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Trying to attach an image to a post gives me a SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data error. Is this a me issue, this instance issue or a global lemmy problem?

New to the instance. Had a couple good days using Connect for Lemmy on Android before I started getting a message that the server is "undergoing maintenance", but the web version loads fine after a Cloudflare challenge. I assume this is what's causing the issue. Am I missing something? Is there some way to allow app traffic? Anybody else experiencing this?

Compare browsing on this instance

https://programming.dev/c/technology@beehaw.org?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=New

vs

https://beehaw.org/c/technology?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=New

especially the post "Site to track Subreddit’s as they go dark" which was posted 21 days ago, still showing up at the top of New on this instance even above newer posts, but beehaw has all new posts instead

and I am subscribed to that community so it should be federated too

I think part of the issue might be because that post is deleted? or at least the permalink for it doesn't work

but also I just manually searched for https://vlemmy.net/post/430910 so now it shows up but still below the bugged post, but it shouldn't have needed a search to federate that post manually

I've gone and made accounts of a handful of Lemmy instances, all of them larger, more popular ones.

... and I can't access any of them directly today, likely due to the influx of users from Reddit.

Programming.dev is alive and well though.

Hey everyone! Its been a week since I opened the icon poll so here are the results of what people voted for

As a reminder voting is handled by single transferable vote so every round the lowest voted entry is eliminated and the next choices of the people who chose that option is given points. If a person didnt rank all of the entries and doesnt have a next choice no other option gets their points

Icon Style

The icon style vote had 58 votes submitted total

Heres the final graph:

Round one is all of the first choice votes for the people who voted. For round two no unified style was eliminated and the votes were spread to other options. For round three general unified same col was eliminated and for round four all unified same color was eliminated

The overall winning option was All unified diff colors, winning with 36 final votes compared to general unified diff colors' 16 (and having by far the most first choice votes)

Ill be switching some of the communities (ones I made the icon for) over to the new style and new communities in the instance will be created with an icon in the style. Community mods though have the final say in what their community icon looks like and can choose not to follow this result if they want

Make sure to follow the branding guidelines of your programming language, engine, etc. Some require attribution if you edit the logo, some dont allow logo modifications, some dont have a default logo, etc.

If your language, etc. doesnt allow icon modifications you can do the same icon style but instead of a gradient logo you just have the logo itself, you can make a new logo for your community, or you can just have that logo

Icon Shape

The default icon shape poll had 37 total votes and was handled in the same format as the icon style

Pentagon was eliminated first and then squircle was eliminated

The final result was circle winning with 23 final votes compared to hexagon's 14

Community icons will have a circle shape in the instance by default but I will be pushing out a change eventually to allow toggling between different shapes for yourself for the communities on web

Thanks everyone for voting! You should see icons start to change in the instance soon

The sidebar for our instance has a broken link for programming.dev - it links to https://programming.dev/programming.dev

Good day, I have some really hard time getting my gpu passed through to a vm, my current host is linux mint. The bios setting is fine, but for some reason I get a black screen every time the vm starts.

Im not sure if the card itself have limitations. Just want to confirm wether I am wasting my time on this card?

Im basically try to do a single gpu passthrough with scripts that will release gpu from host and pass through to vm, till the vm is shut down, then the host have control over the gpu again.

Just wanted to make another quick post just in case someone missed the other one

The icon poll to determine the recommended icon style for the instance is going to end tonight in around 11 hours

You can see the original post here https://programming.dev/post/190520 and make sure to dm me with the options ranked based on your preference if you want to vote (you can click on my name and then you can send a message through lemmy using the send message button that shows up in my profile)

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/314158

Announcement

The bot I announced in this thread is now ready for a limited beta release.

You can see an example summary it wrote here.

How to Use AutoTLDR

• Just mention it ("@" + "AutoTLDR") in a comment or post, and it will generate a summary for you.
• If mentioned in a comment, it will try to summarize the parent comment, but if there is no parent comment, it will summarize the post itself.
• If the parent comment contains a link, or if the post is a link post, it will summarize the content at that link.
• If there is no link, it will summarize the text of the comment or post itself.
• 🔒 If you include the #nobot hashtag in your profile, it will not summarize anything posted by you.

Beta limitations

• The bot only works in the !auai@programming.dev community.
• It is limited to 100 summaries per day.

