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kbin.run ssl errors?
  • It doesn't work for me, on Firefox or Chrome. Chrome reports ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR

  • Stupid Question, not an insult: Why is kbin written in PHP?
  • When I say "optional", I mean you can just create a filename.php and start putting lines of code into it, and it'll work fine. But, these days OOP is favored by most and pretty much everyone is using it. So if you are working on code that other people have written, classes are everywhere.

    A lot of Wordpress code is non-OOP, though.

  • Stupid Question, not an insult: Why is kbin written in PHP?
  • PHP is huge and more relevant than you realise. There are many many PHP developers.

    IMO one of the things holding the fediverse back is that not much of it is written in Python or PHP. Neither are "good" languages but there is a massive pool of developers and they're easy to get up and running.

  • Is the "top" sorting option working as intended?
  • Seems like 'top' is based on the number of boosts instead of upvotes.

  • A few questions about how kbin works
  • Go to https://kbin.social/settings/general and choose the Subscribed home page.

  • PSA: every interaction you make with various posts on kbin is viewable to everyone.
  • Often, the option to downvote is the only thing stopping me from getting sucked into some stupid argument with an idiot. It is a massive productivity booster. Downvote and move on.

    I wish kbin would hide posts with lots of downvotes...

  • Will it ever be possible for kbin to federate with PeerTube?
  • I expect it will be - it seems to almost work already. For example, take this peertube channel - https://tube.arthack.nz/c/intertwingled/videos?s=1.

    I tried a few different things in the kbin search and @intertwingled@tube.arthack.nz got a result that I could subscribe to. If that channel posts another video, it might show up in kbin. Will it be a microblog? A thread? A magazine? Who knows! kbin seems very confused about all of this.

  • Can NSFW images and links *please* be hidden from the sidebar?
  • When things are working properly, it does.

  • Non-commercial Open Source License?
  • You don't need to read much history to find plenty of bad things done by non-commercial entities, e.g. governments. Or churches.

    It's not commerce that is the problem, it is oppression. Use of my code for oppressive purposes is the thing I want to avoid.

  • Every Linux Geek Needs to Know Sed and Awk. Here’s Why… - The Tech Edvocate
  • Wanna see something that makes even Perl look elegant and readable? Check out any sed script. Here's tetris, in sed: https://github.com/uuner/sedtris/blob/master/sedtris.sed

  • Kev Quirk, one of the admins of Fosstodon (a Mastodon instance), destroys Meta in an email exchange.
  • I wonder if Gab was invited. It would be hilarious if the only instances willing to federate with Meta were Nazis.

  • The state of Flow-based Programming (2022)
  • This seems ideal for something like ActivityPub where data is flowing between different people and places all the time. Looks like the tooling isn't there yet, though.

  • Is there a way to improve Federation rate?
  • Another thing to bear in mind is that lemmy.world and lemmy.ml are totally overloaded at present. While their UI might function Ok, behind the scenes there are queues of content to be sent out to other servers that get pretty choked up.

  • Is there a way to improve Federation rate?
  • Content from before you subscribe is not sent, only from that point onwards (unless someone else on the same server already subscribed to it).

  • Is there a way to improve Federation rate?
  • Lemmy has a bug where when you search it won't show any results at first, and then 10 seconds later it'll show your magazine. Are you waiting 10+ seconds?

  • Loving the richness of variety in fediverse
  • Yup. There needs to be some de-duplication code, somehow.

  • Is there any Linux tablet similar to a surface
  • I have a Yoga 530, running KDE 5.24.4. The touch functionality is really broken, basically unusable. Try Gnome, anything is better than this.

  • images on the left side would make kbin easier to read
  • Sorry to get your hopes up - it turns out that moving the image to the left is really hard (aka I don't know CSS grid very well). Also the other changes I wanted ended up being identical to "Compact mode" which you can enable with the cog in the top right. Highly recommended.

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    Web developer. Also into photography, nature, philosophy, politics, climate, psychology.

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