The Guardian are asking about the experiences of Brits living in the EU, post Brexit. They have a form, which I have filled in. My answers are below:
Name*
Sarah
Where do you live? *
Portugal
Tell us a bit about yourself (e.g. age and what you do for a living)
I'm 49. I used to work in IT but now am in the holiday rentals business
Share your experience of life on the continent post-Brexit*
Not a lot has changed. Our old EU residency was no longer valid and we had to apply for new Article 50 residency cards. Portugal was very slow in issuing these and until we got them, we risked being deported if we travelled anywhere else in the Schengen area. A lot of Brits in Portugal are now working towards Portuguese citizenship, to get our rights as EU citizens back. This involves
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The Guardian are asking about the experiences of Brits living in the EU, post Brexit. They have a form, which I have filled in. My answers are below:
Name*
Sarah
Where do you live? *
Portugal
Tell us a bit about yourself (e.g. age and what you do for a living)
I'm 49. I used to work in IT but now am in the holiday rentals business
Share your experience of life on the continent post-Brexit*
Not a lot has changed. Our old EU residency was no longer valid and we had to apply for new Article 50 residency cards. Portugal was very slow in issuing these and until we got them, we risked being deported if we travelled anywhere else in the Schengen area. A lot of Brits in Portugal are now working towards Portuguese citizenship, to get our rights as EU citizens back. This involves having to learn Portuguese to an acceptable level and pass an exam, and the government/EU funded classes have become very popular. I passed my exam last year but need to wait a couple more years before I am eligible for citizenship.
Include as much detail as possible
How do you think you (and the UK) are now viewed? *
Honestly? It seems like the EU has more or less adjusted to the UK not being there and is just getting on with life. We don't think about you that often, and if we do it's usually about how the country has massively weakened itself. Brexit is very much a case "oh, they did that, bit strange, life goes on". While it seems like the UK is still obsessed with the EU, the sad reality is that the EU barely thinks about the UK at all. You aren't that important. Sorry, guys.
@zoeimogen I think if I ever reboot my long-form brain that's what I intend to do. I like the multi-column mastodon-deck style interface better than friendica for small chat things, but I can see how friendica's would work better for longer replies.
Context: my kid is mildly allergic to citric acid and citric fruit. Brings out eczema. And citric acid is in SO many things. And it’s painful checking ingredients lists for it.
This morning I wondered: can my phone OCR the ingredients list and check it?
My first thought was to make a little web app. But there doesn’t seem to be a OCR in web browsers yet.
Now this is interesting. A Fediverse platform developed by Cloudflare that inherently runs on Cloudflare without needing dedicated infrastructure.
The code is open source yet the platform itself is inherently proprietary. It's going to be very interesting how this unfolds given how unpopular Cloudflare is with many Fediverse admins
@Zoe O'Connell says that I need to post something. Here is a dreadful selfie taken in low light with the new @Raspberry_Pi@raspberrypi.social camera module version 3 with no IR filter. Haven't worked out how to do alt text in Friendica.
Stu
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