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

@fromjason @cory Now I kinda want to put something together for an analytics service… 🤔

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

I miss when my programming language news feeds were talking about programming language theory and not nonstop shit about vibe coding

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (Television Executive)") wrote:

Compassion will not be your undoing.

Boosted by jwz:
swelljoe@mas.to ("Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉") wrote:

They're the same picture.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

NYT just casually pushing their app (featuring invasive tracking) on web users by advertising that nobody on staff knows CSS.

Honestly? Checks out.

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

@adam ahhh I hear ya. I'm a recovering marketing executive so while I don't give a shit about SEO and I think it ruins the writing, I do still have the impulse to know where my readers are coming from maybe the answer is to go analytics-free idk

Thanks again for the heads up. Funny thing is I would've gladly continue to pay him for the service in perpetuity. But damn, I can't deal with that shit. Hell no.

@cory

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

@fromjason Yeah. 😟 @cory mentioned https://www.goatcounter.com but I don’t have any personal recommendations since I’m one of the weirdos who just doesn’t do any analytics at all. 😄

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

You can decide for yourself.

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

RE: https://social.lol/@adam/115918219861240813

Since not everyone knows or remembers, this is your friendly reminder that the Tinylytics developer is maybe just a little too bigoted and a little too comfy with fash people/tech.

(He also still works at Micro.blog, even though his name was removed from the website to hide that fact.)

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
tgpo@social.linux.pizza ("1hitsong") wrote:

Just saw a news article claiming the #Jellyfin for #Roku 3.1.0 update aims to convince #Plex users to switch.

We're not trying to convince people to do anything. We just want the Jellyfin client that we use to be the best it can be.

That's it.

If you wanna switch, cool. If you don't, cool. I'm not here to tell anyone what to do nor convince them to make any decisions.

Just enjoy your #media however you want to and be happy 🤘

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

@adam fucking hell. I don't like this one bit. I get the sense he'd love to see me deported. Can't support that. Thanks for the info.

Any recs? I really like the little "like" button on tinylytics.

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

@fromjason He might also be a little bit racist https://xcancel.com/%5Fvincentritter/status/1956263247620735122?s=46

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.