ericjmorey

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[–] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The problem with those call centers isn't competency but authority and incentive to act autonomously to solve problems. Which is ironic because it looks like Microsoft is ready to sell ai with the authority to act autonomously.

[–] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd say it was 2000 when Gore's election win was stolen from him.

[–] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

I don't feel like I have a good sense of how valid the objections are.

[–] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'd like to hear more about the specifics if the issues you ran into. I keep delaying my options to start using passkeys because it's a lot to take in at once and the only services implementing them seem to be the most important ones that I really don't want to experiment with my ability to acess them. I haven't even been looking at the details of each service's implementation.

[–] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate on what it means to use a security key as a password manager? I'm not sure if I understand what you mean.

[–] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

Are you employed by this company?

[–] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In line with theoretical expectations, we have identified pricing as a particularly effective policy in those sectors dominated by profit-maximizing firms

It amazing how hard these companies fight against the things are the most effective (taxes).

[–] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Beehaw uses Open Collective Europe Foundation (OCEF) as a fiscal host.

OCEF charges an 8% Host Fee on Revenue

OCEF uses the Open Collective Platform for the various functions and services it provides (like payment processing and accounting tools)

The Open Collective Platform charges a 15% Revenue Share for Fiscal Hosts that collect donations through the platform.

Any tip given to the platform does not go to Beehaw at all.

All of the above is in addition to payment processing fees charged by Stripe.

[–] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's nice to see that others get it. Unfortunately, neither of us have any immediate influence on the largest social media platforms.

[–] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

This is presented in a confusing way to me. But I see after reading it twice that monthly recurring contributions are $80.82 per month (I'm assuming this is after fees that OCEF charges).

You have set a rough target of increasing that monthly recurring contributions amount to about $185 so that one off contributions aren't being relied upon to meet monthly expenses.

This seems like a very reasonable ask and very attainable.

I'm copying a monthly donation link here for people that don't want to scroll back up:

https://opencollective.com/beehaw-collective/donate?interval=month

[–] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago

New Jersey has a law like that for gas. Can only increase the price one time per day. But ut doesn't apply to all gass stations, just ones on the highway rest areas.

[–] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You made a good point and I immediately thought that reporting a gross profit dollar amount as an example of how profit margins are not slim as simply inappropriate. And I would have responded myself if you hadn't. There's no single dollar figure that can inform anyone about anything useful about the profit margin of a business. A number without context is useless.

 

U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, released text of the Senate’s bipartisan national security supplemental package and issued the following statement:

“As Ukraine runs low on ammunition to fend off Putin’s brutal invasion, it is imperative we finally extend our support. We must also live up to our commitments to our allies around the globe and quickly get more aid to innocent civilians caught in conflict, including in Gaza, where the humanitarian crisis is especially dire. I never believed we should link policy demands to emergency aid for our allies, but Republicans insisted—so Democrats negotiated in good faith over many weeks and now there is a bipartisan deal on border policy legislation. Ukraine’s fate and so much more hangs in the balance—it’s time for Congress to act.”

Summary and full text of the bill are provided within the press release.

 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/6470590

This looks like a great starting point for people with little to no experience with programming to learn to program using Python.

Everything taught by futurecoder.io can be used locally on your own computer. But futurecoder.io doesn't show you how to install Python on your machine but you can fill in that gap with the information provided @ https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Download

Other resources are provided on the python.org Beginners Guide if needed.

 

More up to date and more detailed information at: https://beehaw.org/post/683217

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/71764

The amount of apps being developed for iOS / Android is getting really crazy now and new apps keep popping up every day. Updated list below:

  • Artemis (iOS, Android, kbin, lemmy): link
  • Memmy (iOS, lemmy): link
  • Mlem (iOS, lemmy): link
  • Morpha (iOS, lemmy): link
  • Thunder (iOS, Android, lemmy): link
  • Beyond (iOS, Android, lemmy): link
  • Limbo (iOS, Android, lemmy): link
  • Jerboa (Android, lemmy): link
  • Slide (Android, lemmy): link
  • Sync (Android, lemmy): link
  • Unnamed (kbin): link

Most apps on the list are lemmy apps, meaning they don't work with kbin. Artemis is specifically designed to work with kbin, not sure if or when any of the other ones will go in that direction or become interoperable as there are some challenges with the kbin API at the moment. Having said that, a new API is in the works (https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/357) so things should get better with time. Some of the apps are in very early stage of development so it may happen that they adjust OS availability and platform support.

See info in table format with more details:
https://beehaw.org/post/697419

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ericjmorey@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org
 

What browser extensions do you use that you'd recommend to others?

Do you contribute to any FOSS browser extension projects?

Are there any non-FOSS extensions that you wish had a sufficient FOSS alternative?

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