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#1
Estimat Túischac'h, the Deputy Finance Minister is S:reu Ian Plätschisch, as announced in a separate thread here on Wittenberg. The appointment was made with the main purpose of serving as an US based signatory to the Treasury's accounts; I would assume he is likely to step up to be the next Finance Minister, but as the Leader of the Opposition probably knows, I am not in charge of appointing my successor. As for the expected income statement, the figure I was using as a ballpark estimate was about 80¤00 (120$), which I would have revised before making the statement based off any Q3 financial reporting that was made available to the Treasury for wider publication. I simply never got around to asking the Treasury for such a report.
#2
Voting on the November 2024 Clark is now open.

You can find the Clark at:

www.talossa.ca/files/clark.php?cosa=60&clark=4 (digital) or www.talossa.ca/files/clarks/November2024Clark.pdf (PDF)

You can vote here (MCs), in the equivalent Senate thread (Senators), or on the Database (both): www.talossa.ca/files/clark_vote.php

Voting is open until the 21st of the month, at 19h30 TST.

Senators are allowed to create a single thread in the Senate chamber to post all of the Senate Votes that are not cast in this thread. Any votes not posted either using the form above, the current thread or the Senate thread might be ignored and void. Please do not vote by email or private messages.

When you vote, do not indicate any conditions which may make it sound like this vote isn't final: you can always change your vote later.

Please do not vote by email: We've had problems with email votes being caught in the spam filter.




Sir Lüc da Schir, UrB
Deputy Secretary of State
#3
The Phantom Offices Removal (No 1.) Bill was submitted through the Database and has now been Clarked as RZ17.

I have now added to the Database and Clarked as RZ18 The Second Talossan Government Transparency (Repair) Act.
#4
It is my pleasure to open call for bills of the November 2024 Clark.

Eventually, the clark can be viewed in real time here:

www.talossa.ca/files/cosa_vote_result.php?cosa=60&clark=4 (for the votes)

and here:

www.talossa.ca/files/clark.php?cosa=60&clark=4 (for the bills)

It is NOT too late to submit bills, of course, as you have OFFICIALLY until the morning of the 31st of this month, provided your bills have been in the Hopper before end of business day the 15th, of course. I will make the Clark on November 1st's morning and bills submitted up to a few hours before that will probably also be taken.

PLEASE note that in order to support a bill, you need to:

1 ) Be a Senator, the Secretary of State or the King
or
2 ) Have been nominated as a Cosa Member for the upcoming Clark BEFORE the 15th,

To vote on the Clark, you will once again have 2 options:

1 ) You will be able to vote in the Clark thread (which will be created later on the 1st of November), as usual. I will enter your votes in the DB.

2 ) You will be able to vote directly in the database, using your usernumber and DB password (which you can retrieve at: www.talossa.ca/files/login.php using the PSC of the election)



Sir Lüc da Schir
Deputy Secretary of State
#5
The Chancery of the Kingdom of Talossa
La Cantzelerïă del Regipäts Talossan

The voting period allotted for the October 2024 Heir Presumptive Referendum having expired, I hereby announce the results are as follows.

The question was on confirmation of Sir Txec Róibeard dal Nordselvă as Heir Presumptive to the Throne of Talossa.

70 ballots have been cast out of 126 citizens eligible to vote. The turnout is therefore 55.5%. 12 votes were cast publicly on Wittenberg; all others were cast privately via the referendum website, https://referendum.lucabad.in/, and no votes were received by email.

The votes in favour of confirmation are 54; the votes against are 8; 8 citizens have abstained.

Therefore, a majority of votes having been cast in favour, I hereby certify that Sir Txec Róibeard dal Nordselvă is duly confirmed and named Heir Presumptive to the Throne of Talossa.



Sir Lüc da Schir, UrB
Deputy Secretary of State
#6
Voting is closed.
#7
I voted through the Database as follows.

On RZ14, I vote Contră. Reading its plain language, the bill does not do what it purports to do, as is made blatant by comparing this clause in the preamble:

Quotechange the current rules so [deputies] may be allowed to succeed the SoS on his or her leaving

with this clause in the amended legislation:
Quotewith the ability to replace the Secretary should he become unavailable

and noting that unavailable does not mean the SoS has vacated his office.

This therefore would only serve to sow the seeds of a constitutional crisis if a DySoS were to decide the SoS was unavailable and act in their stead without any kind of delegation, such as the one I received to run the current referendum.

I suppose we needed confirming that people don't read what they vote in favour of.


