Link to downgrade or cancel Google one membership : GoogleOne

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/29

From [Wayback/Archive] Link to downgrade or cancel Google one membership : GoogleOne:

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Trigger warning: recovering data of someone close to you which suddenly died

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/28

Sudden death sometimes is chosen, which makes it even for the ones close that are involved.

That’s why the below MCH2022 lecture by father and son Jilles and Jurre Groenendijk two years ago is really important.

I was reminded about it by a [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @jilles_com on Thread Reader App last week, but before that a big TRIGGER WARNING from the lecture:

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Aan- en uittrekhulp Doff N’ Donner, voor het aan- en uittrekken van steunkousen | Aantrekhulp voor sokken/panty’s en steunkousen | Winkel met Zorg

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/26

[Wayback/Archive] Aan- en uittrekhulp Doff N’ Donner, voor het aan- en uittrekken van steunkousen | Aantrekhulp voor sokken/panty’s en steunkousen | Winkel met Zorg

Aan- en uittrekhulp voor steunkousen (alle typen elastische kousen), de Doff N’ Donner ook wel Donner genoemd. De Donner is een uniek hulpmiddel om alle typen compressiekousen van alle drukklassen in alle maten snel en comfortabel aan en uit te trekken.

Video’s:

Deze kan zonder handschoenen gebruikt worden.

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Great tip by Jen Gentleman on Twitter: “Colour coding all my meetings – seriously I don’t know why I held off for so long, it made my calendar so much easier to read

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/22

Reminder to check out the tools I use so I can go [Wayback/Archive] Jen Gentleman on Twitter: “Colour coding all my meetings – seriously I don’t know why I held off for so long, it made my calendar so much easier to read”

This is the scheme that Jen uses: [Wayback/Archive] Jen Gentleman on Twitter: “@melvinjoosten Yeah – I have a lot of recurring meetings, so I use one colour for 1-1s, one colour for big team meetings, and one colour for office hours. It makes it a lot easier to spot the one off meetings which have been added to my calendar (which I leave the default colour)”

or in list form, differentiate between:

  • one-on-one
  • big team
  • office hours
  • default (for events added by others)

–jeroen

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