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Mikina

@ Mikina @programming.dev

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  • If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations?

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  • As far as I know, Cloudfare is the only registrar that offers you wholesale price, as in the price asked by the tld owners. So, you a registrar can't go lower, because that's what they pay for it.

    But, a lot of registrars will give you first year at a heavy discount (so, at a loss), just so they can ramp up the price to wholesale + a lot extra. I got my domain for like 5$, and they then asked for 40$ for renewal, while wholesale is around 25$.

    So, I just transfered to Cloudfare for the renewal. Tbh I don't remember if it was the first or second year, and what are the transfer rules, but I think it should be possible to just buy a first year at heavy discount with i.e Namecheap or something, and immediately transfer to Cloudfare for the first renewal at wholesale price.

  • Sure, AI can ‘do’ writing. But memoir? Not so much | Aeon Essays

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  • AI has been a pretty good help for writing.

    Asking it for help to flesh out your unique story idea, unexpected plot twists or in general help with figuring out where to take your story/game mechanics/dm campaign, and then making sure to avoid anything it suggests as the most boring and obvious solution has been a great help with inspiration.

  • Support For More Bluetooth Guitars & Other HID Changes Ahead Of Linux 6.20~7.0

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  • Rock Band maybe? We've been mostly playing that, made for a great highschool party.

  • Collaborative project to document AI-contaminated FOSS

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  • Oh, nice. A sync with ProtonDrive, that looks promising.

    I don't trust myself enough to backup my passwords on something self-hosted, but ProtonDrive might actually be reasonable. I'll look into it, thanks! And I sure don't want to use stuff like GDrive or OneDrive.

  • Support For More Bluetooth Guitars & Other HID Changes Ahead Of Linux 6.20~7.0

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  • Damn, it has been years since I last played Guitar Hero. We even had a full blown rack with stage lights above our TV in my parent's house.

  • Collaborative project to document AI-contaminated FOSS

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  • If I'm not mistaken, Keepass doesn't have cloud sync, right? That's a pretty important feature for me, and a reason why I went with Bitwarden, even though Keepass is probably better.

  • 10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents

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  • It's starting to slowly show up. I think I've seen quite a lot new tools and projects pop up, from World of Warcraft addons, CIs, through "game engine based on Tesla's Aether theory" to secure loginless messengers.

    I remember few months ago that the state was "If vibe coding is so good, where are the AI coded projects?", and I'm starting to slowly feel, at least anecdotally and in the past few weeks, that they are slowly starting to surface.

    As a DJ, AI music made it extremely difficult for me to build sets, since I really don't want to support AI music. If FOSS vibe-coded apps start popping out just like AI music did, it's going to suck - especially as someone who likes to look for new tools and cool software often, mostly around cybersecurity. Vetting tools as safe to use is already pretty difficult in that scenario.

    Thankfully, most of them will just have agents.md or ./claude, so I know I can disregard them outright. Unfortunately, seems like Bitwarden is one of those :(

  • Swiss messaging service Threema is being acquired by German investment company Comitis Capital

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  • Hosting your own Matrix server is pretty easy and cheap. There's a pretty robust Ansible project, and I have it running on a Hetzner cloud for 6$ a month.

    The added bonus is I can turn on bridges for Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram and Discord and don't need to be worried that someone somewhere will steal my account, since it's all running on my server. So far I haven't had any problems, and I've had it running for more than a year by now.

  • Tired of AI, people are committing to the analog lifestyle in 2026

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  • I'm really glad I started getting involved in organization/volunteering for events in subcultures I was interrested in from early on. Most of the time you don't need any particularly involved skillset apart from a pair of hands and the willingness to get to the event early.

    I've been helping with preparing larps, carrying stuff on concerts and prepairing the venue, distributing flyers, picking up background playlists for the party, making small event websites, DJing or simply just handling the entrance ticket checking.

    Most of subcultures that aren't commerecial-level of big (what I mean by that is ran by volunteers and usually non-profit), such as larps or smaller music scenes, need any help they can get, and simply being there with a few people before the event starts and being involved in helping will naturally break the ice with a few people from the group or scene, and it's usually people that will then introduce you to the rest. You also have something to do that's not only socializing, so it helps with social awkwardness, and you get free entrance and drinks or food.

    It's the best tip I have about how to make friends, plus it helps the scene and at least for me, having something to do makes it more fun. I didn't really know many people from the scenes until I started working, mostly because I find it pretty difficult to talk to people I don't know, but now, after few years of helping out, I know almost everyone in the scene and consider most of them my friends.

  • Tired of AI, people are committing to the analog lifestyle in 2026

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  • One of the few use-cases I have for LLMs is when brainstorming mechanics and game design for GameJams.

    I give it the theme and genres I want to go for, and ask for some unique and original ideas of what I should make.

    And then make sure to avoid anything it suggests, because it's the most obvious and boring solution anyone could come up with.

  • Collaborative project to document AI-contaminated FOSS

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  • Ah, damn. Bitwarden has Agents.md. That doesn't really fill me with confidence, and it's the most critical software I use.

    I need to update my threat model, I've trusted them quite a lot to the point of using Bitwarden for MFA for less-important services (so it's not really MFA, since both my password and MFA token is in Bitwarden, but it's super convenient), and only had Yubikey for my Bitwarden account, so as long as the app itself isn't compromised I should be good (and Bitwarden has a pretty good track record as far as I know), but if they are going to start vibe-coding their tools then it's probably time to move to a proper MFA.

