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AshDene

@AshDene@kbin.social

Interested in programming, politics (especially local politics), law (especially copyright/patent law).

Nazi's and genocide deniers can fuck right off. For the love of all that isn't evil stop using lemmy and providing genocide deniers power.

AshDene,
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You don't think there exist reputation management firms with an economic incentive to be able to influence what is said over the internet?

AshDene,
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Backblaze for an example is $5/month/tb. 30gb is $0.15/month...

S3 has a million tiers, ranging from $1/month/tb to $23/month/tb. $23/tb is $0.69 for 30gb. (the cheapest tiers add additional costs for get requests)

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Some discussion of this from the activity pub perspective: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/changeable-usernames/830/11

I'd be very surprised if kbin had implemented this, and moderately surprised if kbin wanted to.

Registrations are open, nothing is stopping you from making a second account.

Toronto to Explore Amendment of Canadian Constitution that would recognize and enshrine certain City of Toronto Authorities (secure.toronto.ca)

Passed today by the city council (16 to 5) was a motion asking for a report on amending the constitution to recognize Toronto as some sort of entity, limiting the degree to which the city would be subject to the provinces whims going forwards....

AshDene,
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Personally I've always been a fan of the Province of Toronto idea, but generally anything that moves power to govern Toronto to Toronto seems like the right direction to me.

/m/politics has no moderators other than ernest

/m/politics is basically unmoderated, and the trolls and other ne'er-do-wells are starting to find it. I'm not even particularly interested in following it, but that's one topic that you don't want to leave unmoderated. It's a troll magnet for obvious reasons, and that starts to affect the rest of the instance (and the...

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Honestly taking a glance at it it's doing shockingly well for being effectively unmoderated (if the number beside moderation log means what I think it does, there have been no moderator actions, though maybe "admin actions" don't show up there or something).

I doubt that will last though.

lurkeymclerkface, to RedditMigration

Is there an equivalent to r/all on kbin? I am enjoying the site but I am not finding a way to satisfy my urge to doom scroll aimlessly.

AshDene,
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@lurkeymclerkface If you haven't modified you settings, the default view is the equivalent of /r/all.

If you have, you can reach the /r/all equivalent by clicking on the hamburger button beside your name in the top right and selecting "All".

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"Slightly"

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I don't believe any kbin instances have been de-federated by beehaw...

AshDene,
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Open signups aren't novel on the fediverse, lots of places have them. The problem is having them without following up and banning problematic users... but yes I expect that if stricter instance-wide moderation doesn't happen this instance will end up being defederated by most of the fediverse (with mastodon at least that seems to be the norm).

I'm hoping moderation has been been lacking because Ernest is just overwhelmed with the amount of load, and that it is fixed soon, if not I'll end up moving on once admins start defederating it (probably to another kbin instance).

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Random thought of the day, if Vision Pro (like) headsets catch on for watching TV, soft-core porn in TV (ala game of thrones) probably becomes more common.

No one wants to watch that with their family, or to have family members (excl. spouses) walk in on them while watching it. Headsets make watching more solitary (mitigating the first), and just outright solve the second.

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What is a reddit thread if not a root tweet with a bunch of replies (and replies to the replies) formatted in a way that you see the organization of the replies?

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I can't speak to Lemmy's implementation (I refuse to go near lemmy on account of the maintainers "politics"), but there's nothing fundamental about threading that should make posting slower.

Loading threads here is... different... work than loading your feed in mastodon, it's possibly slower, but posting is from a theoretical standpoint the same. Probably you're just seeing the effect of your lemmy instance not running on sufficient hardware (very understandable given the explosion in user space size).

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The broad strokes are here: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379

In addition to the more important issues that fedi-tips discusses I find their stance on anti-vax and US-election conspiracy theories... unappealing, which you can see being discussed here: https://lemmy.ml/post/143057

And that they haven't been shy about exerting their power for political purposes. The hardcoded slur-filter was explicitly about discouraging "right wingers" (I put that in quotes because I suspect their definition of right wing and mine differ), and they at least use to be open about their intentions to moderate the instances that they run as explicitly "left wing" (though I don't see a reference to that on the current site).

