Is it just random letters arrived to by keyboard mashing like a lot of federated websites seem, or is there any thought behind it?
I found this
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).
(Ernest Wiśniewski is the creator of kbin)
Ernest has actually said that the name “magazine” isn’t gun related and that it’s a reference “to the virtual edition of a late 90s gaming newspaper” (see this thread and my other comment for the full story)
Someone in that thread also explains that in Polish the names are different:
Polish word “magazyn” means storage or newspaper, but "magazynek " is a gun mag.
EDIT: Didn’t word good.
Great. Now we gotta Google what a Karabin Gun is.
why tho? why is that the name of the platform then?
Is he?
lol
but like… why tho?
Because of the rapid fire content, I guess?
shrug
It’s such a bad domain name
This just happens to have the “karabin” in the name but it simply means a rifle.
It’s Polish for “rifle”.
so it’s a “gun rifle”? why in the world would they name a platform after it?
Not sure, perhaps he liked the domain karab.in. But honestly, there’s plenty of weirder names out there, even among the biggest brands.
It was a play on words, from /sbin. More info in the top thread.
Here is the answer on the Polish instance directly from @ernest, kbin’s creator. For reference, he was being accused of being a gun lover based on the name of the Polish instance “karab.in” and “magazines,” as well as his Monty Python profile pic with a gun in it.
Here are the relevant sections from Ernest on the origins of both kbin and magazine:
Hey, I’m the admin of kbin.social. The name “kbin” comes from the Linux “/sbin” directory - I’ve mentioned it multiple times before. The name of the Polish instance - karab.in - does indeed reference a rifle, but it’s just a play on words, and it was actually chosen through a survey among other domains. It’s simply easy to remember and sounds nice in Polish. There’s no place for nazi bullshit on my instances.
On the other hand, the name “magazyn” refers to the virtual edition of a late 90s gaming newspaper :D
So /sbin from Linux + k from karabin from the Polish word for rifle
But the creator doesn’t want it the instance to be seen as rifle-focused or otherwise militant and violent, so it just carries the “rifle-wielding polish linux user”-name without wanting to focus on militant Polish nerds.
Thanks for providing the references. This should be at the top.
No problem, hopefully it will make its way up there haha.
We still don’t know what the K stands for though.
The K stands for Kool, same as in KDE.
Kool kool kool
So kind of like K Mart?
Kmarts blue light bin of special K
Kbinception
Fun fact, Kbin is actually where all the big Ks from all the signs went when all the Kmarts shut down. Only, it turns out they were made of meat all along, so the refrigeration costs have been pretty significant… Kbin only runs the social media platform to earn enough money to pay for it all.
Wtf?
Just tried this for myself and got the same result. That’s bizarre.
It’s from this discussion of the limitations of cat-I-farted.
cat-I-farted
Only French speakers will get that one. Bonjour !
ChatGPT won’t be what takes your job, it’s what comes after.
I seriously don’t understand the people who disregard it based on the state of ChatGPT. It will only get better over time. And by over time, I mean weeks to months; this tech is maturing faster and faster. The change from GPT3 to ChatGPT to GPT4 to GPT4 that can see images, has all come in the blink of an eye.
Human labor is on borrowed time
If you’re using ChatGPT, you’re using an outdated model. GPT-4 is better than it and has been out for some time.
ChatGPT is weaker and not something I’d use frequently. GPT-4 is much stronger and much more useful. And the next generation is coming soon, which will be better than GPT-4.
It’s not like fusion in its current state since LLM AIs are already ready for use. The only task is making it more effective. Using the fusion example, it would be like if we’d finally developed a reactor that generates more energy than it consumed, and now only sought to make it create more power
I’d read somewhere that there’s some sort of Linux programming reference in the name, but I don’t know anything about Linux so I can’t quite remember. Don’t quote me on that, though
Linux has directories (folders) that contain programs. The two major conventions are /bin (short for binary which is another name for an executable program) and sbin (system/super user binaries).
Kbin seems like a play off of that, don’t know what the k implies tho.