  • Just the Browser - remove AI features

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  • What browser are you using that isn't just a modification of chromium/firefox?

    Honest question. All i know about are only forks that basically do the same thing as the scripts try to do.

  • 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚 Linux video editing 𝘽𝙀𝙏𝙏𝙀𝙍 than paid: kdenlive - BreadOnPenguins

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  • How does it compare to Shotcut? It was my go-to for (very minor) video editting.

  • ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study

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  • Wow, you're saying that the thing with main selling point being approximate summarization of sources/text and guesstimation of solutions erodes skills related to parsing sources, thinking about text and comming up with solutions?

    Who would have thought.

  • Researchers figured out how to run a 120-billion parameter model across four regular desktop PCs

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  • Do we really need datacenters to host (load balanced) web servers and services?

    This could challenge the business model of Big Tech!

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  • Oh, damn. You're right.

    When I first saw this, I read through the readme, and it sounded pretty cool. Needless to say, I know nothing about physics.

    I didn't suspect AI in the slightest, until I saw this comment thread.

    Now I'm pretty taken aback. Looking at it again, it should be pretty obvious. I wonder what was it about the way it was presented that made me believe it and not suspect AI in the slightest, because that's a mistake I don't really want to do again.

    Probably a combination of passionate presentation, topic I know nothing about combined with topic I love (game engines), and my whole interaction being "this is pretty cool" and moving on. I did try looking for some actual sources about the Tesla's mythical "standart model", which I found none, plus got suspicious about definiton of "standart model" feeling like it doesn't match what the text was talking about, and I just moved on, but the conclusion I had was "i wonder what will turn up out of it", instead of "probably llm halucination" as ot should've been.

    Oh well, I guess it's time to properly lock in on actual textbook knowledge in fields I'm interrested in, because recognizing stuff like this in tutorials/posts and eventually books will be only harder, and it won't be really feasible to rely on "I'll research it on the internet when I need it"

  • WCGW : AI starts autonomously writing prescription refills in Utah

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  • Remember the bug in the RTG that killed several people due to a race condition being a problem that blasted them with extreme amount of rads?

    That was 99.999+% reliabilty. How can they be ok with 80? Or even 99? You're just ok with potentionally killing 1% of patients? What the fuck.

  • The Death of DeviantArt and the art-site shaped hole haunting the Internet -- Multi-hyphenate

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  • I had no idea, and this hurts. I have a few, but fond, memories about DeviantArt when I had a short phase on highschool where I was drawing for a bit (which was more than 10 years ago). It didn't last long, but DeviantArt was a large part of it.

    Hearing they are commiting to AI art - THE platform for actual artists (at least it was, 10 years ago), who AI hurts the most, is insane. That's pure betrayal. I hate this.

  • What's the best course you've taken in 2025?

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  • I don't really do courses anymore, but one thing that kind of matches the questions was playing through Turing Complete.

    It's a game where you start with NAND gates, and slowly build up from there. Other gates, then a counter, adder, single-bit memory, etc, where every puzzle uses the component design's you've build before. Eventually you build up to an ALU, RAM, add instructions and connect it up to a working CPU.

    It's super fun, and even though hardware isn't really something I usually look into, it has taught me a lot, way more than college courses about CPU architecture. Plus, seeing (and actually programming, in later levels) on a CPU of your own design, using your own opcodes, is actually pretty cool.

  • Privacy @programming.dev
    Mikina @programming.dev

    ChatControl has been already happening since 2021 for most common services, does anything change for people who use them?

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    New Jetbrains Update Dropped

  • Game Development @programming.dev
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    A code execution security vulnerabilty has been identified in all games built with Unity 2017 and later

    unity.com /security/sept-2025-01/remediation
  • Game Development @programming.dev
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    ZLINQ - A zero allocation LINQ rewrite, with added support for Unity and Godot scene hierarchy, that has a drop-in replacement support.

    github.com /Cysharp/ZLinq
  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    Looking for a lightweight blog/personal website that can Federate

  • Game Development @programming.dev
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    EDIT: Fake screenshot about some facts from the Palworld development, very loosely based on a really interesting blog post from the dev that's linked in the post body.

  • cybersecurity @infosec.pub
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    What distro you use/recommend as a daily driver for a Cybersecurity job (pentesting and Red Teaming)? Would QubeOS be a good fit?

  • Game Development @programming.dev
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    We've had this Slack emoji ever since we started porting a Unity project and dealing with their bugs or support. I think it's pretty fitting now.

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    What do you think would be an actually good use of blockchain/smart contracts? What kind of problems (big or small) is it a good tool for?

  • Patient Gamers @sh.itjust.works
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    I'm looking for games with unique or experimental game design

  • Lemmy Bots and Tools @programming.dev
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    Would a single-user self-hosted frontend for interacting with Fediverse apps be feasible?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Apps/Extensions that feed random fingerprinting data? Something I'd call "offensive privacy tools".

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    In my understanding of the main principles of the Fediverse, federating with any large corp should never even be considered. Is my understanding wrong? What is the "idea of the fediverse" to you?

  • Headphones @lemmy.film
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    ELI5 - What is the difference between headphones, earphones and IEMs?