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    Jason F. Brown ... executive producer (24 episodes, 2019-2023)
    Steve Gaub ... executive producer / co-producer (24 episodes, 2019-2023)
    Tomasz Baginski ... executive producer (16 episodes, 2019-2023)
    Sean Daniel ... executive producer (16 episodes, 2019-2023)
    Lauren Schmidt Hissrich ... executive producer (16 episodes, 2019-2023)
    Mike Ostrowski ... executive producer / producer / co-executive producer (16 episodes, 2019-2023)
    Jaroslaw Sawko ... executive producer (16 episodes, 2019-2023)
    Piotr Sikora ... executive producer (16 episodes, 2019-2023)
    Simon Emanuel ... consulting producer / executive producer (16 episodes, 2019-2021)
    Matthew O'Toole ... executive producer (16 episodes, 2021-2023)
    Matthew Bouch ... consulting producer (12 episodes, 2021-2023)
    Katie Bullock-Webster ... post producer (8 episodes, 2019)
    Declan De Barra ... supervising producer (8 episodes, 2019)
    Ildiko Kemeny ... co-producer (8 episodes, 2019)
    Jenny Klein ... co-executive producer (8 episodes, 2019)
    Sneha Koorse ... supervising producer (8 episodes, 2019)
    David Minkowski ... co-producer (8 episodes, 2019)
    Suzie Shearer ... line producer (8 episodes, 2019)
    Mark Birmingham ... co-producer (8 episodes, 2021)
    Sean Guest ... associate producer (8 episodes, 2021)
    Sam J. Brown ... associate producer (8 episodes, 2023)
    Ben Burt ... associate producer (8 episodes, 2023)
    Javier Grillo-Marxuach ... executive producer (8 episodes, 2023)
    Haily Hall ... co-producer (8 episodes, 2023)
    Sasha Harris ... producer (8 episodes, 2023)
    Veselin Karadjov ... line producer (8 episodes, 2023)
    Tania Lotia ... supervising producer (8 episodes, 2023)
    Tera Ragan ... co-producer (8 episodes, 2023)
    Alik Sakharov ... executive producer (7 episodes, 2019)
    Kathy Lingg ... executive producer (6 episodes, 2019)
    Juan Cano Nono ... Líne Producer Canary Islands (4 episodes, 2019)
    Beau DeMayo ... co-producer (2 episodes, 2019)
    Stephen Surjik ... executive producer (2 episodes, 2023)
    Marc Jobst ... consulting producer (1 episode, 2019)

  • An interesting case of moderation in the fediverse
  • Find a mostly European instance. Problem solved.

    Americans are desperately trying to globalize their concerns everywhere.

  • Time to ditch Twitter/X, what are you guys switching to?
  • An alternative to do what exactly? To just follow people? What about you follow no one?

  • This is an old topic from Reddit, sorry about that, but I think the community would benefit from separating porn and other types of nsfw by adding the nsfl tag.
  • Don't bang your head on the wall with this one. Once we have more federations, the people who don't want to play this endless cat and mouse game will simple adhere to another federation, without any NSFW content, and that will be solved.

  • Any Way to remove the "Random Posts" part of the sidebar?
  • It has been requested from day one.

  • Does anyone else feel the general lemmy instances are noise?
  • In the end it will be all about federating with the right communities and not about federating everyone anymore.

    A lot of people who are defending "federate everyone" do it in the name of "fear of missing" and want the numbers at all cost. They are borderline addict to infinite content, but they are a danger to quality posting. You cannot mass post AND care about the quality of what you post. It takes time to find a good article to post.

    Even here we will soon read about what Elon Musk had for breakfast and will post it in "tech". Some people want content, whatever the quality of what they read, even the title is enough for them. And sadly the current vote system works in their favor.

    My guess is many of us will leave kbin for a more tight, content focused community. Also better tools will come up anyway.

  • The Fediverse needs a popular agent
  • "Fear of missing out"

    We are not the cool guys therefore we don't exist and the party happens without us elsewhere.

  • 70 percent of gamers avoid certain games because of 'toxic communities', study finds
  • Smite: During my third game I've never been insulted like that in any other videogame.

