This week (at the latest at the beginning of next week), there will be a several-hour technical break. A banner with detailed information about this will appear 24 hours before the planned work....
Siding with product sellers / advertisers has been their clearly announced trend in 2023. The whole API thing was because they didn't like other apps running independent advertisements.
Interesting interpretation of human history regarding over 95% of humanity believing in mythological stories. Or Fox News, or advertising from MyPillow, or....
Core components... like operating systems and engines... this was the whole reason people open sourced in the first place. You start getting it in millions of devices and it is too much power for closed-source closed-license. The GPU drivers and WiFi drivers are often the ones who pave the paths away from open source.
If anyone votes on an old comment from the source instance, your newly subscribed kbin instance will grab the older message when the new vote comes in. Works with both Lemmy and kbin sources....
I did it yesterday and it was a bit confusing which passwords to set, the directions have you edit files and kind of just says "change the passwords"... but they are all in docker-compose.override.yml file - if you start there it's a little more clear.
I couldn't get it to start right on Ubuntu 22.04 and I tried deleting everything and starting over and kept running into the same problem. The database password wasn't set.
docker compose up
without the "-d" at the end will show you output where I saw the password wasn't right for the database. It was set the same in both files, not sure why it was wrong. I eventually issued a command directly to the database to set the password and that fixed the problem.
docker compose exec -T db psql -U kbin -c "ALTER USER kbin WITH PASSWORD 'mypassword';"
Then it all started up fine. I also figured out how to get the database on a different port than default because I normally use PosgreSQL 16 for development and kbin expects 13 in the install. So I wanted to tell kbin to use a different port. I can share that if anyone wants.
The developers of Lemmy have been questionable for some time
They also seem obsessed about deleting/purging content and keeping Lemmy postings off of Google Search... Lemmy servers have been online for over 4 years and even on their beloved topics (Rust, communism, etc) it would almost never come up. It's as if they think they are building private e-mail or dating service instead of public forum. Which is entirely against the idea of their self-proclaimed love of communism and copyleft stuff... why not have everyone agree to a creative commons license of their content/contributions like Wikipedia when posting on a public forum...
I recently stood up a kbin instance using the Docker guide for testing purposes. I can see the KBin UI, log in with my admin user, create magazines and threads....
What was said: "Serious question, if you see this, do you disagree that fascism is on the rise globally, if not, how do you designate the rising trend of often religious right wing ideology based on racism, sexism and any anti-minority bigotry you can think of?"
Is actually a pretty good screening of unknown persons on social media, as it puts things into context from the damage done to online then offline society by Cambridge Analytica.
“In psychological warfare, the weak points are flaws in how people think. If you’re trying to hack a person’s mind, you need to identify cognitive biases and then exploit them.”
― Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
October: kbin.social planned technical outage
This week (at the latest at the beginning of next week), there will be a several-hour technical break. A banner with detailed information about this will appear 24 hours before the planned work....
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Devs on Unity Runtime Fee: "The trust is gone forever" (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Spam from unmoderated communities/magazines
Both https://kbin.social/m/infosec and https://kbin.social/m/science are being spammed constantly with opioid ads and other non-sense....
PostgreSQL: Release Notes - 15.4 (www.postgresql.org)
positive experience with /kbin automatically bringing in older comments and posts to newly subscribed community
If anyone votes on an old comment from the source instance, your newly subscribed kbin instance will grab the older message when the new vote comes in. Works with both Lemmy and kbin sources....
What's the recommended way to set up a development environment for KBin?
I haven't been able to find an answer for this, so I'm hoping asking this here would be appropriate....
Lemmy/Kbin Reinvestment Phase and Recruiting from Mastodon
cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/2173435...
Can't see content from other instances or create new users.
I recently stood up a kbin instance using the Docker guide for testing purposes. I can see the KBin UI, log in with my admin user, create magazines and threads....
John Roberts Begs the Liberal Justices to Stop Criticizing the Court (newrepublic.com)
The chief justice doesn’t like his conservative Supreme Court colleagues getting called out for judicial overreach.
Wanted: Moderators for /m/PostgreSQL
Are/were you a moderator at /r/PostgreSQL? Send proof, and I will hand over the keys.
/kbin Issues (codeberg.org)