cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2004926

I was hungry asf.

But damn, got some white rice, beef, and some veggies (cucumber and radish) all with that signature sauce that Vietnamese restaurants usually have (I'm not sure what it's called).

And by the Vietnamese gods, it was amazing.

Just like eating it at the restaurant itself; still nice and warm (but then again, the restaurant was nearby my area).

Came in a white plastic container or whatever material you call it.

Oh God, I look back fondly on that meal I had almost an hour ago today.

I was soooooooooooo hungry too and now I'm not.

How is it that you can feel horrible when you're hungry (physically and emotionally) and then feel content and all is right with the world after having eaten?

Dunno... Just don't know...

Anyway, how you all doing? And what did you all eat today (so far)?

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/11035068

Hey everyone! Ill be starting to share updates on the frontend visuals here like I was doing with Pangora before it got merged into Sublinks

Starting off with some progress I've been making on the Home Page. Been taking things I enjoy from both alternate frontends such as Photon and Tesseract, as well as Misskey forks like Iceshrimp and Sharkey.

People who followed me as I was developing Pangora might recognize a lot of similar design decisions

Still in progress but ill try to share new progress at least every couple of days when I work on it with new additions

The left sidebar can be collapsed to show only icons for people who want a bit more space for post cards

Hovering over an option adds a popover saying what it is

In addition when you scroll down the navbar shrinks a bit to give you more space for post cards. On mobile the navbar hides completely when you scroll down and then shows again when you scroll up

The frontend is still heavily in progress so things may change a lot still before release as I refine it. If you've got suggestions feel free to give me them

I remember when I was on Reddit I would check it several times a day. But with Lemmy there doesn't seem to be that much content popping up to justify that. I'm finding myself less addicted to the platform genre.

How often do you check Lemmy? What do you subscribe to that keeps you coming back?

You’re not going to believe this: I was permanently banned from both these subreddits, r/SFXLibraries and r/AudioPost for “piracy efforts”! Where or how did I commit “piracy” in any of these reddit posts?! Only adding insult to injury; I got immediately muted from contacting both subreddit admins for 28 days! I didn’t even mention anything pirate-related like keygens or torrents. I just asked for help to locate these sound effect and music libraries to their source websites. Adding more insult to injury, after my 28 day mute expired, they muted me again for ANOTHER 28 days!

The same thing happened on r/TooAfraidToAsk when I tried to re-erect the page after Reddit's spam filter removed it after I was shadowbanned. r/TooAfraidToAsk claimed I'm now perma-banned due to breaking "Rule 3". How did I even "soapbox", "troll", "moralise", "sealion", or "spam"? They accepted it the first time and now I get booted for good this time?! It seems just asking this type of question is too dangerous!

So therefore, I need to ask somewhere else. But even those other sites aren’t fairing any better! - My Deviantart journal included. How can something as simple and innocent as asking where I can acquire this audio file (stock music for Most Shocking Police Videos or Sound Ideas/The Hollywood Edge sound effect) be treated as… a full-scale felony?!

I thought hard and I tried , and low and behold: they all deleted my question or block me because I “attempted illegal shares” or the question doesn’t really fit their forum site. Obviously, when there’s a question, IT NEEDS ANSWERS! What is an animation video without music or sound effects?! I have high doubts that Alvin Earthworm ever purchased any sprites or sound effects or music for his Super Mario Bros Z.

Why don’t YOU give me advice where I can seek this answer, because I am running out of places to try. And so far, no luck on The VG Resource either. Speaking of which, did they totally forget about iOS Jailbreaking, reverse engineering, and The VG Resource? These are ways to acquire things without getting into trouble.

I'm just trying to be like every non-profiting animator and make things like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKU2_RfIAc8, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk_3WQRizug and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFMkkkci-rw. These videos I found utilize Sound Ideas/The Hollywood Edge sounds. This guy and little boy uploaded it with no problem! Yet these mod bozos treated me like a worldwide-wanted criminal!

These sound effects are heard and used literally everywhere (cartoons, movies, TV, and especially video games). Therefore, no one should bother to care who’s using them, should they? Looking for one law breaker who’s using something very commonly heard is like looking for a needle hidden in a haystack. So I’m certain the copyright holder wouldn’t waste their time and money hunting down one individual with the “illegally” acquired item - let alone millions of them on this planet . Alot of people have used them for their “crappy” stop motion films and they never had problems. Next thing you know, they’re gonna invent and mandate a license to “drink rainwater falling from the sky”.

