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What the hell is going on with those people (or bots?)?
Bluesky is a biker bar with an askew "safe space" sign awkwardly taped to the door.
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Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux
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Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux
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The author says it's about 700k LoC that he's worked on for 20 years.[1] I don't know how many tokens that arrives at, but that seems non-trivial. [1] https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/2/rick-brewster/
700k LoC of human written code is probably like 2M LoC of LLM "slop". That's probably around 8M tokens. Assuming a single fable agent that one shots the new source code at 30 tok/s, that's 74 hours. Of course it needs wayyy more tokens because it wouldn't one shot it, plus the reasoning tokens. Generation speed would be faster because you'd have many simultaneous agents though. Bun rewrite took 6 days of coding and w…
It's way more than 8M tokens. That might be around the amount of the raw output, but there's going to be tons of tool calls, back and forth... it's probably more like 100M+ tokens.
Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux
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Bluesky is pretty decent and has features that I like over X, but much of its user base are from the Great Xodus (pardon the pun): people who frame their switch to Bluesky as some kind of boycott of X, ie, a bunch of moralists. They didn't leave X because it's a hellscape of trashing and toxicity, no, they left because the politics changed. And so Bluesky is now saturated with people who are very opinionated, very lo…
Exile usually connotes being forced out from a place. The distinction is important because no one asked them to leave.
I originally had "self exiles" but thought the Xile pun was funnier :P
Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux
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#96I didn't realize Paint.net was closed-source now. What's the best alternative, Pinta?
It's been closed source for 16+ years. Some background: * https://blog.paint.net/2007/12/04/freeware-authors-beware-of... * https://blog.paint.net/2009/11/06/a-new-license-for-paintnet...
> The biggest problem was that, even though these were clearly unethical and deplorable actions, the MIT License permitted all of it.
Seriously? Why not go GPL then?
Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux
#97Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux
#98I see they finally got the domain name paint.net. They used to be at getpaint.net, and the paint company that owned paint.net had a link saying something like 'if you are looking for the graphics software, go to getpaint.net'.
As someone who went to paint.net as a child this is great news!
Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux
#99Apparently the author got a surprising amount of backlash on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rickbrew.bsky.social/post/3muiv4phe...
It looks like the original post was removed, but there are some screenshots going around (unfortunately X doesn't let you view full-size unless you're logged in): https://x.com/ChrisCroy/status/2094867317163540937
Does every single one of these posters have a cartoon avatar? What's going on here?
Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux
#100How much in tokens/Claude subs would it cost to make a paint.net open source clone? Seems like the kind of software that with enough tokens an agent would be able to create from scratch autonomously (because you have a clear goal and reference) I'd guess with 5 max subs running fable 5.1 almost non stop it should be doable in a couple of weeks.
I think it's roughly possible for any piece of software. I think the problem would be how long it would take to polish it afterwards. I think it would be an interesting experiment to run an AI only open source project though. Not sure cloning another paint program is really worth the effort however.