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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it was a bit depressing to see a bunch of YouTubers who did a good job criticizing gaming censorship lately, jumping on this game with the same kind of cancel culture energy as woke crowd jumping on games featuring sexy beautiful women. Honestly, it’s probably for the better than neither modern left nor right have any capacity for libertarian mindsets, because it would just create unequal power dynamics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Often? I was thinking of some high-profile examples and I think a good one would be the Godot drama, where the moderation team accused users of being “fascists,” “bigots,” and similar terms, and proceeded to ban them when those users asked to keep political agenda out of the project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could qualify it as that if the consequences I described were purely hypothetical, but they were already reached and demonstrated in practice countless times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if the judgement of whether someone is a fascist is always perfect and flawless. But in practice there are way too many false positives, and the accumulation of them leads to increasing isolation from uncomfortable opinions, which makes ones mind even less frustration-tolerant in the long run which leads to even more false positives in future judgements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a good point tbh. Not like it’s going to “kill” them or whatever, but the idea I read in your post, is that right-wing instances are more likely to remain federated with neutral instances than left-wing instances are to remain federated with neutral instances. I hope it’s gonna kick some of those leftists in the ass to get back some of their classical libertarian values like free speech, because what they’re doing right now is truly suicidal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And instances that isolate from them will struggle to remain relevant.

  Imagine using Fediverse and thinking that some of the instances with certain political alignment can make it effectively centralized by somehow tanking other instances. This is impossible imo, but with this mindset, why not just use centralized platforms?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not with fascists.

  The endgame of this is immediately labeling any person showing the slightest signs of a different opinion as a fascist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you realize Reddit is a monolith platform and not defederated? The things happening to Reddit and other centralized platforms is exactly the reason why Fediverse exist in the first place. Those problems are what Fediverse is designed to solve. It’s surprising to see people considering Lemmy as some kind of leftwing alternative to Reddit. It’s not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally enjoy using it to the point I’m ready to pay for it. It helps me figuring out rather complex things where I wouldn’t even know what to type into a normal search engine to start tackling the problem. Imo, both forcing people to use it and forbidding people to use it, is making people unhappy. Just let people work the way they want to.

  Yesterday I got just a regular ChatGPT explaining me how to convert some geometry into screen space using inverted transform matrix of the camera and dividing x,y by z in camera space and then normalizing using min/max x,y, then after I got some bad results trying to get those numbers into the place where I need them, writing me a script that transforms my node-based Blender geonodes setup into JSON (just for the sake of giving this JSON to ChatGPT for analysis), then after reading this JSON explained to me some advanced control and data flow intricacies of geonodes and recommended a setup I could use to reshape control and data flow the way I need. This is all rather useful and would take more time and effort to gather all this information by myself. And it’s not like I’m not learning anything, it just makes learning faster.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  how many propaganda pieces AI companies pay to have written about vibe coding,

  Imo there’s orders of magnitude more anti-AI propaganda and stigma than pro-AI. If you’re ok with AI it’s very dangerous to admit that in professional setting IRL, you have to use careful language and a lot of conditionals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  senior developers were twice as likely to put AI-generated code into production compared to junior developers, saying that the technology helped them work faster

  Perhaps senior devs are more likely to use more granular, step-by-step, controlled prompting. Asking it do write specific functions in specific ways and following specific approaches and conventions instead of just “do me an app, robot bro”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 38]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve finished Mushishi recently and it’s one of my all-time favorites now. It’s also the first anime with each episode having its own story that I rated as 10/10 without any doubt, because it consistently succeeded achieving depth and sophistication without relying on longform plot. It’s one of a kind, I can’t really think of any other anime like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it would be enough to say that I looked for a server with a good bandwidth in torrent-neutral countries not too far away from me.

  Plenty of good deals here: lowendtalk.com/categories/offers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Early this month my Proton subscription ended. Instead of paying for one year more I decided to rent a VPS for 20$ per year (my Proton subscription costs 80$ per year now). It took 4 hours to setup wireguard server, configure port forwarding and update my clientside stuff accordingly. So far I’ve transferred 1.7 TB of data through this VPS (in a bit less than 2 weeks). It might be slightly slower than some Proton VPN servers, but it’s still very fast and decent enough for me. It’s easier than it seems and you get much lower prices, decent speeds, and more flexibility. You need to be a bit careful with VPS selection though: country where it’s hosted, their bandwidth and hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally wouldn’t call 1:2 “overwhelmingly”, but even so, if there was just a single male Venti in the whole game, it wouldn’t in any way make the claim “Plenty in gachas, jrpgs, and such” untrue, because these games combined have a lot of sexy twinks to pick from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Genshin has plently of male characters (F to M is ~1:2 iirc), and there is a variety of niches covered: cute twink-like types like Venti, hot tall guys like Diluc, and more. Anyway, vote with your wallet. It’s only natural there are more girl characters if that’s what larger chunk of playerbase want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French lawmakers urged a social media ban for under-15s and "digital curfew" for older minors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Imposing the ban and a 10 pm to 8 am curfew for 15- to 18-year-olds would “send a signal both to children and parents” that social media “is not harmless” for the young

  The signal I’m reading there is that the concept of statesmanship should be seriously reevaluated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A sexy twink.