    DOTA2 advise new players to turn off communications. How did it come to that?

  • 'Breakthrough' geothermal tech produces 3.5 megawatts of carbon-free power | Engadget
  • They are expanding and are going to continue expanding regardless of how their power needs are met.

    And this is exactly the problem we should focus on. They should not be allowed to expand like that. Either we are in a situation of emergence or we are not. Just stop them, make the political decision to stop them.

    I would much rather we switch 100% to wind, solar, geothermal rather than ditching the internet.

    Run the numbers, everything we don't do now to reduce the CO2 emissions will be paid a hundred times more later. Megafires, megadraught, etc.

  • 'Breakthrough' geothermal tech produces 3.5 megawatts of carbon-free power | Engadget
  • It's totally useless as long as you don't shut down plants that are running on coal. Otherwise it's just adding up with other sources of CO2.

    Google is still closely associated with California to many people (and to a lesser degree New York), but it's determined to change that reputation. The company is launching a $13 billion expansion in 2019 that will give it a total US footprint of 24 states, including "major expansions" in 14 states. The growth includes its first data center in Nevada, a new office in Georgia, and multi-facility expansions in places like Texas and Virginia. This is on top of known projects like its future New York City campus.

    This plant is used to power up an expansion of google, which means it's just adding up CO2 to what we already emit. It's creating a fake impression that we are reducing our carbon footprint.

    There is a simple solution: shut down the datacenter. No more power needed, no more water needed. The problem is not about CO2, it's about us refusing to let go our previous way of life.

    And if you refuse this solution ask yourself why.

  • View users block lists.
  • Blocklists will become the norm. We cannot manually block everything in /all. It was working for the first few weeks but not anymore.

    Take for example the left and the right, both will have their respective blocklists and will publish them extensively. Now publishing your own blocklist will mean that you have a horse in the race.

  • [Question] Why does everyone seem to dislike containerized packages?
  • ouch

    This thread is closed, but I'm going to make a final reply before I ban you and your associate from our organization for your inflammatory, incorrect, and downright rude comments. Actions have consequences. Any time anyone asks us why we don't support AppImage, I'm going to point them to this thread, and how it was you, personally, who irrevocably burned all bridges with our development team.

    And then he harassed the OBS team claiming that "users want appimages"

  • [Question] Why does everyone seem to dislike containerized packages?
  • Let's all use snaps then!

    "No, I didn't mean Snaps, I meant Flatpak"

    Annnnd we are back at square one. flatpak is just another distro, with the limitations of a distro. You are basically asking for a unique distro to rule them all.

  • [Question] Why does everyone seem to dislike containerized packages?
  • First, most of the people I saw discussing it support flatpak, not packages. They support flatpak like they support a football team. example here: "Mostly because they're uneducated fools".

    It's all about reputation. There are people I trust, like Steam and there are perfect strangers from the internet. Who do you trust the most between "debian VS mastakilla_51"?

    Wake me up when a flatpak app is thought with clear boundaries and doesn't just request access to my whole home directory. Until then I much prefer to have a team of packager maintaining a reputation, dedicated to their job and producing fine, reliable apps.

    The Audacity fiasco was a perfect example of that. The apps was bought by someone, then telemetry was introduced into the flatpak and no one saw it. Instead, the distro maintainers noticed it and deactivated the telemetry. This is how we saw the thing.

    Be very careful of what you lose when you say goodbye to distro packages, don't take it for granted. If you walk the flatpak way you will have access to a mountain of unverified software built by a random person of the internet having access to your full homedir. It's like installing freewares on Windows, you end up with a lot of crap on your computer. A packages repo is not like freewares for Windows.

    Yes, I know, you think flatpaks come with sandboxing. It does not, because most of these packages use /home as the sandbox anyway and people click yes. Pick some flatpaks and see the access level their require. Most of the time it's /home. This is a terrible trend and I wished more of the flatpak supporters mentioned it when they praise the tool. Some people don't care. I do.

