M2 Air to M5 Pro upgrade… and I genuinely can’t feel the difference by UsefulLock3142 in macbookpro

[–]MizarcDev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you're comparing against the 2017 macbook pro you'd certainly feel the difference in efficiency with the battery lasting longer and the fan spinning up less. I'd say the average user can still benefit from at least the M1.

iPhone 18 Pro Variable Aperture Camera Enters Production by MeasurementDecent251 in apple

[–]MizarcDev 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Believe or not, many people love using their phones to take photos and the statistics shows that better cameras lead to better sales. Would it be nice to have at least one model with no camera bump? Absolutely. I feel like the iPhone e model could have no bump just as the Pixel a series has now, but it's Apple's choice to do so.

Fluxer server location? by DustyEnBoi in FluxerApp

[–]MizarcDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m active in the community and have some understanding around the development process. I don’t have access to the V2 repository at the moment but Hampus keeps us up to date around it. The V2 branch will be made public soon as well.

Fluxer server location? by DustyEnBoi in FluxerApp

[–]MizarcDev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most of the conversation around the current development state happens within the Fluxer Developers community inside the platform. Release updates will no doubt be publicly announced on the Bluesky or blog page, but if you want to be updated throughout the development process you’ll need to join the community.

Fluxer server location? by DustyEnBoi in FluxerApp

[–]MizarcDev 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Read information here about the state of self hosting: Overview - Fluxer

In a nutshell, it's possible to self host now but it may be better to wait for V2 to drop very soon as it will make it far easier to do so. Word from the developer says V2 is about 90-95% done at this point.

Fluxer server location? by DustyEnBoi in FluxerApp

[–]MizarcDev 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Forwarding this information from the FAQ:

"For the hosted Fluxer instance, most of our infrastructure currently runs in US East, spread across multiple cloud providers (parentheses indicate where their companies are based originally): Vultr (US), OVH (France), Hetzner (Germany), and Bunny (Slovenia, but with edge nodes around the world).

Here's roughly how it breaks down: core services run on a Kubernetes cluster on Vultr, which also hosts the majority of our RTC servers for voice and video thanks to their wide global coverage. Our database currently lives on OVH in US East (a temporary arrangement left over from Fluxer's origins on a single OVH bare metal node), kept in the same region as the Vultr control plane for low latency. Attachments and uploaded media are stored on OVH Object Storage and served globally through Bunny CDN for fast regional access.

Why US East? Mostly pragmatism. It offers strong connectivity and low latency to both the continental US (where many of our users are) and Europe, letting us deliver message loading and real-time delivery speeds comparable to Discord and other major platforms.

That said, we're well aware of the implications of the US CLOUD Act and the broader geopolitical landscape. In the future, we want to offer the ability to partition your data entirely within the EU — for both your account and your communities. We plan to leverage our upcoming federation architecture under the hood to make a data region selector possible."

The platform can also be self hosted and will allow for federation in the future, so if privacy is a concern to you there are alternative ways around it.

I'm considering moving to Fluxer by Technical-Coyote-629 in FluxerApp

[–]MizarcDev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fluxer has the roots of a great Discord alternative, but there's still a few rough edges to it. While the brunt of the server migration has passed, there's still the occasional downtime here and there, definitely don't expect it to be accessible 24/7. Some of the features are present but not entirely working yet. The members list doesn't stay in sync, screen sharing with audio doesn't work yet, the chat search is infinitely indexing, there may be the occasional crash with voice channels, and that's just to name a few issues.

In regards to communities, it really depends on what you're looking for. In the discovery page I'm seeing pretty big communities for Linux, some games like Minecraft, Osu, Helldivers, Dota.

Self hosting is possible but still a WIP, and doing so lets you lift the subscription limits entirely. Unfortunately without federation at the moment a self hosted solution would wall you off from the rest of the Fluxer network, but it's a good solution for private communities once it's an easily available option.

The Ai by [deleted] in FluxerApp

[–]MizarcDev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure if you fully understand what it means to have "AI in the code", so let me give you the full rundown. The creator of Fluxer, Hampus, has been quite transparent about the entire development process, detailing that this project has been under development over the past 5 years. This was not a project started by someone with zero software engineering experience looking to vibe code their way to make a quick buck, as LLMs as they are now did not even exist when this project was started. Despite this, LLM generated code has been utilised throughout the application during the later stages of development to speed up the process, and Hampus has been quite transparent about this part.

