TootSweet

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I'm not sure why you're getting downvotes exactly.

A basic tutorial on web development like Sleepless One suggested is definitely a good place to start, just to get a basic overview of what you're getting into. I personally learn best by doing rather than by learning. What I mean by that is if I sit down to try to learn... say... the C programming language, I'm probably not going to learn much from it, let alone retain it. But if I decide I want to write a game in C and start writing the game even from what little I know about C, I'll learn as I go. Not to say for me there's no benefit in a "learn C" tutorial, but if you're anything like me, I'd recommend switching to doing the specific website you have in mind as early as possible rather than trying to "learn web development" before switching to the project that is ultimately your end goal.

Beyond that, you'll want to avoid falling into a trap of doing what feels to you like it'll work rather than what's "best practices" for "the industry." So the other thing I think will benefit you searching-wise is to look for information about not just how to make it (technically) work but also how to do the thing you want to do "right."

At least that's my recommendation.

Beyond that, are there any existing websites that closely approximate what you have in mind for an end goal for your project? If so, could you share one? I think it might help us with more specific recommendations.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Stationary bicycle. Now even more stationary!

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 26 points 7 hours ago
  • Your parents' divorce wasn't your fault.
  • If you still feel like it was, it's because your parents put that shit on you selfishly. (Possibly one more than the other.)
  • Therapy is recommended.
[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

I'm a little partial to FOSS, but:

  • Mindustry
  • Endless Sky
  • Luanti
  • Lemuroid (an emulator suite)
  • I've heard you can get OpenMW running on mobile, but I haven't tried it personally
[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 16 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Please be good. Please please be good. Please don't retroactively ruin the original.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 15 points 23 hours ago

Oh wow. I really want to hear the story behind that removal. Like, was it truly a DMCA takedown notice or just an instance admin doing a funny? Was it sent by someone who arguably has a case or some troll? What specific right(s) and with respect to what specific work(s) were claimed to have been infringed? I have so many questions.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago

To be fair, most of us have been "that lemming" at one point or another.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

If it's weird, we can be weird together.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

True, but it's gone in spikes largely driven by new strains since the original.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is a regular thing in Missouri. The people pass something and the GOP overturns it. Missouri's first forays into changing the legal status of cannabis were one of the better examples.

 

Just a 3D-printable reproduction of a video game asset that I made myself and am unreasonably proud of. (Yes, AntiMS is me, I promise.)

 

Khía uá síkheén óno síkheén khin!

 

Do you suffer from a personality disorder, suspect you might, know someone who does, or simply wish to engage on the topic with others?

That's what !personalitydisorders@lemmy.world is for.

 

I'm writing a Lemmy bot. (No spoilers. I'll publish it one day.) To test it, I'm running a local Lemmy instance (via Docker) on a computer on my LAN and pointing my bot at it. That method works great, mostly. I can use Lemmy-UI just fine on my computer. I can also connect to that computer from a browser on my Android phone via http://192.168.1.199:1234/. I can also connect to Lemmy directly from my browser on my Android phone via http://192.168.1.199:8536/ and get a JSON payload (rather than an HTML page) with some information about the instance. So I'm certain I can connect to both Lemmy and Lemmy-UI from elsewhere on my LAN.

I also want to see exactly what posts made by my bot look like in Jerboa, but I haven't been able to figure out how to connect to it from Jerboa. On the "add account instance" interface, you can select an instance from the dropdown, but you can also type whatever you want into the dropdown field.

I've tried typing in:

  • 192.168.1.199
  • 192.168.1.199:1234 (Lemmy-UI is HTTP port 1234.)
  • 192.168.1.199:8536 (Lemmy is HTTP port 8536.)
  • http://192.168.1.199:1234/
  • http://192.168.1.199:8536/

(And, yeah, I figure port 1234 is probably not correct because probably Jerboa doesn't go through Lemmy-UI, but rather directly to Lemmy itself. But I figured I'd include those experiments here for completeness's sake.)

But I get the error message "Couldn't connect to the instance."

I'm running Jerboa 0.0.77 and Lemmy 0.19.8.

Thanks in advance!

2
Xenomorph (avp.fandom.com)
 

This is for testing purposes, I promise.

 

I learned just recently that dbzer0 has a great piracy community that is blocked by lemmy.world . I'm not saying I'm looking to switch instances or anything, but it did get me wondering what else might be blocked by my instance that I wasn't previously aware of.

While we're at it, I'm curious what communities might notably be blocked on other instances as well. So we might as well just make this a question about what might be blocked by any particular instance, not just my instance.

