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Sterile_Technique, in What is the most Successful Lie in History?
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"Money can't buy happiness." "If you work hard, YOU TOO can be a billionaire." and other snips of class warfare/propaganda made to trick poor people into feeling complacent or even aggressively attached to their position of being shat on by oligarchs.

We (collective) eat that shit up and then beg for seconds when we should be erecting guillotines.

1chemistdown, in Don't you think kbin has really gone downhill since the good old days?
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Shit, I remember when I had to check the cloud flare box just to get into kbin and now all you just show up without any extra work. SMH

EROLoLICON,
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Those were difficult times

Gamers_Mate,

You had it easy in my day we had to fight Godzilla, Superman and five Shreks before we would be even allowed to login.

niktemadur,
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Godzilla, Superman and five Shreks before we would be even allowed to login

On Captcha?

Gamers_Mate,

I cant even remember what the Captcha was. I meant outside.

Eggyhead,
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Uphill, both ways!

… and in the rain!!

Otome-chan,
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yeah? well when I joined kbin, 503 errors said to check back in a few days!

livus,
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But it would usually let you go to some other part of kbin 10 minutes later with a nice Capcha of some cat paintings...

CoderKat,
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... UPHILL! BOTH WAYS!

ThrowawayPermanente,

Kids these days just have everything handed to them

garrettw87, in Why is no one decorating their magazines?
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I have /m/learnesperanto and I am slowly working on sprucing up the CSS. So far all I’ve really done is add a green bottom border to some link hovers in the sidebar.

Pons_Aelius, in Don't you think kbin has really gone downhill since the good old days?

I totally agree. The first two weeks of this month were the kbin golden age.

It has been all downhill since then.

sik0fewl,

Ah, yes - the Eternal June. It still has not ended.

No, I mean it literally has not ended. It's only the 28th.

garrettw87, in Don't you think kbin has really gone downhill since the good old days?
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Lol. Good one

DrChickenbeer, in Don't you think kbin has really gone downhill since the good old days?
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FWIW I was on Reddit for twelve years and people complained about the good old days twelve years ago.

somas,
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@DrChickenbeer I was on Reddit 17 years ago when all the posts were about Lisp and Python programming. If you asked anyone on the site during any given era, the golden age was when they first understood what the site was about.

Gypsyhermit123,

That’s true about jobs and life

blivet,
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Absolutely. The golden period is always the exact moment you discovered it, whatever it is, and as soon as you become more familiar with it and begin to see flaws, you perceive a decline.

livus,
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I dimly remember visiting reddit in the mid 2000s and it seemed to be some programmers sharing pictures of beer.

sunshine,

So you're the guy who ruined it!

ivanafterall,
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Man, complaining about the good ol' days 12 years ago...those really were the good ol' days.

Fern, in Why is no one decorating their magazines?
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Feels a bit like myspace looking through all these.

kriss0706, in House security system - any recommendations?
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I'm a bit too late to the party, but i will tell you about what i use.

I use a wireless IP camera from Reolink. You can use any camera really.
Then I purchased a license for Blue Iris, so i have that running on my computer downstairs.
Blue Iris is so under-rated. Its really good, there's a setting for anything you can think of and quite advanced motion detectors.

Hell, it can even detect license plates!

mx,

Thank you for the suggestion regarding the hardware. Two follow-up questions:

  1. Would you mind letting me know the model of the camera you're using?
  2. Blue Iris sounds awesome! But it also sounds like quite a bit of compute is required to run it. Is that true? Or could I also run in on a RPi, maybe even with Coral AI stick?
patchw3rk, in Why is no one decorating their magazines?
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I'm a mod. My subreddit (kbin.social/m/bestof) will not get a facelift any time soon, I don't think. Aren't people expecting to customize their own view of all communities?

Also, do the visuals persist to all of the fediverse? How does your community look on kbin, lemmy, etc?

garrettw87,
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Visuals definitely would not federate.

a_mac_and_con, in Why is no one decorating their magazines?
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As a magazine having a custom CSS isn't important for whether I decide to interact with a community, I'm much more focused on other methods of gathering an audience and activity which isn't just me posting over and over.

cutitdown, (edited ) in Why is no one decorating their magazines?

I've done some decorating over at https://kbin.social/m/ArcBrowser. Not done yet, but for Arc Browser users, the colors will adjust to match your browser theme!

garrettw87,
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Fancy!

callyral, in Why is no one decorating their magazines?
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i would but it'd be too interesting for my magazine

garrettw87,
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What does “too interesting” even mean?

Prej, in Why is no one decorating their magazines?
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I did it, waiting for the results. Still new to CSS, but I used ChatGPT and it worked pretty well.

PrimalHero, in Why is no one decorating their magazines?
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I did not know that is was possible. Maybe I will play around with it but I am kinda afraid of making everything ugly.

atocci, in Why is no one decorating their magazines?
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I got some basic theming set up at my magazine after looking up what CSS is.

Jaysyn,
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Looks good!

joobeejoo47,
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Can you share your code for that? It looks really good! If you're okay with it, I'd like to copy it and tweak a bit for my own magazine.

atocci, (edited )
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Edit: Added a comment and updated the option bar to match the navbar.
Sure, here you go! I've never done anything like this before so it's probably a formatting disaster, but I've done my best to clean it a bit and add some comments about what does what here. This is what I've come up with after a few hours of just poking around with the inspect element feature and reading some tutorials:

/* Navbar */
{
background: linear-gradient(to top right, rgba(229, 0, 32, .8) , rgba(242, 151, 57, .8));
box-shadow: 0px 4px 10px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);
backdrop-filter: blur(10px);
position: relative; z-index: 4001
}

/* Page background image */
{
background: url(https://toaru-project.com/railgun_t/core_sys/images/main/common/logo_t.svg) no-repeat center center fixed;
background-size: contain;
}

/* Post box transparency */
.section {
opacity: 0.96;
}

/* kbin footer background */
{
background: linear-gradient(to top right, rgba(229, 0, 32, 1) , rgba(242, 151, 57, 1));
}

/* The little arrow button in the bottom right that takes you back to the top of the page */
-top {
background: linear-gradient(to top right, rgba(229, 0, 32, .8) , rgba(242, 151, 57, .8));
box-shadow: 0px 4px 10px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);
backdrop-filter: blur(10px);
}

/* Options bar */
{
background: linear-gradient(to top right, rgba(229, 0, 32, .8) , rgba(242, 151, 57, .8));
box-shadow: 0px 4px 10px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.25);
backdrop-filter: blur(10px);
position: relative
}

/* upvote color */
.vote .active.vote__up button {
color: rgba(242, 151, 57);
}

/* Media viewer background blur */
.goverlay {
background: rgba(0,0,0,.5);
backdrop-filter: blur(15px);
}

garrettw87,
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Nice gradient!

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