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[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

didn't Verizon overbuild most, if not all, of the area with FiOS? not sure how they're getting away with it in the rural regions unless there are still CLECs operating. All this to say... fiber still has the issue of power outages and nonfunctioning customer backup batteries in the ONTs and I vaguely remember some drama over Verizon not offering replacement batteries or providing backups at all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I'll do YOU one better: WHY is @[email protected]?

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 day ago (2 children)

it satisfies the borrow checker or else it gets the hose again

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago

I think you mean McDonnell Douglas, it's what happens when companies fire all the engineers in charge and replace them with beancounters.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

mbin.social ;-)

https://mbin.fediverse.observer/list https://fedidb.org/software/mbin

we're "spread" out on purpose to avoid becoming an unwieldy behemoth like kbin.social...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

kbin.run admin here, i'm curious if this cert problem is still happening as i recently loosened up some of my super strict bot killing mechanisms... give it a shot again and DM me if it still doesn't work so i can try to figure out what's going on.

as for the name... yea, i should have named it something different. at the time, kbin was the only horse in town and the intent was to help alleviate some traffic from .social before the foundation took over to run it on their cluster... then things fell apart. unfortunately, i can't rehome it to a new domain because it will break federation of all existing content, accounts, etc.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Test it out and let us know if you find any issues; you add channels the same way as adding any other magazine/community.

How is this possible!? kbin.run is running the PR branch from https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/pull/782

Major props to @[email protected] for adding this long awaited feature to Mbin!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i have not personally used this tool myself, but i think this will do what you're looking for: https://aclist.github.io/exit/exit.html

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Hi everyone,

kbin.run is approaching its 1 year anniversary (June 11, 2023) and I figured it'd be a good time to provide a quick summary of the infrastructure changes and expenses incurred over the past year.

I've had to migrate servers 3 times to settle on a suitable hardware configuration, datacenter, and price point that works well for running kbin/Mbin. Mbin has made significant performance improvements over /kbin, so the latest server is suitable... for now. Of course, I will upgrade again should it become necessary with additional site traffic, resource utilization, etc.

Total expenses: $612.86 USD Total donations: $111.48 USD Operating deficit: $501.38 USD

Thank you to everyone who has donated to help offset the cost of running the instance, it is much appreciated! If you want to also help me out, please visit the FAQ page for ways how!

Happy cake day to everyone and here's to another great year in the Fediverse and Mbin development!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

You like Huey Lewis and the News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor. In '87, Huey released this; Fore!, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip To Be Square". A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends. It's also a personal statement about the band itself.

[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 month ago (3 children)

when you're the OS, they let you do it. you can do anything.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] pointed out that after reviewing the html source there's a link to this https://github.com/Linuzifer/domain_seizure.... looks like a joke or a hack.

 

Hi everyone, I saw a conversation on a certain magazine about the wording of kbin.run's terms of service. I'm not going to reply there because its unproductive and irrelevant to the conversation being discussed. I do; however, encourage everyone to (re)review the privacy policy and terms of service of the instance.

A reminder that this is a US based instance and I will enforce compliance with all established US laws and comply with all law enforcement requests, subpoenas, etc. I am not a lawyer and I'm not going to pay a lawyer to write an all encompassing fediverse friendly TOS, although if that's something people want, please donate to the site so I can afford to hire one. I'd like to think this is one of the most transparency friendly instances out there between all the information I provide in the about, FAQ, privacy policy, terms of service, etc.

With regards to the specific concern about the "third party" wording in Section 11. of the terms of service... outside of the realization that any federated instance subscribed to any user or magazine on this site is by definition a third party... there are also automated measures in place to log and report users that post or share material flagged as child sexual abuse material (CSAM) detected with hashes provided by the NCMEC. This is a ZERO tolerance area and I have already reported several instances that either don't care about this or have no moderation in place to handle it.

Thank you for your understanding and I welcome a healthy discussion if desired; otherwise, please submit a user account delete request and I will remove your account from the site.

 

I spent a fair amount of time this weekend optimizing the interaction between NGINX, PHP, Symfony framework tuning handles, Postgres and Cloudflare before I give up on this server and move kbin.run to a more powerful machine. The big change that will improve performance: I'm force rewriting the caching headers on images that are being incorrectly served by Mbin (and /kbin) using Cloudflare transforms and caching rules... but the underlying problem is something the Mbin team is aware of and will investigate further.

I hope everyone enjoys the boost in page responsiveness now.

Have a nice week!

 

At least 1 user needs to be subscribed to a magazine in order for it to receive federated updates, so keep that in mind after searching for a new magazine/community. I get subscribed to everything by default (~~hopefully Mbin will change this behavior in the future~~), so if it's not a magazine I want to see in my feed I will unsubscribe. :-)

EDIT: i've pushed a code change to Mbin so that the admin user is no longer auto-subscribed to new federated magazine searches. https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/pull/237

 

I've offloaded the image processing to a separate process/server and I've been wondering, has anyone noticed any improvement in image loading over the past few days? I don't like overcomplicating the site's configuration, but I was hoping this change boosts the performance at least a little.

Also, for those interested, I've added several donation methods to the site under the FAQ page. 100% of the proceeds are allocated to the operation, maintenance, and expansion of kbin.run. My only goal is to provide you with the best performing kbin/Mbin instance available and I hope my transparency about the site's expenses reflect that.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
 

This paper was written to help people understand current wifi technology, so that YOU can make an educated 'router' upgrade decision -- because there is WAY too much hype out there (especially about wifi speeds) -- and router manufacturers' are directly to blame.

 

While government leaders spent the last three years hyperventilating about TikTok, less talked about has been the dodgy “internet of things” (IOT) space; a broad assortment of mostly ov…

 

It was brought to my attention that avatar uploads are causing 500 errors and upon further investigation, it appears to be related to a bug in the latest code release. I've created an issue in Codeberg for those interested and will update once the issue has been resolved.

EDIT 2023.08.23: this bug has been fixed with the latest code commit.

 

There has been a long standing issue of guests and/or bots subscribing kbin.run to an exorbitant number of seemly random magazines with either no content or super strange topics. As the site admin, I was getting automatically subscribed to each and every one... this issue has since been mitigated by a recent /kbin update that now requires all site visitors to be logged in if they want to follow any magazines that are not already subscribed to by an existing kbin.run user. For those curious, I removed a total of 404 (lol) dead or stale magazines with zero subscribers.

Hopefully this will further improve the site's performance by stopping any unnecessary junk from getting stored in the database and/or R2 media bucket.

EDIT: if you're looking for a particular magazine that you know exists but cannot find it in the search, let me know as I may have to "untrash" it... it's possible that it could be one I removed.

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