Nice! Now do the same for ipv6 :p

Any way to determine/estimate if the black squares are unused blocks (“give them back!”) or just not responding to pings?

Does this just create a gerontocracy where old members gatekeep forever?

I don’t think it determines a gerontocracy (do people really care about upvotes?) and I don’t think it solves the problem you’re worried about either.

How do you handle the first 30 days when no one has much weight?

You show upvotes as a %, so if a post has +.01/-0 it’s still 100% upvoted.

Would this actually prevent the decay, or just slow it down? Is there a simpler/better mechanism I’m missing?

In your scenario, “hardcore” members leave because the signal/noise ratio is so low that the community is not worth following anymore.

That has nothing to do with upvotes and all to do with mods failing to take down meme posts (assuming members don’t like memes).

A community is its mods: if they allow low-effort posts (without meaning to) they are not doing their job properly, and that’s probably due to the job being too difficult and/or requiring too much effort.

You could look into allowing older members to help moderate, or maybe into allowing mods to flag “trusted” users whose downvotes (possibly unbeknown to the users themself) will result in posts being taken down “for review”, or otherwise figure out some other way to help mods out, both when making up the rules (that too takes a lot of effort!) and when moderating posts/comments.

A lemmy/reddit-style community is its mods. Think of how to help them be effective.

Hand-coded or LLM-coded?

I, for one, am glad they are volunteering as guinea pigs in an experiment to see how long a popular project can survive LLM slop.

And if they harm javascript’s popularity in the process and projects start to look elsewhere… that’s an added benefit ;-)

Picard adds IDs too (well, I think it only adds musicbrainz ids, per default anyway, but those are the only ones I care about).

The lookup is automatic as well (you can review or intervene if it fails to identify the release).

It also has a plugin for replay gain (I redo that step in my script anyways) and can be configured to delete any previous tags if you re-process music that you had previously tagged with some other software (IIRC it doesn’t clean them up per default).

If you’ve not used it, I recommend giving it a try before deciding how to go on.

IDK if I’d recommend this to others, but I don’t trust unsupervised metadata lookup (I’m anal like that), so I lookup metadata with musicbrainz picard and then feed the files to beets only to keep my library organized.

My beets doesn’t do any lookup (no lookup plugins are enabled, none_rec_action: asis, fetchart configured to only look at the local filesystem).

TL:DR: the author recommends being the asshole lackey of asshole overlords

If it’s for recruiters, put it on github. That’s the one they are most probably familiar with and you want to minimize barriers to access.

After completing a task, my periodic scripts report success to a monitoring system (I use a foss, self-hosted on called gatus) which in turn will alert me if it doesn’t receive a heartbeat every number of hours.

The simplest (= most basic) solution would be to assign several IPs to the machine (you can add multiple on the same network interface) and have each service listen on a specific address.

IDK if I’ll try it but… you should really change the distro’s claim: “unix for human beings” sounds like the distro is an ubuntu ripoff.

You’ll need networking basics for anything you do (there are lots of courses on youtube).

After that, you can just follow wherever you curiosity carries you :)

See https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.use

Might be that you are at the end of your distro-hopping journey, which isn’t when you have found the perfect distro, but when they all start to look the same

Err… you write markdown and hit “preview” before posting?

Also, the edit box (PC, browser) has a question mark button that will take you to https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html

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What you describe sounds like a hardware failure (one where btrfs plays no specific role).

If that’s indeed the case, you can only bring the drive to a data recovery service and see what they say (if it’s a spinning disk, they’ll probably recover the data for an exorbitant fee, if it’s an SSD idk).

PS: this is unlikely to work, but… you can try cleaning the drive’s contacts to see if it makes any difference, and also try moving the drive to a different connector (or use it on another computer)

Terrible posting etiquette

Agreed!

Though it’s very widespread, sharing a link without a word of comment is as obnoxious as those people who send you emails with no text or subject and only an attachment.

I feel less alone knowing that someone else also hates this practice.

IDK if it’s the “best” way, but generally I just let ping run for a while and check the statistics at the end

Your worth is not determined by abstract internet points.

Sometimes people won’t get your message/point and downvote your contributions. The reason might be you not doing a good job at communicating (in my experience, it’s usually is that) or it might be them misunderstanding or you might not fit the community you are contributing to (eg. if your political view is not generally accepted in a community).

Don’t worry about one of your posts/comments occasionally getting downvoted.

If your contributions get downvoted consinsently (which seems to be the case from what you write? I don’t really are enough to go look at your account’s history), consider if continuing as you are is of any benefit to you and/or the community and if it’s still worth your time.

In case, try seeing if it’s a style/tone/manners/respect thing that you maybe want to improve on or if it’s just not worth it and it’s better to go somewhere else or stop entirely.

There is no law saying we must fit every community (I left communities and even an entire Lemmy instance for that).

Also, this discussion is entirely OT since it has nothing to do with programming, and I am reporting it as such. If it’s downvoted or ends up being taken down (I hope so), it’s not because of some conspiracy against you.