    Cryptocurrency does nothing to help you since it gives a very strong incentive to criminal to scan your homedir. Scammers will use shiny software, flatpak it, add their "secret sauce" and publish it. If you had to install a cryptowallet, would you install the one from the debian repo of the one from mastakilla_51?

    Until this whole jungle is sorted out: thanks, but no thanks.

  • Toyota Claims Solid-State Battery Has 745 Mile Range, 10 Minute Charging Time - Slashdot
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  • AAA pulls back from offering insurance in Florida, following Farmers
  • I see that you also downvoted my post about veganism and the cost of breeding cattle in term of water. I see a pattern there.

    You listed the same example several times, in quotes

    What are you talking about? It's the same article about the rio grande. It's not supposed to be multiple examples.

    not sourced links

    Paste it in any search engine, it's the first result.

    fear mongering on the level of a conspiracy theorist

    I see your true colors now.

    Your advice of moving to the mountains, taken en masse, would just result in cities existing there...with the same source of water.

    Ridiculous, I'm not talking to the masses.

    You brought nothing to the table, you saw a post about veganism and then you went full conspiracy theorist mode. Instead of discussing the case you just went for the downvote button. I'm not wasting more time with you.

  • SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment
    www.suse.com SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment | SUSE

    Investment reinforces SUSE’s commitment to innovate and support SUSE Linux Enterprise distributions and related open source projects  SUSE plans to contribute its code to an open source foundation

    SUSE is committed to working with the open source community to develop a long-term, enduring compatible alternative for RHEL and CentOS users. SUSE plans to contribute this project to an open source foundation, which will provide ongoing free access to alternative source code.

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    /kbin meta @kbin.social PabloDiscobar @kbin.social
    Do you plan to create your own magazines on kbin or are you already using other Mags on populated instances for this? Like datahoarders and such?

    It's tough to restart a community from scratch and I was wondering what was your thought process.

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    /kbin meta @kbin.social PabloDiscobar @kbin.social
    We need to either rework the the upvote/downvote system or to get rid of it completely. It's not fulfilling its task anymore.

    The upvote system is way too rudimentary to work efficiently. The upvote incite people to post to become more popular, not to post more interesting content.

    One metric is not enough, the upvote system combines both "funny" and "interesting" in the same metric. Soon it's the funny content that is pushed to the top, because it's a more common characteristic. But this is how you get memes, emotional and basic screenshot of tweets to the top of the frontpage. And this is probably what you don't want.

    So either we add more type of votes,for example two arrows, like an arrow "interesting" and another arrow "funny" or we get rid of them, leaving only the "report" button.

    Get rid of reputation too. Some people are already chain downvoting in rage. What good do you think will happen out of a reputation score? People will just spit on you. People are emotional, don't put a gun in their hands.

    "The downvote is useful to get rid of antivaxx"? You have a report button for that. And while the downvote button gets rid of antivaxx, it pushes memes to the top, destroying the platform itself. The benefit of the downvote button doesn't compensate for the flaws of the voting system.

    The best way for an antivaxx to get his content visible? It is to get blocked! If he is blocked he cannot be downvoted anymore afaik. So it's all good for him. Even the block system doesn't really work as intended and has nasty side effects. Because yes, you won't see it, but other will, and they will adhere, and they will upvote and post more antivaxx stuff, and inspire more antivaxx people.

    And I'm not even starting with the bots and scripting systems, which will detect who downvoted you and will "revenge downvote" for you. Do you want all your post to appear with a starting minus 5 attached to it because you posted about veganism 3 months ago? That's what you will get. All it takes is 5 people who don't like the way you talk, and a script. And all your posts will go down the drain as soon as you post them.

    \--\> The system need either higher granularity or we need to get rid of the voting system, and keep only one button: "report", with a mandatory 60 characters comment with it. \<--

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    /kbin meta @kbin.social PabloDiscobar @kbin.social
    How to build a wiki or any kind of database for our subs?

    Pinning what is relevant takes too much space. Do we have an alternative?

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    Jim is invading the "finer things club", aka kbin.social is only our launchpad for the fediverse. We should think about finding another instance soon.

    For the last few weeks we enjoyed a much better content on kbin than we had on reddit for a long time.

