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..and do you think that you posting it has a positive, neutral or negative effect on the world?

By content I mean what ever you're posting online. The pictures you post on Instagram/Pixelfed or messages you're writing on Lemmy, YouTube comment section, Facebook and so on.

If you look back at what you have posted in the past year for example, do you consider it to be the kind of content that you would gladly consume if it was coming from someone else? If not, then why are you posting it in the first place?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Lol, I only comment on lemmy. No insta, tiktok, Facebook, LinkedIn, pixelfed, YouTube or anything.

I also read my own comments so I really do consume my own content and circlejerk my own opinion.

There is content I'd "create" which is shitpost reposting and I'd gladly consume it. The more the better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do repos on GitHub and assorted messages on text-based communication platforms count as content? Because if that's the case, then all the time, because I generally write stuff down in case I proceed to forget exactly what that function did or why I calculated this bypass coefficient like this or why for the love of fuck does vivado keep reverting to incremental synthesis and how did I fix it last time aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

As for if my random technical nonsense has any bearing on the world, not really, outside of maaaybe the demoscene if the SID stuff works out, and the few people who like reading my ramblings for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

what's incremental synthesis ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Aa far as I'm aware, incremental synthesis is vivado trying to build a new FPGA bitstream by modifying a snapshot of the previous build, to ostensibly save time. Because the SID FPGA implementation is a relatively small part of the MEGA65 core, it really likes to forget to add any changes I make, especially related to timing optimization (it took me so long to figure out it had re-enabled itself, after disabling it my total negative slack was cut in half due to it finally registering all the pipelining and other optimization). I've also had vivado outright lock up with some cases.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just joking, I love that you explained further but to be honest I still have no idea what is going on, haha. The bit about "modifying a snapshot of the previous build" sounds like the idea behind binary diffing?

Ok, I looked up Vivado and now I have a better idea. A field very alien to me but fascinating to hear about

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

FPGAs are good fun, and some of the stuff I'm working on in particular gets even crazier. My current project is emulating a partially analog soundchip (the 6581 and 8580 SIDs) with 32 bit integers, because FPGAs can't do analog. The best part is, it actually (mostly) works. Still have coefficient issues with the RC circuits, and the Rf1 and Rf2 voltage-controlled resistor coefficient tables need to be recalculated, but it's already looking pretty good.

Good fun lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are you trying to replicate functionality from older hardware ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Correct. Goal is to emulate the SIDs, and the filters are analog, so analog simulation is required.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Thanks, that clears it up

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Yes. If I can enjoy other people's corny jokes and snarky comments, I would probably like my own too.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Arguably, if you’re producing your own content then you’re consuming it too. It takes a lot of watch and/or listen multiple times to produce a final product which means you’re more than consuming it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I lose count of how many times I replay a given animation shot before I consider it final. Probably 300 or 400

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I have made YouTube videos in the past when I was too young to be allowed on the site, looking back at them, it's safe to say that I'm glad I deleted them when I had the chance (even from the device that recorded them) because I've never cringed this hard at my own stuff before.

Maybe I could do it again once I'm good enough at video editing and humor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I do. I post generated pictures in the community that is set aside for them. I post the ones I enjoyed, so I've already consumed the content.

Often times I'll add to the traffic of the site in comments.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Yes, I would, and I do. I've made videos etc that I've enjoyed making and enjoyed watching, same with pictures etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I post videos of an incredibly niche hobby. I cut my videos to what I think is interesting and I will go back and watch them, but not many other people make videos like mine so I don't watch many others. Getting video is difficult so a lot doesn't turn out well. It's also much more fun in person.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Sarcastic comments? Yeah I like seeing those actually, somehow unsarcasticaly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Sure I guess? It's mostly just silly jokes and advice on hobby stuff though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I don't consciously "produce" any "content", and calling it "consuming" seems gross and shallow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

It's the bland, neutral and "scientific" way of describing an activity. We're all effectively content creators here where as lurkers only consume.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I occasionally go through my old comments to see how things got received, see if I could improve my wording, things like that. General communications skill polishing. It's not consuming as much as critically reviewing, but whatever.

Since I'm adding engagement on lemmy, and I do put some effort in to be amusing or informative or whatever (usually anyway), yes I do feel like I am helping. If I was on reddit or something, not so much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has ever done that! Haha

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I already do that for nostalgia and memories, I like going through my camera roll every so often despite the fact I don't take many pictures.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I publish my music online. Since I make that kind of music because I like that genre, then I’m pretty optimistic I will like it if it wasn’t me who made it. As for comments on lemmy, reddit, etc., no so much; but I have given advice from time to time that people appreciated based on their replies. Usually it’s about music, cooking, and movies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

As an amateur photographer I feel the same way. If I didn't like my photos I wouldn't publish them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My 'content ' is almost entirely dumb comments that are often barely related to the post. Definitely not adding to the world, but hopefully no one takes it seriously enough for it to have any negative impact other than just wasted space.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

hopefully no one takes it seriously enough for it to have any negative impact

There is always one, and their goal always seems to be to frustrate you into engaging with them

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy has actually made me more thoughtful about this. Like a lot of people here, I was previously on reddit, where most interactions were pretty toxic. Now I do try to think about how my contributions make the platform better or more useful for others.

I was a "top 1% poster" on reddit (according to them), but it was mostly garbage and reposts and "zingers" so even though it got a lot of updoots, it was not really helpful to people. There were some communities that were exceptions, where I put a lot of effort, research, etc., but they were more niche.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

If it's any consolation, reddit sort of trains you to post things like that because that's what the masses like and recognize the most.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Generally yes. If I didn't want it, I wouldn't post it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Should not it be "I would not have posted it?"

I am confused because my english isn't good

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nope, those mean different things!

If I didn't like it, I wouldn't post it

Means (or implies)...

"I didn't like it, so I won't post it", but it's phrased as a conditional statement.

It also means that it's hypothetical -- nothing was posted!

But...

If I didn't like it, I wouldn't have posted it

Means (or implies)...

"I like it, so I posted it", again phrased as a conditional statement.

It also means that the thing actually happened (because the commenter liked it).

So they have similar, but different meanings. The key difference is whether the commenter is saying they have already posted something or not. One is hypothetical, and the other is more of a reflection of something that did happen.

Also, I think this part of your comment is incorrect.

Should not it be

This should be...

Shouldn't it be

(This is what people say probably 99% of the time)

Or

Should it not be

(This is less common and more formal)

And yes, I know that it looks like the "not" should be directly after the "should" because of "shouldn't", but it doesn't happen that way. I think this happens when forming a question with conditional verbs (should/would/could), but I have no idea why.

As I'm sure you know, English is crazy. Sorry about that. Hope this helps!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Thank you very much for the in depth explanation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Nah. I am wayyy too stupid. I would just start and then leave.

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