This post doesn't directly affect kbin.social users, but it is relevant. It discusses some of the potential pros/cons of Kbin and Mbin, and also the direction the kbin.earth server is heading.
Looks like Kbin is running a pretty huge federation backlog, as it's taking several hours for comments to federate out. I'm not knowledgeable about how these servers work, but is it teetering on collapsing or something?
Oh wow! Good to know. I’m thinking those of us like myself who subscribe from here to magazines on their instance will be cut off. That will suck because there are quite a few that do have a lot of good content and discussion. This is unfortunate.
The spending stalemate that has brought the government to the brink of a shutdown is being fueled by G.O.P. demands to add conservative spending mandates opposed by President Biden and Democrats....
New Hampshire plans to pursue enforcement aggressively to send a message that election interference will not be tolerated. “The consequences for your actions will be severe,” said Attorney General John Formella.
I just saw, that fedidb now has data for the biggest fediverse accounts, so I did a little plotting with it. Here is a graphic of the scattering of the 100 biggest accounts by the instance they are on. 38 of them are on mastodon.social https://fedidb.org/popular-fediverse-accounts (the data is in the alt text) #mastodon #chart...
@georgetakei This is not a well man. And I'm I'm glad to see members of his party finally acknowledge this publicly. The drumbeat needs to continue right up to election day.
It has been three weeks since three Kansas City fans joined friends to watch the Chiefs play the Los Angeles Chargers in the final game of the regular season.
I know some of you consider this as documented whining. I hear you but won't stop sharing my opinion and reminding. I recommend continuing commenting on the original post to keep it a bit organized (this post is a link to it)...
Can we really say that after only 1 week? I say that because from what I can see, the .social server appears to be up and running. Although there does not appear to be much movement on the dev front, all seems to be functioning.
So when someone submitted a url at least at one point it would show up on the right and you could block it. So if someone posted a newsweek link you could block any link postings from like newsweek.com or maybe reddit.com or google.com. Lately though I have not been able to. It seemed to disapear at some point. I have not seen...
An investigation by the city’s Department of Buildings uncovered a tunnel that was 60-foot-long, 8-foot-wide and 5-foot-high located underneath the global headquarters of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, an important Jewish site....
With little legislation having been passed into law, impeachment is quickly becoming a go-to release valve for a fractious and frustrated House Republican majority....
The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, claiming the two companies built their AI models by “copying and using millions” of the publication’s articles and now “directly compete” with its content as a result....
In the past week or two, I've been making a lot of updates to my Kbin userstyle, idkbin, to account for all the new features Kbin has been getting. This weekend, I had a bunch more motivation to work on it, so I decided to make a bunch of additions to the userstyle and make the next version 1.3.0 (as opposed to 1.2.7, which...
Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to ‘get butt back to office’ after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies::In a meeting on Tuesday after completing the $69 billion merger, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan told VMWare employees their days of working remotely were over.
AWS VP spins employee question about engineer turnover as a good thing — “It’s making us better.” & “Frugality breeds innovation for us.”::An AWS VP answered employee questions over attrition by spinning it as a good thing.
Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why::The share of workers being called back to the office has flatlined, suggesting remote work is an entrenched feature of the U.S. labor market.
In the past months development of Kbin slowly came to a halt, development was bottlenecked by a single maintainer. I have tried several times to start a discussion about the way of working and trying to address the problems and to come up with a plan to keep development doing and more importantly keep contributors happy!...
Squirrels sleeping in their nest ( lemmy.world )
Michigan Republican unseated after losing to Democrat by 20 points ( www.newsweek.com )
Republican county commissioner has been unseated in Michigan after losing to her Democratic challenger by 20 percentage points....
Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers ( www.theverge.com )
After a full year of not thinking about printers, the best printer is still whatever random Brother laser printer that’s on sale.
The future of kbin.earth... ( kbin.earth )
This post doesn't directly affect kbin.social users, but it is relevant. It discusses some of the potential pros/cons of Kbin and Mbin, and also the direction the kbin.earth server is heading.
Those are some big ears ( lemmy.world )
Ex-chief of staff criticizes Trump for Hitler talk ( thehill.com )
Florida mother missing for days found alive in shipping container, banging on locked door ( www.nbcnews.com )
Federation Delays ( kbin.social )
Looks like Kbin is running a pretty huge federation backlog, as it's taking several hours for comments to federate out. I'm not knowledgeable about how these servers work, but is it teetering on collapsing or something?
Republican Demands and Divisions Drive Impasse Toward a Shutdown ( www.nytimes.com )
The spending stalemate that has brought the government to the brink of a shutdown is being fueled by G.O.P. demands to add conservative spending mandates opposed by President Biden and Democrats....
Any API Updates? ( kbin.social )
First off, I want to say I appreciate all the hard work that goes into kbin - it can’t be easy running this....
Do you trust saving CC numbers in Firefox?
