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garrettw87 garrettw87 @kbin.social

Web developer (mainly PHP), server admin, IT generalist. Endlessly curious. Neurodivergent. Unapologetically centrist.

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How Tesla Got Away With Its Battery Ruse for Years
  • I’m definitely no battery engineer, so correct me if I’m wrong, but… wouldn’t a 100-mile-range battery pack have a shorter life span than a 200-mile pack under the same usage since its charge/discharge cycles would be deeper in terms of %, and possibly more frequent because of the reduced range?

  • What happened to Vivaldi Social?
  • Love reading stories like this, imagining myself in their shoes, as I am a web dev. Thanks for posting.

  • Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears
  • Well, it’s not hard to do lol

  • Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears
  • Oh, so it's basically one and the same with Calckey, being the software powering it. Gotcha.

  • Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears
  • Link? Google doesn't seem to know about it and neither do I

  • rplace.live - An open source faithful recreation of r/place
  • Can we all put our clicks together and make an effort to erase the swastika around (70,857)

  • What's your opinion on Opera browser?
  • It’s not perfect, but being super configurable does help.

  • What's your opinion on Opera browser?
  • Vivaldi is definitely cool — except for the amount of RAM it uses. If it weren’t for that, I would use it a lot more, but for me, Firefox is just faster all around.

  • List of subs people may find familiar
  • @Tygr @herpderpedia Kbin does not support !community links just yet, but it's in the works on some level. Linking to Lemmy communities from here can't really be done without the full URL, which does mean one would have to provide two links - one that works on Kbin, and one that points to the original instance.

    In related news, linking to Kbin magazines is currently a bit borked as well, because the only other syntax that works (@magname) is assumed to refer to a user account and not a magazine.

  • What's the benefit of using Kbin over Lemmy?
  • This is a very contentious topic right now, and it’s not clear at the moment whether votes will remain public or be made private. There are some very vocal proponents on both sides.

  • [m/newsdom] [owner] I read the world's newspapers and post what most matters from everywhere
  • What are your editorial criteria for determining what matters most?

  • Will you recommend making an Mastodon account if I already have an kbin account?
  • Do you need to? No. But I do have accounts on both and will keep it that way, because they’re just completely different experiences and Kbin isn’t to a point yet IMO to fully replace Mastodon on the client level.

  • Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furious
  • And yet somehow they say that’s their reasoning - that they’re trying to become profitable.

  • Baptism of a Child
  • Any particular reason you opted to split your old community between here and Lemmy? I hope you know that both new communities can be accessed from across the fediverse, as kbin and lemmy both federate.

  • VPS and piracy
  • No idea. Maybe hosts typically follow a policy of not snooping in stored files without a ticket requesting or authorizing it implicitly or explicitly. At least that would make sense to me.

  • VPS and piracy
  • AFAIK, web hosting clients here in the US don’t really have any expectation of privacy from their host itself.

  • /kbin devlog @kbin.social garrettw87 @kbin.social

    @ernest Hi there, I just want to express my interest in helping out, as I am fortunately a PHP developer.

    @ernest Hi there, I just want to express my interest in helping out, as I am fortunately a PHP developer.

    Areas where I can help the most:

    • Triaging issues and generally keeping the issues list tidy
    • Contributing to developer quality-of-life things, such as setup documentation and improving tooling configurations
    • Helping set up a CONTRIBUTING.md (contributing guidelines)
    • Making UI/UX suggestions (as if we don't have enough of those already)
    • Once I get more familiar with the codebase:
      • Reviewing PRs
      • Working on code structure / SOLIDness / readability / etc.

    Feel free to review my GitHub account if you like. I have a lot of unfinished projects there ;)

    \#kbinDevlog

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