    But it is coming to an end as more and more people will be leaving reddit for kbin. With them the trolls, the spammers and the ultrapoliticized americans. They want to push their ideology and there are legions of them.

    Even though kbin is not american anymore, the sheer numbers and obsession of american people with their politics will quickly outnumber any other content here. The voting system will make your post about pertinent news sink to the bottom of the frontpage. Lost under the "Trump he said/she said" routine. The same thing that happened on reddit will happen on kbin: people will come for the politics and then spread in others magazines for a quick, uninteresting meme reply.

    The articles on the web are still designed to infuriate the readers, so they react and create free ragecontent, and they will do it here. They will get infuriated here, just the same as they did on reddit. This mechanics hasn't changed by changing platform.

    The NSFW content is coming, the political memecontent is coming, making the idea of federating this instance with any respectable other pole of interest impossible. If we are to name the federations, this one will become the greentext type of federation. Not a dangerous anarchist federation but certainly a pariah one.

    That's why if you really are interested into discussing with people, you would be very well inspired to do it on another instance than kbin.social. Do it on a local instance, where the news are directed by people of your geographical region. Your default instance can only be a regional one, I can't see a global instance like "kbin.social" being not raided by americans with a political agenda. But they won't step a foot in madrid.social or berlin.social. In a sense it's even better if kbin.social can polarize and hold the kind of population which is hypnotized by number and popularity. The right usage of the fediverse should be to pick a local instance near you and only subscribe to niche magazines in different instances based on your specific needs.

    The fediverse project will be tested with very high numbers of users now, and I don't think that the implicit federation model which is to accept everything by default and block some will survive the waves of political trolls. The federations will split and specialize, and will defederate en masse. The most sought after federations will become the technology ones, which will probably become picky on the creation of random magazines, like news and politics, since it attracts the worst in content creators. The kbin.social experiment will lead to a more strict moderation model in other instances and probably different way to count votes. I don't think that kbin.social will ever come back from being a perpetual testbench of a social platform.

    So don't fall in love with your account on kbin, instead you should get ready to jump to another instance which will inevitably open on a server near you.

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    What was the subreddit that represented to you the best example of downspiral of quality? To me it was /r/dataisbeautiful

    At first it was all about presenting data in an original looking way. In the end it was about pushing political ideas in your throat using a plain bar graph. It was not about sharing something interesting you found but about taking advantage of a captive audience.

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    Reminder that RedHat makes A LOT of money already. The results of the 2019 fiscal year show that RedHat spends twice as much money on ads and sales people than on developers.
    www.businesswire.com Red Hat Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2019 Results

    Red Hat reports fourth quarter and fiscal year 2019 results

    Our subscriptions mostly pay for the salesmen and the ads. They sell ads first, IT second. So I'm not gonna cry for RedHat. The image of the poor developers working in a cave, struggling to make money is only in our mind. They had a perfectly functional model but decided to sabotage some of it to try to squeeze even more money.

    > > > Operating expense, in thousands (2019,2018): > >

    > > > Sales and marketing 1,378,278 1,195,286 > >

    > > > Research and development 668,542 578,330 > >

    > > > General and administrative 304,766 239,316 > >

    > > > Total operating expense 2,351,586 2,012,932 > >

    Let's stop talking about Fedora/redhat, we are literally doing their job for them, for free.

    Oh, btw, their gross profit is mentioned here.

    > > > Gross profit (thousands) 2,863,818 2,488,664 > >

    > > > Net income (thousands) 433,988 261,851 > >

    That's why I had such bad support experience, because they chose to hire sales people instead of engineers. You have a better chance of being hired by redhat if you are a salesman. It's as Steve Jobs said, when the sales people take the power in the company.

    > > > "If you were a ‘product person’ at IBM or Xerox: so you make a better copier or better computer. So what? When you have a monopoly market-share, the company’s not any more successful. So the people who make the company more successful are the sales and marketing people, and they end up running the companies. And the ‘product people’ get run out of the decision-making forums."
 > >

    The core of their business is made by the open source community. If they need our help for something, it's from saving them from drowning into money.

