Software Cooperative News

SME Web – Internet advertisers: New cookie laws approved: reports that:
“internet users will have to provide consent to cookies being stored on their computers. This could result in them being bombarded with pop-ups seeking their permission to accept the cookies.”

However, the site doesn’t link to a text supporting that interpretation. The only reference is [...]

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I knew that / (slash) activated the Quick Find in Firefox and its close relations, but I didn’t know that ‘ (apostrophe) activated a Quick Find (in links). That’s quite helpful when jumping through web admin interfaces where I know which links I want, I’m using the two-handed keyboard (not the one-hander) and prefer [...]

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As well as being a member of TTLLP, I’m a member of the Co-operative Group, which (amongst other things) runs the co-operative shops in areas where there is no regional cooperative society, including Weston-super-Mare and Worle.
Congratulations to our Chief Executive Peter Marks for being named Business Leader of the Year this week.
Co-operatives employ 10% [...]

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An announcement for this meeting just dropped into my inbox with “Apologies for the lateness of this announcement; some crossed wires”.
It will be in #spi of irc.oftc.net as usual, at 2000 UTC. The agenda is available online and someone will email the logs to spi-general afterwards.

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With the more political/government side of my work for our co-op, I often send emails like this:
“Please can you resend the information as plain text, ISO OpenDocument, html, PDF or something else standardised? OpenOffice.org can load most Microsoft Office and save as ISO OpenDocument and PDFs. If you’re stuck …

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