Never used it. Don’t see any reason to. I just type stuff in my IDE. Works like a charm.

Most of the time I’m not writing large volumes or boilerplate code or anything, I’m making precise changes to solve specific problems. I doubt there’s any LLM that can do that more effectively than a programmer with real knowledge of the code base and application domain.

I also work on open source software and we haven’t seen a meaningful uptick in good contributions due to AI over the last few years. So if there’s some mythical productivity increase happening, I’m just not seeing it.

KRAFTON? More like KRAPTON of AI slop in their future.

Dislike. But I guess I can’t blame them for letting someone else hold the bag.

Wow that is fucking trash.

Matrix might be worth a try too. It’s kind of like a modernized IRC with limited discord-like functionality.

Stoat also seems pretty good, though it’s more centralized than I’d like.

In my experience with kink communities, shame can really do a number on people’s psychology. It feels like there are always two camps of people: the ones who simply learn to say “fuck it” and embrace their weird side, and those who really become very depressed and self-isolating because they’re made to feel like an aberration. That level of internal conflict, where you spend your entire life fighting against your own (otherwise legally and ethically non-problematic) desires due to internalized shame is a dark and dangerous path.

And like… I get it. To an outsider, any kink that you don’t have can definitely seem weird, gross, undesirable, etc. But then again, even vanilla sex acts can seem gross when you imagine other people doing them. Still, I think a lot of people in the kink space end up struggling with negative feelings about themselves.

Plus, there are a certain group of very puritanical and judgemental people who desperately want to describe (without any psychiatric qualifications) any behavior they don’t understand as being “mental illness”, but ironically, I think the most mentally healthy thing any kinky person can do is simply to accept and embrace their kink.

My message to any kinky people out there is to do whatever you can to accept yourself. Unless your kink involves something that is seriously dangerous to yourself and others, or otherwise legally or ethically dubious, then odds are that the best thing that you can do is just come to terms with being, as Rick James said, a “superfreak”.

I suppose that’s possible, but I feel like I’ve talked to a lot of people in the kink space who developed their particular interests from a young pre-pubescent age, before they were even really sexually aware. A shocking number of kinksters will tell you that they feel that their fascination came “preinstalled”. 😅

I’d go one further and say kink itself!

Sure it’s not for everyone… But people act like it’s some crazy abomination, when most of the time it’s just some variation of sex + roleplay.

While I don’t claim to be an expert on the subject, the only peaceful outcome I can see is actually just a continuation of the status quo, where mainland China uses “reunification” messaging as little more than a show of strength and patriotic political rhetoric, and where the Western world continues to treat Taiwan’s independence with “strategic ambiguity” while hinting to China that any attempt to take Taiwan will be met with a large scale Western response from the US and allies.

I do think that the West wants Russia’s attempted invasion of Ukraine to be a sign of what China should expect if they were to attempt to annex Taiwan. It won’t be easy, it’ll throw trade and supply chains into absolute chaos, and it’ll be met with harsh economic sanctions and large weapons deals at the very least. The West wants China to feel that there is very little upside to attacking Taiwan, and that it’s much more reasonable to maintain the status quo (though arguably, tariffs and trade wars needlessly remove some of the US’s economic leverage over China).

Rhetoric aside, how much chaos and bloodshed is China really willing to tolerate just for the pyrric victory of finishing what Mao started almost a century ago?

I think the main hope for peace is that Xi and the ruling members of the CCP feel that it’s in their personal best interest to talk a big game while doing the bare minimum to disrupt the systems that they currently benefit from.

No. Generally I don’t do things that I feel are wrong or unethical, and I know that there are plenty of people doing bad things in society right now and that I’m not one of them.

Alright, I’ve changed my description to “peer-to-peer”.

So far, I’ve tried and enjoyed:

• Mastodon, a twitter-like microblogging platform
• Peertube, a peer-to-peer youtube-like video posting and streaming platform
• Pixelfed, an instagram-like image sharing platform
• Matrix, a federated IRC-style chatroom protocol (not really fediverse/activitypub, but still interesting)
• Wafrn, a tumblr-like with support for Bluesky’s AT protocol too!
• Misskey, a unqiue social platform with lots of features, very popular with the Japanese art crowd
• Mbin, another reddit-like with lots of interesting features and a nice interface.

And there are still plenty more that I haven’t really tried yet! The fediverse is pretty huge!

As for recommending specific sites, that’s a bit harder since it’s healthy that not everybody is on the same server. So I would just recommend picking a reasonably popular server with open registration.

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We must protect little Billy from seeing tits, so he can keep laser focus on preparing for the next school shooting.

If it doesn’t have an algorithm aren’t you responsible for what you’re seeing?

I see your local profile here on fedia with no contact. When I try to click though I get a https warning. I don’t have the app though…

Here we go again, tariff schizo 2026 edition.

I’ll not sure Spencer had been doing a great job, but this feels incredibly abrupt and makes me wonder if Xbox’s next generation hardware plans are cancelled in favor of a software and AI approach. The new CEO being an AI suit makes me think they want to take shit it a very different direction.

This sorry sack of shit makes Ajit Pai look good in retrospect. 🤮

But with that said, it probably is good to have at least a little pushback on presidential authority right now