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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is meta-analysis.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some franchises with characters that personify countries?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Important] Catbox Needs Your Help⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is phenomenal, I’ve been switching through countless EU countries and servers, and catbox just kept becoming inaccessible in every single one day by day, and even after abandoning Proton VPN altogether and moving to obscure VPS provider with my self-hosted VPN, it worked for like 2 days, and now it’s blocked again.

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

  what VPN service was that?

  Proton VPN

  be sure to run shellcheck for your scripts though, it can point out issues. aim for it to have no output, that means all seems ok.

  It does some logging though, and I read what it logs via systemctl --user status. Anyway, those scripts/services so far are of a simple kind - if they don’t work, I notice that immediately, because my torrents not seeding or my tor/i2p proxy ports not working in browser. In case when error can only be discovered conditionally somewhere during a long runtime, it needs more complicated and careful testing.

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

  We’re a bit off from the ability to have models which can tackle large projects like coding complete applications, but they’re good at some tasks.

  I believe they’re (Copilot and similar) good for coding large projects if you use them in small steps and micromanage everything. I think in this mode of use they save a huge amount of time, and more importantly, they prevent you wasting your energy doing grindy/stupid/repetitive parts and allow you to save it for actually interesting/challenging parts.

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

  This “dopamine hit” isn’t a permanent source of happiness, just repeatedly clicking “randomize” button not going to make you feel constantly high, after 3 maybe 5 hits you will start noticing a common pattern that gets old really fast. And to make it better you need to come up with ways to declare different structures, to establish rulesets, checklists, to make some unique pieces at certain checkpoints yourself, while allowing LLM to fill all the boilerplate around it, etc. Which is more effort but also produces more rewarding results. I like to think about it this way: LLM produces the best most generic thing possible for the prompt. Then I look at it and consider which parts I want to be less generic and reprompt. In programming or scripting, I’m okay with “best generic thing” that solves the problem I have. If I were writing novels, maybe it’s usable for some kind of top-down writing where you start with high-level structure, then clarify it step by step down to the lowest level. You can use AI to write around this structure, and if something is too boring/generic it’s again simply a matter of refining this structure more and expanding something into multiple more detailed things.

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

  I agree, I should have clarified I actually meant setting up a wireguard server on a vps, not developing and alternative to wireguard or openvpn.

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

  I’m happy for your successes and your enthusiasm! I’m in a different position, I’m kinda very lazy and have little enthusiasm regarding coding/devops stuff specifically, but I enjoy backsitting the Copilot. I also think that you’re definitely learning more by doing everything yourself, but it’s not really true that you learn nothing by only backsitting LLM, because it doesn’t just produce working solution from a single prompt, you have to reprompt and refine things again and again until you get what you want and it’s working as expected. I feel myself a bit overpowered this way because it lets me get things done extraordinarily fast. For example, at 00:00 I was only choosing a VPS to buy and by 04:00 I already had wireguard server with port forwarding up and running and all my clientside stuff configured and updated accordingly. And I had some exotic issues during setup which I also troubleshoot using LLM, like for example, my clientside wg.conf file getting wrong SELinux context and wg-quick daemon refusing to work because of that:

  unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0
  

  I never knew such this thing even exist, and LLM just casually explained that and provided a fix:

  sudo semanage fcontext -a -t etc_t "/etc/wireguard(/.*)?"
  sudo restorecon -Rv /etc/wireguard
  

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

  Oops, I meant self-hosting a wireguard server, not actually doing an alternative to wireguard or openvpn themselves…

  and, port forwarding… I don’t know where are you running that, but linux iptables can do that too, in the kernel, with better performance.

  With my previous paid VPN I had to use natpmpc to ask their server for forwarding/binding ports for me, and I also had to do that every 45 seconds. It’s nice to get a bash script running in a systemd demon that does that in a loop, and also parses output and saves remote ports server gave us this time to file in case we need them (like, for setting up a tor relay). Also, I got another script and demon for tor relay that monitors forwarded port changes (from a file) and updates torrc and restarts tor container. All this by Copilot, without knowing bash at all. Without having to write complex regexes to parse that output or regexes to overwrite tor config, etc. It’s not a single prompt, it requires some troubleshooting and clarifications and ultimately I got to know some of the low level details of this myself. Which is also great.

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

  doing something wrong is worse than doing nothing.

  Is this a general statement right? Try to forget about context then and read that again 😅

  I actually think that the moments where AI goes wrong are the moments that stimulate you and make you realize what you’re doing and what you want to achieve better. And when you do subsequent prompts to fix the issue, you essentially do problem solving on figuring out what to ask to make it do the exact thing you want. And it’s never going to be always right, simply because most of cases of it being wrong is you not providing enough details about what you actually want. So step-by-step AI usage with clarifications and fixes is always going to be brain-stimulating problem solving process.

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

  I’m in the same boat with many things I’m using AI for. I would never write natpmpc port-forwarding demons, I would never create my own DIY VPN, etc, if I had to do this all by myself. Not because I can’t, but because I don’t enjoy spending my time diving into tons of manuals for various utilities, protocols, OS level stuff, networking, etc. I would simply give up and use some premade solutions. But with AI, I was able to get it all done while also quickly getting to know some surface-level things about all of this stuff myself.