Don’t worry about seeming dumb or noob-ish. Everyone starts somewhere. How can we learn without asking questions or making mistakes?

The /r/selfhosted wiki is still amazing and you might learn the terminology needed to turn your “stupid questions” into smart ones :)

FOSS and FLOSS are political by default.

To be honest, the extreme negative reaction was a surprise to me, as I thought interaction between disparate systems was the entire point, but clearly we didn’t navigate the culture correctly.

Noooo fucking shit? If they spent more than a minute on a proper instance and not milquetoast mastodon dot social, they would have realised that a good number of fedi users despise shenanigans like this?

I think about a feature or bugfix that I want to work on, then shoehorn it in by any means necessary. Once my code is confirmed working, the planning phase begins and I go through the module(s) I’m working with line-by-line and match the original author’s coding style and usually by that point I pick up a trail or discover a bunch of helper functions/libraries that I can use to replace parts of my code, and continue from there.

As others have said, configuration files is a great way to learn that. Pick a config option you want to learn about, jump to the config loader, find where the variable gets set, then do a global search for that function. From there it starts to fall into place.

Sidenote: I also learned rust this way. It took me around 6 months to learn the rgit codebase solely from adding features that I wanted from cgit. Now I’m at the point where rebasing from upstream to my soft-fork doesn’t mess up any of my changes, and am able add or fix things with relative ease. If memory serves, a proper debugger (firedbg is excellent!) was used on several occasions to track down an extremely annoying and ambiguous error message that was due to rust’s trait system being a pain in my ass.

Tried swiping on the blocked community in the settings? I got it to show up that way.

Never thought I’d see microscoff astroturfing on Lemmy. We’ve made it!

Thanks for the new words to filter on here 😘

Definitely! Voyager has been wonderful when it comes to filtering and my filter/block list is massive. I do have the issue where the Lemmy timelines get stale quickly and All is a ghost town but its worth it to see mostly positive things. The desktop experience is atrocious.

On the microblog side, moving to an instance running Sharkey was the best thing to do as Sharkey has the feature to hide the CWs entirely.

From my experience, CW only works if the post is completely hidden from the feed without the option to view it.

Blahaj Zone had the option to yeet that shit from the timeline entirely and it worked amazingly until a migration fucked that up leaving it broken for months and my mental health dropped off a cliff because holy fuck did I not realise most of the people I followed posted so much depressing shit that triggered my cptsd. The urge to click the button was too strong.

Its par for the Fediverse course, really. Good ideas and half-assed implementations.

That’s awesome, congratulations!

I don’t have an answer for the windows audio codec.

Perhaps EasyEffects with the auto gain plugin would help in the meantime?

Screenshot is mine:

I haven’t opened any of the LPs, probably won’t until my frames arrive. I plan to light them up

Didn’t put many stickers on my bottle just yet. On my way to work atm and this is what I have so far:

I’ll probably make a post when its done 😂

Welcome back! No apologies are necessary, shit happens. I hope your career has some highs in the near future, keeping my fingies 🤞🏼crossed 🤞🏼 for you~ :3

My opinion of the new album is unchanged since last time I mentioned it. TTPD (the title track) is the only one I put on regularly. I’ve not made a playlist with the new tracks, I’m not sure where they fit in my personal “eras” playlist just yet.

My physical copy of TTPD arrived from the US along with the Target edition of Lover this past Friday. My bestie sent some goodies along with it which means I finally have merch!!! I got a tapestry with all of the album covers, a bunch of water bottle stickers from the Eras tour, and the Little Golden Book!! I was so excited that I bought a fancy water bottle for the stickers 😂

(the bottle comes today so yaaay!!)

I’m interested in your use of the Arc card for media transcoding. What one did you get and how would you say it compares to a GTX 960? The one in my server died and I stuck a spare 2060 in there a while back and am looking to downgrade to something sensible.

Most of my media is 1080p x264 with some 4k HEVC (and growing) if that helps.

THIS a thousand times. World of Warcraft became dead to me when it implemented voice chat in the game’s client. I can’t hear well enough for voice chat and while I can speak just fine, I refuse to buy peripherals so that the hearies can feel superior with their lack of environmental awareness.

@OP needs to check their privilege.

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The Talos Principle video was interesting to watch, thanks for the link! It shined a little bit of light on automated testing.

Theres also someone on YouTube who has been teaching an AI on how to walk and solve puzzles on its own, the channel name escapes me and I’m nowhere near a working computer to look it up at the moment :(

I’m sure you could end up writing a test that’s bad in just the right way to end up doing more harm than good, but I do think that’s the exception(heh).

That’s exactly why I’ve asked. That is where I’ve gone wrong with TDD in the past, especially where any sort of math is involved due to being absolutely horrible at it (and I do game dev these days!). I can problem solve and write the code, I just can’t manually proof the math without external help and have spent countless hours looking for where my issue was due to being 100% certain that the formula or algorithm was correct >.<

Nowadays anytime numbers are involved I write the tests after doing manual tests multiple times and getting the expected response, and/or having an LLM check the work and make suggestions. That in itself introduces more issues sometimes since that can also be wrong. Probably should have paid attention in school all those years ago lol

Doesn’t this rely purely on the fact that the test is right?

In my experience, yeah its normal. Have you seen the top rated comments with all of the emoji reactions? Those are rewarded with Steam points that can be used in the points shop. Jesters are hella easy to farm.

I’m a fan of hellpotting them.