melroy
@melroy@kbin.melroy.orgSoftware Engineer & DevOps Architect. Mbin contributor (and creator of the fork).
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Software Engineer & DevOps Architect. Mbin contributor (and creator of the fork).
He/him 🇳🇱
The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI ( www.spacebar.news )
2024 might be the breakout year for efficient ARM chips in desktop and laptop PCs.
Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. ( www.theverge.com )
Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.::95.57 percent of surveyed Steam users are already on Windows 10 and 11, with nearly 2 percent of the remainder on Linux and 1.5 percent on Mac — so we may be talking about fewer than 1 percent of users on these older Windows builds. Older...
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Tesla drivers had highest accident rate, BMW drivers highest DUI rate, study finds ( www.cnbc.com )
Tesla drivers had highest accident rate, BMW drivers highest DUI rate, study finds::Tesla drivers had 24 accidents per 1,000 drivers during the period from mid-November 2022 to mid-November 2023, according to a study by Lending Tree.
2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm's new chip ( www.pcgamer.com )
2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm's new chip::We've already reported on Qualcomm's new 12-core Arm uberchip, the Snapdragon X Elite, and its claims of x86-beating performance and efficiency. But it takes two to tango when it comes a maj
Why AI is a disaster for the climate ( www.theguardian.com )
Volkswagen Will Bring Back Physical Buttons In New Cars | Down with touch screen controls. ( insideevs.com )
Volkswagen Will Bring Back Physical Buttons In New Cars | Down with touch screen controls.::Volkswagen says that it has heard the feedback from its customers. It plans to bring back physical buttons and controls in future models.
Argos, Imperial Capital & Trading Harbor by u/Artellix ( media.rimworld.gallery )
Mods are asleep. Let's post Star Trek memes and gifs! ( media.tenor.com )
Til: data harvesting inside Ledger Live app ( protos.com )
Ledger Live, the most popular crypto hardware wallet software, is tracking and transmitting sensitive user data to third parties.
Prototype for new Kbin app: Interstellar ( kbin.social )
I've been working for the past week on a new kbin app. At the moment, it's just a prototype and only the "Feed" view has content (you can't sign into an account or post anything yet); you can see threads, thread images, thread comments, thread links, and thread votes/boosts. You can also change the "Theme Mode" and "Instance...
Threads is counting down to an EU launch next week ( www.theverge.com )
Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns - experts ( www.reuters.com )
Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns - experts::The angular design of Tesla's Cybertruck has safety experts concerned that the electric pickup truck's stiff stainless-steel exoskeleton could hurt pedestrians and cyclists.
Homes need to be built for better internet ( www.theverge.com )
New systemd update will bring Windows’ infamous Blue Screen of Death to Linux | Ars Technica ( arstechnica.com )
Can one recover from an accidental rm -rf of system directories by copying those files back in from a backup?
Well I've joined the "accidentally trashing your system with rm -rf" club! Luckily I didn't delete my home directory with all the things I care about, but I did delete /boot and /usr, and maybe /var (long story, boils down to me trying to delete non-system directories named those but reflexively adding the slash in front when I...
America’s Most Exciting High Speed Rail Project Gets $3 Billion Grant From Feds ( www.vice.com )
America’s Most Exciting High Speed Rail Project Gets $3 Billion Grant From Feds::The Southern California-to-Las Vegas route makes total sense and involves no wishful thinking in order to be a resounding success.
GTA VI won't launch on PC ( www.businesswire.com )
Grand Theft Auto VI is coming to PlayStation® 5 computer entertainment systems and Xbox Series X|S games and entertainment systems in 2025.
Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 ( www.youtube.com )
Flipboard is abandoning X for Mastodon ( www.theverge.com )
Flipboard is abandoning X for Mastodon::The company cited a spike in hate speech and misinformation on the platform formerly known as Twitter, as well a desire to work with a federated network of social platforms.
Android isn't cool with teenagers, and that's a big problem ( www.androidpolice.com )
Android isn’t cool with teenagers, and that’s a big problem::Nearly 9 in 10 US teenagers use an iPhone, spelling disaster for Google’s mobile future
Your WhatsApp chat backups on Android won't be free anymore ( www.androidauthority.com )
Pebble, a startup that tried and failed to take on Twitter, finds new life on Mastodon | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Optimizing PostgreSQL is key
If you are running big applications on top of PostgreSQL or having a lot of queries your performance might be impacted. By default the default PostgreSQL configuration is to say the least, less than ideal. Same is true for MariaDB but that is out of scope now....
Mbin: A kbin fork that promises to never review PRs before merging them ( kbin.social )
Somebody who was previously active on the kbin codeberg repo has left that to make a fork of kbin called mbin....
Mbin is alive and kicking!
A community-focused fork of Kbin, which has tons of improvements, features and bug fixes. Mbin is a federated content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform....
Admin of my instance seems to have gone inactive, looking to migrate to a small instance with an active admin ( kbin.cafe )
I’d like to help out with decentralization, with users not all gathering in one place, so I don’t want to go to kbin.social or fedia.io. I did look at fedidb.org and the list of instances there, but it doesn’t tell me if the admin is active. I could just visit every instance listed there and check the admin’s profile for...
Launching Kbin Migration website, with resources and guides to help new users migrate to Kbin and the Fediverse from Reddit. ( kbin.social )
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