xkcd xkcd xkcd #2913: Periodic Table Regions
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  • Teppic Teppic 6 months ago 100%

    Mobile friendly version:
    https://m.xkcd.com/2913/

    Edit: I noticed OP put the alt text in the comment after I posted this

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  • selfhosted Selfhosted Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise
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    linuxmemes linuxmemes That's why we need two ssds for dual boot
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  • Teppic Teppic 6 months ago 100%

    It's relatively quick and easy to fix if you have a live boot Linux usb stick ...and probably a second machine so you can Google what to do. It's just also rather worrying at the time.

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  • linuxmemes linuxmemes That's why we need two ssds for dual boot
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  • linuxmemes linuxmemes That's why we need two ssds for dual boot
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  • Teppic Teppic 6 months ago 100%

    I really wish Excel would work on wine. It's the only reason I do occasionally fire up windows on my duel boot. (And no the open source / browser based spreadsheet options don't always suffice, brilliant as they are).

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  • selfhosted Selfhosted Lemmings, what's your self hosted server power usage?
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  • Teppic Teppic 7 months ago 100%

    My main issue is I'm not shutting down my Pi-Hole, home assistant, NAS etc etc just to plug in something like this in, and then 24h or so later shut them all down again to retrieve it again. That said I basically have a collection of Pis (passively cooled and this silent) and a Synology disk station so the power use is pretty low.

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  • xkcd xkcd xkcd #2898: Orbital Argument
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  • Teppic Teppic 7 months ago 100%

    You've got me there, but by logical extension you are now saying the celestial body the ISS orbits is ...the moon?

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  • xkcd xkcd xkcd #2898: Orbital Argument
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  • Teppic Teppic 7 months ago 100%

    You seem to be saying that the earth-moon barycente can be logically referred to as just 'the moon' ?

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  • lemmy Lemmy Is there a downvote bot on lemmy or something that downvotes a post regardless of the content ? If there is a downvote bot what can we do about it ?
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  • Teppic Teppic 7 months ago 100%

    Some people use apps which hide posts they have interacted with. A downvote counts as interaction so people in turn then liberally downvote nearly everything. Yes it's unhelpful and dumb. Solution, use kbin and at least you can see who downvoted you! (Except I don't think downvotes are federated).

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  • xkcd xkcd xkcd #2898: Orbital Argument
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  • Teppic Teppic 7 months ago 80%

    Mobile friendly version: https://m.xkcd.com/2898/

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  • xkcd xkcd xkcd #2898: Orbital Argument
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  • Teppic Teppic 7 months ago 13%

    ...whoosh.
    In no logical sense does the sun orbit our moon. The earth does however indeed orbit the moon (or technically they both orbit a common centre between the earth and the moon).

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  • linuxmemes linuxmemes "But my friend runs a PinePhone as a daily driver"
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  • Teppic Teppic 7 months ago 100%

    They seem to have resolved their supply chain issues for now. I could buy a Pi 5 and have it dispatched tomorrow, and I did buy a Pi 4b recently, no issues with delays or lead times.

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  • technology Technology Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994
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  • Teppic Teppic 9 months ago 100%

    No Mint pretty much just works.
    Great thing about Mint (or most Linux distros) is that you can try it by booting from a usb stick - see if you like it that way.

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta Issues with the functioning of kbin.social
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  • Teppic Teppic 9 months ago 100%

    There is an option for this under settings which is likely to be more fruitful than a comment in a thread.

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta Prototype for new Kbin app: Interstellar
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  • Teppic Teppic 9 months ago 100%

    This is great news! Thanks, and also great that you are making it source from the off!

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta Prototype for new Kbin app: Interstellar
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  • Teppic Teppic 9 months ago 100%

    Ernest will no doubt correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he's also said he'd prefer to leave aps to those for whome it is a core strength.
    I think he knows it's something the community would like, so I think the post you link above was in reaction to Artimis unfortunately going offline and the App (for now) dieing with it (since nobody seems able to contact the developer). I suspect it's something Ernest will progress 'in his free time' if no other apps which live up to his ambitions are developed first!

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta What's the plan for downvote federation?
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  • Teppic Teppic 10 months ago 100%

    A key difference here is we can see who downvoted which I think makes people more cautious to downvote. I guess Lemmy users aren't used to that however (but it might change their behaviour when they realise we can see!)

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta What's the plan for downvote federation?
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  • Teppic Teppic 10 months ago 100%

    how it should work on kbin.social [?]

    In my view ideally upvotes and downvotes federate both ways, but I can also see why some admins might choose not to federate in downvotes.

    I guess the real question comes down to what you do with the information.
    I think currently the sort order is very heavily skewed towards boosts (which I actually quite like), but I do also sometimes wonder how it would look if the sort order was aligned with the reputation system (i.e. boost= two upvotes).
    Having both sort options available might be nice, (noting that we'll not federate in any boosts from Lemmy).

