originalucifer

originalucifer, 1 month ago

is kbin still under development?

originalucifer, 1 month ago

one of the reasons i jumped to mbin was actual versioning. to me it highlights the maturity of this particular development process, and kbin seems haphazard at best. also the communication coming out of the kbin dev group is basically non-existent and the kbin.social server management has been set to ron popeil.

1.6.0 is the next, impending release for mbin.

originalucifer, 1 month ago

works from my mbin site.. must be specific to the kbin.social instance.

the no europe thing smells like gdpr avoidance. something of a red flag

e. actually, that might be the main issue. i think kbin.social is out of germany, so might be blocked from your no-euro server

originalucifer, 1 month ago

yes, i mean the Nijimiss site is actively blocking european IPs, which would include requests coming from kbin.social, and might be the root of your 500 errors. i noticed lemmy.world (finland) also cant make those requests to nijimiss.moe successfully.

my instance is not in europe, so it seems like it can make those requests without error.

originalucifer, 2 months ago

what is it supposed to show?

originalucifer, 2 months ago

hey look at that! it works on my instance. not sure whats goin on over there. bad nginx route/config.

maybe theyre upgrading something

originalucifer, 3 months ago

yes, i agree. this has bothered me since inception

originalucifer, 3 months ago

i hit myself in the head with a car door i opened

originalucifer, 3 months ago

so off doesnt mean off anymore. got it.

originalucifer, 3 months ago

as a sysadmin, ive useed systems like dells proprietary version of this for decades.

its a 'wake on lan' feature of the network card, which still gets power and 'listens' over the network when it gets an appropriate signal, it then triggers the machine to boot. the lan provides the power to run the 'monitor'.

very common, very old. and i agree similar.. but not quite what this phone thing is.

some computers/servers need a dynamic power state, but even so the WOL feature can be removed.

we are no longer in control of our phones hardware, so we cant just remove things.

originalucifer, 4 months ago

i donate financially to kbin, and i dont use it other than as a remote, federating platform. the outage means nothing to me personally.

still would be nice to get a little administrative communication on a system designed for.. ya know, communication.

originalucifer, 4 months ago

its /register

https://moist.catsweat.com/register

originalucifer, 4 months ago

its not the outage that bothers me, its the complete lack of communication.

originalucifer, 5 months ago

i really like this idea, and i can't believe it doesnt exist.

it sounds like it did exist, but for some technical reason it was removed.. it could be something very innocuous like the code was terrible, and needed a rewrite, or a library was used that needed to no longer be used and it has not yet been replaced.

originalucifer, 5 months ago

how can it be hot if it has zero upvotes? seems pretty not-hot to me

originalucifer, 5 months ago

i agree, i think your argument is 'why arent my own posts automatically liked by me'

call me a pedant but it hurts me to hear a category labeled hot, that has not had literally any user related activity. those 2 things are incompatible. just swap hot for new and call it day

hot to me is an 'activity over time' metric, and zero doesnt play nice

originalucifer, 5 months ago

its like a little paper contract, guaranteeing you will pay that amount.

that its paper means theres a physical record both parties get to keep.

originalucifer, 5 months ago

how is this different than the subscribe button?

i get all kinds of new communities by just clicking into the remote community, and then clicking subscribe

edit: aaww maybe you just dont like where you currently type it, and want to type it somewhere else? i spose. i agree the interface currently isnt very clear

originalucifer, 5 months ago

my subscriptions have been mostly coming through posts about new communities.

when someone posts a link to a remote, they are formed in such a way that my mbin instance automagically searches for, creates and dumps me into that newly created remote community. im sure its just a part of its search/routing.

at that point, the instance is subscribed to the remote community.

then i click 'subscribe', which subs my specific account.

edit: yep, theyre crafting the links to force it through the processor like this

/search?q=photorestoration@lemmy.world

more literally: /search?q=photorestoration@lemmy.world

originalucifer, 5 months ago

welcome, the more the merrier

originalucifer, 5 months ago

i run an mbin instance (moist.catsweat.com). due to the recent fork, they are more or less identical... the APIs are still in sync, etc. mobile apps that work on on should work on the other. it might break apart in the future, not sure.

i donate to kbin financially to support the original source of kbin, but manage/prefer a community-developed platform so ive chose mbin.

originalucifer, 5 months ago

im enjoying the 'bins. the dev channels seems steady, and active.

my nonsense aggregation project (moist.catsweat.com) has reached a stability milestone thanks to recent dev activity. ill be reaching for high availability and redundancy next.

its been fun!

originalucifer, 6 months ago

the lemmy changes are causing excessive resource use on my 'bin instance. so yeah, not using lemmy, but being directly affected by the lemmy snafu.

my failed messaging queue is filling, which has its own retry logic.. that queue buildup also takes disk space.... extra processing, extra disk space.. this leads to 'worker' slowdown and then system failures and timeouts.

originalucifer, 6 months ago

the lemmy changes are causing excessive resource use on my 'bin instance. so yeah, not using lemmy, but being directly affected by the lemmy snafu.

my failed messaging queue is filling, which has its own retry logic.. that queue buildup also takes disk space.... extra processing, extra disk space.. this leads to 'worker' slowdown and then system failures and timeouts.

originalucifer, 6 months ago

your thought process isnt completely off. if my server product was detecting the failures correctly, these resources wouldnt pile up.

i dont think people really understand just how brand new all this stuff is. 'the fediverse' is under active development. they call it the 'bleed edge' of technology because its painful. most fediverse servers are experiencing growing pains of some sort.

the Lemmy/kbin sides are still wet behind the ears. i just hope people dont give up!

originalucifer, 6 months ago

oh look; more little black things on the back

dont get me wrong, i love sensors (utility, really), but it looks kinda funny

originalucifer, 6 months ago

there is indeed something weird going on with lemmy. i noticed some feeds from lemm.ee are down, and the logs from my instance are filling up with bot rejections from lemmy.world, ie they are blocking bot traffic. i thought i read something about the new version of lemmy breaking some inter-lemmy fed traffic.

the error messages piling up are bad for my 'bin instance due to the retry methods used... extra processing, disk space starts to fill up.. resources just start piling up so i'm having to manually dump things regularly for the last 24-36 hours.

feasible kbin.social is also having some of the same problems i am

originalucifer, 6 months ago

its been so long since i accidentally triggered this ive forgotten how bad it is.. i just vaguely remember not really being able to do anything and not having the info i wanted, and suddenly the phone behaved differently. which is what you want when youre driving.

originalucifer, 6 months ago

you cant post publicly over time and expect anonymity. no one can.

you are easily discernible by a number of features if someone really wanted to track you down, so this idea that using a public forum has an expectation of privacy is confusing me.

originalucifer, 8 months ago

"firefox"

originalucifer, 8 months ago

dunno... if your website sucks so hard efficiency wise that it needs its own 3rd party app...maybe make your site not suck so hard.

i never, ever needed a 3rd party tool to browse reddit on my phone other than standard browser... and were not talkin about a resource limited environment like a phone.

this is like having single-use items in the kitchen.. yeah, you'll get some marginal improvement, but management of 'the thing' isnt worth it

originalucifer, 8 months ago

ha, you really had to dig for that one

if youre running old hardware, you dont want windows