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Mikina

@ Mikina @programming.dev

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  • After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us'

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  • While there's no doubt that they have technically break the rules, just the fact that they afaik patched the few textures before this controversy (as far as I know, it's possible that it was a reaction to this?), this simply sounds like a (very succesful) PR attempt by Indie Game Awards.

    There's no doubt that Clair Obscire isn't a AI slop that cheapened on artists or art with GenAI, whis is the spirit of the rules IGA has. If you don't take the rules literaly, they deserve the award. And that's IMO important.

    I've never heard about IGA before this, so it worked to draw attention to them.

    I'm very OK with having rules in place to reject work where you replaced artists with AI. But this is not the case.

  • Sekyuritee

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  • Is there any OS that allows this config?

    At least with Linux, if I encrypt my hard drive, I have to enter my encryption password on every login, for some even during boot.

    Not sure about Windows. I wpuldn't be surprised if you can have bitdefender on with auto login.

  • Proton has handed over 32,076 users' data to governments since 2017. Their own transparency report states a 94% compliance rate in 2024.

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  • This holds true for any kind of secure communication you want to do.

    Manually handling keys and encryption with GPG is the core of good opsec, and also a reason why 99% of "crime prevention" backdoors are probably not going to do much. But people are lazy, been a while since I saw a drug dealer hand out public GPG keys, ever since Telegram and the like got popular.

  • Inequality alone doesn’t cause civil unrest – but internet access adds the crucial spark

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  • To be honest, I saw an article/post about meshtastic, lookes up if it's active in my city, which it seems to somewhat be (I mean, it has a webpage and like 10 nodes), and decided to give it a try.

    It never really occured to me to look up alternatives, first time I'm hearing about Reticulum, will look into it!

  • No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog

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  • And a thermostat for AC is an agentic AI.

  • LibreWolf remains AI-free!

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  • I was just looking where to donate to them. The chads aren't even accepting donations.

  • Firefox will have AI kill switch

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  • There really isn't a reason not to switch to LibreWolf at this point.

    It's a shame that Mozzila is set on wasting developer time on tools people do not want, and in turn wqsting LibreWolf dev time on removing it.

    Aodopting an opt-out model instead of opt-in is also bullshit. You should do opt-in, measure adoption and THEN maybe consider making it default, if it's high. It probably won't be. People who don't care about what their tech does are already using chrome or edge.

    I'd be also surprised if it didn't do stuff like re-enabling itself after updates or some shit.

  • Inequality alone doesn’t cause civil unrest – but internet access adds the crucial spark

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  • Internet access and in general communication being crucial during unrests is the reason why I'm currently waiting for parts to set up a few https://meshtastic.org/ nodes for me, my family, and friends that are interested, and get a few devices that I can hand out when it will be needed.

  • People online say old computers are prime candidates for repurposing into routers, is that actually a good idea security wise?

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  • Unless I'm mistaken, this mostly depends on software/os you install.

    A RPI with OpenWRT will be secured in exactly the same way as a router with OpenWRT and a laptop with OpenWRT. (At least I think so, I vaguely remember hearing about some Intel CPU vulnerabilities, but I don't think there's anything remote).

    Power draw will be the main problem, along with more limited range because of the strength of the WiFi card.

  • "Track AI adoption". FU very much, - sounds like the "Copilotcrapping down your throat" approach.

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  • I've canceled my sub once they announced moving towards AI, and I'm using one of the perpetual licenses I have, i think it's 2023 or 2024. (In case you don't know, you can use the version you've been subbed to for a year forever even if you unsub).

    So far, didn't have any issues. I only work on Unity games, though, so I don't really use much features, and I do anything other than C# in LazyVim.

  • Fresh Launches as a New Terminal-First Text Editor

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  • I'm kind of interested how will it go, especially further development and their issue handling.

    It doesn't do anything I need, though.

  • It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs

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  • I wanted to setup a tarpit but I thought I don't have anything they'd find. If I can just set up httls and call them in, awesome.

    I wonder if I can keep adding subdomains to fool them more than once.

  • If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS

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  • I'm used to just sitting to pee, exactly for this reason, but there's a rare case where I give up and pee standing, i.e when I'm already dressed and it's way easier, where I used to risk it and pee standing.

    I stopped doing that even in those rare cases when we've gotten the blood/horror bathroom mat, something like this, but not branded and from what I presume is the original source (Aliexpress).

    It's horrifying when you see the mess you're making, even if you really try not to.

  • "Money for salaries, not weapons." National strike in Italy against rightwing budget. "People can't make it to the end of the month. This budget doesn't raise wages or allow people to retire."

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  • This is true and I agree, however the issue is that it's currently starting to be really difficult to rely on allies, given what's happening with US and some other NATO countries. Honestly, and of course this is just a personal preference, I'd rather we currently spend more on defense because of that. Of course, if the situation was different (i.e like two years ago), I'd probably not be that much OK with it.

