Awhiskeydrunker

joined 1 year ago
[–] Awhiskeydrunker@kbin.social 1 points 4 months ago

What’s the impact if it turns out the Iranian president has been assassinated? Not saying that’s what’s happened but if that is the case any Iran experts here can shed light?

[–] Awhiskeydrunker@kbin.social 19 points 8 months ago

Maybe I'm a pessimist but this is going to really resonate with the people who are "looking forward to AI" because they read headlines, but haven't actually used any LLMs yet because nobody has told them how.

[–] Awhiskeydrunker@kbin.social -3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Good point, though I would counter that there's a lot of blustering about taking our country back but I haven't seen many serious attempts or people capable of actually planning and executing such a thing, and I've had a good bit of contact with what y'all would consider to be American far right rebels.

For all I know, the far righties talking about their revolution is about as productive as the tankies talking about theirs. Nobody sees a future in this country where the workers seize the means of production and we actually eat the rich, right?

[–] Awhiskeydrunker@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I've enjoyed my time on the fediverse but have been disappointed with the leveling off of growth and lack of participation in niche communities. I still visit Kbin several times weekly, but it isn't like the old days when I would spend tons of time on Reddit. I have left my old Reddit account redacted and haven't started using it again, as that time is over. There are some communities and niche interests that unfortunately, it looks like Reddit will always be the main home for since we didn't hit the critical mass for people to move those communities over here. Because of that, I've started a new reddit account (with my real name attached, and started actively participating in those communities). For me, Reddit is no longer a place to anonymously participate in community discussions (because those discussions were becoming increasingly worthless alot of the time), but a place to participate with my IRL identity in communities related to topics or hobbies I care about. The anonymous community stuff is fulfilled by Kbin/Fediverse which I prefer now.

 

It’s the end of an era! I still have a few that I never returned and just paid for, I bet one day they’ll be a novelty nostalgia item.

[–] Awhiskeydrunker@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

$24.99/month for 300 mbps up and down, Verizon Fiber. Northeast US.

[–] Awhiskeydrunker@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very disappointed to see my employer on here with a D rating. Internal comms said we were out!

 

In this video I ordered an ant colony online and I'm setting up an ant terrarium.______________________Support the channel:https://www.patreon.com/Homemade_e...

[–] Awhiskeydrunker@kbin.social 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are “inviting” mods to do even more free work in furtherance of Reddits profitability

[–] Awhiskeydrunker@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

This isn’t a problem. This is knowing how to reference community knowledge and technology instead of reinventing various shapes and sizes of wheels

[–] Awhiskeydrunker@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Bigger instances and communities may end up being more PC over the years but I think smaller ones will retain this vibe.

[–] Awhiskeydrunker@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

The Beta Band, Vulfpeck, Khruangbin, Holy Hive, Tame Impala, Hippo Campus, STRFKR, Greta Van Fleet

 

Yay kbin.social is back! No Reddit since Apollo shut down and this was the first time I had that withdrawl feeling 😂. Glad to see the visual upgrades too, site looks awesome!

#kbinMeta

 

All Tomb Raider games are on sale on Steam. If you like action/exploration games and you know what else, some of the best ones are on sale for less than a dollar!

 

Starting 2 or 3 days ago I started getting daily summary emails from Reddit of activities in my subscribed subreddits. Did anybody else start getting these all of a sudden? Did I trigger something with inactivity re-engagement or something?

#RedditMigration

 

So this morning I overwrote 11 years of comments on Reddit with this message:

In preparation for the discontinuation of Ah pall O (read it fast) I have decided to edit my posts/comments and then delete my account. Looking forward to seeing you on whatever comes next 🍻! – mass edited with https://redact.dev/

And I just had a thought. LLM / Generative AI devs and trainers are considering how to consume the massive amount of useful conversation and perspectives on Reddit, and now they will have to contend with random comments in the middle of conversations being completely unrelated to the conversation. Somebody is probably writing code to isolate and ignore these types of comments already 🤣

Happy fediversationing, everyone!

#RedditMigration

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