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Legally:

Their servers belong to them (or more likely AWS), including the data on them. This is them (or AWS) owning the disks in the same way you own a CD with a video game on it, you own the disk, but you don't own the copyright to the data on the disk, and you have likely agreed to contracts with 3rd parties limiting what you can do with that disk even beyond what copyright limited you to.

The copyright on the data on that servers belongs to the original creators of the content. For all the comments (excepting copy and pasted quotes), that's that invidiual that made the comment.

What reddit owns is a licence on all that content (excepting illegaly copy and pasted quotes, like people who pasted in news articles) to reproduce it/display it. The license you grant them is defined in their terms of service

When Your Content is created with or submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world. This license includes the right for us to make Your Content available for syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication by other companies, organizations, or individuals who partner with Reddit. You also agree that we may remove metadata associated with Your Content, and you irrevocably waive any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to Your Content.

Frankly, moral (not in the European law sense) rights are more important than legal ones.

129,745 advanced votes for the 2023 by-election for mayor, up 11.9% from 2022. (www.toronto.ca)

News Release June 14, 2023 After six consecutive days, the advance vote period for Toronto’s by-election for mayor ended yesterday. From Thursday, June 8 to Tuesday, June 13, 129,745 eligible voters attended one of 50 advance voting locations across the city to vote. This is a 11.9 per cent increase from the 115,911 voters who...

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I also wasn't familiar with the term, but the concrete issue is supporting genocidal dictatorships such as the CPP and denying the very existence of atrocities that they've committed like Tienanmen square and the Uyghur genocide.

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iBalls sounds like a smart-dildo...

Of course they got away with iPad somehow, so maybe it would work.

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I greatly enjoyed The Company You Keep (2023)

Con-man/Spy (in the pairing sense) TV series. Cancelled after the one season, but it came to a satisfying conclusion.

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In the bar at the top near the right there is a number indicating the number of unread replies (if you have any).

Afaik there isn't a persistent collection of them yet.

Rust most "admired" language for 8th year in a row, and the rest of the stack overflow developer survey (survey.stackoverflow.co)

Rust is the most admired language, more than 80% of developers that use it want to use it again next year. Compare this to the least admired language: MATLAB. Less than 20% of developers who used this language want to use it again next year.

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I'm not that worried about it. Integrating properly with the fediverse would mean dropping all their "true name" bs.

There's no way they do that, think of the children advertising dollars!

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It will change things too, not for reddit, but for competitors (like kbin).

A tiny site can only grow so fast, at some point things start breaking (both technically and as a community) and users stop joining, but as sites grow bigger they also gain the ability to grow faster.

The protest means that every possible alternative to reddit has been growing as fast as it can reasonably support. That's probably not fast enough to hurt reddit this time, but next time it might be.

mastodonmigration, to RedditMigration
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Quick update:

  • fedia.io adds 2000 users today for a total of >16,000 users: https://fedia.io/stats
  • kbin.social is now at around 123,000 users: https://kbin.social/stats
  • fedia.io struggling under the new load, but has stayed up thanks to incredible work by @jerry (send them some love!)
  • kbin.social is slow and still not federating, but it is holding together

Just a reminder to be patient. This is beta code and no one expected such an onslaught. Truly amazing times!

AshDene,
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@Blakerboy777 In order to keep the service mostly functioning during the huge load spike it was put behind cloudflare with it's anti-ddos protection stuff enabled (that's why you get those "checking security" things when you load pages sometimes).

That stuff also interferes with the endpoints that different activity-pub sites use to talk to eachother, so other site posts/interactions aren't showing up here reliably right now, and the reverse.

It's just a temporary measure on this instance.

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Google is exposing 3d models via an API now, not at the street view level, but at the google-earth level. Someone will definitely build an app using that at the least. Here's a demo that shows off the level of detail - note that you could wait for the high detail models before showing them to the user.

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