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[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't saw it earlier.. :P

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

The thread itself is actually already 1 year old. Well, look at the screens above. Somebody asked for a follow-up, so I gave a follow-up of both the average posts by day for Lemmy as well as Mbin... The trend is still up.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 8 hours ago

And.. for the Mbin users out there. Here is the same average posts by day, but on the Mbin platform.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 8 hours ago (6 children)

It seems that. 1) Cumulative graph is removed, because cumulative doesn't make sense. There is an average graph though. Average Lemmy Posts by Day... 2) In just a single day the numbers of this new average graph exploded.. that can't be right.. 3) What about all the spam posts!??

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 11 hours ago

My point exactly, now you have genAI code written by AI, who doesn't know what it is doing. Instructed by a developer, who doesn't understand the programming language. Reviewed by a co-worker, who doesn't know what is doing on. It's madness I tell you!

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you! That is indeed a valid point. I was hoping more people came up with this valid remark. Do you have any other questions or predictions you would like to know? So that we don't get "surprises" in the field of technology again?

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 11 hours ago

I predicted that introducing AI on software engineer (especially juniors) will result in overall worse code, since apparently people don't feel responsible for the genAI code. While I believe the responsibility is still fully at the humans who try to deliver code. And on top of that, most devs are not doing good code reviews in general (often due to lack of time or .. skill issue). And now we have AI that generates code which are too easily accepted on top of reviewers who blindly accept code.. And no unit tests or integration tests.. And then we have this current situation. No wonder this would happen. If you are in software engineering, you would know exactly where I'm talking about. Especially if you would work at larger companies.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 22 hours ago (7 children)

No sh*t, this is what I predicted from day one.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 day ago

Proton Mail?

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 day ago

I'm afraid the power needs for AI will also not decrease. Even if individual models become more efficient and the hardware become more AI optimized. The next logical step is to run even more if those AIs as agents and creating huge chain of thoughts... So no, ai power usage will increase.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We need to leverage existing solutions like how Ana archive is working. Which makes use of torrents. https://annas-archive.org/ Like read this carefully: https://annas-archive.org/datasets

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 day ago

Luckily for you Arch has the best wiki pages out there for documentation purposes. If you have any questions regarding Linux or you want to know something, just ask.

 

I never seen such a good YouTube video from Linus Tech Tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsjHMzGl-VY (jokes on you)

If you don't get it? Remove Chrome now and install Firefox (or any fork of Firefox). Then install uBlock Origin now! Add-on here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

 

Sad story ahead

Today I fully removed Firefox as my main browser. It's banned from all my devices from now onwards. I used Firefox as my only browser since I was 10 years old. Which is 24 years now (24 years!). I loved

Firefox trying to be a good alternative to Chrome, promoting open-source and showing the world that privacy does matter. Sadly not anymore, recently after Mozilla hostile CEO takeover and moving the company forward to an advertisement company. Neglecting privacy. And fully want the other way around, tracking user data sending back to Mozilla. And at the same time Mozilla has also became an ads company just like Google, so there is no difference anymore really. And it only goes down-hill from here.

Furthermore, Mozilla is spending more money in AI companies then in the product Firefox itself. So..

Luckily, there are plenty great Firefox forks! Look into some of them yourself and really pick an alternative rather sooner than later:

  • LibreWolf
  • Floorp (I went with Floorp, thus far it's great!!!)
  • Waterfox
  • Mullvad

Just pick one, anything... from above list!

I know, it's sad. It's very sad, after 24 years I didn't went to leave Firefox, but this last moves was the straw that broke the camel's back. I'm out, cya at the fork!

 

I saw today the infamous pop-up of YouTube again that they will block the video player after 2 more videos if I keep using uBlock Origin. ** Google.

 

You can also use the map feature of fediverse.observer to pick your new kbin instance.

 

Yes you heard that right, we are planning for the first /kbin release. Currently most server admins are running directly from the develop branch since /kbin is still in very (early) active development.

