mack123

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mack123,

That is a good way to think about it. What is the need from the reader's perspective and from the poster's.

One would certainly read a post with low upvotes from a author with high reputation if you are interested in the specific magazine. I wonder if the reputation should not be topic bound and not just general. That would be useful from the reader's perspective.

mack123,

The exciting thing about this space is that much of it is undefined. It is all about the protocols and the main features at the moment. The 2nd generation tools will be born out of what we discuss now and think about now.

How do you make sure a user is not trapped in his special interest bubble and still gets to see content that has everyone excited? How will we make use of the underlying data, on both posts and users to suggest and aggregate content.

I think there will be more than one solution eventually, different flavours of aggregators running on the same underlying data.

So much possibility. And we control it. If you don't like the way your lemmy instance or kbin aggregates, choose another site or build your own. The data is there.

mack123,

It is a thing to note about starting an IT business. Office space is an overhead you cannot afford. I was involved as a founder for a small custom dev and consulting company in the middle 2000s. We were about 10 and very distributed. Every Friday we would meet at a coffee shop with bottomless coffee ๐Ÿ˜‰. Do our version of a standup and then get on with it for the week. Even then we managed with email and google chat and cell phones. The tooling is so much better today than then. So there is no reason to waste money on renting fancy spaces.

mack123,

Some books just beg to be read again and again. I am on my 3rd copy of The Lord of the Rings, 2nd of Dune. The advent of good reading apps, like fbreader on Android saved my Ian M. Banks collection from a similar fate. That said my copy of The Algebrist is starting to show its age.

So yes rereading a good book can be fun.

mack123,

Conceptually Boost and Upvote are intended for different things. That is in my very limited understanding.

Upvote is for the post only, but if you boost then the thing you boosted will be shared with your followers and is on your public feed.

The reputation calc does not look at upvotes at the moment, only boosts. This may change soon as the kbin author changes the site to be a better merge between the mastadon and lemmy concepts.

We are on a brand new developing platform. Things are changing fast, as we kick the tires and take it for a spin. It is both refreshing and exciting.

mack123,

That is my understanding yes.

mack123, (edited )

Edit: Wrote this on mobile. The mobile U/I is not always clear as to the source magazine where the post came from, so I missed the Linux in there. Things are not as dire on Linux as on Windows for AMD, so my assessment may be a bit pessimistic. With AMD's focus on the data centre for machine learning, the linux driver stack seems fairly well supported.

I spent the last few days getting stable defusion and pytorch working on my Radeon 6800 XT in windows. The machineml distribution of stable diffusion runs at about 1/4 of the speed of raw rocm when I compare it to the shark tooling, which supports rocm via docker on windows.

Expect tooling to be clinky and that you will need to compile everything yourself on linux. Prebuilt stuff will all be for Nvidia.

Amd is pushing hard into the ai space, but aiming at datacenter users. They are rumoured to be building rocm for their windows drivers, but when that will ship is anyone's guess.

So right now, if you need to hit the ground running for your academic work, I would recommend NVidia, as much as it pains me, a long time AMD user.

mack123,

I was looking for 1 in my old pc junk boxes, to show my 12 year old what they looked like. Not a single floppy survived.

EDIT - Resolved Help Needed around understanding the Subscribed view: kbin.social/sub

Please help me understand how this view is intended to work. I have been seeing a lot of content on that view that I am not subscribed to. Today I deleted all of my subscriptions to try and see if the view will change and it does not. Am I missing something in how this is supposed to work, or is there a bug there at the moment?...

mack123,

I confirmed the /sub url (https://kbin.social/sub) view as well as tried it in a incognito window with a clean login. Just to see if its a cookie or cached data issue. There may just be some corruption on my profile. It is not critical, but it would be nice it it worked as expected.

mack123,

I just confirmed that. I am not following anyone yet. I hope one of the more experienced people will chime in with ideas. My profile was created during the crashing chaos a week ago, so it would not be surprising is something is a little iffy there. I noticed the behaviour starting as soon as subbed to a community not on kbin, but on a federated server. Or at lease I think that is when it started. I may be wrong.

mack123,

Polymono, helped me find the issue on Codeberg where I logged it as a bug.

