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Lemur, to RedditMigration
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Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts

You might be able to get a copy of older messages from the data retrieval request.

linearchaos,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

This is probably cost reduction. I know they have a significant amount of redis. That’s all in-memory database storage.

LinkOpensChest_wav,
@LinkOpensChest_wav@beehaw.org avatar

Hello, we are migrating legacy chats to the new platforms and, unfortunately, only data for 2023 is replicated.

So they knew this would happen and still didn’t notify users in advance so they could save their message history?

Sound pretty on-brand for that shitwagon.

I_Miss_Daniel, (edited ) to AskKbin
@I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social avatar

If you're on kbin and getting an invalid csrf error, can't log in; use your email address instead of your username and you might be able to get in.

If not, try another browser.

ReallyKinda, to AskKbin

If Facebook made their content compatible with activity feed could I potentially subscribe and interact with (for example) my dad’s posts only so that I can keep up with family without having to visit (or have a) Facebook myself?

cousinofjah,
@cousinofjah@lemmy.world avatar

It’s technically possible, but I put the chance of it happening at 0.1%. I don’t even see them (properly/fully) implementing ActivityPub in Threads.

merlin, to RedditMigration

Just wanted to say that I love how people are using the upvote and downvote feature here as they don't seem to be used as agreement/disagreement but rather valuable or hindering to the conversation.

I really feel like I can express any opinion on here and start controversial discussions as long as I'm not malicious to anyone.
Disagreements are mostly stated in replies which promotes conversation and growth. There is currently no reason to be scared about being wrong.
I hope that this is not just a product of the smaller userbase compared to reddit but rather how upvotes/downvotes/boosts are laid out to the user.

RestrictedAccount, to AskKbin

Those of you among us who remember that Don Imus used to be a thing, why was he so influential and how did he slip completely from memory?

agentshags,
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Was he the one that said nappy

RestrictedAccount,

@Spacebar I had forgotten about that.

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.

RyanIbanezMan, to AskKbin

Hi, can you help me with a math problem kbin? It's algebra, and it's been a long time since I've had to do it. Can you explain to me how simplifying the terms comes out to 9/2 in the pictured equation please?

nyarlathotep,

Hey, I can take a swing at this. It’s basically just a question of understanding how fractions work (which is fumbled horrendously by teachers, at least where I’m from - I basically had to teach myself fractions all over again when I went back to school).

So, if you look at the terms on the left hand side, we have “x”, which is the same as saying “1x”, so the whole number “1”, we have a whole number “3” as part of “3x”, and we have the fraction that’s going to cause us to do a little work, “1/2” as part of “1/2x”.

Now, a whole number can be rewritten as a fraction, and this makes the most sense when you see fractions as little division problems unto themselves. For instance, the “1/2” could be read as “1 divided by 2”, or “0.5”. A whole number like “1”, then, could be rewritten as “1/1”, or “2/2”, or “3/3”, and so on.

Now, in order to add fractions together (which is what we’re trying to do since our ultimate goal is to get the variable that we’re solving for alone on one side of the equation), we need the denominator to be the same for all of our terms, i.e. the “common denominator”. Because we already know the denominator we likely need, the “2” in “1/2”, we simply need to transform both of our whole numbers into fractions with 2 in the denominator.

For “1”, this can be rewritten as “2/2”. Dividing 2 by 2 gets us back to 1, so that works out.

For “3”, we need to determine what number divided by 2 gets us to 3. In this case, that’s 6, which leaves us with “6/2”.

The equation now looks like this: 2/2x + 6/2x + 1/2x = 45

We can, of course, pull the “x” out like this: x(2/2 + 6/2 + 1/2) = 45

Then, when adding fractions, we only add the numerators (the reason we were looking for the common denominator in the first place). So, 2 + 6 + 1 = 9, leaving us with “9/2x = 45”. It’s then just a question, as you can see in the posted solution, of multiplying both sides by the reciprocal to solve for x.

RyanIbanezMan,

@nyarlathotep thank you so much! There's other comments to read below, but this is the first one that has triggered my memory for common denominators. You've explained it brilliantly!

Edit: can you explain how the reciprocal works and comes out to 2/9? Been a long time since high school

dragfyre, to wholesome
@dragfyre@kbin.social avatar

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

gentleman, to AskKbin

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

gentleman,

@DARbarian This

@turbodrooler

stackPeek,
@stackPeek@kbin.social avatar

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

@turbodrooler

const_void, to RedditMigration

Have you ever seen blatant vote manipulation on Reddit?

ike, to AskKbin

The name "kbin", what's the inspiration/logic/origin?

Otome-chan,
@Otome-chan@kbin.social avatar

@ike according to ernest it stems from /sbin. though one of the early instances was named karabin based on the karabine gun and thus shortened to kbin (or rather expanded from kbin).

ike,

@Otome@kbin.social Thanks! Linux reference always welcome. Luckily it has a natural ring to it aurally.

ReallyKinda, to unethicallifeprotips

ULPT: Post job ads in your area for jobs similar to the one you have(or are looking for) at your desired salary.

This way if your employer checks to see if your wage is competitive it will look like they should give you a raise in order to retain you.

dunidane,

You can also reply to any recruiter who reaches out on LinkedIn that their salary is below your expected value.

curt, to RedditMigration

The Future of the Threadaverse. Is a Lot More Growth a Good Thing?

I’m a recent refugee from Reddit and a very long time social network user. When the Apollo app announced its demise, I joined kbin.social and beehaw.org and love these new networks. The discussions seems much more reasoned and friendly. I do miss some of the more esoteric groups such as music theory and jazz. I’m sure they’ll be created as the threadiverse (kbin and lemmy) continue to grow. In this case, growth will be good. Is there, however, a point where these new networks get too big?

Imagine 56 million daily users (the current figure for Reddit) using the threadiverse platforms. If they were divided evenly into groups of 10,000, that would be 5,600 instances. Surely, such growth would take years, unless Huffman pulls another catastrophic move such as making you pay to be member and having to view ads as well. Even if he did, I doubt Reddit would completely go away. It would join myspace and AOL in the backwaters of the Internet.

Back to my point. Let’s say there are 20 million daily users. Magazines on kbin and communities on lemmy would have 100’s of thousands or even more that a million subscribers. The subreddit r/worldnews has 32 million subscribers. There could also be 100’s of thousands of magazines/communities. Reddit has 2.8 million subreddits. I know communities are tightly limited on beehaw.org, only being added when there is sufficient interest and support for them. On kbin, it appears any member can create a magazine. I could be wrong. Lemme.ee also allows members to create communities without restriction as far as I can tell.

Assuming there were enough instances to support such a volume of users, would that be a good thing or would discussions turn into flame wars, vitriol, and personal attacks? Even if such things were kept under control would threads become full of pointless or uninformative comments that kept you from reading quality posts. I don’t know one way or the other although I suspect, at some point there would be such a thing as too big. Most likely, it will take years for the threadiverse to grow so there’s plenty of time to plan and implement mechanisms to handle it.

VulcanSphere, to RedditMigration
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Just uninstalled Relay and from now will rely on libreddit and old.reddit for feeds from the Snoo Platform.

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