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Mikina

@ Mikina @programming.dev

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  • Random or anonymous chat apps no longer welcome on the App Store - 9to5Mac

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  • I'm also betting on Graphene. Been able to get by with a profile without Play Services, thankfully my bank doesn't require it, but if they ever do (or the new integrity bullshit), I'm immediately switching banks to one that doesn't.

    That's the only app I need on my phone, anything else I can get without if they require it.

  • What's the point of switching to Discord alternatives, if they're going to be subject to the same age verification laws?

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  • In a hypothetical situation where you get a law passed in your country, where it's mandatory to perform age verification on all social media apps, it's simple.

    No verification? Jail time. Will they go after you? They could, if someone pointed them towards your server. (I think they even have to, at least in our country, the government has to persecute a crime they are made aware of if I remember my college law courses right)

    In some states, if I understand it right (based on a quick googling, might be false) failing to do verification for porn can be considered as a felony. It's a slightly different example (porn vs. social networks), but if the laws are written in the same way, there's not really much you can do about it.

    Completely anonymous hosting that's in no way tied to you (through IP, credit card, location, domain, logs, etc) is difficult. While you'd still probably be fine if you have a private-use server, you'd still give anyone who doesn't like you and knows about it a pretty easy way how to make your life a lot more difficult. This of course heavily depends on how would (will) the laws be written in your country, but give the track record of lawmakers understanding tech, there is a chance that even small self-hosted stuff would catch flak. If it's written in such a way to not be i.e limited by user count, then there's not much you can do.

    A lawyer would probably be able to talk you out of it, but you'd still be charged and it would suck (and be expensive) to deal with.

    So, yeah. "How could the government force me to enable it" boils down to "jail time". I mean, it's basically a similar question like "how could the government stop me from using Telegram or VPNs", and IIRC there are some examples for that already.

    EDIT: Not having public sign-up enabled could be a way around it, since random people can't make an account there, so you're basically doing age-verification by a veto. However, if someone under-age got into your server, they then have a leverage on you, since they are there illegally (in the hypothetical scenario).

  • Russia is restricting access to Telegram, one of its most popular social media apps.

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  • This is a good reminder for people to run Snowflake relay if they can. Just installing the relay extensions is all you need to do.

    I've had the extension for a bit now, and I usually get a few connections the moment I open my browser. I quickly forgot about having it installed, and it never gave me any trouble.

    Snowflake allows you to connect to the Tor network in places where Tor is blocked by routing your connection through volunteer proxies located in uncensored countries.

    Similar to VPNs, which help users bypass Internet censorship, Snowflake disguises your Internet activity as though you’re making a video or voice call, making you less detectable to Internet censors.

  • MOS Is a New Open-Source Server OS Aimed at Homelabs and Self-Hosting

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  • I've been a fan of MASH, an ansible playbook that can host a lot of stuff.

    I only have experience with their separate Matrix playbook, but it is super robust and I haven't ran into any problems the playbook couldn't deal with (aside from running out of VM disk space once), so I'd expect this would be similarly good.

  • Social media age verification laws by country

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  • Time to finally use my https://noyb.eu/'s free one hour of legal privacy consultation that comes with a membership to find out if forging my ID for the purpose of verification will get me realistically in trouble or no. And buy Death Stranding.

    Fuck this.

  • Steam added the option to attach hardware specs when writing or updating a Steam User Review

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  • I was pretty confused for a second, since I only saw a screenshot with Linux as OS, and no review, so both comments didn't make sense.

    The relevant screenshot is in the post link, not the post content that's shown when you open comments.

  • How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt

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  • The fun part is that it also makes the technical debt a lot worse. It compounds concern, not shifts.

  • How the FBI managed access Nancy Guthrie's Google Nest camera even though it was turned off

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  • Yeah, I'm all against this kind of surveillance, i.e the whole stuff about Ring cameras, but this is not the case.

    It's the product working as intended. If I ever had a reason to install security cameras to my home, I would expect them to work especially when someone is trying to cut out my power.

  • Diablo II: Resurrected – Infernal Edition gets released on Steam and Steam Deck Verified

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  • Oh, I though those are the same. AFAIK the 2021 version was never on Steam.

    From a quick check, it looks like they only added a DLC, but most of the game is the same. EDIT: And some QoL updates, endgame and the like, which is all content of the DLC, but you are right!

  • Diablo II: Resurrected – Infernal Edition gets released on Steam and Steam Deck Verified

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  • IIRC it has been on the Battle.net store (and consoles) for quite some time now. Wiki puts it's release date on 2021.

  • What's the most fun programming language to learn?

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  • I've seen a lot of technical recommendations, but what I found most fun to experiment with is visual/art/music stuff, so here are some recommendation if that's also your thing. It's not strictly programming, because most of it requires learning more skills than just that, but I see that as an advantage. YMMV, though.

    The Book of Shaders is and extremely good introduction to some basic shader stuff. Especially thanks to the interactive editor they have in their tutorials, and web tools like Shadertoy, experimenting with shaders is easier than ever. It was the tutorial that made me finally get past the "super confused" part of learning shaders.

    It's kind of math heavy, especially once you get into 3D stuff, but I find it fun to learn, plus it's a rabbit hole and you can do some pretty cool stuff once you get into it. In general, anything technical artist related is interesting.