It seems that I inadvertently subscribed to https://kbin.social/d/kbin.social which is a meta group of the entire server. The problem is that you can only see that you are subscribed if you go there directly. It does not show in your subscription list.

Unsubscribing from there resolved my problem.

Thanks to Polymono for the help.

mack123,

That was amusing. Excellent timing!

mack123,

I recently rediscovered the genre while looking for remixes of classic commodore 64 game tunes. Surprisingly effective as background while working.

mack123,

The damage is done and the reddit project has failed. Reddit wil die the slow death of the abandoned, slowly losing relvance over time.

I think many reddit users have been curious about the fedverae, but nor ready to move. Or ready to put in the effort to learn. This certainly describes me. Reddit's actions were the push I needed.

So now we build something new and exciting. Reddit will just become the place we talk about in the greybeard threads a few years from now. That site we used to know.

mack123,

Good to know. I am still in the process of getting our server world ready for the update and have not played with the new content just yet. Looking forward to it though.

mack123,

I believe it to be a real collaboration, where the question is almost meaningless. There are some points where we can clearly read Pratchett's humour and some places where a bit Neil's darker imagining shines through, but on the whole I think it is almost impossible to separate one from the other.

It will however remain on of my favourite books of all time. I can also recommend the TV series made a few years ago. It was probably as true to to book as you can make it and had me laughing out loud almost as much as the book did.

mack123,

Thanks for the response. I tried that, but it still seems to show me everything. Which is why I am wondering. It worked correctly yesterday which I why I wondered if it is a setting somewhere I tweaked. I am accessing: https://kbin.social/sub

mack123,

It is like watching a slow train wreck. You know you should just look away, but you just cannot.

mack123,

That is stunning. Just watch out for pissed of sole survivors.

mack123,

It seems to have been mostly an issue with curseforge. I moved away from their tools to using modrinth as the source for my 1.20 mod updates. But yes, always be careful out there.

mack123,

Feist commands a significant portion of my bookshelf. He is brilliant. I rate him as my favourite fantasy author, with the late Ian M. Banks as my top science fiction author.

mack123,

It is useful and Pixel's video explains it nicely. I am not sure what configuration options we have, if we have a way to link to an FAQ or Tools document in a wiki form, that may be a plan going forward. My only caveat is that we must make this place a welcoming one and I would not want to overwhelm new subscribers with to many technical things.

What got you into Vinyl ?

I started collecting almost 3 years ago when I kept popping into a record store @waxandbeans. Couldnt afford a decent turntable until recently though so I waited. Money was all over the place so I bought and sold but Ive got back all the ones I sold. For me its a combination of the sound quality and The local community on it....

mack123,

Greybeard here..... I was lucky enough to grow up when vinyl was the format and CDs the new thing. Early CD players were terrible, usually harsh sounding compared to their vinyl counterparts. A family friend owned a higher end hi-fi store during the era when having a good hi-fi was a status symbol. I got to listen to a lot of new, expensive equipment that way. In the late 80s CD simply did not cut the mustard compared to even an entry level high-end record player. For example a Nad 3020i with a Rega Planer II would outplay the most expensive Marantz or Yamaha cd player at the time.

That kept my teenage record collection safe and allowed me to build a system that I am proud off. Keeping an eye open for sales of both equipment and records through the 90s and 2000s when everyone got rid of their records and record players.

Today, the reasons are a bit different, why do I still listen to vinyl in this age of convenience. Vinyl ticks some unique boxes that cannot be ticked by most other formats.

  • There is a lot of arcane knowledge needed to get the best results (cartridges, tracking setup, speaker placement)
  • Playing records require effort, which leads focus.
  • Focus leads to enjoying the music.

Keep them spinning, happy listening.

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