How to try it

• If you want to test the bot, write a long comment, or include a link in a comment in this thread, and then, in a reply comment, mention the bot.
• Feel free to test it and try to break it in this thread. Please report any weird behavior you encounter in a PM to me (NOT the bot).
• You can also use it for its designated purpose anywhere in the AUAI community.

From here the stats are far lower than viewing from lemmy.world. is it just me?

Edit: if you already voted see edit at bottom of post

Hey everyone, this is another post regarding choosing the icon style for communities in the instance

There was a bunch of issues raised about the last poll so Ive remade it. The last poll results will not count and instead these ones will be used

• Voting is done by single transferable vote
• You can no longer accidentally click vote

There are two Parts of the poll: The icon style and the icon shape

Icon Style

Note this is just to determine the recommended style for communities, individual communities can choose not to follow it if they want

Option 1: All Unified Same Color

This option is for every icon to have the same style and same color gradient

Option 2: All Unified Diff Colors

This option is for every icon to have the same style with the black background and gradient. However each community has their own colors for the gradient rather than having the same one for all of them. For example the godot community might have a blue purple gradient for their logo and functional programming might have orange red.

Option 3: General Unified Same Col

This option is for general communities (such as experienced devs, meta, programming, game development (things that arent specific to one language, engine, etc.)) have the unified style but other communities instead have the logo for the language, engine, etc.. For example game development would have the gradient icon but godot would have the godot logo

Option 4: General Unified Diff Col

This is a combination of options 2 and 3 where general communities have the gradient style but they also have different colors from each other

Option 5: No Unified Style

No gradient logos for any communities, instead having different style ones for every community

Icon Shape

This is the default shape that you want community logos to have when they show up. If a community logo has a specific shape (ex the godot logo) the voted on shape is overridable. Users will also be able to override whatever gets chosen locally, its just the default. Currently lemmy uses circles for both users and communities.

Poll Link

Edit: the website that was being used makes it very easy to cheat by just downloading a new browser and voting again as many times as you want. Due to this voting will be happening through dms to me. Sorry for all of the iterations of the vote but this will be a big change in the instance and I want to get accurate info

If you want to vote send me a dm with the options ordered based on your preference. Here are the available options (for the two different votes):

Icon Style

• All Unified Same Color
• All Unified Diff Colors
• General Unified Same Col
• General Unified Diff Col
• No unified style

Icon Shape

• Circle
• Squircle
• Square
• Diamond
• Hexagon
• Pentagon

Rank each category from your first choice to your last choice. If your first choice ends up having the least amount of votes then your second choice vote counts instead, etc. until one option has 50% or more of votes.

To dm me go to my profile Here and click on one of the send message buttons (secure message sends it through matrix while the other just sends it through lemmy)

Ill respond to you when I note down your vote to be counted (shouldnt take longer than 8 hours and I try to respond quickly, if I dont then something went wrong with the dm)

Voting will end in a week

Hey everyone! Ive made a third bot for the instance called Linker. This bot will automatically detect when you try to reference a certain community and then give both relative and direct links to it in a comment for people to check out.

The usual syntax when you want to reference a community is communityname@programming.dev with communityname replaced by the community name and programming.dev replaced with the instance the community is in

It will also detect when you link a community like this https://programming.dev/c/programming

Works for both posts and comments but will only handle communities that have been entered in the bot. To start with I've put in the top 50 most active communities in the instance but will put the rest in soon

If you have any suggestions for communities to link in on other instances let me know

Source Code

Now that people have settled in a bit into the instance and we have over 100 communities created I've created a new community that new community requests are going to be moved into rather than the pinned thread

Feel free to post community ideas in there and they will be considered to be added once they hit 7 points from upvotes

You can also request to take over communities that have inactive mods there

You can find the it using these links:

• Relative link
• Direct link

edit: if anyone stumbles onto this community creation has since been opened up and you can create one from the navbar

Edit: This link is outdated, see new poll here https://programming.dev/post/190520

Hey everyone

Wanted to run a poll about the community icons to choose between a couple options

Option 1 - Use UBP icons - Use unified icons for all of the communities similar to beehaw

Option 2 - Use UBP for general communities and specific language, etc. icons for specific communities

Option 3 - Dont use UBP icons

Vote using the strawpoll here (doing strawpoll so it can be ranked voting) [removed in favor of new post]

EDIT: I have remade the poll with two more options. If you voted in the previous one please vote again in this. The new options are just for adding different colored gradients to the unified icons for different communities

Quick example of this:

I've tried solutions explained here and here. I am trying to subscribe to some communities on the TTRPG Network. Am I missing something?

