Also, guessing their standard is pretty low if Gimp does the job — at least from a professional standard. There’s not much of a comparison.

Seconded.

Well that’s nice. Hopefully they have some teeth, so we don’t have to go through another one of Zuck’s crocodile-tears-fuelled hearings, followed by absolutely fuck-all change 🙄

In curious — what’s your user level in Photoshop? Tried GIMP a few times, and loathed it, as a professional (and very proficient) Photoshop user.

I also loathe Adobe*, but i’m stuck with them (and macOS) until someone comes up with a viable alternative 😓

Managed to get somewhat comfortable with Linux (Fedora+KDE Plasma) on an old Chromebook recently, so think I might be ready to leave macOS behind, if only there was a viable Photoshop option.

* Both for bloated code, inconsistent shortcuts and features across apps, and their shitty subscription scheme.

Slightly unrelated — was watching a Danish military analyst’s commentary on the farcical white house shit-show the other day, and he had this really great line (I’ll paraphrase): “The interesting thing with [Chump] isn’t what he’s going to do next, it’s what he’ll do when it fails” 😂

Video link for those interested (quite good, and in English).

Someone mentioned that to me, but said the story had been attempted scrubbed from the web — anyone have a link?

Edit — Never mind, nothing was scrubbed, that was the shortest Google search I ever did 😅

It’s only a matter of time before 6 Flags is just 1000 AIs on rollercoasters.

… wasn’t OpenAI not also …

Uhm. No? Or yes? Maybe? 🤔😅

“… reports Chinese state propaganda branch, through western media …” 🙄

We have a Samsung “smart” TV, hooked up to an AppleTV box. The TV’s original remote is in a drawer somewhere, forever unused.

I have the apps that I need, the tiny Siri Remote turns on the TV and handles volume, and, apart from the aggressively, insanely, mind-blowingly horrible on-screen “keyboard” / text input (we don’t have Apple phones we can use to mitigate this, sadly. Also, what the fucking fuck, Apple?!) we’re happy. For now. I trust Apple to make the experience incrementally worse as a fact of life.

Not perfect, but leagues better than dealing with Samsung’s interface.

either

Is there any indication that they won’t implement this shit at some point?

Also, should we be trying to come up with the most insane “features” in this vein that we can imagine (knowing full well that some corporation will come up with them eventually), and then patent them to protect humanity from them?

Is there any organization that collects patents just to block them (in the consumer’s favor)? A kind of white-hat patent troll? And, if not, should we create one?

I spy a research rabbit hole in my near future … 🐰

Edit: ESPHome is a system to control your microcontrollers by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.

Exactly! Seems like a very “Yo Dawg!”-moment to me.

The less Microsoft I need, the better, and recently switched from VS Code to VS Codium, which, I believe, puts me at 100% free of Microsoft 😍

(Barring some M$ code in other software I use that I don’t know about)

That requires that you trust the app vendor not to have some sort of back door, no?

I think that would release an awful lot of carbon 😓

Full interface overhaul? Maybe . . . ? 🙏

I mean, fuck Apple, but …

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

— Hanlon’s Razor (Wikipedia)

Still, though — fuck Apple.

Background on the Vice stuff for those interested 👍

Never heard of Meshtastic before, quite the rabbit hole, and sounds super awesome!

Had a look at your other thread (not a member there so seems I can’t comment, or maybe it’s just my client), and trying to understand what you guys are using these for.

Official site says “Hiking safety GPS”, something to that effect, but all this talk of “local topics” has me confused. What’s your use-case?

1. Most of the world uses Google.
2. Everyone must accept Google EULA to use.
3. Google adds arbitration rule to EULA.
4. Google adds “EULA covers all Google subsidiaries and partners” to EULA.
5. Google sells “partnerships” to every company that can afford it.
6. Profit.

Partner killed by a faulty Ford truck? Never signed a Ford EULA? No worries, Ford is a Google Partner™! See you in arbitration, bitch! 😂