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Mikina

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  • If development were an RPG game, which RPG class would you be?

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  • If you're interested in playing corporation-based, slightly occult, TTRPG, there is Corp Borg that fits the bill.

    https://heltung-storytelling.itch.io/corp-borg

    Corp Borg is an award-nominated (NDU, The Indie Groundbreakers), rules-light, office-crawl OSR tabletop RPG. While inspired heavily by MÖRK BORG aesthetics and gameplay, it's a standalone game - all you need to play is this book.

    The world of Corp Borg is bleak, bloody, and brutal, exactly like corporations are. They rule the world of Corp Borg, as they do in real life, but are a bit more obvious about summoning demons, making blood sacrifices, and performing occult rituals.

  • Bluesky's new AI tool Attie is already the most blocked account other than J.D. Vance

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  • Good that it's decentralized and people can just move on to another provider, since this one is doing this, haha, right?

  • Factorio is 50% off on Steam currently

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  • I have no problem admitting that, it is indeed a repost from Reddit. But it's also the only April fools that I found genuinly funny, and since I didn't see it here I wanted to spread the joy :D

    I thought about creditting it, but that'd kind of ruin the joke, plus I don't really care about creditting Reddit anyway.

  • Factorio is 50% off on Steam currently

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  • Mindustry is also FOSS, right?

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Factorio is 50% off on Steam currently

  • Quiver, ladies, quiver

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  • In case anyone is interrested in this, I highly recommend the book Mind Illuminated.

    It's what sold me on the whole meditation idea even through I was mostly sceptical, by clearly explaining it, and givng reasonable arguments about why it works. It also has a pretty good guide in general, with clear steps to follow and pay attention to.

    I've been told by a lot of people that meditation is good and you should do it, with vague reasons why, and this book explained it to me clearly enough to finally get me to give it a try.

  • The best proof that witchcraft and magic doesn't work is the life of one man

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  • For me, the best proof that magic does indeed work in a sense, is the Pulitzer prize photo of the burning monk from Tibet, and in general the self-immolating budhists.

    It's a proof that once you get your subconsious under reins, you can affect your life to an extreme degree. Budhists learn to do it through sheer training and willpower, western magic does it through rituals, belief and symbols, but I think the goal (and the mechanism that makes it work) is the same.

    Of course, it means that it's limited just to things you can reasonably affect, so no i.e cursing people.

    But, if a ritual nudges your subconscious to i.e. make you study more instead of procrastrinating and you thus pass the test, it did work after all. It's just not as flashy as people expect.

    This is my theory about how it works, and at least for me it makes sense. Plus, it's fun!

  • Looking for a game similar to Crusader Kings 2 with high fantasy setting

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  • I have totally missed the subreddit name, hah.

  • Looking for a game similar to Crusader Kings 2 with high fantasy setting

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  • I cant't remember the name and I've tried googling, but there was a game that looked and played exactly like Rimworld, but in medoeval setting. It might be what you are looking for, of someone else can find it :D

  • Looking for a game similar to Crusader Kings 2 with high fantasy setting

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  • I'm guessing you want fantasy/history, but since you didn't specify it, if cyberpunk is something ypu're interrested in, I highly recommend https://store.steampowered.com/app/2001070/Heart_of_the_Machine/.

    It's a unique game. Not exactly 4x, but kind of choose your own adventure / rpg / 4x game, where you play a newly awekened sentient android/AI in a dystopic city, that is left alone by corporation because they want to see what you do.

    There's extremely branching story that works across timelines/playthrough, you have a lot of options from "fuck humans uplift animals" through "i'm your god", " I house the homeles", to "this is my city now" or "VR torment nexus", with numerous civilization destrpying dooms you're trying to solve along the way.

    It's pretty cool, and I don't think I've seen anything like it.

    While it doesn't have dynasties or span ages, it does work with time travel where you affect your new/other timelines, which are new playthroughs.

    So, it's probably not the fantasy kingdom management sim you're looking for, but just in case you don't mind cyberpunk and a smaller scale, I highly recommend this. It's my top 4x hybrid I've played so far.

  • Jetbrains is using AI-generated splash screen art

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  • I dropped my subscribtion the moment the AI bullshit started, and keep using my perpetual/fallback license for the version before that.

