Mastodawn

someone needs to explain to me how the fediverse works generally and how i keep seeing people in the wafrn feed with all these other fuckass urls, meow dot social, dot gay, dot… like wh- idrek what to ask i just dont know "where" any of these places are

or like, link me a plain language explainer

#hi #… #fediverse #new-to-fediverse #eli5

Fred Mar 12

#ELI5 EU Omnibus please

Michael Gale Mar 10

Can anyone "explain like I'm 5" what the deal is with #SyncThing and its new version/forks ?

#SelfHost #Linux #Homelab #SelfHosting #ELI5

Brad Feicht (He/Him)Mar 4

ELI5 - The Canadian Government is going all in on LNG. LNG is about 50% cleaner than Coal. That's only at the consumption location, it's output goes up by 50% when taking into consideration transport, leaks, etc.. making it 75% of coal. How is this strategy better than solar/wind + batteries? I just don't get how a different type of fossil fuel is better than just changing to renewable.
#eli5 #lng #solar

Benjamin Feb 20

Can we get an #eli5 on all the #jirai tagged posts on isle 5 please?

Proto Himbo European Feb 13

EDIT: OMG thank you 1,000 times to @christianlupus for your amazing help. You have saved my (increasingly endangered) hair from being pulled out over the next week. Others have also made excellent suggestions, and I am grateful to everyone who said even a word. I was becoming very frustrated with this, and now it's starting to make sense!

Original post below.

How the @#$% does #Hugo (static website generator) work with Github? Hundreds of pages reference #github but I still can't find how that works. Almost every Hugo help site says "add this reference to [a? your?] github repo..." but don't explain what the heck is happening or why I need that... why do I need a github repo to have a website somewhere else?

Clearly I don't need it; I have a hugo site up and running, and at no point was github involved.... except nothing would work until I initalized (?) my hugo directory (or the executable? IDK) on my webhost's server using a git command. For some reason.

I seriously don't understand why (or, more importantly, how) Hugo needs github. Right now dozens or hundreds of help sites seem like they're telling me that I need to have a shrine to my cat in my neighbor's house or else my blender won't work.

Lots of references to using github submodules and plenty of people saying "No! You fool! Don't do that!" and other people saying "Ackshully you should make your website a github module." Then other sites (including Hugo's official site) saying I should make my website into a #go module somehow for some reason... and I can't do that unless I have a github repo somewhere? Which is also maybe a Go module? Yet more sites saying I don't need to do that if I use some fancy scripts to fool something (my Hugo installation? My github repo? IDK) into thinking my Hugo site is or has a github repo...

If anyone would like to explain this to me like I'm literally 12 years old I'm very open to this. Every help site I've seen for weeks just assumes I understand some basic things that I don't remotely understand, like what the connection is between Hugo and github, how important it is, how it works, etc.

Understanding that I already have a functioning Hugo site, but apparently still need a github repo (maybe?) to do anything more interesting with it.

I know I'm using Mastodon as tech support a lot lately, but honestly y'all are more helpful than most search engines for some things.

#golang #webdev #confused #help #eli5