    We need to jump ship from redhat just like we did from reddit. This is also the perfect opportunity to think about technical solutions on how to use the fediverse to finance the developers of the open source community.

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    Paris 2024 Olympic headquarters searched in corruption investigations

    The headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics organizing committee and those of its infrastructure partner were searched by police on Tuesday as part of investigations into alleged embezzlement of public funds and favoritism, prosecutors said. The national financial prosecutor's office (PNF) said the Paris 2024 headquarters were raided amid a…

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    [PRAW] Is there any way to search a specific sub for all your comments?

    I have a loop that will search for my content everywhere, I also have another loop to search a specific sub, but I cannot find a way to do both filters in the same loop.

    '''for submission in reddit.subreddit("sub").hot(limit=10000)'''

    '''for comment in redditor.comments.hot(limit=10000):'''

    The problem is the 1000 limit, if I try to refine the content with python while in the loop, then these 1000 results will miss the target, and 99% of those results will be comments of other people.

    The result is that a lot of my comments won't be touched. I can see a lot of it in search engines.

    How did you do to remove as many comments as possible? I know you can also sort by controversial but I was wondering is there is a PRAW finesse that I could use here.

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    /kbin meta @kbin.social PabloDiscobar @kbin.social
    The great thing with the fediverse is that a big company can run its own forum/microblogging instance and therefore communicate with their customers while maintaining full control over their content.

    No need for them to chase the next big platform like reddit/facebook/google+, and no need to create "official accounts" on each.

    I see that DJI has a sub on reddit for example, but you need to register an account on reddit to post there. With the fediverse, you as a customer need only one account and you could access the instance of multiple companies. DJI could run its own instance, make their rules, federate whoever they want, (will probably allow respectable instances only, like what kbin aspires to be) and that's it, they don't have to adapt to the changing rules of reddit, of twitter, of facebook. They have one point for publishing, with full control over it, with video, firmware downloads, tech support, etc.

    It's so much easier for them. A perfect neutral territory, no weird jurisdiction, no worries of being muted by a Trump for example who would impose a boycott like he did on Huawei.

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    /kbin meta @kbin.social PabloDiscobar @kbin.social
    Should we establish a maximum of subs per moderators?

    Someone here already has 12 subs on his own. We would be inspired to avoid the era of the power mods. Moding should involve an interest, not just collecting rings of infinity like it's a gold rush. How can it be a good practice in the long term?

    mentalhealth

    shitposting

    showerthoughts

    linux\_gaming

    Stoicism

    Philippines

    philosophy

    ArtificialIntelligence

    Futurology

    copypasta

    singularity

    aitools

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    /kbin meta @kbin.social PabloDiscobar @kbin.social
    [Battle of subs] /m/tech is murdering /m/technology in the numbers.

    Turns out the /r/technology fans were lurkers after all. So far /m/technology has 1 comment vs 170 for /m/tech.

    I moved to /r/tech on reddit when it became apparent that /r/technology were shills, or astrofurfers, or both.... something was weird on /r/technology.

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    /kbin meta @kbin.social PabloDiscobar @kbin.social
    [Tips] Here are some shortcuts for your old reddit habits

    Your list of subs, in a grid make sure you set it to private

    https://kbin.social/settings/subscriptions/magazines

    The list of all subs, in a column, sorted by subscribers number

    https://kbin.social/magazines

    Your Inbox

    https://kbin.social/settings/notifications

    Your home, list of posts in your subs

    https://kbin.social/sub

    All, all posts from all subs

    https://kbin.social/

    All, sorted by new (aka "chaos")

    https://kbin.social/newest

    you can search by tags: https://kbin.social/tag/tech

    You can see who upvoted and downvoted your comments in the activity tab of the "more" button.

    You can block a domain like you can block a user. Either through the url::

    Http://kbin.social//d/nypost.com

    Or by clicking the domain name and then click the block button.

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    /kbin meta @kbin.social PabloDiscobar @kbin.social
    Kbin shows the list of your subscriptions to everyone by default

    You can turn it off in your options (for privacy).

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    PabloDiscobar PabloDiscobar @kbin.social
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