I had a customer email me and say “The company is asking all contractors to take a voluntary 10% cut in the bill rate.” With the implication that those not reducing their rates would be the first to have their contracts cancelled.
I sent them a link to the company annual report where they spoke in glowing terms about their $5 Billion dollars in profit last year and replied “I think they’ll be just fine.”
If you had "Mozilla leadership gets roasted by furries" on your bingo card, congrats.
The new one-time-purchase version of Microsoft Office is out.
As usual, Microsoft warns that it’s inferior to the subscription version, since it won’t receive updates and… *checks notes* … lacks the Copilot AI integration.
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Its absolutely amazing and I would suggest you look for it on Youtube later today! The beta will first come to a new app on your phone and then gradually move to the Envision glasses and finally to the web which would mean a desktop aplication.
🥳 Exciting news! @loops, the #Fediverse's answer to TikTok, receives a grant from @nlnet! 🎉
Get ready for a new era of personalized short-form videos, remixes, and community interaction - all with the freedom and privacy of #ActivityPub!
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Meet the W3C Team w3.org/2024/09/w3cteam.html
We are a international public-interest non-profit where since 1994 the Members, staff and public develop open standards and guidelines for an interoperable web to connect and empower humanity.
Our focus: security, privacy, web accessibility, internationalization.
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My main laptop is in the shop so I'm temporarily using another, and boy howdy do I miss how many ublock blocklists I've enabled on my main system that I haven't on this one yet.
Getting pretty damn sick of every other website stealing focus for their cookie consents/signup forms. How do people deal with this?
And buy your ublock blocklist maintainers a beer or other beverage of their choice, because they deserve it!
Aira X Meta Ray-Bans Beta: Over 75% of Waitlist Now Live!
Over 3/4 of our waitlist now has access to Aira’s professional Visual Interpreting via the Meta Ray-Bans smart glasses! Audio and video are working smoothly, but imagine how much more powerful these smart glasses could be with deeper Meta integration. That’s where we need your help!
If you already have Meta Ray-Bans, it’s not too late to join for Aira early access:
- Open the Aira app
- Go to “More”
- Tap “Smart Glasses”
- Select “Meta Ray-Bans” and complete the form
Your Voice Matters!
To unlock the full potential of hands-free professional visual interpreting, we need your advocacy for better integration with Meta.
Check out our blog for resources, launch details, and a link to our video overview on YouTube:
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I couldn't find any tally counters for #GNOME, so I wrote one.
Tally allows you to keep an arbitrarily large list of counters, colour coded however you like, with a filter mode to hide what isn't needed at the moment.
Install it on Linux from Flathub ⇒ flathub.org/apps/ca.vlacroix.T…
Kasasa is an app for you're taking a screenshot for your own reference and you want it's contents easily accessible. For these ephemeral snapshots, the app can hold them in it's own window. It's best used when you set said window to "Always on Top". If it's blocking something important, just turn it transparent by mousing over it. Capture and hold screenshots with Kasasa!
You can get the app on Flathub here: flathub.org/apps/io.github.kel…
Hey #blind #students of #Mastodon.
So I'm running into some accessibility issues in my algebra course involving graphing. I do not have the support of state services for the blind, however I'm connected with disability services on campus. Otherwise, I'm going at all this on my own and for the most part handeling things well.
However, I'm not exactly sure how best to overcome things where advanced math and graphing come into play.
My tools currently include a standard, non-graphic calculator, a laptop running NVDA as a screen reader, 80-cell braille display on lone from disability services and a whole lot of tenacity. So far, I've maintained a consistent A in my course, but with the graphing stuff, I'm concerned that might change.
So, what are your tools and techniques for dealing with this and more advanced calculatory things? What add-ons may be of use, what tools should I be looking at, and what questions should I be asking?
Thank you so much in advanced to anyone who offers any advice.
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in reply to Margaret Fero • • •Culture fit in individuals makes for worse business decisions; you just won't have the appropriate perspectives represented consistently if you're hiring for homogeneity instead of skill. Building culture as an organization, however, is critical to building the safe spaces where you can reap the benefits of that diversity WITHOUT crushing employees souls! (okay, not too much)
Culture has several components: Norms are the things you do, and values are why you do it - @phire at #Monktoberfest
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in reply to Margaret Fero • • •Values are a much stronger indication than culture fit of what the person will do when there is no norm yet. Instead of culture fit, look for values alignment. Not the marketing version of the values, though, the ones they actually hold.
A key logger company, for example, cites independent thought, transparency, and trust as the values underlying their decision to track everything done on company hardware. - @phire at #Monktoberfest
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