    I'm also not saying that we shouldn't spend money on anything else, but budget creation is extremely difficult topic, and my main point is that I really don't like how "spending on weapons" is used as a scrapegoat from lack of proper social budget, because it is clickbaity. There's a lot of other, more serious, budget issues that could be focused on. This kind of "anti-war" rethoric plays right into the hands of Russian hybrid war, which is (unfortunately pretty succesfully, which is why I'm speaking against it so vehemently) framing any kind of increased budged spending as warmongering, and that is something that is more likely to get people like me into trenches.

  • "Money for salaries, not weapons." National strike in Italy against rightwing budget. "People can't make it to the end of the month. This budget doesn't raise wages or allow people to retire."

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  • Well, then you better hope that your country does invest in defense and force projection, so other countries don't think it will be easy to attack it.

    No defense budget -> higher chance of being attacked -> you will get drafted and probably have to fight with pitchforks, because no army.

    Defense budget -> Force projection -> attacking your country is a higher risk -> you have an army that has the resources to defend the country, so no need to draft civilians if it happens (at least from the start, but the chance is drastically lower).

    It's not that difficult to understand, unless you're deep into Putin's ass spreading his bullshit propaganda about "defense bad".

  • Does anyone have experience with becoming a Senior Dev "early"

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  • I'd say go for it.

    I can't speak for development, because I worked in Cybersecurity as a pentester, so it might be different, but my experience is that the main difference is how much oversight you are getting. I've seen super skilled juniors that didn't need any oversight and seniors whose work I'd describe as mediocre.

    If you trust in your work, then it's mostly just a fromality that will get you more money. And even then, I'd say the main difference is that if you don't know something, you have to ask for help (which should be ok and encouraged, if it's not extremely often), instead of having someone watching over you (or in my case of pentesting, doing the project with you). In all cases, if someone, senior or not, wasn't sure about something, needed feedback, help with a bug/script or just to discuss something, just asking others was never a problem.

    So, yeah, if you fullfill the requirements your work has, then there's not really a reason not to ask for promotion unless you are really insecure in your work and preffer to have more guidance.

    I didn't really rush for promotion because I was more comfortable with the leeway it gives me, and not having that much responsibility, but tbh even if I did ask for it it wouldn't really change much - I was already working mostly independend, reliably and had the required knowledge. It has, however, cost me a lot in sallary over the years, so it probably wasn't worth it.

  • A trillion dollars is a terrible thing to waste

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  • Some of this may come as news to a lot of the machine learning community

    Does it? I only have pretty basic knowledge in the ML field, from like two courses during my Masters in gamedev around 8 years ago, and I though that it's a basic fact of most of the ML algorithms, that simply throwing more data at it won't get it "smarter", as in from the basic understanding of how ML works, it's pretty apparent that you can't get anything like an AGI with the current algorithms.

    You're basically just approximating a function (which is my understanding of what ML does) of what's the next word based on previous senteces, your dataset. It kind of makes sense it would converge into absolute mediocrity (not even mediocity, because a lot of data in the datasets is very probably wrong), and not be able to come up with new things.

    But, we've never really learned about transformers, since that tech wasn't yet part of our syllabus, so I might be wrong/overly simplyfing things.

  • "Money for salaries, not weapons." National strike in Italy against rightwing budget. "People can't make it to the end of the month. This budget doesn't raise wages or allow people to retire."

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  • Oh, that's true, and I've also forgotten to add that I agree that spendings are definnitely not managed properly, and there's a lot that cpuld, and should be done better as far as budgets are considered.

    But the point was that I don't really agree that we should single out military spending when talking about this, just because that makes the title the easiest clickbait.

    Especially because right now, it is important and there is already a huge push of anti-war populistic rethoric that's affecting elections and popular opinion, even though it doesn't make sense - not preparing for war will wastly increase your chances of being in one, in the current situation. It's also made worse because it's catch 22 - spending on army and not getting into war will get you blamed by populists that it was thrown away money, and of you get into one you'll get blamed that you invited it by arming up (which isn't true, bit that's not how dezinfo and populism works. It sounds true).

    So, I'm not saying we have to choose between defense and salaries, but that there's a lot of other places and problems in the budgets that can be focused on, without giving ammunition to the Russian hybrid war that's trying to make us not spend money or defense.

    Of course, it's possible (and I'd say probable) that that was the point of this video. But I'm assuming innocence.

  • "Money for salaries, not weapons." National strike in Italy against rightwing budget. "People can't make it to the end of the month. This budget doesn't raise wages or allow people to retire."

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  • Tbh as it stands right now, I'm absolutely hoping countries in Europe, mine included, will spend more on weapons, not salaries.

    Salary is useless once you get drafted because you r country got attacked. Weapons prevents you from being attacked in the first place.

    I hate that people not understanding the absolute basics of force projection, shitting out populistic headlines like this, will very probably cost me my life somewhere in a trench.

    Because of idiots like these, every country is afraid to be called "warmongering" because they invest into army, BUT YOU GET DRAGGED INTO WAR BY NOT HAVING AN ARMY, FFS. Which we currently don't have, since most of NATO infrastructure was ran by Putin's sattelite-US, if I'm not mistaken.

  • 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
    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
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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
    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
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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
    Mikina @programming.dev

    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
    Mikina @programming.dev

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