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HubertManne, to AskKbin
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Cybersecurity employee training that includes chatbots? I know, I know. I should ask this in technology or something but what im really looking for is more business related. Im looking for those duh, duh, kind of employee training but updated with the dangers of chatbots. Things like don't paste in private or confidential data, don't trust its answers are right, ask questions generally and move down to specifics, etc. etc. And yes I did ask a chatbot for the answer.

Flamingflowerz, to LifeProTips

Cost of living is sky high; can we all share our best tips for saving money?

We started eating healthier, meal planning, and shopping places like Grocery Outlet before we hit the regular store for whatever we couldn't find. Our food bills for 2 adults went down considerably. If a trip would've been 50, it's now more like 35, and we eat a lot more veggies now, so win-win. We are also cancelling our subscriptions and checking movies and tv series out from the library to entertain ourselves, and walking/biking to work (realize not everyone can do this).

Any other good ways to put more into savings?

jd3,

FAST TV services (free, ad supported streaming), is taking over traditional pay services so there’s that. Hoopla/Kanopy are free with library card as well. OTA antennas (not the junk ones but Winegard, AntennasDirect, Mohu…).

Adding solar powered devices individually in lieu of a full upgrade.

You mentioned grocery outlet and meal planning already. Those two together is a MAJOR saver on the front and back ends. Kudos to you! Better foods also lead to better health and longevity along with lower medical bills. Being at the doctor less tends to lessen your exposure to medical malpractice and less nefarious but similarly detrimental to the patient… errors.

Enjoy nature! It’s free and beautiful!

Do simple tweaks… Hypermile driving style, turn thermostats up or down only a degree or two. Minimal changes to comfort but notable changes to utility bills.

Keep insurance paid up! Keep an honest insurance company too.

Use GasBuddy to find the best prices on gas.

Lock in utility rates ideally with companies with no early termination fee just in case prices drop significantly during the life of the original contract. These companies exist and we customers can use them against each other to effectively and indirectly “keep them honest” all the while keeping our utility rates at the low end of what’s possible.

Use apps like Ibotta and Fetch to get cash back on purchases that ARE made at the “normal” stores.

Enjoy what you already have… games, movies, books, family.

Perform or secure proper maintenance on the expensive items (yard equipment, vehicles, computers, etc).

Get off the treadmill most embrace and craft your own forward path. That’s basically what all these things do for us. And by all these things I mean my list, your list and all other legitimate tips humans have.

Great thread! Namaste

God-Is-Love, to AskKbin

Is it possible to stop the screen from rotating on the Kbin app when my phone rotates? I have my phone settings so it shouldn't rotate from vertical to horizontal but for some reason only the app does it, anyone know if this can be turned off?

God-Is-Love,

Weird, I'm pretty sure I have the latest version! I'll keep checking for updates though!

God-Is-Love,

I super appreciate your comment but I'm afraid I'm not technologically proficient enough to understand it 😆

gentleman, to AskKbin

How do I block a magazine? My feed is over run with shitposts

gentleman,

@DARbarian This

@turbodrooler

stackPeek,
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@gentleman go to said community, then find the subscribe button. Besides that there should be abutton for blocking a magazine

@turbodrooler

xuxebiko, to RedditMigration

One option to reduce interaction with spez-ruled reddit is to use https://reddit.adminforge.de.

Eg: to access r/modcoord, use https://reddit.adminforge.de/r/ModCoord

Any other ideas to deny that greedy little fascist pig boy his joy?

BrikoX,
@BrikoX@vlemmy.net avatar

lemmit.online is scraping the posts from select subreddits without an API so that will work even after July 1st.

tunetardis, to RedditMigration

A better RSS experience

I've been playing around with RSS views of the fediverse hoping to get something comparable to multireddits, but there is a problem.

First of all, it is possible to get reddit feeds on both kbin and lemmy. The URLs look like:

https://KBIN_INSTANCE/rss?magazine=MAGAZINE_NAME
https://LEMMY_INSTANCE/feeds/c/COMMUNITY_NAME?sort=new

Unfortunately, these are problematic when dealing with instances that are not your home instance. Any links to the post page will be absolute remote instance URLs, which means you cannot interact with the post (e.g. leave a comment). The URL really needs to be made relative to your home instance for that to work, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to fix that for a specific post. I can only fix the URL to the magazine/community itself and then hope to locate the post within it again.

