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Don't let the election results stop you from be(e)ing nice
  • This is a good reminder. Thanks.

  • Microsoft launches autonomous AI agents in November
  • 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.

  • The Most Important Election Of Our Lifetimes - Legal Eagle
  • I'd say it was 2000 when Gore's election win was stolen from him.

  • Meet the mothers in small-town Hungary leading a fight against Chinese EV battery plants
  • I don't feel like I have a good sense of how valid the objections are.

  • Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
  • 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.

  • Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
  • 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.

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    Audit Support Outsourcing Services
  • Are you employed by this company?

  • Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions: Global evidence from two decades
  • 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).

  • September financial update—and Beehaw needs your help rebuilding our donation base
  • 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.

  • Social media: Why algorithms show violence to boys
  • It's nice to see that others get it. Unfortunately, neither of us have any immediate influence on the largest social media platforms.

  • September financial update—and Beehaw needs your help rebuilding our donation base
  • 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

  • Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worried
  • 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.

  • Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worried
  • 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.

  • The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con
  • I don’t see how that thought process is exclusive to people who are or consider themselves to be smart.

    They aren't saying that this is exclusive to people who consider themselves smart. They're saying that they're more likely to fall for the trap by engaging with the assumption of not being susceptible to being tricked. Although I think the author does conflate smart people with people who think of themselves as smart inappropriately.

  • How Amazon “Lied, Spied, Cheated Its Way to the Top”: WSJ Reporter Dana Mattioli
  • AT&T simply had the laws protect them from competition for 105 years.

  • how's your week going, Beehaw
  • Cool beans!

    See you on Monday!

  • how's your week going, Beehaw
  • How often do you repost this question. Seems like the intent is weekly but it's been 18 days.

  • how's your week going, Beehaw
  • I hope no matter your situation that you find a way to avoid heroin or any other addiction to cope with your troubles.

  • Rooftop solar has a fraud problem. The industry is working to build back trust [NPR]
  • Residential home construction and renovation has always been a magnet for fraud. Take at least the the same level of precaution for solar installations.

  • Opinion | Don’t Get Fooled Again by Crypto
  • Back when Bitcoin was released, nobody was giving a thought to computer energy use.

    It didn't take long before people saw that energy was a major factor in cost of operations of the network.

    It was a poor design decision

    One that is fiercely defended by people who invested into the implementation. So it may not have started with it being anticipated, but not it is and people are actively choosing to perpetuate this use of energy.

  • Debunking the Top 10 Myths About Mastodon
    wedistribute.org Debunking the Top 10 Myths About Mastodon

    A lot of people make up all kinds of wild assumptions Mastodon, how it works, and what it is. We're here to help clear up some of the biggest ones.

    Debunking the Top 10 Myths About Mastodon
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    Learn Python from interactively @ futurecoder.io
    futurecoder.io futurecoder: Learn to code from scratch

    100% free and interactive Python course for beginners

    futurecoder: Learn to code from scratch

    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. > >

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    OpenELA - Community Repository for Enterprise Linux Sources

    OpenELA is a non-profit trade association of open source Enterprise Linux distribution developers.

    There are many Linux Distributions that are perfectly suitable for enterprise use cases and environments. For the purpose of this charter and project, OpenELA recognizes “Enterprise Linux” (EL) as 1:1 and bug-for-bug source code compatibility which today is aligned to RHEL and CentOS.

    OpenELA's mission is to provide a secure, transparent, and reliable Enterprise Linux source that is globally available to all as a buildable base.

    OpenELA is a collaboration created and upheld by CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE.

    Read the recent article on the formation of OpenELA by Richard Speed at The Register

    ParanoidFactoid may be interested in this development.

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    What I Learned from Maintaining a Repo During Hacktoberfest and Merging 356 PRs (November 2, 2022)
    www.freecodecamp.org What I Learned from Maintaining a Repo During Hacktoberfest and Merging 356 PRs

    Hacktoberfest is a month long celebration of open source. And this year I participated as a maintainer for freeCodeCamp's Developer Quiz Site [https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/Developer_Quiz_Site]. I merged a total of 356 pull requests and helped a lot of new contributors get started with open source...

