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Some AI assistance helped bring the excellent paint.net to Linux - but guess what? The author got harassed by morons who have a very singular interpretation of AI, almost like implying driving any electric car means you're a fan of Elon Musk. Looking forward to auto blocklist notifications now.

Rick Brewster@rickbrew.bsky.social

Alright everyone, message received. I was not expecting this response, I honestly had no idea before I made the post Like I said, the code is experimental. A proof of concept showing that PDN-on-WINE is possible. It's not finished. I can literally just delete it. It won't be part of the next build.

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if it means anything the way you were treated led to hopefully are material changes for the better in this place so your self sacrifice to public abuse was at least not for nothing

It's crazy out there, utterly unhinged. I'm not sure all these people are well. I'm no fan of the hyper-capitalist era we're in, I don't want trillionaires and datacenters everywhere but if AI can help me understand a topic or help me bring something new and exciting into the world then I'm keen.

You'd think that people who care so much about a graphics editor could see shades of grey and not just black and white. I've never had much need for graphic editors, but Paint.NET was my favorite when I was on Windows. Thanks for your hard work all these years.