To be honest I am surprised by the 3000 year old pant as very early. Pants require a lot of sewing to make, and are totally optional- ask a scot, tarzan, a legionnaire, or a tunic-wearing ancient oligarch.

Are you asking how the popularity of lemmy and piefed combined changes over time, or how the 2 compare vs each other? I see that responses assume the first… and I don’t know the answer to the second.

To me it feels like about the same over time. There is some life in the bigger generic communities but most specialized communities I subscribed to remain dead.

What are the vegans gonna do? Bite him?

Well, part of the reason for that is you don’t need to buy ads to tell people gas is expensive, they already know that. There’s a sign up every gas station, you can’t not see it every day.

Yes, it’s reelected every 2 years in November. Looking good for dems, not called yet. You can check the state house and senate races here:

https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2026/texas-general-election-live-results-2026/

I agree those are strong contributions, I didn’t know about this because I don’t really follow rocket stuff but I’m interested in cars.

The GOP was dead when they stood behind Trump in his first impeachment. We just have to hope it completes dying before America does.

I agree with the semantics, but this is the term media uses to describe election wins, this isn’t specific to this paper or this story

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2026/texas-election-results/

James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa secured state-altering wins while the Democrats seized control of Congress

For the sake of it: would you mind listing the top 3 high level engineering decisions he made that are particularly original and turned out to be game changing in a positive way? Maybe I just haven’t heard of them.

I’m not in a computer science or software engineering field. I have been coding for a long time, started with turbo pascal, if that tells you something. AI (LLMs) is horrible for many things, especially writing things for humans, or generating “answers” for people’s questions about the real world.
AI agents are very good at writing code. If a human needs code for work, they are better off telling a well configured and prompted AI what they want done and how, than writing code themselves. There may be certain exceptions, mostly at the more sophisticated levels of performance-critical systems, but even then, AI will make the end product better by helping the human developer by writing and running tests, testing alternative approaches, etc. , because with AI assistance, the dev can simply get more of that done within the given timeframe.
That is all to say, I can’t imagine a job that involves writing code that doesn’t massively benefit from AI. It’s a tool that should be used. You should learn how to use it well, it’s part of your trade. Like you don’t hand punch cards to run machine code. You use an IDE, code completion, version control, linter, etc. You learn these tools as part of your education, because if you don’t use them well, you’re not good at your job. Of course if you code for hobby or whatever, this doesn’t apply.
The comments about after the crash… Agents for writing code will stay after the crash, like the internet stayed after the dotcom bust. Like rn I pay 20 bucks a month for claude, for work. That’s unsustainable, it will and it should cost more. If it costed $2000 a month, I would still keep the sub, without any doubt. Just for comparison, 3 years ago I got a quote from a data science consulting company to maintain a specific project for 30k a year- that didn’t include developing it. A single Claude pro sub is objectively better for us than what that contract offered.