@june@social.nouveau.community
Post #589395
2026-03-07 17:16 UTC
Replies (28)
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@scolobb@bidule.menf.in 2026-03-08 22:29
@june "This is what LLMs are best at: quickly fabricating plausible simulacra of real objects to mislead the unwary." Great summary!
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@ewen@social.ewenbell.com 2026-03-09 21:42
@june That is the saddest thing I've read for weeks that didn't involve the orange clown.
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@neauoire@merveilles.town 2026-03-07 17:27
@june damn, that super sucks :moloch:
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@andnull@social.nouveau.community 2026-03-07 17:30
@june Man this sucks. Only things LLMs have revolutionized is how fast a bad actor can flip someone else's idea :stacky_annoyed:
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@untrusem@merveilles.town 2026-03-07 18:51
@june Its must be heart wrenching seeing your creation getting destroyed by these people who don't have even a ounce of care for what the consequences of their actions are. And WigglyPaint, is such a beautiful program, those sound effects when you select something, the *boom* when you obliterate something. I felt joy when I used that.
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@khleedril@cyberplace.social 2026-03-08 19:54
@june It totally is still yours. As long as you have the itch.io page and the original sources, that cannot be taken away from you. Others might use obscure wording to get around shit, but you are the only one who can outright say 'I did this.' BTW I never heard of it before, and now I do, I LOVE IT!
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@thegarbagebird@theblower.au 2026-03-08 22:40
@june “capitalism rewards innovation,” they say. this is the innovation captialism rewards.
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@morerunes@is.nota.live 2026-03-09 00:35
@june parasites, despicable
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@falcennial@mastodon.social 2026-03-09 02:41
@june one part of that last statement is false. the property is the property of the owner. theft is not ownership, that is just not how that works. why not just find them, farm them, and harm them? it would be satisfying, I guarantee it, to locate the identity thieves, put them through the legal apparatus and, after that process is done, to work them over in person to completion. the other route, letting evil win, is a choice. but that is a stupid choice.
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@rainbowpink@snug.moe 2026-03-09 06:37
@june truly upsetting
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@benjohn@todon.nl 2026-03-09 07:01
@june I’m really sorry about that. Thank you for making something lovely. And also thanks for the mention of decker, it sounds also very interesting.
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@adingbatponder@fosstodon.org 2026-03-09 07:21
@june Users need to be more discerning. Surely the real #wigglypaint can be recognised somehow?
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@miff@fedi.miffthefox.info 2026-03-09 07:21
@june@social.nouveau.community This is why paint.net went closed source.
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@i2h3@toot.community 2026-03-09 08:09
@june A new kind of piracy. 😞
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@outie@slime.global 2026-03-09 10:25
@june I've seen similar things happen in other spaces. Some dipshit is running around creating .com domains for Quake source ports with slop websites and "blogs" full of ad posts
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@VANTABlack2000@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-03-09 11:48
@june That's sad to hear. I remember a friend of mine a while back having fun with WigglyPaint.
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@upofadown@mstdn.ca 2026-03-09 12:16
@june This makes me wonder if this sort of bad behaviour is covered by an author's moral rights: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights
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@SholemAlejchem@hessen.social 2026-03-09 14:24
@june @davidgerard
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@fedithom@social.saarland 2026-03-09 14:26
@june God damn. That goes on my list. https://social.saarland/@fedithom/112455121136790239 I am SO sorry this is happening to you (though not terribly surprised)
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@zooopnir@dice.camp 2026-03-09 15:44
@june TIL about Decker, a living love letter to Hypercard https://internet-janitor.itch.io/decker
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@RuchiraSDatta@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-09 16:24
@june People can read more about the actual author John Earnest: https://beyondloom.com/about/index.html He would be pleased if fans of WigglyPaint also check out his other stuff.
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@Wifiwits@infosec.exchange 2026-03-09 18:02
@june my first reaction was the nedroid.com cartoon… but really this is just theft, folk stealing donations to someone else’s project.
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@richiekhoo@hachyderm.io 2026-03-10 02:55
Wiggly Paint is amazing ✨ Read this gut renching post by @june #WigglyPaint
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@syllopsium@peoplemaking.games 2026-03-10 11:17
@june I understand they're upset, but most sympathy evaporates once the itch.io page is checked. "Code license MIT License" The other people are doing what the license permits them to do. Don't like that? don't use that license The FreeBSD people did not wail and gnash their teeth when Sony took the source and used it to create their OS, they were glad their code was used. There is the implied expectation that ideally you contribute back as well, but it's not essential, that's why there's no limits.
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@suetanvil@freeradical.zone 2026-03-10 14:18
@june I had not heard of wigglypaint but I've heard of John Earnest before and he's done some incredibly cool things. Notable are: - Decker (https://beyondloom.com/decker/index.html), a quasi-recreation of 80s Hypercard; wigglypaint was (AFAIK) written in it. - ok, (https://johnearnest.github.io/ok/index.html) an interpreter for the `k` language in Javascript. (`k` is a proprietary language that's kind of a melding of Lisp and APL; I keep meaning to learn it to see if it's as terrible as it sounds.)
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@Sonic2k@oldbytes.space 2026-03-13 13:23
@june “ LLMs are sharp tools in the hands of plagiarists, con-men, spammers, and everyone who believes that creative expression is worthless. People who extract from the world instead of contributing to it.” The saddest part is that this also applies to big businesses like the one I embarrassingly work for
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@bug@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-03-14 13:58
@june I seek freedom from torture, harassment, and enslavement by my lying, theiving, violent pedophile rapist family.
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@bms48@mastodon.social 2026-03-14 23:39
@june I strongly suspect GoDaddy have been trying to steal my upcoming brand by front-running a .com domain registration and populating it with AI slop, before I've even started building it. I do not have hard evidence, just strong circumstantial evidence.