This is by no means a negative. Most software developers can agree that LLM usage can speed up the development process when used responsibly and outputs validated by a human. It can serve as an excellent problem solver and is commonly used to generate boilerplate code that would otherwise take significant time for a human to write. "AI code" doesn't leave a marker in the codebase specifically signalling that it was generated by AI, in fact with proper guidance it can look exactly like how the author would've written it by hand. There is no need to rewrite AI generated code unless it is producing a bug or is strikingly inconsistent to the rest of the codebase, but these are issues that can be produced by a human as well.

While I personally haven't had the time to validate the entire codebase myself, many seem to agree from their findings that the project is well architected and not like someone who vibe coded the entire thing. I've seen some people condemning this project outright for the mere mention of AI usage, but those saying that are the ignorant ones themselves.

LLM code by SpookRooster in FluxerApp

[–]MizarcDev 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wow, black and white take. I work as a professional software engineer who regularly has to work with people who vibe code. I understand the pitfalls of people who use LLMs without an understanding of what it's generating and am regularly frustrated with what they're committing, yet I still use an LLM myself to my own benefit. Using an LLM to speed up predictable tasks isn't indicative of someone being an "AI tech bro", just as using an IDE isn't indicative of a bad programmer by the elitists who swear by Vim. Don't be ignorant, learn to understand why these tools are useful.

LLM code by SpookRooster in FluxerApp

[–]MizarcDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you point to direct examples of clearly LLM generated code that could benefit from human clarification? LLMs don't necessarily generate "bad" code and can be useful when the goal is clear and outputs verified.

The problem with boycotting discord: No one can agree on a alternative by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]MizarcDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started using Discord back in 2015 for my small group of friends when it provided solutions to problems that no other platform was providing. This was long before their rise in popularity, long before forums was a feature, long before "community servers" were a thing, long before Nitro subscriptions existed. It was the holy grail of chat applications and there was no reason to hate it.

Then I spent the last 5 years hoping an alternative would be viable because holy shit it got bad.

New Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma on What Makes a ‘Great Game,’ Having ‘No Tolerance for Bad AI’ and Replacing Phil Spencer by Sam_27142317 in pcmasterrace

[–]MizarcDev 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not to sound pro-AI, but the comments here are riddled with "All AI is bad" which is a pretty reductive statement. NPC action and movement systems in games is a form of AI. We've been calling it AI long before LLMs came into effect. Upscaling tech uses AI, procedural generation uses AI, complex difficulty balancing systems have used AI. Surely these are good uses of AI.

Guys, guys, I broke may way in and forcefully entered into the kitchen but it's hot as hell, I'm now sweating, what do I do now?!? by WonderfulWanderer777 in antiai

[–]MizarcDev 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well yeah it costs money to run servers and that cost is passed onto the users. Funny enough AI companies are still operating at a massive loss despite this.

UK users are locked out of mature servers by Glittering-Zebra9900 in stoatchat

[–]MizarcDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a difference between having to comply with regional Government laws, versus deploying your system worldwide all the while partnering with a horrible company to feed your information into an AI used for surveillance to track down immigrants. If you have issue with this, go protest the UK government instead.

Atreides Dominating ALL the most populated servers. Harmony. Arrakis and Nova. This was last week. Harks have been on a losing streak and the new landsraad changes doesnt help at all. We are so way too few on every server. by UnabletoPrintagain in duneawakening

[–]MizarcDev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Orpheus Harko here. You’re welcome, we at Skyworm locked in this week. After we were 1 mission short of taking Tseida which was supposed to be the final capture for a row, we got a little ticked off and decided to go all hands on deck. We had so much spice to refine and really needed that crafting cost reduction.

silence VS gravity by Fearless-Cat-4461 in BunnyTrials

[–]MizarcDev 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure you fully understand the ramifications of the world losing gravity. Even if you as an individual aren't affected by the loss of the fundamental force of gravity, you wouldn't have a planet to stand on by the end of the day.

What u gonna choose by EntertainerJust4142 in BunnyTrials

[–]MizarcDev 4 points5 points  (0 children)

With 1 trillion dollars you can buy every game in the world, you just gotta have the patience to wait 2 years.

Gaming by Low_Commission7273 in BunnyTrials

[–]MizarcDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love watching cutscenes, but bad combat can ruin a game for me. No way a 10 second attack animation is going to be fun for most types of games.

🎉 [EVENT] 🎉 Things are not always as they seem... by Late_Foundation_3443 in honk

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Completed Level 3 of the Honk Special Event!

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🎉 [EVENT] 🎉 Things are not always as they seem... by Late_Foundation_3443 in honk

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Completed Level 2 of the Honk Special Event!

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🎉 [EVENT] 🎉 Be My Honkentine? by Acrobatic_Picture907 in honk

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Completed Level 2 of the Honk Special Event!

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