    Another thing I'd recommend is looking into Algoraves. Algoraves are live performances where both visuals and music is performed by people live-coding their tracks and projections in some kind of language that's made for the task. TidalCycles, one of the libraries/languages that's commonly used, has a web editor, and there's also Sonic Pi, although I've never tried that one.

    Processing is another language/tool used for making visual art. It also has a web edittor (with a lot of tutorials), and can make some cool visual stuff that can be fun to learn.

    And one last recommendation, this time not about art, but about learning/building your CPU, your own assembly language, and learning to do stuff in it! Turing Complete is a puzzle game, where you will learn how to build your own CPU, starting from a single NAND gate, slowly combining them into registers, memory, adders, ALU, up until you have your own, complete and working CPU. You then create your own instruction set and use your CPU to solve a few puzzles.

    It's super fun and engaging, and I'd consider learning logic gates and building a CPU as kind of also programming.

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • I'm using https://freetubeapp.io/ and so far it mostly works. You have to stay on top of updates, and age-restricted videos can be a problem, but the feature I love most is that it can subscribe to creators without an account, and it just shows you time-sorted feed. It also has native sponsorblock baked in, and has support for downloading videos, or using an invidious as a proxy.

    You can turn off autoplay, comments, recommended videos and other engagement-maxing bullshit, so it's just a video player without distractions that I can use to follow stuff I'm directly interested in, that doesn't force content on me.

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • And pasted here so you don't have to click.

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • Turning off TVs with adds has been the only usage I've been getting out of my Flipper zero. Doesn't work always, but I did have some success and I'll always try whenever I have to spend time longer time anywhere.

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • Exactly!

    I have the same relationship with ads as the OP, and even deeper hatred for fingerprinting to the point there is a lot of friction in my daily tech usage. Lot of stuff breaks, I have to fill captchas often, maintain self-hosted tech, get wrong time zone and language I don't know on websites, etc. (On one hand it's a boon, because it is keeping my pretty serious internet addiction in check and it has kept me away from most social networks and short form content).

    They have just installed this annoying kind of LCD slideshow adds that are a long screen alongside underground line, and I'm actively trying to avoid and not look at it, same with any IRL ads. I really hope we'll get some FOSS smartglases tech eventually, just so I can have an IRL adblock that replaces adds around you that I've seen a demo for.

    But, I have seen (single instances) of adds over the year that I appreciated, because it's more a clever art than an add. But 99% of adds isn't that, and it's just annoying intrusive attention grabbing slop designed to burn into your mind. Fuck that.

  • Privacy @programming.dev
    Mikina @programming.dev

    Self-hosting Matrix is pretty easy thanks to matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • I highly recommend looking into Matrix Ansible Deploy, has an amazing documentation and actually works robustly. It will make the whole process of hosting it way easier, I only needed to change like 5 config values, give Ansible the SSH key for my server, and then basically run "just setup-all" from a Ansible docker.

  • linux rule

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  • That's actually an impressive setup! I've been mostly gaming on desktop Bazzite, but usually just connect through Sunlight/Moonlight from a laptop in bed. Never really considered a proxmox setup.

    I might look into it, that sounds pretty useful. Already have an old desktop I sometimes use as a server, with older GPU and some RAM, so it would make for a great test environment for this kind of things.

  • Discord to Require ID or Face Scan Next Month for Full Access

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  • It's extremely easy, the Matrix ansible deploy project is very simple to use (with at least basic tech literacy), is very well documented and as far as I've seen in the past few years of using it do deploy and update my Matrix instance - it's also very robust. I haven't seen it fail a single time, which tends to be a problem with larger Docker/Ansible projects.

    I'm paying 7$ a month for a cheap server on Hetzner, you also need a domain name, and the whole setup took like an hour.

  • [Hyprland] SSS v3.3.22 (Supreme Sexp System running on Guix + Emacs) - added Dracula support and polished experience

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  • Looks like it might not be as serious, or rather - there have been latter developments that are trying to address it, and tbh my first comment wasn't really a well thought joke.

    There has been some drama about both him getting banned from Freedesktop, and also general problems with harrassment/transphobia in his community, and especially his behavior when Code of Conduct to prevent/improve it was in the works.

    https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html

    I have not really dug down into the situation, it was mostly relayed to me by a friend who was using Hypraland, but from what I tried looking up, it seems to boil down to a few blog posts and videos about it.

    But, I've also found a blog post that was trying to sort it out, so it might not be as bad as it may sound. Don't know how the situation turned out in the latter years, but at least there was an attempt. https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-hyprlandCommunityChanges

  • 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
    Mikina @programming.dev

    New Jetbrains Update Dropped

  • Game Development @programming.dev
    Mikina @programming.dev

    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
    Mikina @programming.dev

    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
    Mikina @programming.dev

    Looking for a lightweight blog/personal website that can Federate

  • Game Development @programming.dev
    Mikina @programming.dev

    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
    Mikina @programming.dev

    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
    Mikina @programming.dev

    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
    Mikina @programming.dev

    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
    Mikina @programming.dev

    I'm looking for games with unique or experimental game design

  • Lemmy Bots and Tools @programming.dev
    Mikina @programming.dev

    Would a single-user self-hosted frontend for interacting with Fediverse apps be feasible?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    Mikina @programming.dev

    Apps/Extensions that feed random fingerprinting data? Something I'd call "offensive privacy tools".

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Mikina @programming.dev

    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
    Mikina @programming.dev

    ELI5 - What is the difference between headphones, earphones and IEMs?