So, what's blocked on some instances that folks might not have realized is blocked?

 

Coworker. I told him to fuck off with his conspiracy bullshit. But back when I patronized him, one thing he said was that he didn't consider belief a binary as in that you either believe something or don't. He viewed all beliefs as a continuum. You can believe one thing 10% and another thing 90%, but he wouldn't let me pin him down as to whether he "believed" any particular thing or not.

All while trying to convince me "tall white aliens" run the U.S. government and Sandy Hook was faked by a bunch of actors and the U.S. military had invisibility technology and planes that aren't dumping weather-controlling chemicals don't leave trails in the sky. Pretty standard QAnon-level bullshit. But if I asked him if he believed any of those things, he wouldn't answer. Honestly, it makes sense as a dishonest rhetorical tactic.

Dude also literally drinks borax in his juice cleanse drink.

 

Just as examples:

  • I've never played a Pokemon game despite being just the right age where my peers were really into gen 1 as a kid.
  • I have yet to watch any of the Alien or Predator franchise movies (except Prometheus, which I didn't realize was in the Alien franchise when I watched it long ago) but am planning on rectifying that when I can get a chance.
  • Oh, and I've never seen the "hawk tuah" video.
 

I think I like the flakes better, actually. I microwave-bake bread with onion in it daily and the flakes are nicer.

Minced? Pure madness. Let alone powder.

 

Another source: https://isdown.app/status/hulu

I was logged out of Hulu on my streaming box and can't log back in on any device. I don't know if this is all of Hulu or just in certain regions or what.

 

And it bugs me a little, but apparently not enough that I've actually done something about it.

 

I.

Hate.

Country.

Music.

Or at least that's something I'd've said, say, maybe 5 or 6 years ago. And it was true! I hadn't heard a single song I could identify as "country" that I could stand, let alone "like".

But it all started with Lil' Nas X and "Old Town Road". I think the first time I heard it, I dismissed it without really "getting" it. But when I started hearing and liking other things by Lil' Nas X, and when one of my favorite YouTube content creators said good things about "Old Town Road" on a stream, I listened again. More out of curiosity than anything. But with more context, I understood "Old Town Road" better. And, dare I say, liked it.

"It's ironic country music", I told myself. "It's ok for me to like that. It's got the affectations of country music, but it's not country music in its bones. It's actually pop if you really think about it."

I.

Hate.

Country.

Music.

(Except "Old Town Road" because it's only "ironically" country.)

See? It's so simple. The world still made sense. And I could listen to it and like it, and admit to myself that I liked it.

And then came Jelly Roll.

It was New Year's Eve (I don't remember what year it was), and I was watching New Year's Rockin' Eve as I do every year (and plan to this year). And on comes a country artist. I groaned and reached for the mute button. But my friend wanted to hear it. So...

He sang "Need A Favor." And, it was... good. I liked it.

Try as I might, I couldn't think of an excuse why I was allowed to like it. And I didn't listen to anything else by him for a good while, gut when I did, I liked it too.

I.

Hate.

Country.

Music.

(Except that one song by Nas X. And I guess I like that one song by Jelly Roll. But that's it.)

And I did listen to a little more Jelly Roll and it was surprisingly enjoyable as well. And I still hadn't resolved the cognitive dissonance when...

Bam! The most recent episode of SNL came on. And the musical guest was Shaboozey.

And since then I have not been able to stop listening to "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" practically on repeat.

And it was a few days before I let the ~~intrusive thoughts~~YouTube algorithm win and play me another Shaboozey song. It was "Highway." And holy shit, it was... if anything better than "Tipsy".

And I've listened to a bunch of Shaboozey since, and his stuff ranges from "actually really good" to "I can't stop playing it."

I...

guess I...

kinda... maybe...

like...

country music...

actually?

It's really surreal. But it's clearly impossible to continue to believe that "I don't like country music".

The jury's still out on Post Malone's "I Had Some Help" featuring Morgan Wallen. But honestly, I'm listening to it as I write this to try to form a more solid opinion on it and I can feel it growing on me a bit.

I'm not sure whether I'm changing or country music is. This is all still very new to me.

Maybe I've just been racist against country music until I started seeing some less "traditional" country musicians. A part of me is worried the country music I've been enjoying lately is going to end up being a gateway drug to the harder stuff like Kenny Chesney's "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" and Toby Keith's "As Good As I Once Was". But doing research for this Lemmy post, I just listened to a (small) part of each of those two, and I can report I'm at no risk of developing a habit of either of those.

...for now.

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