  Plenty in gachas, jrpgs, and such, imo.

  We have a cult of toxic misogyny that insists everything MUST be male gaze and the only acceptable nudity is big titty girls and guys who look like Ahnold. And any divergence from that is “ruining games” or “being woke”

  I think in heated discussions about “DEI slop” people mostly complain about women being desexualized rather than anyone else being sexualized. Do you have any examples of games where in addition to women being sexualized there were twinks or someone else being sexualized and people insisted that only women should be sexualized but not those other groups? Think of BG3 - it goes beyond regular “male gaze” but it’s still widely beloved because it’s more inclusive to wide range of appeals including regular ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is meta-analysis.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some franchises with characters that personify countries?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
  • Kantai Collection (KanColle) – A Japanese browser game (later anime) where WWII-era Japanese warships are personified as girls. Hugely popular in Japan around 2013–2016. KanColle started mostly with Imperial Japanese Navy ships, but later added foreign ones. For France, the characters are:
    • Richelieu – Personification of the French battleship Richelieu.
    • Jean Bart – Battleship, Richelieu’s sister ship.
    • Commandant Teste – Seaplane tender.
  • Azur Lane – A Chinese mobile game (also with anime and manga) that includes warships from multiple countries (Japan, USA, UK, Germany, etc.) as anime girls. This one has a more international cast compared to KanColle. Azur Lane has a whole French faction called Iris Libre (Free Iris, based on Free France) and Vichya Dominion (based on Vichy France). French shipgirls include:
    • Richelieu – Battleship, leader-type character (Free Iris).
    • Jean Bart – Battleship (Vichya Dominion, later joins Free Iris).
    • Le Malin – Destroyer.
    • Le Triomphant – Destroyer.
    • Algérie – Heavy cruiser.
    • Béarn – Aircraft carrier.
    • Saint Louis – Heavy cruiser.
    • Gascogne – Battleship (super prototype type).
    • Dupleix, Émile Bertin, Vauquelin, Kersaint, Forbin, Surcouf, etc. – Various cruisers, destroyers, and subs.

  PS: those two games I had in mind immediately, but I used a bit of AI to put up those lists of characters, added some links manually (for other characters just swap the character name in query)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  More people gonna get their porn from darknet. And discover its wider selection of genres…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the first electronic device kids get these days? (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Phone, Game consoles?)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I believe smartphones and tablets are the first devices for almost everyone these days. Especially since kids are equipped with smartphone when parents send them to school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users' ~~ages~~ identities?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is interesting, I did a bit of research and it seems, none of this is legally enforceable unless the company has EU presence. Basically EU just saying “we will do everything we can, but we can’t really do anything if you don’t have any operations on our land”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users' ~~ages~~ identities?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I struggle to understand, why do those sites block uk users? Are there really any “international regulations” that demand that if you don’t want to comply with whatever arbitrary rules some country set, you should stop serving users from that country?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users' ~~ages~~ identities?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pixiv, Fanbox, DeviantArt, Tumblr, etc, are also widely used. Very few people only use a single platform. I think Twitter is top 1 for expanding your audience not only because how well their feed algorithm works, but maybe also because all those focused platforms are used more by artists and less by viewers (or used less often by viewers), while Twitter being general-purpose is the one where more people who like to watch/discover arts but are not artists themselves, are. But there are other factors, like Twitter comments being better than Pixiv or DeviantArt comments, etc. Finally, if we return to the context of this discussion, I don’t think any of those dedicated platforms in any way solve the problem of age verification and that is why I wouldn’t recommend migrating to them in this context even if they were otherwise good for art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users' ~~ages~~ identities?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had an impression it didn’t work great across instance boundaries. Like, algorithmic discoverability was very limited. I might be wrong and it might have changed since I last checked though. Also I had an impression that Mastodon doesn’t really have global feed on the same level as Lemmy instances. And again, correct me if I’m wrong here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users' ~~ages~~ identities?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s still the biggest art posting platform. And I’m not even sure where art posters should migrate to… I mean sure it would be nice to have them scattered through different fediverse instances, but it would be nice for us, not for them. The main thing they get from X is massive algorithmic reach. You hit like on a Miku art and another artist with their Miku art immediately slips into your feed, you like it even more and you decide to check their profile and you like their other works and you subscribe. This kind of easy and efficient advertisement is something that doesn’t exist anywhere else outside of few centralized systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users' ~~ages~~ identities?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Twitter / X started asking for age verification for NSFW content when browsed from EU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  you won’t be able to tell if something is wrong

  When you run it, test it, and it doesn’t work as expected (or doesn’t work at all), that means most likely something is wrong. Not all fields of work require programs to be 100% correct from the first try, pretty often you can run and test your code infinite number of times before shipping/deploying.