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The only record I have two copies of: one stereo, one mono. They're both pretty crackly but it's one of my favorite albums anyway. #nowplaying #vinyl !vinyl@lemmy.world

I just tried to make a post on Mastodon and tag a community in it so that my post would show up in that community -- something I've done many times before.

However, in this case, there is a Lemmy user with the same name as the community, and it defaulted to tagging that user. Is there a way to tag the community specifically?

I didn't even realize that a user could have the same name as a community. I thought every fediverse actor had to have a unique at-name-at-domain handle, and both users and communities were actors.

Last week's post about early 2000s video game websites reminded me of this one. It has a few hallmarks of that era of gaming websites, like an image background and images for borders around the content. The markup is pretty retro, too: it uses a <frameset> and frames.

I'm not really sure when the site was made, but it was probably 2006. archive.org's first snapshot is January, 2007.

When Epic removed all Unreal titles from download stores, they mentioned xmpcommunity.com in their blog post. So this is now like an officially sanctioned way of playing the game.

They also mentioned oldunreal.com for getting the original Unreal game to run. That's another fairly retro looking site, although they did change from handwritten HTML pages to a CMS a few years ago. Still has some "old internet" elements to it, though, like a page about netiquette. Now there's a classic internet term. And page about netiquette with a cookie banner on it? That's like the duality of the web right there. That page is a metaphor for... something. I don't know what. But it is.

FYI, this blog post includes the best gif you'll see all year. OK, the best gif related to criticizing user interfaces.

What are your favorite songs that have a message about atheism?

I think the first song I remember hearing that had a clearly atheistic message was Freewill, by Rush.

I found this one more recently: Shine a Little Light, by The Black Keys. I like The Black Keys, but hadn't heard this album before. The lyrics are describing a person struggling with their faith. I like the part in the second verse about not being recognized by your old community.

Just thought this was interesting. Someone sent me a link to a Bluesky post (not about Waterfox), and when I looked at the post I was surprised to see Waterfox on the trending sidebar. It is, of course, because of Mozilla's recent talk about embracing AI.

Hope this turns into more momentum for the project!

Before today, I had never gotten one of these in less than a minute before...

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...and I still haven't!

Part weather forecast site, part performance art. Repent 2 ur weather lords.

edit: I got it, see bottom of this message.

tldr: In a git post-receive hook, I'm doing npx @11ty/eleventy &, with an ampersand at the end. Yet, when I git push, I still have to wait for the output of npx @11ty/eleventy to finish before I regain control of the terminal. Why is that? And how can I just tell it to continue without waiting for the npx to finish?

Longer question:

I have a website that is being generated by a static HTML generator (I'm using 11ty). I want the site to regenerate every time I push to a specific git repo, which is hosted on my web server. I'm using the post-receive git hook to do this.

If you aren't familiar with git hooks, it's basically a bash script that goes in the .git/hooks directory that will run every time specific things happen in your repo. You can check out the sample ones that are included by default in every repo: you've got post-commit, post-receive (for the server side), etc.

So I'm using a post-receive script on the server side to call the 11ty command and regenerate the site whenver I push a new commit. It works, and it's very slick.

git will show you the output of the script whenever you push to the server. Which is also very cool, except that I'd rather not wait for that. This site will eventually get very large, so I'd rather just push something and assume that the site regenerated without actually watching the output.

The command to regenerate the site is npx @11ty/eleventy. I had assumed that putting an ampersand at the end of that would make it exit right away without waiting for the command to finish. However, it still waits for the command to finish, and git shows me the full output of that command before I can use the terminal again.

What can I do to just make that script exit right after it calls the npx command, and not actually wait for npx to finish?

The full script right now is:

#!/bin/bash  

cd ../eleventy-site  
npx @11ty/eleventy &  

edit: Thanks to the recommendations from @cecilkorik@lemmy.ca and @sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz, I tried a few more things and found something that worked. I don't understand why this works, but it does:

bash -c "npx @11ty/eleventy &" &> /dev/null  

You do have to do bash -c instead of just calling the command, and both the & inside of the quotes and after it are necessary, and the > /dev/null is necessary, too.

There's a Mastodon bot that posts videos of random three-body problems (three planets orbiting each other), set to classical music. I figured this community would like it. The one that it just posted is the most interesting one I've seen yet.

Everything I was reading before has either concluded or is delayed, so I figured I'd pick up some collected volumes while I wait for new things to come out. I grabbed:

• Saga
• Watchmen
• Blow Away
• Absolute Batman
• Astonishing Times

I hadn't heard of Blow Away or Astonishing Times before, but they were in the "50% off because they came out a few years ago" bin, and they looked interesting.