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@carnage4life@mas.to when this is released it'll look like low-grade pornography mixed with AI slop special effects.

@thephd@pony.social everything I've read about C++ modules in the past five years has made me sad.

@kirb I remember the arrogance. They were positive that everyone was going to drop what they were doing and rush to rewrite all of their software following Microsoft's direction for the privilege of being locked in their walled garden before they'd even finished building the trap. In the end they couldn't even use the word "metro" and lost any way to even communicate what they wanted devs to do. Then kicked down their own sand castle with Windows 10 which nerfed the Surface user experience.

@peter@thepit.social there's a lot of supposed Democrats who are just Republicans knowledgeable enough to be too embarrassed to be on team Republican. They're outside the right-wing bubble, know Trump and W were bad presidents, etc. But the policies they truly care about are rich Republican policies. When opportunity arises for Democrats to stand up and make positive changes these people get in the way, concern-trolling and sabotaging other Democrats out of fear any changes might negatively impact them.

@drewscanlon@mastodon.gamedev.place me reacting to this being your face:

@dansup Congrats!

@kirb @760ceb3b9c0ba4872cadf3ce35a7a4 I'm old enough that I was introduced to .NET Winforms when it was new and got very familiar with it. Then Microsoft introduced WPF and said Winforms was deprecated (this was roughly around 2008 by my memory). Of course to this day you can still find many apps still being written in winforms apps, and EOL still hasn't come, but it threw cold water on a lot of devs. So I guess Microsoft has been creating schisms in its own ecosystem for most of this century.

@petergleick@fediscience.org In other news, Hegseth is threatening to invoke the defense production act on Anthropic if they don't remove restrictions on how the military uses its AI. "At the heart of the fight is how A.I. will be used in future battlefields. Anthropic told defense officials that it did not want its A.I. used for mass surveillance of Americans or deployed in autonomous weapons that had no humans in the loop, two people involved in the discussions said." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/technology/defense-department-anthropic-ai-safety.html

@microsoft@lea.pet that's almost as bad as that breakfast machine I bought

@carnage4life@mas.to cool bet. Hopefully we can also get some Democrats who will complete the unfinished work of the Biden administration and forcibly break up these big companies everyone hates.

@davidho@mastodon.world to steal a Seth Myers joke "let me be the first to say 'Welcome back glaciers!'"

@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt you've met with a terrible fate haven't you?

@peter@thepit.social there is an ad on YouTube I see every day right now run by some Republican cause that criticizes Bernie Sanders and AOC for the proposed AI Data Center Moratorium Act and warns it will force us to lose the AI war with China that Trump wants to win. Every time it comes on I let the whole thing play. I hope they don't stop running it.