I'm just scared that they're saved with reversible encryption on the disk, then malware could steal them
Second GOP rep says he’ll vote against Mayorkas impeachment ( thehill.com )
Here is the paywall-free version of the article: https://archive.is/Hbup4
Fake Biden robocall before N.H. primary linked to Texas company, AG says ( www.bostonglobe.com )
New Hampshire plans to pursue enforcement aggressively to send a message that election interference will not be tolerated. “The consequences for your actions will be severe,” said Attorney General John Formella.
Google Update Reveals AI Will Read All Your Private Messages ( www.forbes.com )
New warning as AI suddenly targets billions of private messages on smartphones…
Spreading of the 100 biggest fediverse account ( wehavecookies.social ) German
I just saw, that fedidb now has data for the biggest fediverse accounts, so I did a little plotting with it. Here is a graphic of the scattering of the 100 biggest accounts by the instance they are on. 38 of them are on mastodon.social https://fedidb.org/popular-fediverse-accounts (the data is in the alt text) #mastodon #chart...
3 men were found dead in a friend's backyard after watching a Chiefs game. Here's what we know ( apnews.com )
It has been three weeks since three Kansas City fans joined friends to watch the Chiefs play the Los Angeles Chargers in the final game of the regular season.
Nothing in his mind but the f o o d i n t h e p o t ( lemmy.world )
What is going on with kbin - a week has passed with no sign of any life ( kbin.melroy.org )
I know some of you consider this as documented whining. I hear you but won't stop sharing my opinion and reminding. I recommend continuing commenting on the original post to keep it a bit organized (this post is a link to it)...
url link blocking. What happened to it. ( kbin.social )
So when someone submitted a url at least at one point it would show up on the right and you could block it. So if someone posted a newsweek link you could block any link postings from like newsweek.com or maybe reddit.com or google.com. Lately though I have not been able to. It seemed to disapear at some point. I have not seen...
Baby otters sleeping ( discuss.tchncs.de )
[Solved] How to get rid of the arrows at the bottom of comments which collapse/expand the text? ( kbin.social )
They always obscure part of the text, no matter what. I juat want the full text....
The Boost android client for Lemmy is displaying these dark pattern ads pretending to be system notifications. What security/privacy conscious Lemmy clients do you recommend? ( lemmy.ml )
NYC issues vacate orders to stabilize synagogue and nearby buildings following discovery of 60-foot tunnel ( www.nbcnews.com )
An investigation by the city’s Department of Buildings uncovered a tunnel that was 60-foot-long, 8-foot-wide and 5-foot-high located underneath the global headquarters of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, an important Jewish site....
Elon Musk criticized by civil rights groups over claim that diversity efforts make flying less safe ( www.nbcnews.com )
In several posts on X, Musk claimed without evidence that diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives put airline customers in danger....
Republicans add new threats to impeach Austin and Garland, along with Biden and Mayorkas ( www.nbcnews.com )
With little legislation having been passed into law, impeachment is quickly becoming a go-to release valve for a fractious and frustrated House Republican majority....
The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement ( www.theverge.com )
The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, claiming the two companies built their AI models by “copying and using millions” of the publication’s articles and now “directly compete” with its content as a result....
We Aren’t Posting on Social Media as Much Anymore. Will We Ever? ( www.wsj.com )
Users say excessive ads, bots and misinformation have sucked the fun out of sharing publicly.
Which of these "more" icons do you prefer? ( media.kbin.social )
Firefox is on the brink of being dropped by the US Government ( www.brycewray.com )
Released idkbin 1.3.0! — A few small visual improvements for Kbin ( userstyles.world )
In the past week or two, I've been making a lot of updates to my Kbin userstyle, idkbin, to account for all the new features Kbin has been getting. This weekend, I had a bunch more motivation to work on it, so I decided to make a bunch of additions to the userstyle and make the next version 1.3.0 (as opposed to 1.2.7, which...
PSA: If you're tired of political posts in Technology, block user L4s
First of all, L4s (sorry misspelled in titel) is not a real user, so no harm done here....
Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to ‘get butt back to office’ after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies ( fortune.com )
Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to ‘get butt back to office’ after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies::In a meeting on Tuesday after completing the $69 billion merger, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan told VMWare employees their days of working remotely were over.
AWS VP spins employee question about engineer turnover as a good thing — “It's making us better.” & “Frugality breeds innovation for us.” ( www.businessinsider.com )
AWS VP spins employee question about engineer turnover as a good thing — “It’s making us better.” & “Frugality breeds innovation for us.”::An AWS VP answered employee questions over attrition by spinning it as a good thing.
Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why ( www.cnbc.com )
Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why::The share of workers being called back to the office has flatlined, suggesting remote work is an entrenched feature of the U.S. labor market.
WhatsApp head confirms in-app ads are still in the works ( www.theverge.com )
Mbin is born - Fork of kbin!!
In the past months development of Kbin slowly came to a halt, development was bottlenecked by a single maintainer. I have tried several times to start a discussion about the way of working and trying to address the problems and to come up with a plan to keep development doing and more importantly keep contributors happy!...
Will Artemis support mbin instances? ( kbin.social )
mbin: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin