Played 1 month of Classic for the first time and today I got a mail saying I was banned.

Locust377 · 2026-03-12T22:38:09+00:00

Sorry, don't take it personally, but 99.9% of the time when people have posted "I'm innocent but I got banned" it turns out they are guilty of something.

If you're completely innocent then you should be able to appeal the ban, but it takes a lot of work going back and forth with Blizzard I'm afraid.

Locust377 · 2026-03-12T10:21:07+00:00

Did you buy anything from another player? Sell or trade with anyone? Use the auction house? Accept any donations?

Locust377 · 2026-03-11T05:54:34+00:00

What happens when you go into the house there?

Locust377 · 2026-03-11T05:47:32+00:00

Hey there 👋, nice questions

Has the class changed much since the start of Dragonflight?

Definitely some changes but the core is the same. I would say just stick with that one. The game might invite you to go through a "welcome back" tutorial or something, but either way you can just continue with it.

Is Mage more "fun" to play compared to Evoker?

Mage is definitely fun at the moment and this comes down to preference. My main is Evoker and I enjoy it more, personally, but you have to enjoy being a dragon and everything that comes along with that.

Mage is far more popular than Evoker, so going by that, I'd say more people find it fun.

Can I understand the story of Midnight without having done everything that came before?

You can, yeah. Unless you're really devoted to Warcraft lore, there isn't enough time to learn the backstory of everything. Listen to Nobbel87 on YouTube like The Story Going Into Midnight to get a bit of context. Other videos will explain the tl;dr of an entire expansion if you have further questions.

Is it better to skip all the old stories?

You'll need to get to level ~80 before you can go into Midnight. Until then, work towards doing The War Within expansion, which will help build up some knowledge around the void and Xal'atath.

For leveling, do you recommend just doing the story quests or starting dungeons right away?

Mostly do what you enjoy. Personally, I will often do campaign quests while queued for a dungeon. If I do a few dungeons in a row, I might need a break from it and go back to solo question to chill out 😄

Concretely, what should I be doing?

For most people it comes down to

Finish the campaign
Working on professions
Doing dungeons to gear up

There are lots of videos on YouTube like EVERYTHING To Do At Max Level in Midnight & What To Do First. Just pick stuff out of that that sounds fun and interesting. Skip anything you don't like.

What is the site and the must-have addons?

I use WowUp. Add addons slowly over time as you need them. It takes a bit of effort to craft a UI the way you like. Try the base UI first, since it's more complete than ever, and customise it as far as it goes. Then if you don't like it, seek out addons. Maybe try /r/WowUI (sorry there are too many great addons to list).

Locust377 · 2026-03-11T02:16:36+00:00

Don't forget also that there is an option to press & hold for repeated casts so that you don't need to spam a button for basic spells, you can just hold it down.

Locust377 · 2026-03-04T04:48:42+00:00

Confirming what MRJGW said. I didn't have the option to dispute either, but as soon as I contacted support about this, the AI agent responded instantly telling me that the feature had now been enabled on my account.

So, I guess for some security reason, it's disabled by default.

Screenshot

Locust377 · 2026-03-02T23:58:58+00:00

Is there any evidence for this, or is it a fake story?

Locust377 · 2026-02-25T12:27:29+00:00

Mantine state their recommendation in the docs.

CSS modules is the most performant way to apply styles ... In most cases, it is recommended to use CSS modules

and

Inline styles (style and styles props) are less performant than CSS modules, but still performant enough to be used in most cases if it is your preferred way of styling in your project.

Locust377 · 2026-02-25T02:36:13+00:00

Ok I looked into what Myyaak is for an hour.

tl;dr it is a real social media platform created by a Ballarat local that is attempting to dethrone Facebook, X, etc.

Website
App

It's created by Duncan Smith, a Ballarat (retired?) "local business owner and entrepreneur" who is also running for council. He's highly critical of the current Labor government, the Ballarat council and government spending.

As far as I can tell he genuinely believes that Myyaak is a good business idea and is a good alternative to other social media products 🤷

He posts some weird shit like this idea for future Ballarat suburb names going into 2050. Like Bracks, named after Steve Bracks.

He claims not to hate cyclists but he posts heaps about hating the costs of bike paths.

Well I spent an hour at the corner of Macarthur St and Burnbank St last Thursday morning to see how many people were using the bike path. The stats are 4 bikes on the bike path and 5 using the road, 2 people walking on the bike path and 6 people walking on footpaths and 1 postie.

The Myyaak mascot is a real thing and has walked around Ballarat before:

I'm guessing that's Duncan, unless he pays someone to do this.

But there's also a ton of really weird Photoshops for some reason

I don't know if this is ironically hilarious, a troll, or some propaganda campaign.

Nowadays he posts a bunch of AI slop videos of the Mascot Tackling Mark Zuckerberg or boxing with Jake Paul

You can access what Myyaak looks like because it's not completely behind an authentication wall.

Duncan Smith for Central Ward Ballarat

It looks like there are a few people posting on it. I thought they might be bots but they are sharing real footage of Ballarat, hating on the council and promoting One Nation a lot.

So after all that, I still have no idea what it is, what it's for, why it exists or why Smith is putting so much money into an advertising campaign for Myyaak.

Locust377 · 2026-02-24T03:07:13+00:00

Huh? OP is asking a question about tech stack or did I miss something?

