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friendly neighborhood kbin.run admin, possibly a sentient lifeform... likes pizza and beer.

professional pixie wrangler and rf magician

Mbin contributor and maintainer, aka nobodyatroot on GitHub.

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/kbin project management costs, financing, future plans

I wrote the first line of code for /kbin on January 14, 2021. Around this time, I started working remotely and decided that the time I used to spend commuting to the office would be devoted to /kbin. Throughout this entire period, /kbin has been a hobby project that I developed in my free time. It was also when Lemmy started...

kbin.social lifecycle: from 181 unique visitors to 2.9M in three months.
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An interesting point of discussion for sure... but as long as federation is working, I don't see why people shouldn't try out other instances. We shouldn't be trying to replace reddit or whatever with 1 big monolithic instance... spreading out the cost/maintenance is the only way to survive... unless you happen to be a massive corporation with the moolah to monopolize an entire datacenter.

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and from what i remember, staying true to typical google fashion, they fucked it up by not opening up the "beta" when they had a critical mass forming behind it. then only to force everyone into having a profile a year or whatever later. lol, too late. i think most of us understood that anything associated with google is assumed to be a never-ending "beta", so no idea what they were thinking or waiting for.

Preliminary data shows hottest week on record. Unprecedented sea surface temperatures and Antarctic sea ice loss (public.wmo.int)

The world just had the hottest week on record, according to preliminary data. It follows the hottest June on record, with unprecedented sea surface temperatures and record low Antarctic sea ice extent.

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i live in bumfuck nowhere USA and the extreme weather events we've experienced over even just the past few years is insane. 100 year floods happening every couple years, tornados hitting the same areas over and over, prolonged droughts, insanely high wind storms, etc... it's bonkers. i've already said to a few people we need to start updating our building codes to meet or exceed that of hard hit hurricane areas because pretty soon we're going to be uninsurable too.

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the fbi hates this one simple trick

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imma need about tree fiddy

[META] How's my driving? (kbin.run)

Hi all, so it has been a couple weeks since the initial launch of kbin.run and I'm curious to hear what people's opinions are and how they like the overall experience here vs. other kbin instances. Generally speaking, I think kbin's stability has greatly improved since launch as the first turn on was a very haphazard attempt at...

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hi! i'm happy to hear things are working well for you here, i'll do my best to keep it that way. :-)

i think the issues you're describing sound like "normal" federation delays between this instance and the origin instances where the content is being generated. there shouldn't be any real delay in viewing content that is generated locally other than database transaction times, which are typically super small, but anything that needs to get sucked in from other instances won't show up until the origin server decides to push it out. federation can also be a super lossy process if things get overloaded, i.e., i've seen things backdated from weeks ago that all of a sudden show up here once the origin server decides to sent it again.

however, this instance/server is hardly being taxed at all... in my limited testing, stuff that is generated here is federated almost immediately. if you find a situation where things aren't coming thru in a reasonable time, let me know and i'll investigate it further to verify it's not something on my end. it's also entirely possible that the larger instances have more user engagement with federated activity causing more frequent updates than what is currently happening here... so things may speed up the more active this instance becomes.

my goal is to continue running this instance for as long as possible... mainly because i want to use it (lol), but i also plan to post a detailed "invoice" of how much it costs to run even this small instance just like @ernest did for the mothership's infrastructure... i'll either put it under the About or FAQ page, haven't decided yet. if "we" as a kbin.run community agree that it makes sense to either scale up or scale down, i'm willing to do anything reasonable.

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And just so happens to be the same pesky thing people refuse to read, color me surprised. 🙄

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All the worthwhile content creators will (or already have) move on and it'll be even more of AI generated content circlejerk than it already is. No one should feel sorry for lurkers being lazy.

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i've been thinking similar things or use some other P2P model like those used by crypto nodes/i2p/tor. and maybe blockchain can serve a different purpose in order to bring validity to instances so as to not have bad actors fuck with the data as well as giving us a way to collectively boot them from federating should their reputation tank... dunno, not an expert in this area at all.