    If we did federate in downvotes the current sort order (which seems based on boosts less downvotes?) probably wouldn't make sense?

    ...I'm also be keen to see others thoughts on this!

    Edit: formatting

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta Feature comparison - kbin vs Lemmy
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  • Teppic Teppic 10 months ago 100%
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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta Feature comparison - kbin vs Lemmy
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  • Teppic Teppic 10 months ago 100%

    ::: spoiler masking text
    Like this?
    :::
    kbin does that just fine.

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta Feature comparison - kbin vs Lemmy
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  • Teppic Teppic 10 months ago 100%

    Or just type it in using the Google stock keyboard on Android... 😜
    Edit: and kbin does very much support emoji.

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta Feature comparison - kbin vs Lemmy
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  • Teppic Teppic 10 months ago 100%

    Indeed, and then there is a whole raft of searching, sorting and filtering options for Microblog posts (aka Toots) which kbin does, and which Lemmy can't even see.

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta Hi [@maegul](https://hachyderm.io/@maegul), I just wanted to let you know. It's not perfect yet, but it's something I'll be working on in the coming months after the first release. Thanks for pointing
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    @ernest Woah, this makes a heck of a difference. That's powerful!
    I love the way that kbin gives you far more options to sort the Microblog feed than, say, Mastodon.

    Most popular posts (by people I'm subscribed to) from the last week. Go. Boom!

    I love it!

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  • unpopularopinion Unpopular Opinion Current gen AI is unsustainable and there will be fallout of the eventual disappointment
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  • Teppic Teppic 10 months ago 100%

    Classic Gartner hype cycle:
    We're in the Peak of Inflated Expectations phase.
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Gartner_Hype_Cycle.svg/1200px-Gartner_Hype_Cycle.svg.png

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta Artemis.camp Instance
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  • Teppic Teppic 10 months ago 100%

    Hariette posted something a while back on Mastodon about illness. I think she said she was improving, but not much news since.
    Hope she's OK.

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  • memes Memes Everyone loves snaps
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  • Teppic Teppic 10 months ago 100%

    ...or Mint depending whether they'd rather move up, or down the hierarchy.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Dear Lemmy users, what are your favorite kbin communities?
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    kbinMeta /kbin meta kbin.social update
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  • Teppic Teppic 10 months ago 100%

    Whole domain is blocked for me, no issues:

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta kbin.social update
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  • Teppic Teppic 10 months ago 100%

    Yes you can block them. The issue with other content vanishing when domains were blocked by individual users has been fixed by this update.

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  • politics politics Trump’s civil fraud trial continues after lawyers fail bid for early verdict ending
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  • Teppic Teppic 10 months ago 100%

    Technically if he keeps breaching the gag order...

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta kbin.social update
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  • Teppic Teppic 10 months ago 100%

    I've just sent you a DM

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  • kbinMeta /kbin meta kbin.social update
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  • Teppic Teppic 11 months ago 100%

    Nice, so many improvements!
    @ernest I (preemptively) did a summary of the benefits which this update has just brought to kbin.social over on matrix a while back. Will you share a version of that or something similar?

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  • fediverse Fediverse Lemmy posts are starting to pop up on search results with Google (+ other search engines)
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  • Teppic Teppic 11 months ago 100%

    Hello from kbin... (federated here too)
    But this poses an interesting dilemma for Google, potentially to top 100 results could end up just being the same post observed on many Lemmy and kbin instances.

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy What do we get in return for paying taxes?
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  • Teppic Teppic 11 months ago 100%
  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy Will Lemmy ever bring in the concept of Karma or something similar to help fight spam/bots?
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  • Teppic Teppic 11 months ago 100%

    Congratulations, you have a reputation of 1,427 as observed on kbin.social!
    Kbin / mbin do expose reputation (karma) even for federated users. e.g.
    https://kbin.social/u/@GreyTechnician@lemm.ee

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  • privacyguides Privacy Guides UK government keeping files on teaching assistants’ and librarians’ internet activity
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  • Teppic Teppic 11 months ago 100%

    But they are taking about monitoring public facing social media - frankly I think it would be daft if they did not do this.
    If a be teaching assistant starts publicly posting harmful harmful content there should indeed be systems on place to ensure this is identified and appropriate action taken.
    If you post publicly you have to assume everybody, including your employer, might see it.

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  • world World News US and UK back Canada in dispute with India over diplomats
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  • Teppic Teppic 11 months ago 100%

    From the comment I'm guessing Canada... but then India is commonwealth too so the logic doesn't really work.

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  • science science Researchers peer into the black box of airline pricing and find some surprises
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  • Teppic Teppic 11 months ago 100%

    My read of this is mostly that airlines don't engage in price fixing and collusion - or more specifically their algorithms are designed so they don't (directly) create this outcome.

