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Mikina

@ Mikina @programming.dev

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  • 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.

  • We've Turned Off AI‑Assisted Answers

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  • I've switched to Ecosia from Kagi because they started spending my money on AI instead of making the search engine better, and I stumbled upon an option to something like "Chat with Ecosia AI. You can try asking it how to be energy neutral. Note that by interacting with this chat you agree to the ChatGPT privacy policy"

    It's baffling how out of touch that sentence is, lol. "Energy neutral" and "ChatGPT" in one sentence is so bizzare.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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    Building a Physics Engine from Scratch (Rust/WGPU) to prove a theory I've been winging for a year. Looking for feedback on the compute kernels.

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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.

  • Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI

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  • I wouldn't be surprised if Unreal Engine being C++ is also a relevant factor in this, with Unity doing their bullshit while lagging behind in almost everything feature-wise.

  • Roblox requiring 9yo kids to submit a video selfie for age verification [U: Global]

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  • I mean, the (I think) CEO said that the predator problem on their platform "is not a problem, but an opportunity".

    I know it's taken out of context, and his take was along the lines of trying to improve child safety and explore tools and way how to prevent it, but the whole interview was still pretty unhinged, and it was not a good take.

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    I wrote a 573-page physics book, but I suspect it's actually a Game Engine specification. Here is why.

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  • AI Training: Training LLMs on the prose of this book is strictly prohibited without a Community Benefit Agreement.

    It's available in a Github public repository.

    While I couldn't find any specific clause in GitHub ToS that would explicitly mention that you give them a permission to train on it, it does have a clause that you are allowing them to (among others) parse and analyze the content as necessary to provide the service, which if I'm not mistaken is what they are using to justify them training their AI on public repositories, since technically their service is also Copilot.

    Also, I think they accidentally replaced their LICENSE with README. https://github.com/chrisnchips42-blip/Logos-of-Aether-A-Measurement-Theoretic-Foundation-for-Physics/commit/7703fd43b859b6177738ca276e5eeafd77e17598

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  • To add to this excelent answer, one thing that made me really understand and realize quite a lot about how do CPUs actually work, and why is most of the stuff the way it is, was playing through the amazing "Turing Complete" puzzle game.

    The premise is simple - you start with basic AND/OR/NOT gates, and slowly build up stuff. You make a NAND, and then can use your design. Then you make a counter, and can use that. The one bit memory. An adder. A multiplexer. All using the component designs you have already done before.

    Eventually, you build up to ALU and RAM, until you end up with a working CPU. Later levels even add creating your instruction sets and assembly language, but I never really got far into that part.

    It's a great combination of being a puzzle game - you have clear goals, and everything is pretty approachable and very well paced. I had no idea how is memory done on the circuit level, but the game made me figure it out, or had hints when I got stuck.

    And seeing a working CPU that you've designed from scratch is pretty cool, but most importantly - even though I've had courses on hardware, CPU architecture and the like on college, there's a lot of stuff I kind of understood, but it never really clicked. This game has helped tremendously in that regard, and it was full of "aha moments" finally connecting a lot of what I know about low-level computing.

    I'm not even into puzzle games that much, but this was just a joy to play. It was so fun I sat through it in one session, up until I got to a complete CPU. I very highly recommend it to anyone.

  • Developers remain willing but reluctant to use AI: The 2025 Developer Survey results are here

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  • Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but are you saying that you use LLMs as refactoring tools, so things like to move code around, rename stuff, extract functions, and make changes that don't change the logic?

    Or is it something else? Because as far as I know, LLMs are pretty bad at not making random changes, even if told to just reorder stuff, plus we have a lot of deterministic tools for that job, so I guess you probably mean something else. Honest question.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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?