It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.

How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.

But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.

@pluralistic this is one of the things I like about the open social web, you can get multiaccount apps. Imagine one where you can search for a ride on Uber, Lyft and any local coop!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plebstr.client&hl=es

RE: https://flipboard.com/@citylab/all-stories-erfg9ejaz/-/a-kBjkRm9rTKG0hofputZsqA%3Aa%3A910330703-%2F0

Link to the full text and photos:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-paris-transformed-hidalgo/

"Visitors will discover that it’s a dramatically different place than a decade ago: lines of bikes and throngs of pedestrians where lanes were once jammed with cars, greenery encroaching on former pavement, summer swimming in the once-grimy Seine river — and a corresponding drop in air and water pollution."

#Paris #cycling #bikes #mobility #velorution #AnneHidalgo

software is a mirror that reflects the times and the environment it was created in.

this is why much software created in the 1970s counterculture was joyful and humanistic, and why much software created in the 2020s capitalistic hellscape is soul-crushing malware (adware, spyware).

#retrocomputing can mean celebrating hardware limitations and creative coding, but it can also mean celebrating personal computing - computers that are tools for liberation - bicycles for the mind, not cattle trains to the slop farm.

We signed https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/ ! We strongly believe open ecosystems are of paramount importance for user freedom, and that is currently in danger for Android.

As a free software project we can’t stand silent; we voice our support with other projects, and invite more to join us.

Why are so many people so okay with handing the future of computing over to a bunch of fascists?

That's what really bothers me, I think. Everything else is details.