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r00ty r00ty @kbin.life

I'm the administrator of kbin.life, a general purpose/tech orientated kbin instance.

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The /r/piracy link to lemmy /c/piracy hit the reddit frontpage with 7K+ updoots!
  • Well. I don't think I've seen anyone advertising hot local singles using my instance. I've mostly seen medical adverts and random websites (for products not services). So, you're not missing anything I think.

  • The /r/piracy link to lemmy /c/piracy hit the reddit frontpage with 7K+ updoots!
  • No. I see several genuine looking users that registered and did nothing (fine I guess). But there's a lot with very similar <somethingnnn>@gmail.com. Some don't do anything and so far I've left them. Some are clearly posting advert crap and they get deleted as soon as I see it. Every now and then I just go through purge the rest that are clearly bot accounts.

    If I was actually getting genuine active users I might look into making a form or otherwise making it difficult (not sure if mbin has that ability mind you). But seems I don't really get real users. Just me, posting and commenting all day.

  • The /r/piracy link to lemmy /c/piracy hit the reddit frontpage with 7K+ updoots!
  • No, I think it's just me on my instance (that probably has the capacity for 1000+ active users) and the steady influx of suspicious accounts that pass the email verification and captcha and then either post nothing, or post adverts get banned/deleted and it goes on.

    Mind you I don't really advertise the instance either. So that's likely why.

    I suspect people coming from reddit don't understand the fediverse (I know I didn't when I first got here). So they go to the hosting instance and join there, not really understanding they can join any instance and then join the community (if not already on the instance).

  • Elon Musk Suggests Getting Rid Of All Regulations In Midnight Call
  • Yeah I stopped at three when I realised I could be there all day when it comes to regulations that private companies need to adhere to. But I would agree those should have been on my abridged list too.

  • Elon Musk Suggests Getting Rid Of All Regulations In Midnight Call
  • From my point of view from the other side of the Atlantic, you guys in the US don't have enough regulation as it is. There's only one class of people that benefit from removal of the regulations you do have, and that's the top 1%. It's just going to allow them to do all of the following to make more money, at everyone else's expense.

    1: Treat their employees worse than they already do, AND put them into dangerous situations legally. 2: Cut corners to save money at the expense of safety. Think airlines, airliner manufacturers, car makers, construction. The list here could be endless. 3: Well, finance/banking regulations. That will be a field day for the finance sector I'm sure.

    I mean the list is potentially endless. But the three points above will keep you busy for long enough I reckon.

    No, I don't really feel safe even this far away. We're not immune to all of this anywhere in the world.

  • Hacked pipelines defaced Microsoft's WSL repository with pro-Palestine messages
  • I think the top one might be the culprit. But it might be the guy's account was hacked?

    On his repo he has a fork of WSL and the repo is called "free-palestine", he tried to merge the branch "freedom". So that PR seems likely to be linked to this. Other than this, activity seems normal for a terminal githubber with 444 repos...

  • Alibaba releases AI model it says surpasses DeepSeek
  • Oh, good. Maybe they will stop trying to scrape my websites at some ridiculous rate using faked real browser UAs. I just blocked their whole ASN (AS45102) in the end.

  • "I know the perfect place for the ESP button! Right in front of the drivers knee!"
  • It's strategically placed right next to the ESP so that the car gives you a 15.000 volt shock anytime you turn it off.

    Just like that poor guy at the start of Ghostbusters.

  • Convicted US Capitol rioter Pam Hemphill turns down Trump pardon
  • I'm pretty sure he called them hostages on Monday.

  • Hulu quizzing about the ads played
  • I feel like the only even remotely acceptable way to do this is to show the ad, prompt for the answer for 10 seconds. They can log the right/wrong answer or if the time expires the lack of one and must move on.

    I can imagine metrics knowing if your advertising is actually reaching people is valid. But to make people answer and especially make them watch more if they answer wrong is about as dystopian as it gets.

    If (and I say if, I really don't want to believe it is) that is the case, the only correct response is to uninstall Hulu immediately and put on your pirate hat.

  • Your thoughts on the concentration of users around big and flagship instances ?
  • For threadiverse (lemmy/mbin et al) there's not much in it. It's fairly easy for an operator to curate their instance by pre subscribing to a whole bunch of communities. I run my own instance, barely any users and I'm constantly banning and deleting them for advertising. But I have plenty of content.

    I made my own mastodon instance and connected to a bunch of groups. Only two or three are active. There's not really an easy way to get content without following a lot of people. So anyone visiting my instance will see virtually nothing. If they go to social they will see plenty.

    So it's a bit of a no brainer for most I think.

  • What to know about 'quad-demic' of COVID, flu, RSV and norovirus in US
  • Don't forget, take your ivermectin, consume bleach and find some way of getting sunlight into your body. 😛

  • No Ham License? Listen Anyway In Your Browser
  • Why? Because you can. But in terms of useful reasons?

    Cellphones, Internet they need infrastructure to work, and that can be disabled either during a natural disaster or war situation. Even by your own government in some cases.

    But if I want to communicate, I just need a piece of wire, somewhere to hang it, and a 12v battery and I can communicate for thousands of miles.

    Personally I just think that's cool.

  • “I bought this before Elon went crazy “ - sticker on Tesla
  • Good news everyone! Several years ago I tried to logon to AOL. And it just went through!

  • Learn to code
  • Yeah, it shouldn't happen in a release. But, if I had a penny for every time I've seen the last minute development that wasn't tested yet and not even due for the current release squeezed in. I'd literally have a pound, or dollar or whatever else has 100 pennies in.

  • Learn to code
  • In a professional sense my experience is that they're more often the result of under-staffing and rigid, fixed release schedules.

  • Elon Musk rages and Leaks Asmongold's DMs and Removes His Blue Checkmark
  • The "Interesting" is very Muskesque. I also think if it was DMs to someone else, even in the USA that's got to be some level of a legal privacy issue.

  • Trump, Musk dined with Microsoft CEO at Mar-a-Lago
  • Not just tech. For big business Trump is good news for them I am sure. For their employees, not so much. But for the leaders, it's 4 years of very favourable policies for them.

  • Former Presidents Obama, Clinton and Bush won't attend Trump's inaugural lunch
  • You know. I can actually imagine Trump sees the whole thing like a WWE match.

  • What the F#
  • Yeah. I didn't understand what they meant by the wtf there. Seemed to me someone wondered if the Action would have a localised version of i (making this stay lowercase on a phone was harder than it should be) or if it used the same i. So made a simple test for it.

    Not really sure it's a wtf unless they expected a different result.

  • Fluffing machine.

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    www.bbc.co.uk SCO summit: Putin says sanctions making Russia stronger

    He spoke at the SCO summit which took place virtually under Indian PM Narendra Modi's leadership.

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