Software 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 🇳🇱
This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.
YouTube is starting to censor medical information (kbin.melroy.org)
YouTube starts censoring medical information and content. And only content that "meets WHO guidelines" appears on YouTube. No other medical data....
Blocking instances to clear the 500k queue (kbin.melroy.org)
Today kbin.social is blocking a huge list of domains just to get federation working again....
Reduced bitrate on YouTube? (kbin.melroy.org)
I notice just recently that Youtube is lowering the quality of the videos (bitrate), and I need to buy Youtube premium to upgrade the bitrate. Sure they claim they don't touch the bitrate for free users, but I can see the difference......
TIL AMD Zen2 processors are bleeding as well (kbin.melroy.org)
The new AMD vulnerability discovered by @taviso and his team makes all AMD zen2 processors vulnerable. Also known has Zenbleed....
🚨🚨 Update your Kbin instance now! 🚨🚨 (kbin.melroy.org)
Dear kbin server owners, upgrade your Kbin instance now! Ernest just merged a critical hot fix into the develop branch....
Kbin.social upgrade (kbin.melroy.org)
Currently, the kbin.social instance has planned maintenance. They are busy upgrading the infrastructure to Kubernetes, using Docker containers. They said it shouldn't take much longer than 1 hour downtime in total (if everything goes fine)....
Mbin is born - Fork of kbin!! (kbin.melroy.org)
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!...
TIL that Lemmy.ml is actively blocking user-agent string kbin (kbin.melroy.org)
One of the main instances of Lemmy (lemmy.ml) is blocking 'kbinbot' user agent requests on their instance. Basically, they are blocking kbin instances. This is not a bug, but on purpose....
Upload test (kbin.melroy.org)
Test icon test
Optimizing PostgreSQL is key (kbin.melroy.org)
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....
TIL: Using Inkscape instead of GIMP (kbin.melroy.org)
I used to work with Photoshop for years (industry standard, I thought). Moving to Linux, GIMP was the next to go logical step. I was never good in manually drawing vectors or embracing the vector image manipulation tooling in general which I regret now that I didn't move to Inkscape from day one. Yes, I used Inkscape back and...
DistroHopping: Void Linux? (kbin.melroy.org)
I have used many many distros in the past, from Debian to Gentoo, from Ubuntu to Arch, etc. etc.. But I need a system that works and does the job well, hence I'm using Linux Mint for the past few years. Linux Mint XFCE Edition to be precise....
First upcoming /kbin release!?! (kbin.melroy.org)
Yes you heard that right, we are planning for the first /kbin release. Currently most server admins are running directly from the develop branch since /kbin is still in very (early) active development....
HTML injection test (kbin.melroy.org)
Try it...
🚨Update your kbin instance again 🚨 (kbin.melroy.org)
I pushed recently various sql improvements into the develop branch: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/commits/branch/develop...
Mbin is alive and kicking! (kbin.melroy.org)
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....
Today I learned there are $/€ 35 WiFi 6 routers (www.aliexpress.us)
So thanks to OpenWRT (it's a fork but still..), we have a Banana Pi Wifi 6 router for just 35 dollars/euros.
TIL Lemmy.world got hacked - Details (kbin.melroy.org)
Lemmy was/is vulnerable for XSS attacks....
TIL: YouTube blocks adblockers (youtu.be)
Yes, I also saw the popup today. Youtube trying to block me because of ublock origin. I will move away from youtube if I can't use ad blocker anymore.
TIL Bun v1.0.3 is out, but not ready for production (kbin.melroy.org)
Today Bun v1.0.3 has been released. But it's still not ready for production in most cases. Eg. cluster module is not implemented yet....
Thread without an attachment (kbin.melroy.org)
First a test without an image. And then add an image afterwards. Using edit.