    Once you pay for a year, you can keep using that years version indefinitely, save money and as a bonus you don't get more AI shit stuffed in your throat.

  • How anyone thinks they are productive with llm tools is baffling

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  • My experience is that it can work reasonabky well, but you have to waste absurd amount of tokens and have the 1m token context window.

    I only do gamedev, which means a little bit more simple scriots, but it could handle even more involved systems.

    If i force it to first document and explain the wholw architecture and data flow.

    Did it help? Yes, but it still did take only a slightly faster. I could do it in a day more, probably.

    It also cost like 50$ in tokens, in today's prices - where every AI company is loosing trillions of money, so the costs will get a lot worse. And if I tried to conserve tokens, it's shit. You have to feed it 10$ of data to be useful.

    Add to that the fact that it also causes skill attrition, so once the expensive-cost future arrives, you probsbly won't be able to afford it, and good luck getting your skills back after that.

    Our company wants us to use it, and the average token consumption is like 100$ per day in consumer prices. How is that even considered for such a minor gain?

    So, I'll pass.

  • With Reddit flirting with requiring Age verification, the next Rexit might be around the corner, are we ready?

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  • I don't want people from Reddit here.

    The fact that half of Twatter moved to Bluesky instead of Mastodon is a blessing.

    ActivityPub is by design a data harvesting goldmine, the fact that it flies under the radar is the only saving grace.

  • Is unpaid rent useless if the tenant is (literally) gone forever?

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  • Worrying about unpaid rent after suicide is peak capitalism.

  • Thoughts on slowing the fuck down

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  • You can do a task pretty well if you nudge the AI, have it write an exact explanation about every part of the architecture, code and data flow it's working with and throw relevant files into context, and correct anything that's wrong before you send it to do the task. You still have to review, but I didn't have to correct much in my experience.

    But that burns like 20$ of tokens per task, at current prices that are way below the costs AI companies are paying.

    While it does help me, especially with parts of the codebase I'm not familliar with, it's not sustainable, and it's actively and very quickly robbing me of my skills and knowledge. It's really a bad idea to use it, in two years time you'll be royally fucked once they raise prices to recover the trillions they are loosing right now.

    So, however tempting, I simply don't use it. I won't throw away years of college and experience just to do a task a little bit faster today.

  • This sentence just started a moment ago and now it's already over!

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  • ... Unless--

  • Reckless, a chess engine written in Rust, has made it to the final of TCEC season 29 and will battle Stockfish for first place

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  • What does time control of 120 minutes mean? That they have 120 minutes per turn?

  • What would you say is the most reliable, "it just works" distro currently?

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  • I can imagine a good NixOS config working pretty well. Just need to find someone's repo that has all you need already set up.

  • Indie devs are the true heroes of OSS

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  • Battlefield has parts that run on Godot.

    I don't see EA on the donors page.

  • The ‘European’ Jolla Phone Is an Anti-Big-Tech Smartphone

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  • Are there even any European chipmakers? I guess there are, but never really looked into it.

  • EverQuest is the next legacy MMO to get the "classic" treatment after WoW Classic and Old School RuneScape, but with a genius twist: it knows all of us olds don't have time for MMOs anymore

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  • This. I switched to GW2 from FFXIV and WoW and the difference is great. Just the fact that you have like 15 years of content that's actually still relevant, no subscription and I can just drop it for another 5 years and get back without missing anything I can slowly experience and catch up on is great. Also, they actually do interesting stuff with i.e movement and exploration that I haven't seen anywhere else.

    Returned to WoW to play a new expansion with friends, and it sucks. I missed two weeks of launch and I'm so behind on gear there's a chance I won't be able to keep up with my guild's progression unless I farm almost nonstop, which after chilling in GW I don't really want to do, so I'll probably just drop it.

    And if you want something more classic, there's GW1 Reforged now.

  • Privacy @programming.dev
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    Self-hosting Matrix is pretty easy thanks to matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

  • Privacy @programming.dev
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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 @sh.itjust.works
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    How did my domain password get into Windows Credential Storage?

  • cybersecurity @infosec.pub
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    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
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    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?