As some subreddits continue blackouts to protest Reddit's plans to charge high prices for its API, Reddit has informed the moderators of those subreddits that it has plans to replace resistant moderation teams to keep spaces "open and accessible to users."

Edit, there seems to be conflicting reporting on this issue:

While the company does “respect the community’s right to protest” and pledges that it won’t force communities to reopen, Reddit also suggests there’s no need for that. >Source: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762501/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview-protests-blackout

This was a lifer for me. Also, apparently #birdsfacingforward is a thing. 🤣

Is anyone aware of FOSS alternatives to Google Tag Manager?

I have a really simple use case where I'm trying to find a solution that can trigger tags based on:

• click class
• click ID
• click text

My tags simply fire javascript events to Plausible Analytics for tracking a few different web conversion scenarios.

In the past, I've tried Scale8 (it seems to have folded). I'm aware of Matomo's tag manager, but I already have an analytics solution, so I'm not really interested in deploying their analytics platform just for the tag manager plugin.

I recently came across RudderStack, but it doesn't seem to meet my simple needs. Or, if it does, its learning curve seems high.

While doing a Climate Watch bird survey this week for National Audubon Society (looking for the Lesser Goldfinch) I got surprised by this adorable Nine-banded Armadillo trotting across the road! Such a treat to see it wandering across a bridge.

This project leverages a BirdNET-Pi station I set up late last year. This digital counter pulls the latest daily count and species heard by the microphone in my backyard.

The most common species to visit and chirp is the House Finch. This bird blows any other species out of the water noise-wise.

I made a write-up on the project and how I programmed everything (and if you want to see a video of it).