I have high doubts that these lego animators ever purchased these sounds. Note: these sound effects were free to download - at least back when SoundDogs was in control of distributing these sounds at that time period.

Why do you think sites like The Models/Spriters/Sounds Resource exist? To help others acquire games' decompiled assets - such as models, sprites (for things like a HUD or UI), OSTs/BGMs (Background Music or Original Sound Tracks) and, of course - sound effects. We've been putting OSTs and BGMs onto YouTube with almost no problems. So therefore, who should bother to care in this situation? This is no different than turning off the music in the game's options menu and playing with just sound effects enabled. And you can cue that sound effect in the game as much as you want to your heart's content. Speaking of which, did they totally forget about iOS Jailbreaking, reverse engineering, and The VG Resource? These are ways to acquire things without getting into trouble.

I'm merely making a homemade movie for entertainment and fun purposes only. I'm not doing monetary things like join Michael Bay and make a blockbuster as eye-peeling as his Transformers franchise.

Check-In each day with your progress

or

Start each day with a list of the most important things you want to accomplish.

or

Both

Prior Accountability Check-In Post

I haven't been consistent with keeping up with my check-ins and even forgot to make a ckeck-in post here for last week so this post is to cover the fortnight we're in the middle of.

I really should automate a posting to help myself out.

Check-In each day with your progress

or

Start each day with a list of the most important things you want to accomplish.

or

Both

(I forgot to post this yesterday before bed. I should automate a posting.)

Last week's post

Big or small, share your wins from this past week!

Check-In each day with your progress

or

Start each day with a list of the most important things you want to accomplish.

or

Both

(I'm going to start posting these on Sunday evenings.)

Next week's post (Nov 27 thru Dec 3)

Big or small, what was a win for you this past week?

I'll create a Weekly Wins post on Saturdays

I'll create a Accountability Check in post each Monday.

Maybe I'll automate both.

I didn't check in last night due to some a evening mess that needed cleaning.

What progress did you make yesterday?

What do you think about having a regular State of Discuss.Online update?

• Show some graphs of active users.
• Assess the activity of communities.

Discuss

• donations and costs
• What's new?
• What's planned?
• Progress on ongoing things

Small or large, what are you counting as a win this week?

I did a little reading on databases.

I did not work on the Summary Functions and Maps exercise on Kaggle today.

But I did get extra rest to deal with the vaccine side effects.

Ultimate goal is to get a Masters Degree, so I want to make progress most days. Not sure today counts as progress, but I didn't really expect much.

Hopefully I feel OK tomorrow.

Are you working towards anything?

I just got mine today. Wondering if the Discuss.Online crowd is staying on top of COVID-19 vaccinations.

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I made a post on a community on the Lemmy.world instance and I can only see it from my discuss.online account, not a separate lemmy.world account. Is this a federation issue? Not sure why this would happen if we’re federated with lemmy.world. Thanks for feedback!

Hey y'all. I'm not a huge fan of defederating other instances but I honestly don't know that hexbear is adding any value to our discussions. So far everything I have seen is trying to be edgy and gatekeeping with manipulative language. They also seem to enjoy stirring things up for entertainment.

So I pose the question is it worth it to stay federated to a seemingly bad faith instance for the few people who might understand and enjoy the lulz.

I would vote no but I'm open to the discussion.

Hello! Was hoping to make discuss.online my new home instance, but I'm having trouble accessing some communities on other instances:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

They don't show up in communities search, and trying to go to them directly returns a server error page, with an error message given like:

FetchError: invalid json response body at http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/post/list?community_name=rpgcreation%40ttrpg.network&page=1&limit=20&sort=Active&type_=All

I can access other communities on all of those instances...

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

... so I know it's not an issue with them being blocked, but it seems like they're not being fully federated either?

Anything I can do on my end to further investigate or attempt a workaround?

Hello,

I hope this is the good place to make this post.

I wanted to access this community from lemmy.today, but it seems that it cannot be found.

Is there anything blocking the federation from happening?

https://lemmy.today/c/[email protected]

Thank you for your help!

What goes on?