The AI itself needs to be resisted, and, hopefully (in its current form) destroyed. But the AI isn't what got our field to this point, where the oppressive clutter of Computer Stuff is so pervasive and so exhausting that we would be willing to do anything, even surrender our own ability to *think*, just to be rid of it, just to be able to address the actual problem at hand. There is a crisis of tool complexity that we just *need* to find a way to address.

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@puniko

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The farm, by the by, that Jimmy had to sell when he became president, because running a business while in office was considered a conflict of interest. Meanwhile, the asshole enshittifying the White House at the minute isn't even attempting to hide his shady dealings designed to enrich him and his crime family.

Motherfucker needs to be forced to turn over all of his ill-gotten gains, and then fined for corruption in office.

@stephan@sonomu.club Du kannst ja nicht verhindern, dass sich die "falschen" angesprochen fühlen. Aber ich fand es schon irgendwie blöd formuliert. Vielleicht bin ich heute aber auch nur dünnhäutig, wer weiß.
@nielso @stephan@schallundstille.de

JetBrains renewed their support for Godot Engine through 2027 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/jetbrains-renewed-their-support-for-godot-engine-through-2027/

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(awkwardly) I never even got around to being able to use V6, and yet...
(But at least it was inexpensive)

Darth Vader: I know what you are getting for Xmas.

Luke: How is that possible?

Darth Vader: I felt your presents.

Luke: That is such a lame dad joke!

Darth Vader: It’s funny that you should mention that…

here's a take that'll please no one: the belief that computers are difficult to use—especially foss and tools related to programming—is mostly constructed by politics and marketing, not by any inherent characteristics of the software. reasoning: (a) people master very complicated and user-hostile processes *all the time*. knitting, driving a car on the interstate, playing a musical instrument, being a baseball fan, using the subway—all just as complicated imo as (e.g.) learning the command line

Saw a post saying some shitty Christian lemmy instance was spamming bullshit on one of their latest posts, I said something along the lines of “probably Russians”. Come to find out my comment was removed and I was banned… then to find out they effectively have a CCP agent running town… lol.

I’ve seen people mention they were a garbage instance, now I know why! They said I broke rule 1 … this might just be the app I’m using but they don’t even have any fucking rules to look at lmao.

Glad they did the work for me and made it easy to avoid them.

For an example: Story time.

Once upon a time I worked at, let's say, a vertically-integrated business process automation vendor. Our customers were running hundred-year-old businesses, and we had to codify their business logic into software.

I, as a scrappy youth with _zero_ experience in the relevant problem domain, had to learn a bunch of stuff about how their businesses were supposed to work in order to encode those rules.

One of the recurring tropes that bums me out *so* much about the process of AI sludge devouring software _specifically_ — with practitioners of the craft enthusiastically participating more than the practitioners of any other — is that the *self*-developmental potential of writing software is completely ignored.

I couldn't really fit this in to my blog post "Programming Isn’t Special" https://blog.glyph.im/2026/10/programming-isnt-special.html although it touches on many of the same themes, so that's good background for this.

I'm an anti Gen AI whistleblower, and it would take you less than 60 seconds to help me...

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There used to be a fairly active linguistics community here, but the science-themed instance it was hosted on went dark over a month ago. Hopefully it comes back.

I can’t imagine there’s not a chess sub here, surely it’s big enough?

Music wise there are some communities, maybe !obscuremusic@piefed.social fits the bill for now?

There’s an entire Mastodon instance devoted to linguistics at Polyglot City, and a Toki Pona PeerTube instance at seka pona la! Lemmy is only partially interoperable with most of the other Fediverse platforms, since their focuses are just so different. However, there’s definitely a few ways to interact with them from here I think.

Also right here we’ve got communities for:

• !shavian@lemmy.world
• !languages@lemmy.world
• !linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
• !esperanto@sopuli.xyz

And actually lots more, this is just a sample.

Es muss alles seine Ordnung haben! @Pepijn https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/117592013682651244

This short is on why I don't use generative 'AI': it exists to replace writers, coders, and artists. Its long term success would come almost entirely at our expense

https://youtube.com/shorts/ZoesQZkO504