If there is a way to get home instance-relative RSS feeds, I'm all ears! Failing that, I might work on a scraper that can take URLs of the form:

https://KBIN_INSTANCE/m/MAGAZINE_NAME@REMOTE_INSTANCE
https://LEMMY_INSTANCE/c/COMMUNITY_NAME@REMOTE_INSTANCE

and generate RSS feeds out of them? But I don't want to reinvent the wheel if something like this is already possible?

It might also be useful to someone trying to write an app with a multireddit-type feature? I will definitely release source if I come up with anything.

EDIT: fixed a typo in URLs

AnalogyAddict, to RedditMigration

As a victim of domestic violence who has spent years online trying to help other victims, Reddit's act of undeleting several of my deleted comments just made me have to go through and manually delete. In the process, I had to relive a huge chunk of trauma.

I'm not feeling okay right now.

AnalogyAddict,

@admiralteal

No, some of my restored comments had been removed years ago because they were too identifying to leave out there, once the purpose of support was accomplished.

AnalogyAddict,

@BaroquenRecorder i didn't delete my account. I don't know of any way to restore a deleted account.

Can_you_change_your_username, to RedditMigration
greatwhitebuffalo41,
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As I said before, sprog coming will make it official. It’s official now

dragfyre, to wholesome
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It's , what's your story? I just got hugs.

cassetti, (edited ) to AskKbin

I have a set of Bose QuietComfort earbuds I wear daily for workouts. I finally killed them and in the market for something new. I'm looking for higher end name-brand earbuds which would work for my exercising needs (bicycle rides, and gym workouts). ANC is necessary (but pretty common on all the top brands/TWS earbuds these days).

I was thinking about the Bose QC2 as it would be the logical upgrade, but I've heard mix reviews about them and I can't figure out if it was just a bad batch of earbuds or if it's a poorly designed product.

I guess the Sony XM4's would be a logical alternative but I don't know how comfortable they are for exercising

Edit - Android user, so apple airpods aren't an ideal option

YolkBrushWork402, to wholesome
@YolkBrushWork402@kbin.social avatar

Wholesome meme

Spitfire,
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Sometimes I wonder if it’s love or my cat just tolerates me because I feed them.

snazzy0933, (edited ) to AskKbin

What are some tips for dealing with solicitors (door-to-door salespeople)? Our neighborhood gets a lot of them.

We have a “No solicitors” sign hanging on the front door. Nevertheless, they knock, ring the doorbell, or worse, yell through the front window when it is open, trying to get our attention.

We have a Ring video doorbell and have enabled the automatic “Sorry, we’re not interested” announcement after 15 seconds. These pushy SOBs ignore the sign and the announcement.

When I ultimately find out they are soliciting and I ask why they ignored both the sign and the doorbell announcement, they usually say something like, “I’m not selling anything. I am just working with some people in the neighborhood…” or some such BS.

My wife and I work from home and have had to explain the window shouting to coworkers in meetings. We also have two small children who could be trying to nap at any given time. We have good reasons to not want to be disturbed at home and these assholes disregard that wish.

I will write a negative review online if I find out their name and company they are representing. Any other ways to get these people to leave us alone?

Rachelhazideas,

Threaten to call the cops if they don’t leave your property, and then actually call the cops when they don’t leave.

Get camera footage of them. If they show up again, file for trespassing charges.

You’re past being polite at this point. These people aren’t entitled to harassing you all day.

gentleman,

@snazzy0933 Tell them “I rent” gets rid of them immediately.

Cherbal, to AskKbin

why do threads that reference articles on outside sites redirect to kbin and not the outside site? (for example, worldnews often shows the external news site, but clicking the link takes you to a kbin.social post showing all the threads referencing that news site, not the actual site and story itself)

God-Is-Love,

Thank you!! I thought I'd clicked everywhere but I'll give this a try!

Cherbal,

@Pamasich I knew it had to be something dumb, thanks for the help!

@God@kbin.social

const_void, to RedditMigration

Have you ever seen blatant vote manipulation on Reddit?

tryplot, to RedditMigration

PSA: while upvoting exists, to get the "move closer to the top" effect that reddit's upvote had, you need to click boost

lwuy9v5,

In case any folks who are on a lemmy instance instead of kbin see this post (Hello new users!), boost is a kbin feature, which is a different type of “software” than lemmy. The main kbin instance is kbin.social , which can interact with both Lemmy and Mastodon instances

tl;dr - kbin is different than lemmy. They all talk to each other though. Boost is kbin only

Mattchenzo,
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What does upvoting do?

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