I registered on the web site today and then tried to log in on Jerboa, but it gives the Incorrect Login message. I figured maybe my first (autogenerated) password was too long or had invalid characters in it. So I've tried several times to change it, but neither the Change Password box in Settings nor reset password works. Both of them just changes the button to a spinner whenever I click it. What's up?

EDIT: It seems the same problem affects trying to log in (I'm still logged in on this browser, but I can't log in on any other). But it doesn't even seem to be specific to my user. No matter what username and password I give it, the button just keeps on spinning. Both on Firefox on Linux and Chrome on Android. So it should affect everyone. Strange.

EDIT 2: Logging in doesn't work on other servers running 0.17.4 (tried https://discuss.tchncs.de/login and https://sh.itjust.works/login).

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Huh. In the list with "fastest growing #Lemmy instances" are only spam instances now

I'm currently creating an instance ban list for Geddit to block those instances if they don't take action.. This is a disaster waiting to happen :lemmy:

https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse

@lemmy

I don't know if this is the right community to ask this sort of thing, but I think a community in the vein of thedailywtf.com would be a good fit for this instance. I'm sure we've all come across our share of WTFs.

We should probably submit a request to include our communities here as subreddit alternatives:

• https://github.com/GeorgeSG/sub.rehab (check the GitHub Discussions)

There are some other similar sites we could also update to as well:

• https://www.quippd.com/writing/2023/06/15/unofficial-subreddit-migration-list-lemmy-kbin-etc.html
• https://redditmigration.com/

Hey everyone! Just wanted to let you know of some features ive been working on for the instance and get some feedback on them to shape how they turn out

The main things mostly involve the addition of flairs around the website similar to reddit flairs

User Flairs

The first addition to be added is user flairs. Communities will be able to make flairs for use in their community with self assignable flairs, and flairs given by mods. These could include things like marking people who participated in a special event, adding in what specific programming language you use, or marking people who made contributions like making the community banner.

Mods will be able to create and assign flairs using a button beside the inbox button in the top right, and users will be able to get flairs from the sidebar

Flairs are put into flair groups which only allow certain amounts of flairs from that group to be chosen. For example if you have a role for choosing programming language and you only want people to choose one you can set a max of 1 for that flair group. (This can be set to whatever you want as long as its a nonnegative integer)

Post Flairs

Post flairs function essentially the same as user flairs but are put on posts instead. Flairs can be set to be only assignable by mods or able to be assigned by everyone and they are also in flair groups if you only want one of a type to be added (e.g. if you have category post flairs for help, news, etc. and dont want people to assign both help and news to the same post)

Community Flairs

Function the same as the other two but are created by admins and set by mods instead of mods and users. Are added to communities to show what category of community it is (e.g. gamedev, webdev, etc.)

Mod List

Currently in community both admins and mods show up in the mod list. Im aiming to add a small update to only show mods so that admins arent shown (as they arent the ones running the community) unless explicitly added

Ive got an image showing a possible setup for flairs. Currently all the posts in here have the same flair format as its not built apart from basic ui but can give a rough idea of it

Check the top comments from this thread "Reddit: Killing a Giant". I've seen our server URL floating around some of the sub comments in Reddit related threads on HN before this week, but this was the first I found linked from the top comment. Comment here if you spot anymore out in the wild. 🏞️

Welcome folks from HN! Feel free to say hello!

Hey everyone! Just wanted to let you know that we have a matrix room at https://matrix.to/#/#programming.dev:matrix.org and a discord server at https://discord.com/invite/kwyxvYEYt4 for discussions outside of threads

If youre a mod for a community I also recommend setting up a group chat for all of the mods in your community so you can chat between yourselves easily (theres a dm feature built into lemmy but as far as I know its just for two people). Ive been setting up mine on matrix but you can chat to see what you prefer

I'm new to Lemmy and decided to join this instance as /r/programming was one of the big reasons I joined reddit in the first place. Excited to be here, but I have a question on how do you create new communities? In some other instances I see that there is a button at the top called "Create communities" is it because my account isn't fully validated yet? Do I need my email assigned first?

Hi! Are there any criteria in place as to how this instance and its accounts federate with others? For instance, there are a few communities on feddit.de which I'd like to subscribe to, but they are not listed here, am I doing something wrong?