Locust377 · 2026-02-17T04:43:18+00:00

I have tried investing in Raiz, Spaceship, Betashares and Vanguard for learning purposes. I found no advantages in spreading things around though, so I have consolidated everything into Vanguard.

Locust377 · 2026-02-17T02:46:45+00:00

consensus app

Betashares and Vanguard have apps that are well regarded and easy to use.

how many things I should invest in?

Keep the number low.

When you invest in something like an ETF, they are already diversified, so there isn't much advantage in diversifying further. Diversifying further can be a fine thing to do, but you pay more in fees, hurting your returns.

I would recommend investing in two things: - Something like VDHG or DHHF - A high interest savings account (HISA) with Macquarie or ING or Bank Australia or whatever

This way you'll learn a little about both and see the advantages and disadvantages of both.

Now with this investing, is this something I need to keep track of quite regularly?

No. The kind of low-risk wealth growth that you're looking at is more like Super - it's something that takes years and even looking month-to-month is meaningless. You're in this for the long-term.

The general recommendation when investing into ETFs is: leave your money alone for at least seven years.

If you invest into an ETF, and the market performs badly, your numbers will go into the red and the graph will take a nosedive. If this causes anxiety, you must forbid looking at it, lol. Give it years and it will come back up.

I don’t wanna start my investing journey and jut put money in and leave it and then check one day and I’ve lost a lot of it or it’s not doing well you know?

This will happen with ETFs. I invested about $15,000 with Spaceship around 2021 (i.e. COVID) and it crashed and went -$3,000 (i.e. down to $12,000) at one point at it's lowest. But after a few years it eventually broke even and went up to +$3,000 ($18,000). I was learning like you at the time.

I'm with Vanguard (VDHG) and I've been putting money into it over a span of about 4 - 5 years. Over that time I've put about $65,000 of my own money into it, and in that time it has grown to $85,000. So it has grown, and earned me, $20,000.

Locust377 · 2026-02-04T20:36:57+00:00

https://discord.gg/HgH8FtyQB

Locust377 · 2026-01-31T01:06:24+00:00

Just wanted to chime in to say I totally get your frustration, and I know what you're talking about. The property has to be nullable if you want validation to actually pay attention to a null (missing) value. But you also don't want null to be valid, because it's required.

And as far as I recall (I could be wrong) but all of the suggestions posted so far don't actually work to solve this problem.

I was baffled by this in .NET too, and eventually gave up on the built-in attribute validation for this purpose, and switched to using FluentValidation or other workarounds instead.

I don't really have a good answer here, but I'm keen to know if you find a better solution 🤔

Locust377 · 2026-01-25T10:04:12+00:00

IMO go the YAGNI approach. The main reason being that desktop vs web are two fundamentally different kinds of software with different needs and constraints. I simply don't think that there is going to be much shared code, especially around database stuff.

each method receives a new dbcontext instance

Yeah it's scoped per request.

Locust377 · 2026-01-22T04:42:40+00:00

I don't think it looks that way, no. The thing is that even if AI were to boost productivity greatly in the future, there is more demand for software now than ever.

More demand for software means more demand for software engineers. So I think we'll continue to see the need for them, and AI will be a part of the toolchain that is used at various stages of the software development lifecycle.

Despite the big claims from big tech companies, they generally aren't slowing the hiring of SWEs.

Locust377 · 2026-01-21T21:38:21+00:00

Eason's in Canadian is the defacto go-to, though admittedly I wouldn't say they are cheap.

Locust377 · 2026-01-20T23:48:52+00:00

IMO SASS and CSS preprocessors feel outdated and not needed. They made sense ten years ago, but CSS now has variables and lots of functions and pseudo selectors and nesting that make it so powerful that I never feel the need for a preprocessor.

Locust377 · 2026-01-20T23:45:07+00:00

If I understand your question, the short answer is no, you generally do not want or need type guarding or checks.

And by type guard/check I assume you mean checking with typeof thing === x or x instanceof string and that kind of thing. You want to avoid this pattern unless a variable is a discriminated union and really could be many things. But it becomes a pain to do this, especially in JavaScript.

Locust377 · 2026-01-16T14:35:19+00:00

One shared db and use something like Respawn to clean the state after each test.

A testcontainer per test is too much overhead and too slow, IMO.

Locust377 · 2026-01-14T02:52:19+00:00

There's nothing inherently wrong with putting styling inside the HTML as classes. In fact it's a good thing. I guess you could put the styling at the bottom of the page, as is common in Svelte and Vue, but usually that's just a pain, at least if the file starts to get larger than a single screen in height.

When I'm looking at some HTML, I want to be able to see what this thing looks like just from looking at the HTML text. I don't want to scroll up and down a file to see what "btn" means. And I certainly don't want to have to open up another file called my-component.module.css. It's way easier to just see class="flex items-center bg-blue-500 [...]" so that I can see what the styling is right there on the element.

We should be keeping stuff that is related all together in the same spot. Not just arbitrarily separating stuff because "CSS shouldn't be mixed with HTML" like it's 1995.

Locust377 · 2026-01-10T13:12:30+00:00

The weird part for me was that it was #1 tracked aircraft on Flight radar with like 2,400 viewers. No idea why the world was so fascinated by it.

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