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@tapbots@tapbots.social also, here's Texas themselves saying you are charging taxes incorrectly.
https://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/publications/94-171.php
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@gintoxicating@transister.social
i post for attention and affection (it's a youngest child thing): memes, tech rambles, newly acquired domain names, and short irreverent nonsense i think is funny. ymmv.
seattle based. single parent. self-unemployed after >20 years in big tech
created 1st mastodon account: 2022-12-22
found out i was a girl: 2022-12-22
(former was causal to the latter)
i don’t use ai in my writing because it capitalizes words, and also because writing is the fun part for me (you do you!)
ask me about my banger domain names!
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lol phishing emails specifically targeting homophobic SendGrid users is actually pretty funny lmao
Now I'm curious how the data looks for us nerds over here on the fediverse: where do you register your domains?
If at multiple places, let's interpret this as if you were registering a domain today, where would you register it?
tackily if you don't mind boosting I'd actually like a lot of data on this I'm really curious!
one day it will work
got curious about the @ONLYOFFICE@fosstodon.org drama and it’s pretty funny how awful of a company onlyoffice is!
the russian owner/founder of onlyoffice did a fake open source project to extract free labor from community contributions while profiting off that unpaid labor
onlyoffice is in no way truly open source. i wouldn’t even consider it open core. many parts of the source are obfuscated or intentionally broken so you have to use their paid versions. the code is restricted through (arguably and likely unenforceable) additions on top of AGPL such as “you have to use our trademarks in any derivative work”… which would give them authority to restrict any derivatives from existence since they control licensing of their trademarks.
which hey what a coincidence that’s what they are trying to do now!! a fork, Euro-Office, are attempting to create an actual open source office suite and branched onlyoffice maintaining the AGPL license (their github goes into why they felt a branch was necessary - basically the many problematic behaviors of the russian company behind onlyoffice)
onlyoffice’s response is basically crying about being branched. yknow, a fundamental part of open source.
sorry but it’s absurd to claim to be open source and also be a little bitch about someone branching your project because it hurts your feefees and makes it harder to profit off of unpaid labor.
btw it’s pretty obvious how shit the company is just by going to the onlyoffice website. allll the hallmarks of late stage capitalism: surveillance cookies, popup ads harvesting pii, a self-obsessed old white man owner, tons of dark patterns trying to convince you self-hosting requires paying them hundreds of dollars a year.
(the last might not be misleading though, they remove functionality from the community edition over time to force paid usage. for example: they removed the ability to edit documents from mobile devices arbitrarily and without notice… but you can pay to get that functionality back!!)
great to see the Euro-Office fork push back against fake open source capitalism bullshit like onlyoffice.
rating: a++++ would rabbit hole again
maybe i’m a possum girl after all
privacy tip: always remove the “si” part of links. this is used to track and connect you (person who shared the link) and whomever clicks it (cute catgirl)
eg, instead of: https://youtu.be/-Gq1P2aaDqM?si=surveillanceiscool
send: https://youtu.be/-Gq1P2aaDqM
account linking like this can be especially dangerous for trans folks. sharing a link effectively gives anyone who sees that link access to what account you are on that service. your account can also be recommended to their friends and family
It’s most common in YT and Spotify, with spotify being imo most dangerous
“hey son what’s a nightcore? youtube thinks i’m interested in that and some Yuri guy. spotify wants me to be friends with someone that thinks she’s a robot. never mind im going to cancel wifi and live in the woods” (his daughter becomes a wood witch, so happy ending at least)
My Favorite Twilight Knockoff
this graph raises approximately 10 questions
o7
i went to the doctor today and told her i got bit by a wolf
she asked "where?" and i said "no, regular"
i think it, i post it
Honestly curious what people think: how can parents keep their children safe on the internet?
This is many questions, but the more interesting to me aspects are:
as technology exists now, what can a parent do to both provide their child access to the internet while not being negligent to their safety
what could technology do or change to make things safer for kids, and also give parents some peace of mind that this is the case?
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All Neocities sites are down because Namecheap locked the domain without warning... and with that, taken down a huge part of the indieweb.
Don't use Namecheap, and if you do it's easy to move.
Namecheap's customer service is awful and they are much more expensive than alternatives. Now is the time to leave. or later maybe after you've had a snack is fine, too.
boost this if LLM shills ARE welcome or safe on your pageas a trap
got asked on an app…
oh hey here’s a cute girl you should smash
the like button or something
(selfie, ec)
Seattle implies the existence of A-attle and B-attle
‼️⚠️ MISSING CAT, please help us find Cupcake before something unspeakable happens 😭
(please boost to help find our sweet umm kitty 🧁🐈)
TIL you can customize the appearance of youtube subtitles
inside you, there are two wolves
welp
texted my sister in law “i sent you some pens for your birthday too” and autocorrect changed it to penis
it’s over
i don’t understand what you said, but am flattered anyway
@tapbots@tapbots.social why does the Pastebot page say "Texas state and local sales and use tax is included in the sales price"? I won't incur a Texas state/local sales and use tax obligation. I WILL incur a Washington state/local sales and use tax though.
This sounds like I'm paying taxes I don't owe to Texas AND will owe a tax payment to my local jurisdiction as well?
all the images in your head were carefully curated by me
my doctor mentioned he also prescribes testosterone supplements
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@ppezziardi@amicale.net @ONLYOFFICE@fosstodon.org sure i can screenshot webpages i linked to in my first post for you :neoratThumbsUp:
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@MossGrowsOnNormanRuins@defcon.social use Story Graph it’s the slightly less shitty option™️
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@ONLYOFFICE@fosstodon.org @luatic@mastodon.social i’m really guessing here but at least people theorized onlyoffice was better built for an online office suite (as opposed to app based)
Looking at the LibreOffice site very quickly that seems relatively likely - the site seems focused on client software at a first glance
Collabora seems based on Libre and is online focused and might have made a reasonable base. But maybe since it’s built on top of Libre a primarily installable software they felt OnlyOffice was a more apt foundation. I’m really just guessing though.
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@tapbots@tapbots.social ok but i am pretty sure that’s an incorrect way to collect sales/use taxes (not a CPA but i’ve run online businesses for almost 30 years)
if i buy a license online, i owe sales and use taxes where i was when the purchase happened (my state) and not in your state. so you are both paying a tax not due and leaving me with a liability.
anyway I just decided to skip buying, i don’t need the hassle. thanks for reply
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@tapbots@tapbots.social you misunderstand what that means and that article is irrelevant. I do not owe tax in Texas, I owe tax in Washington. That obligation is not resolved by you paying Texas.
Post-Wayfair the economic nexus for a transaction is where the purchaser is when purchasing.
You are likely exposing your interstate customers to tax liability risk, and paying unnecessary money to the Texas government.
(BTW you also seem to violate Texas Tax Code §151.704 in that you do not separately state the tax amount.)