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  • xkcd xkcd xkcd #2844: Black Holes vs Regular Holes
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  • Teppic Teppic 11 months ago 100%

    I think you get spaghettified inside the event horizon?

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  • xkcd xkcd xkcd #2844: Black Holes vs Regular Holes
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  • Teppic Teppic 11 months ago 100%

    Look up hairy black holes. Hawking basically pointed out a paradox.

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    Cycling Teppic 12 months ago 100%
    Amazon to co-sponsor merged Jumbo-Visma and Quick-Step super team www.cyclingweekly.com

    American e-commerce company the first sponsor to be announced for new WorldTour mega-merger project

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    News Teppic 1 year ago 100%
    EU blindsided by ‘spectacular’ solar rollout www.politico.eu

    Large majority of EU countries will hit 2030 solar targets ahead of schedule, according to new data.

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    Browsing the wider fediverse from kbin

    Some thoughts about using the Microblog functionality in kbin and why, controversially, I think it might actually beat Mastodon at it's own game - browsing toots. Kbin let's you have a curated feed of posts from the fediverse (including Mastodon toots) which is sorted by new, hot, top etc. Steps: 1. First, if you are subscribed to the [https://kbin.social/m/Random](https://kbin.social/m/Random) magazine, I'd suggest you unsubscribe - kbin drops everything which it can't allocate to a magazine into here, which for the Microblog stuff is a lot of noise. 2. Do make sure you've subscribed to a few magazines, but also you can subscribe to domains like [https://kbin.social/d/social.bbc](https://kbin.social/d/social.bbc) 3. Follow people (I'm not sure of they will show up, but can't harm) ...now look at "Subscribed", and then choose the Microblog section (on desktop it's a tab at the top, on mobile you'll need to scroll to the bottom of Page 1 to find the Microblog button). You should find this Microblog has stuff linked to the magazines you subscribe to, this is due to hastags being linked to those magazines, and also included posts from domains you've subscribed too. I'm not actually sure if people you've followed show up here(?) Better still you can now sort and filter this list, New, Hot, Top / 3h, 6h, 12h, day, week etc. This is sorting based on boots and upvotes. In summary you've now got a custom curated feed of fediverse posts, and you can sort this feed by the posts which are most popular. ...I don't think Mastodon let's you sort your feed like this - this is power! Edit: Fixed the hyperlink to Random

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    Artemis App Teppic 1 year ago 100%
    Hariette Test driving the release candidate for v0.2.0 of #ArtemisApp: (@hariette@tech.lgbt) tech.lgbt

    Click through for a screenshot of [#ArtemisApp](https://kbin.social/tag/ArtemisApp). This is cross linked from Hariette's Mastodon profile: Test driving the release candidate for v0.2.0 of [#ArtemisApp](https://kbin.social/tag/ArtemisApp). It’s the first version that’s gonna be publicly available. Within the week 🚀 /kbin API is still due for release. But you’ll be able to use the [https://artemis.camp](https://artemis.camp) instance, that has a fork of the official API. Support for other instances will roll out as soon as the API ships. And [#Lemmy](https://kbin.social/tag/Lemmy) support is coming in a week or two :) [#Threadiverse](https://kbin.social/tag/Threadiverse) [#kbin](https://kbin.social/tag/kbin) [#kbinapp](https://kbin.social/tag/kbinapp) [#ios](https://kbin.social/tag/ios) [#android](https://kbin.social/tag/android)

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    Reddit Migration Teppic 1 year ago 100%
    Twitter traffic sinks in wake of changes and launch of rival platform Threads www.theguardian.com

    Data shows the micro-blogging website has been shedding users since early 2023, not long after Elon Musk’s takeover

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    /kbin Teppic 1 year ago 0%
    The great (planned) kbin outage (upgrade) of 2023 - how did you spend it?

    Well that was traumatic, I kept subconsciously opening kbin only to be greatest with a "Planned technical works are in progress" message. Disaster. Well controversially I opened the official Reddit app to see if anyone was talking about it there - that was a mistake, after meer seconds I realised it really is a horrible as everybody says... Closed Reddit. Checked kbin again -- noo still not back up. Breath. No I'm English, go make a cup of tea. Right we can get through this. Mastodon, that works right - ahhh it's not quite kbin, but this is is cool too. Other people are talking about the [#kbin](https://kbin.social/tag/kbin) maintenance here too. How did you all cope?

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    Bicycling Teppic 1 year ago 100%
    Great start to the Tour - well done Adam!

    Very exciting start to the Tour De France today. Great seeing the Yates brothers battling it out, and a well earned result for Adam.

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    Reddit Migration Teppic 1 year ago 100%
    RIP RIF

    That's it folks. RIF has stopped working. Reddit is no longer fun.

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    Sync for Lemmy Teppic 1 year ago 100%
    Let's square the circle:

    Let's square the circle: [https://reddit.com/r/SyncforLemmy](https://reddit.com/r/SyncforLemmy) This great news!

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