    What I Learned from Maintaining a Repo During Hacktoberfest and Merging 356 PRs
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    Table: kbin / Lemmy Apps with Detail

    cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/73564

    > In table format with FOSS status, platform, and OS for your viewing pleasure: > > |FOSS| Name | Platform | OS | Stage | Source Code | Info | > |----|---------|-----------|------------|---------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > |YES | Memmy | Lemmy |Android, iOS|Android Release (Pending Play Store Approval)| Github | memmy@lemmy.ml | > |YES | Morpha | Lemmy |Android, iOS| Under Development | Gitlab | morpha@vlemmy.net | > |YES | Thunder | Lemmy |Android, iOS| Alpha Release | Github | thunder\_app@lemmy.world | > |YES | Mlem | Lemmy | iOS | Submitted for App Store Review (July 1) | Github | mlemapp@lemmy.ml | > |YES | Jerboa | Lemmy | Android | Released | Github | jerboa@lemmy.ml | > |TBD | Artemis |Kbin, Lemmy|Android, iOS| Private Beta (Starts End of June) | Unreleased | ArtemisApp@kbin.social | > |TBD | Limbo | Lemmy | iOS | TestFlight Beta | Unreleased | limbo@lemmy.world | > |YES | Beyond | Lemmy |Android, iOS| Under Development |Unreleased| original Beehaw post | > | NO | Sync | Lemmy | Android | Research | N/A | syncforlemmy@lemmy.world | > |YES | Slide | Lemmy | Android | Under Development (More information coming) | N/A | original Lemmy post | > |YES |Lemmynade| Lemmy | Android | Under Development | N/A |original Lemmy post| > > * TBA kbin app from @developerjustin (iOS, kbin Only, in development) - I've had a chat with the dev of this as-yet-unnamed app, but it's not ready for testing yet. > > Important note from frasassi@kbin.social > > Am super open to any apps, code repos, communities, or info I'm missing as well as updates.

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    UPDATED: There are now multiple iOS / Android apps in development for kbin & lemmy!

    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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    Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement - June 14, 2023

    Recent indicators suggest that economic activity has continued to expand at a modest pace. Job gains have been robust in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained low. Inflation remains elevated.

    The U.S. banking system is sound and resilient. Tighter credit conditions for households and businesses are likely to weigh on economic activity, hiring, and inflation. The extent of these effects remains uncertain. The Committee remains highly attentive to inflation risks.

    The Committee seeks to achieve maximum employment and inflation at the rate of 2 percent over the longer run. In support of these goals, the Committee decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 5 to 5-1/4 percent. Holding the target range steady at this meeting allows the Committee to assess additional information and its implications for monetary policy. In determining the extent of additional policy firming that may be appropriate to return inflation to 2 percent over time, the Committee will take into account the cumulative tightening of monetary policy, the lags with which monetary policy affects economic activity and inflation, and economic and financial developments. In addition, the Committee will continue reducing its holdings of Treasury securities and agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities, as described in its previously announced plans. The Committee is strongly committed to returning inflation to its 2 percent objective.

    In assessing the appropriate stance of monetary policy, the Committee will continue to monitor the implications of incoming information for the economic outlook. The Committee would be prepared to adjust the stance of monetary policy as appropriate if risks emerge that could impede the attainment of the Committee's goals. The Committee's assessments will take into account a wide range of information, including readings on labor market conditions, inflation pressures and inflation expectations, and financial and international developments.

    Voting for the monetary policy action were Jerome H. Powell, Chair; John C. Williams, Vice Chair; Michael S. Barr; Michelle W. Bowman; Lisa D. Cook; Austan D. Goolsbee; Patrick Harker; Philip N. Jefferson; Neel Kashkari; Lorie K. Logan; and Christopher J. Waller.

    Implementation Note issued June 14, 2023

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    Producer Price Index - 2023 May

    PPI for final demand declines 0.3% in May; goods fall 1.6%, services increase 0.2%

    The Producer Price Index for final demand declined 0.3 percent in May. Prices for final demand goods fell 1.6 percent, and the index for final demand services increased 0.2 percent. Prices for final demand moved up 1.1 percent for the 12 months ended in May.

    PDF Charts

    www.bls.gov

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    What are your favorite browser extensions?

    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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    Which programming languages do you use?

    It seems like there are about 22 27 46 219 320 493 1840 active subscribers here. I have a few questions for you all.

    • Which programming languages do you regularly use?
    • Which are your favorite to work with and why?
    • Which do you have interest in trying and why?
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    ericjmorey ericjmorey @beehaw.org
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