Hacker News: joeross

New comment by joeross in "POSSE – Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere"

joeross — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:50:23 +0000

Disagree that it’s hard to automate. There are services and tools that make it easy. I use micro.blog which can cross-post to as many or few socials as you want. (I’m not affiliated, just a happy user.)

And I’m not sure it’s about traffic rather than about, well, being active in multiple different communities. You cross-post where you don’t mind participating, and ignore the rest.

New comment by joeross in "Digg is gone again"

joeross — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:59:06 +0000

Lemmy has the same energy as ice: a bunch of rejects from other mod communities showing up to render their version of justice upon federated folks

New comment by joeross in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

joeross — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:54:58 +0000

Hegseth is so pathetic.

New comment by joeross in "Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere"

joeross — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 05:51:17 +0000

It’s the easiest out of the box way to embrace POSSE.

New comment by joeross in "Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office"

joeross — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 03:27:37 +0000

“collective wisdom” is basically a polite euphemism for groupthink and given that c level folks are all taking the same mba/sigma/cthulu worship courses it’s not surprising.

New comment by joeross in "A Map of British Dialects (2023)"

joeross — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 06:26:16 +0000

I agree, it’s very sattening

New comment by joeross in "The largest sofa you can move around a corner"

joeross — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 01:12:43 +0000

Replace sofa with refrigerator and somewhere a Siracusa will get its wings.

New comment by joeross in "Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce"

joeross — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 13:15:34 +0000

lol “optimal sauce” is such an HN approach to describing good food

New comment by joeross in "RIP botsin.space"

joeross — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 06:08:31 +0000

+1 for omg.lol, it’s a great community.

New comment by joeross in "Making Castro’s Feeds Update Faster the Lazy Way"

joeross — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:01:23 +0000

> The Castro app is so much better, it's like comparing iOS to Windows Mobile.

lol respectfully, this is a wildly bad take. yes you’re entitled to your own opinion, but you aren’t entitled to your own window mobile comparisons.

New comment by joeross in "ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives"

joeross — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 01:54:50 +0000

I have no programming skill at all and I don’t know a ton about ArchiveBox except I set it up and ran it for myself for a while, so I’m asking as an innocent, ignorant and curious geek, but is this something that could be adapted to peer to peer distribution or some other means of making it simultaneously as private and local as you want it and as distributed and bulletproof, uptime wise, as possible?

New comment by joeross in "Google's Chrome Browser Starts Disabling uBlock Origin"

joeross — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:59:42 +0000

For a while it’s my experience that 1Password doesn’t play nicely with… anything. I’ve had issues on Orion, Firefox, Chrome, Brave, Edge and Safari across MacOS and Windows machines.

New comment by joeross in "Why Don't We Use Awnings Anymore"

joeross — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:08:39 +0000

New comment by joeross in "Play 3.0 mini – A lightweight, reliable, cost-efficient Multilingual TTS model"

joeross — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 08:59:49 +0000

I still use FF, for now anyway, so I’m not trying to be a dick here, but we’re talking less than 4% market share, so it’s hard to fault a small team for prioritizing the 82% they get with Chrome+Safari

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:StatCounter-browser-ww-mo...

New comment by joeross in "Spotify is increasing US prices again"

joeross — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 06:34:48 +0000

At this price point, I'll use the YouTube Music sub I already have as a side-effect of having YouTube Premium, and for the same price

New comment by joeross in "Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists"

joeross — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 06:32:38 +0000

The Posterous founders started Posthaven after Posterous shut down, and Posthaven – by all appearances essentially a Posterous clone – is still going (and promises at least for now to stay that way): https://www.posthaven.com/features

One of those cofounders is probably familiar to YC nerds: https://blog.garrytan.com/about-me

New comment by joeross in "Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet"

joeross — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 06:27:38 +0000

Oof. I don’t think I e come across any of those people at omg but then again maybe I’ve been catpilled so I just didn’t notice.

It's a nice place to hang out because there aren’t many folks… misusing words like pretentious and claiming literally anyone is policing their life except, you know, the police.

New comment by joeross in "Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet"

joeross — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 06:07:46 +0000

> I’d like to see which accounts are using the services for a better community

It’s more like after you use it for a little while you look up and suddenly realize you’re in a new but familiar feeling community. It definitely skews developer/blogger/liberal, is openly inclusive and mindful of accessibility (not perfect, but always trying), there's a lot of overlap with various micro.blog/IndieWeb/fediverse communities, a lot of folks with active GitHub accounts doing interesting stuff, a strong photographer contingent, an overarching “positive vibe” as the kids say, and a clear sense that you don’t have to remind the kind of folks who enjoy using omg.lol that there’s a person on the other side of the keyboard.

Maybe that still doesn’t make much sense to you, but while I’m happy to pay for cool stuff people make on the internet, I’m paid up with omg.lol through 2030, which just isn’t something I would do anywhere else.

New comment by joeross in "Gmail, Yahoo announce new 2024 authentication requirements for bulk senders"

joeross — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 04:22:14 +0000

I haven't trusted the spam button or unsubscribe functions for a long time. It never felt like it worked. I've been making filters to auto delete stuff instead and it just works.

New comment by joeross in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

joeross — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 21:27:01 +0000

https://blog.joeross.me

The latest in a long line of blogs spanning back to 2005ish.