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adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

@fromjason I’ve got bad news for you about the Tinylytics guy. He hates “pronouns”, worships the ground Elon Musk walks on, and is a rampant X and Grok user. 😞

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

When looking at my "#tinylytics" (good product btw) I'm so happy that the little oddities on my footer are being seen.

I wanted to do something that felt like a thing people would do in the 00s. It's really gratifying to see that people like them (or at least click on the "don't click here" link.

Oddities are a series in my story plot. Maybe I'll make more?

https://fromjason.xyz/p/stories/s/oddities/

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

@NfNitLoop @morrick i'm just glad other people have thought about this and I'm not the only one lol

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@morrick @fromjason As a native English speaker, I *know* the rule is to put punctuation inside of quotes, but as a computer programmer, that doesn't make sense to me when the quote itself shouldn't include that punctuation. (Especially when the main sentence is a question/exclamation, but the quote is not.) So I just break that rule intentionally. Glad to hear other languages do it "right" (in my mind, at least).

jwz wrote:

The fact that things continue working *after I have unplugged the monitor* makes me think that this some kernel initialization or dependency nonsense and perhaps there's some modprobe that could fix it, but I didn't see a smoking gun in lsmod.

Boosted by jwz:
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

Okay I'm a teacher so let me explain in simple terms what happens the second the US invades Greenland:

1. NATO dissolves.
This would literally be a founding member of NATO invading another member nation. This would be a gross violation of one of our longest held treaties in our history. NATO as it exists, would not, and could not, survive.

2. Instant war.
This triggers the defense clause of the post-WW2 agreement, a clause specifically written to trigger if this exact thing were to ever happen. We are instantly at war with (at bare minimum!) the other 11 founding nations: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the UK.

3. Financial ruin.
The EU is the largest holder of US foreign debt and it isn't even close. With every country now left defending itself, most of the EU decides that loaning money to a nation currently at war with them is a bad idea. They call in the debts, stop extending us credit, and within a week every US based business from Amazon to Walmart experiences an extinction level event.

4. We never, ever recover from this.
There is absolutely no way on God's green earth any nation ever trusts us ever again after this. How the fuck could they? Even if we get rid of Trump, even if we get rid of elected Republicans, even if we get rid of MAGA as an ideology itself, all we have proven in the end is that our friendship is capricious and can't be relied on because it could just as easily flip flop in another four years.

5. This isn't even including long term effects.
This is literally just what happens the very moment we send American troops to invade Denmark soil. We lose. That's what happens. We lose forever.

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 💀

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🔥 Configure via YAML and export a clean PDF via Typst

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#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/