kbin.social - kbin.life

Have you ever taken something home from a workplace without permission, to keep it? (kbin.social)

Big or small, cheap or expensive....

What is your internet service plan? (kbin.social)

How much do you pay? How fast are your your real world speeds? Where are you located?

I understand it's normal to want to be in a relationship, but how do you feel happy when you aren't? (kbin.social)

I'm 36, and while my love life has been varied and interesting, over the last few years I've started to want to settle down. I know it doesn't happen overnight. But recently it's been weighing on me more and more. I reminisce about past relationships. I feel hopeless about meeting someone in the future who shares my values....

Stanford Scientists Find That Yes, ChatGPT Is Getting Stupider - Technology - kbin.social (kbin.social)

While looking into artificial intelligence “behavior,” researchers affirmed that yes, OpenAI’s GPT-4 appeared to be getting dumber.

Watched in horror as my "spend a penny" 20p rolled immediately out of the coin reject slot (kbin.social)

and into this drain...

What's a fact that sounds totally made up, yet is completely true? (kbin.social)

I'll start: The Red Hot Chili Peppers are 3 years older than Guns N' Roses.

We need a more user-friendly approach to telling people about the Fediverse (kbin.social)

I'm assuming most of us here want a large community. The reality is most people aren't into technology nearly as much as many of the people actually on the Fediverse. For other people who are into tech (like myself and a lot of people here), the federation technology itself being promoted as a core component of the appeal makes...

Can slow songs be a banger? (kbin.social)

My understanding of the word banger is it's reserved for good songs. There are many good slow songs as well, but the word banger seems to imply something more intense and bombastic. So, is it appropriate to describe slow songs as a banger?

What are we all using for video chat in 2023? (kbin.social)

The last time I tried to make video chat work with people, we dived between jitsi, facebook messenger, zoom... until something worked well enough. what are people using here now? Jitsi? Google Meet? Whatsapp? Facebook Messenger? Zoom? Skype? Facetime, somehow? The builtin thing in matrix that used to be jitsi but I think they...

Isn't technically everything open-source? (kbin.social)

I don't know (but wanna learn) programming, but, for example, can't you inspect the code of an app if it's installed?...

When do you think violence is justified? (kbin.social)

Self defense? Only on the battlefield? Only to achieve a ‘noble’ end?

Why does it seem different platforms of the fediverse are not so good at communicating with each other? Is this something that will eventually improve? (kbin.social)

I have an account on kbin. Recently I saw a post across my feed in which a magazine that I follow (that's based on a Lemmy instance) was celebrating over 1k subscribers. When I visited, I saw only 240 or so....

anyone put faces on inanimate objects because cute (kbin.social)

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Is it just me, or are conspiracy theories trending right now? (kbin.social)

I'm using instagram to browse the discover feed mindlessly sometimes. I know, it's stupid, but I'm bored....

Is Voice Access really this bad, or is my phone haunted? (kbin.social)

if youre unfamiliar, its an accessibility app made by google, for controlling your phone with your voice. this is different to the “OK google” thing....

Is it possible to go to a Steve Aioki concert if you're over 50 and not look like a predator? (kbin.social)

I have the opportunity to go to a SA concert next year but I'm old and Grey. I don't want go if im the ceeepy old guy. Thoughts? I do know and enjoy a bit of his misic.

This July 4th, let's remember that unfair economic treatment was a major cause of the American Revolutionary War. Our revolt has this much in common. (kbin.social)

There were numerous factors that led to the revolution, but a key one was unfair taxation. The British parliament was in a position of power and thought that they could behave with impunity for further profits....

If the majority of the Fediverse is going to defederate from Meta Threads, does that mean we will defederate from Tumblr too? (kbin.social)

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How are people taught if they are born blind and deaf? (kbin.social)

I can understand trying to teach someone via visuals or by talking to them but I can't figure out how you would teach someone multiplication or about government services or scammers without either.

Deleting my Reddit comments was a strange experience. (kbin.social)

It wasn't the fact that there was a limit to see 1000 comments but what they were. The vast majority of my 12 years on Reddit I spent talking about dungeon and dragons 5th edition (DnD 5e) which I started playing early in is lifestyle. It was my first role playing game and I got sucked into the Internet to learn more. Before my...

I think the rush to recreate communities is a bad idea. (kbin.social)

If you recall reddits growth many of their communities evolved as offshoots of a single generic community. This made it easier for people to see discussions they normally would not get involved in, and once the posts in a similar category reached critical mass it moved to a sub Reddit....

I just found out that not all of my Reddit comments had been deleted despite my profile page showing otherwise. (kbin.social)

TL;DR: even if your delete script confirms a full wipe and your Reddit profile page shows zero comment, there may still be comments left over (that you can find through a search engine and delete manually on Reddit)....

ELI5: Legitimate-interest cookies (kbin.social)

So almost every GDPR cookie consent banner out there has a section for "legitimate interest" cookies that they can leave on by default and you will inadvertently accept even if you choose "Reject all" unless you go to the detailed settings and disabled those too....

Trying to understand the different selfhosted monitoring solutions (kbin.social)

Note: It seems my original post from last week didn't get posted on lemmy.world from kbin (I can't seem to find it) so I'm reposting it. Apologies to those who may have already seen this....