On RZ15, I vote Contră. As I noted several times, I support the donation but vehemently disagree with this umpteenth botching of proper practice.

On RZ16, I vote Per.

On confidence, I vote Üc.
#8
Yeah, I was worried about how servers would handle a new domain, we never really used talossa.com addresses before as the Chancery usually uses talossa.ca; there isn't really anything we can do about that I think, except to avoid being too spammy so the address is seen as legit. I just hope people who don't visit Witt regularly get one of three emails.

I do think things are going reasonably well, though. We're up to 48 votes (38%) halfway through, while the most recent midterm referendum only had 72 ballots cast (approximately 47-49% turnout based off the previous and following GE results).
#9
Wittenberg / Re: Ünă Cumpetaziun da Mocts
October 10, 2024, 05:05:44 AM
(There's alternative ways of doing this, such as using dead keys, but I thought I'd keep it simple.

For Linux users, it's a little less standard as you probably have Xorg handling your keyboard layouts via XKB, but it depends on your distro. I simply bruteforced my way through it by translating the layout in the correct format and manually appending it to the italian keyboard layouts file in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols - yes it's ugly, yes there's more correct ways to do it, no I don't care, if by chance it gets overwritten by an impossibly rare update I'll just overwrite it back.)
#10
Wittenberg / Re: Ünă Cumpetaziun da Mocts
October 10, 2024, 04:57:40 AM
Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on October 09, 2024, 05:35:33 PM
Quote from: Sir Lüc on October 09, 2024, 12:49:36 PMI also use a custom keyboard that includes all necessary characters for Talossan

Point me to a quick tutorial on how to make a custom Windows kybd?

You need this tool: https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=102134

It will let you:
- create a completely new layout (probably not what you want)
- load a layout currently installed on your machine (eg. en-us) and edit it (File -> Load existing)
- load a .klc source file, like the ones Istefan shared, and edit them further (File -> Load source)

Once you do that you can simply select a "shift state" on the left hand side - that is, if you want to edit what characters you enter when Shift and/or AltGr and/or ctrl are pressed. You will typically want to edit what happens when AltGr is pressed, so you don't alter any of the normal functions of your keys, and then when AltGr+Shift are pressed, so you can enter the capitalised versions of the same characters.

Once you select a shift state, you just click on each key and assign a character to it by copypasting it from elsewhere. For instance, these are the characters I assigned to each key when AltGr is pressed:

You cannot view this attachment.

When you're done, head to the Project menu to give it a name, test/validate it, and finally build it into an installer (Build DLL and setup package). You can then use the installer to add the layout to your PC and any other Windows machine.
#11
We're up to 30.9% turnout (39 voters) with 12 days and 6 hours to go. I'm planning on sending out a round of reminders tomorrow (10th), and on the 20th for the last day of voting.

Edit: The first reminder got sent out a few hours ago and we already have six new voters (plus one between the previous turnout report and the mailer being sent out), so 36.5% turnout.
#12
Wittenberg / Re: Ünă Cumpetaziun da Mocts
October 09, 2024, 12:49:36 PM
I also use a custom keyboard that includes all necessary characters for Talossan, both on Windows and Linux; this was mostly necessary because I was too used to the symbol placements of the Italian keyboard layout, so US layout based custom layouts were a no-no.

(Of course, making a custom layout was a great excuse for including many useful characters for programming, like ` and ~, and capitalised accented letters - particularly sentence-starting verb "È", "It is" in Italian, which is often replaced with the hideous "E'")
#13
Wittenberg / Re: Ünă Cumpetaziun da Mocts
October 08, 2024, 10:27:38 AM
Partiçipadréu glätsmint!

Quote from: Iac Marscheir on October 08, 2024, 09:49:51 AMHutsch, la cunxhuntivă cunxhuntïu neceßa reformaziun.

Créu ça nominadra 'n cervixhă, propi qe reformaziun :p
#14
Wittenberg / Re: Ünă Cumpetaziun da Mocts
October 06, 2024, 03:35:03 AM
Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on October 05, 2024, 04:29:15 PMI assumed that many translation service portals use some kind of AI in the background. And then made a further assumption that some kind of cheap AI service might be available. I could certainly be imagining all of this as a layperson.

Sadly the issue is that you need a humongous body of 1:1 translations for that to be possible, even before we get to how costly (computationally or econominally) it is to actually train a model. The situation hasn't really changed since the last time we discussed this, not on account of technology not advancing, but because there's no way we could ever amass enough training data.
#15
I'm very sorry folks, this had to happen the first referendum day I was going to be away from my laptop for an extended time. The platform is up again.