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jwz wrote:

Let's try a different question: How do I make a Pi4b Debian 12.11 believe that an HDMI monitor is connected even if one is not?

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

We can all thank this slimy guy for both founding and demolishing the University of Austin. Good work, Joe.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/18/uatx-is-crumbling-fast/

jwz wrote:

GPIO madness.

Dear Lazyweb, riddle me this:

1. Boot Pi with HDMI monitor attached: works fine.
2. Boot without monitor: all GPIO inputs "flap" about once a second.
3. Plug in monitor: 10 seconds later, inputs start behaving normally.
4. Unplug monitor: remains good. Until reboot.

WTF?

Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5, Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) 12.11. Two different Pis, same behavior.
https://jwz.org/b/yk2F

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

While writing in markdown, you italicize a word at the end of the *sentence.*

Do you include the period or does the period live outside the italic marks?

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

This is "what if we combined the torment nexus with an agonizer, won't that be awesome!?" kind of unhinged.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Thinking most of software industry management and influencers are suffering from some form of chatbot psychosis. Instead of "inventing" a new maths, they think they've invented a new form of coding, and because dev is so full of bullshit already people aren't noticing that it's outright unhinged.

For example

> “It will be like kubernetes, but for agents,” I said.

Possibly the most cursed sentence I've read all day, and I've been reading up on the Greenland crisis

From https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04

Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
vowe@social.heise.de ("Volker Weber") wrote:

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

I've also got all my videos up at https://app.filen.io/#/f/23fed109-531f-4441-979a-113059452203%2351333731417654556164425132784665565848704f6f3939366647546f6b6b33 for anyone who wants a non-youtube way to watch all my content.

And of course, I'm on Hamish's peertube @chris

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

If anyone wants to take a look at my code for it, it's on codeberg:

https://codeberg.org/ChrisWere/vlok/src/branch/main/vlok

But I don't have a ton of space, so I'm going to be quite careful about what I choose to do with the hosting.

All my little bits and bobs are up at https://chriswere.wales

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

I'm trying something a little new, but it's still in its early stages. I'm taking a shot at hosting some of my own videos. I put together a little CMS in bash to do it, and it's all on my website.

https://chriswere.wales/videos/

Take a look if you fancy, feedback is welcome.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I would like to join a support group for writers who write long essays on their phones. Why do we do this to ourselves?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Gargantuan is such a fun word. I'm happy I get to use it in a post.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
eylul@social.eyluldogruel.com ("Eylul Dogruel") wrote:

#artWithOpenSource is not a personal tag.

it is for all visual arts, performance arts, film, photography, music etc that is created in workflows that involves #FOSS / #FLOSS software

the aim is to showcase that free and open source software IS an alternative used by hobbyists and professional creatives alike so feel free to use it when sharing your work that involves software like Darktable and Blender, and Ardour.

Its been a while since I posted about this so figured would do so again.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
dtm@mastodon.cc ("David Todd McCarty") wrote:

Inspired by @pluralistic

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

It's wild that “Made in USA“ and “Made in England" are a flex. What do those countries know about manufacturing?

It's like advertising Cacio e Pepe made in Ukraine. Like, I'm sure it's fine, but give me the authentic stuff.

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Spent 40 minutes on your resume and got rejected?
Now it takes 5 minutes 💀

📄 **resume-pipeline** — An opinionated TUI for generating tailored resumes

🔥 Configure via YAML and export a clean PDF via Typst

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/cntrvsy/resume-pipeline

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #devtools #careers #resumes #typst

Attachments:

• gifv: 6d4f36eff5541741.mp4

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

This is your regular reminder that you can donate to ease the suffering of those in our fediverse family who are enduring settler colonialism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide at the hands of Israel in Gaza.

https://gaza-verified.org/donate

Thank you!

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #mutualAid #fediAid

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
kallisti@infosec.exchange ("Kallisti") wrote:

@catsalad

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social wrote:

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@fancysandwiches/115913143132317975

No really, do Threads next. ICE and DHS have had verified accounts on Threads for much longer. If you're going to take a stand you should be consistent. If you don't want your users to be subjected to ICE and DHS on Fedi you should be defederating Threads.

https://www.threads.com/@icegov
https://www.threads.com/@dhsgov

The DHS account hasn't been active since 2024, but the ICE account is very active.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
babe@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:

Today's mood: violence :blobcatknife:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Jgbird@mas.to ("Jerome G") wrote:

Yellow-rumped warbler

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
janl@narrativ.es ("Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:

PSA: you can ignore the entirety of the LLM-industrial-complex without falling for the “see they are useful for something after all” narrative:

- these systems are based on theft (some of that still makes its way through the courts)

- they are designed to centralise power in the hands of very few people who are also objectively the worst people

- the businesses are not sustainable, nobody disagrees the bubble will pop before long, so making your craft depend on a subscription seems silly

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

yup

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2026/01/18

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ianbetteridge@vivaldi.net ("Ian Betteridge") wrote:

I’m shocked, shocked I tell you

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/greenland-freedom-city-rich-donors-push-trump-tech-hub-up-north-2025-04-10/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
sknob@mamot.fr wrote:

@futurebird The Indie Beat Television ( @TIBtv) which launched December 28th, uses open source software, was created by musicians, and features only videos by independant artists, mostly from the fediverse. The launch was a big success, people are sending in videos daily, and the quality is incredible.

https://tv.theindiebeat.fm

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
johnzajac@dice.camp ("John") wrote:

I wish we had spent the last 26 years teaching people that the reason the 2000 bug didn't destroy a significant amount of our infrastructure is because *we caught it* and *spent thousands of hours fixing it* BEFORE the year 2000

Because within that little perplexion - people thinking the problem was a hoax because it was fixed before it destroyed shit - is an encapsulation of the current era of Western politics, including COVID mitigation, lesser evil politics, fascism, and crime rate hyperbole

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cocoaphony ("Rob Napier") wrote:

RE: https://dice.camp/@johnzajac/115845954658479816

I spent a lot of time in the 90s working on Y2K. It wasn't a huge panic. It was just a slice out of everything else we spent auditing code. It wasn't "spend 80 hours a week fixing this." It was just boring. Incredibly boring. And we made it be ok by being bored and fixing stuff.

And the one thing I never thought would happen was that people would say it was never a problem. Oh good grief, it was a problem. All over. We just fixed it. Like we thought grownups should do when there's a problem.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
lucydev@wetdry.world ("Tech Goblin Lucy 🦝") wrote:

alr the sentence "the most human thing there is is learning and creativity. the least human thing there is is trying to automate that away." goes so hard imma drop it in my bio now

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lapcatsoftware ("Jeff Johnson") wrote:

WebKit is vibe coded now. Prepare for more bugs, as if there weren’t enough already.

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commit/ceb4a05a51792bd00d02a515945edc092ca6ac6b

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Going all “but it works great for me” even as the industry burns around you and the “it” is a right-wing political project built on disregarding consent, being applied to dismantle public infrastructure and institutions, is fundamentally a dick move.

And debating dicks is pointless.

/fin