That being said, we are planning for creating the first tagged released of /kbin! We still merge several pull requests, but holding off a bit. At the same time we are looking at all the high priority issues, seeing if some of those can be resolved or mitigated before the first tagged version.

I already introduced some basic CI/CD Workflow Actions within Codeberg. Also Ernest setup several development environments. All these preparations are necessary to achieve a better, faster and more stable release cycle in the near future.

Thanks to all contributors and of course @ernest and @piotrsikora. Thank you all for this wonderful community and becoming part of it.

~Melroy

 

Currently, the kbin.social instance has planned maintenance. They are busy upgrading the infrastructure to Kubernetes, using Docker containers. They said it shouldn't take much longer than 1 hour downtime in total (if everything goes fine).

The migration will help to dynamically scale the instance, to remove the growing pains. And hopefully increase the availability (uptime) as well.

Soon additional setup configurations, best server practices and ansible playbooks will be shared with the community.

In the meanwhile you can of course use other instances (I bet you are reading this message right now from another instance).

 

Today kbin.social is blocking a huge list of domains just to get federation working again.

The reason for this temporally block is not to defederate, but rather to get the large backlog of 500k messenger queue processed again. Anyway, this does mean that kbin.social is federating again with other instances.

This is a temporary measure. Several users / developers are looking into how to better optimize the failed message queue, as we speak. Hopefully Ernest has eventually time to dive into solutions as well instead of workarounds, once his instance is migrated to Kubernets. See my preview thread: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/updates/t/4257/Kbin-federation-issues-and-infra-upgrade

List of the domains causing trouble:

lemmygrad.ml, eientei.org, vive.im, lemmy.ml, lemmynsfw.com, kbin.lol, lemmy.webgirand.eu, tuna.cat, posta.no, lemmy.atay.dev, sh.itjust.works, kbin.stuffie.club, kbin.dssc.io, bolha.social, dataterm.digital, kbindev.lerman-development.com, test.fedia.io, mer.thekittysays.icu, lemmy.stark-enterprise.net, kbin.rocks, kbin.cocopoops.com, kbin.lgbt, lemmy.deev.io, lemmy.lucaslower.com, lemmy.norbz.org, social.jrruethe.info, digitalgoblin.uk, pwzle.com, lemmy.friheter.com, federated.ninja, lemmy.shtuf.eu, u.fail, arathe.net, lemmy.click, thekittysays.icu, lemmy.ubergeek77.chat, lemmy.maatwo.com, faux.moe, eslemmy.es, seriously.iamincredibly.gay, test.dataharvest.social, programming.dev, kbin.knocknet.net, pawb.social, lucitt.social, longley.ws, kbin.dentora.social, atay.dev, lemmy.kozow.com, ck.altsoshl.com, pawoo.net, techy.news, lemmy.vergaberecht-kanzlei.de, lemmyonline.com, beehaw.org, pouet.chapril.org, kbin.pcft.eu, fl0w.cc, lemmy.sdf.org, lemmy.zip, feddit.dk, fedi.shadowtoot.world, lemmy.noogs.me, lemmy.kemomimi.fans, social.agnitum.co.uk, fediverse.boo, hive.atlanten.se, forkk.me, lemmy.ghostplanet.org, lemmy.mayes.io, lemmy.mats.ooo, lemmy.world, lemmy.sdfeu.org, lemmy.death916.xyz, geddit.social, masto.fediv.eu

 

Don't forget you can change the look & feel of kbin. Go to the setting (gear icon) menu. And try out all the options.

Adapt the settings to your preferences!

 

I notice just recently that Youtube is lowering the quality of the videos (bitrate), and I need to buy Youtube premium to upgrade the bitrate. Sure they claim they don't touch the bitrate for free users, but I can see the difference...

I think it's time we all move to PeerTube as well. #peertube #youtube

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