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Oh I know, lol. What's that line from Apollo 13? Something along the lines of "I don't care what it was designed to do, I care what it can do." Regardless, no intention to start a heated debate over buzz words... don't really care what the solution is as long as it addresses the overarching problem.

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kbin should have something in place that if server/instance A meets XYZ requirements and has a curated set of federated magazines enabled that are common among "anchor" instances (or whatever you want to call them) that anyone trying to register should be sent off to a random instance that is underutilized. i believe mastodon has/had something like this early on.

i haven't been actively advertising kbin.run, but it has taken about a week since deployment (after some initial growing pains and the occasional glitches after pulling down new code changes) to get to about 52 registered users kbin.fediverse.observer.

James Cameron reacts sub implosion: 'I'm struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself' (www.youtube.com)

Film director James Cameron has expertise in designing and testing these submersibles, and he has many criticisms of the design of the sub that imploded, and of the hubris of the CEO who ignored repeated safety warnings from the diving community. He also mentions that the sub seems to have been attempting to resurface when it...

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James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is... James Cameron.

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lol... not that i'm an amazon "investor" or anything, but i think most, if not all, openly acknowledge that AWS is the only thing that actually makes money. this is a desperate attempt to make their "store front" look like it's not as big a loss leader than it really is, but either way... they'll get off paying the troll toll and continue on with business as usual. 🙄

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so hear me out... not a popular opinion by any stretch of the imagination.. but the real reason manufacturers are doing this is because of how much RF spectral splatter EVs put out (think inverters/switching noise, computers, etc) and it's bad news for ham radio operators that use AM/SSB bands. it's cheaper to ignore the problem than it is to EMI shield everything to reduce the noise floor low enough so that the AM receiver works in the car, otherwise you'll hear a bunch of static/popping/whining from the EV electronics that make the AM radio effectively useless. a similar concern that has since gone away was the battle over BPL [broadband over powerline] for the same reasons in that power lines would be effectively big antennas radiating crap in the AM bands. personally, i'm in favor of keeping AM around if it forces these manufacturers to follow proper EM shielding practices, but again... minority opinion for my own selfish reasons. the FCC doesn't give a shit about ham radio, so it's not looking good.

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and it's not an easy problem to solve. proper EMI mitigation is a super tough engineering problem that you can make an entire career out of (and make good money doing so). there are so many sneak paths that can pop up that it turns into a constant game of whack-a-mole... simple things like applying a piece of tape to a cable harness next to a metal plate can either make the product pass or fail a radiated emissions spec....it's crazy. and the automotive industry is so behind in the latest tech, the whole chip shortage thing during covid was because they're using way outdated process nodes that no one wants to invest money in. don't get me wrong, my fellow EEs in automotive do a good job given what they have to deal with, but they don't have the experience in RF like us cellular/radio guys... obviously.

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you will actually hear junk from the alternator in the AM band if the voltage regulator(s)/rectifier goes bad or a ground gets corroded... the lead acid battery provides a nice smoothing function (almost ideal voltage source) since the alternator and engine have a low impedance bond to the negative terminal (system ground). the low frequency spectral emissions (very low harmonic content) from 1 alternator and associated circuitry is a much simpler problem than all the computers, ac inverters (induced high frequency currents running around everywhere), wiring harnesses, etc. that all act as rf generators/antennas.

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more like "how cruel can I be today so i can continue to distract everyone from the truly evil shit we're doing?"

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this is the way

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they want that sweet IPO pump and dump. when he sells, you'll know it's time to short the shit out of it. and that's if it even happens at this rate, fidelity might up and say fuck you and cut them again, who knows.

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old black water, keep on rollin'. mississippi moon, won't you keep on shinin' on me? (but seriously, this guy can fuck right off)

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I pulled in the latest code revision and it seems to have resolved this issue.

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queue incoherent laughter

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