Security wise Fairphone isn’t up to GOS standards, so a collaboration wasn’t on the table either way.

I don’t know the situation, but if it’s as this part of your comment implies, then that’s clear bridge-burning on Graphene’s part.

If the current phones don’t have a chip or whatever, that doesn’t mean they can’t reach out to Fairphone and say “Hey, we’d like to promote our OS and join up! However, we requure such-and-such hardware. Are you interested?”

Saying “It doesn’t have the chip, a deal with them will never work” without reaching out isn’t productive.

I assume that Fairphone has quite the problems competing with more established markets and the OS is an afterthought, so they went with /e/. But hey, I might be wrong, and it’s all a conspiracy to maie an illusion of choice with Fairphone+/e/.

But if the mission of Fairphone is fair production and repairability, the fact that security and privacy are afterthoughts seems like a reasonable (but foolish) standpoint. They should care.

However, since the mission of Graphene is security and privacy, that seems like they should be the ones to reach out and try to provide their world-class software to as many people as possible. This probably includes supporting more than one make of phone.

Soo… our-anus?

Well, people still do. Yet it hasn’t been rebranded. And GIMP should follow.

For now. It seems like obvious water-testing.

And even if it isn’t, giving “users” (read: corporate middle managers never actually using the app) the “option” of the “name” “not being” “naughty”.

These all “these” are “concepts” GIMP can do without.

The name is what it is. You didn’t make the app, you don’t set the name. Simple as.

And to the makers/maintainers:

Is throwing old and loyal users under the bus worth it?

The conspiracy theorist in me can see this being the start of the end of GIMP. It wouldn’t be the first or the last FOSS project to “fall from grace”.

I’m not saying it will - I don’t want to do a detailed study of GIMP lore and current politics, but the simple act of potentially enabling a rename in the future is a GIANT FUCKING RED FLAG in my book.

Even with good intentions, it “enables” a “later” “usurpation”.

It’s like deliberately cutting yourself in the middle of pirrhana-infested pool.

The wound’s not deep. It isn’t dangerous. Nor do the pirrhanas notice right away.

But when they do… You’ll be lucky to just lose the leg you cut.

To be honest, this seems like a stupid fix to a non-issue.

There’s already Latex, and the purists calling it Lateh only make it seem like they know and are ashamed.

Or Uranus being pronounced not as your-anus but urine-us. The “alternate/kid-friendly” option is just plain worse. It also teaches kids certain words are bad, which is a bad idea for a multitude of resons I won’t get into.

I say keep GIMP GIMP, loud and clear. No need to be ashamed, because it isn’t shameful.

Attempting to avoid this absolute non-issue by ingenious pronounciation or rebranding just exacerbates the issue.

It’s called “GIMP” and not “Fuck Me then Go Out The Door”. Wether or not GIMP was a moment of “funny humor” or not is beside the point. The “official” explanation is perfectly belieavable, and therefore suitable enough. Just run with it.

If an idiot asks “Why’s it called like [insert-here]”, just say it’s a fucking coincidence and you don’t care. Call them dirty-minded for bonus points.

Otaku is the Japanese direct equivalent of “nerd” in English.

In English otaku is used to describe a nerd nerding over Asian stuff (anime, manga, games, whatever). Some gatekeep it for Japan-only stuff, while others use it for K-pop and K-drama as well.

In Japanese it’s the opposite - they use “nerd” to decribe people nerding over American stuff.

Edit: both loaned versions are a bit more derogatory than their “native” version.

This is where a man page comes in but alas, but some (perhaps even most) of them are fucking horrible. The core incantation is either too dumbed-down or (more often) too long-winded.

Some good ones I can praise are netcat, ghostscript and 7z. Special praise goes to the Library Funtions Manual entries like signal and exit.

Bad ones ones in my book are vim (too short), ffmpeg (a simple reordering of sections would make it quite a bit better, like moving the less common flags lower down the page) and git starts of strong but ends up being way too detailed and unstructured.

I could go listing examples for days, so I might as well stop now.

What will likely happen is that if you try to log into your Facebook account you will get a message that says “Your Operating System is not currently supported. Your user experience will be limited to Groups labeled “Everyone”.”

That’s basically it. Your personal user experience will be limited to “kid friendly” areas of the Internet. (Same with apps and games.)

Well, that makes no sense because that means that using an unvetted machine is more beneficial for groomers and predators than a vetted one. Meaning they’ll be incentivized to use that, instead of some perfect system where they’d be easily trackable and held accountable.

Well, it is good at something. Spending money on advertising.

Since when is UX the cause of a need for third-party plugins?

LaTeX is an incredibly mature piece of software, since it exists for some 50 years and is (and was) incredibly popular. Of course newer players won’t have as much ready-made plugins, let alone first-party packages for most stuff.

Latex surely had the exact same issue when it wasn’t as mature as it is today, but in time people wrote plugins and in more time they were included as defaults.

Comparing them quality-wise on equal footing and proclaiming Latex better than the younger, less popular alternative with less developed community code is disingenuous at best.

And UI/UX has absolutely nothing to do with styling: both are features, and one product happens to have one while the other happens to have the other. They’re not mutually exclusive in theory.

However, I will give in that usually resource limits mean only one gets included. But that’s corellation and not causation: good UX does not cause bad feature parity. The core cause is both requiring resources and one is usually made the top priority.

FSFE should report them to the GDPR authority, but also financial ones.

The article says Nexi reached out after ‘cancelling’ the contract - meaning FSFE was financially offline for those few days. If it were a ‘normal’ business this was done to, they would sue for damages to hell and back.

And so should FSFE.

My recommendations are Firefox, Okular, Inkscape and Draw, depending on usecase.

Firefox is perfect for text-based markup (so higlighting, defacing with text, etc.)

Okular is a bit worse on the text front (doesn’t support editing the markup - for most stuff your only option is to undo so you have to be strategic abput catching mistakes early), but it does more stuff (boxes, arrows, lines, transparency, custom colors).

Draw is better if you actually want to make changes to many pages at once and don’t care if it messes up formatting a bit.

Inkscape is ideal if you want to rearrange stuff on a few pages and change things like colors or stamp on some text. It doesn’t have a nice way for highlighting text, but highlighting stuff like drawings, etc. is easier (just draw a recrangle with 30% opacity). Unlike Okular, changes aren’t baked in and unlike Draw, it’s easier to play around with colors and opacity.

2nd this. It is by no means a “PDF Editor”, but it works surprisingly better than most.

Inkscape also could be a good option in OP’s case because it gives options about janking up text. It can either try to find the fonts from those on your system, or it can change every glyph into a path.

That being said, I’ve treid both Inkscape and LO Draw, and I’ve had more luck with Inkscape in regards to keeping fonts similar. In 90% of cases (and I do have to fix up PDFs every now and then) the “Keep text” option doesn’t jank up text.

That’s still on the human that opened the PR without doing the slightest effort of testing the AI changes though.

That makes sense when talking about people’s accounts.

A “Claude” account serves PR (as in public relations) purposes, and having to do a stringent human review before submitting a pull request is bad for PR.

Which by no means is me saying submissions from the Claude account need to be banned, but that the “Claude” account’s goals are probably to have Claude do all of this “himself” - which is a recipe for disaster.

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This is why we can’t have nice things.

The community Vocal members thereof, instead of seeing genuine effort as something praiseworthy always find the worst stupid angle to belittle well-meaning people from.

Honestly, this idea has me pretty mortified as well. Just seeing ”rm -rf /” as part of a string sends chills down my spine.

Granted, any reasons or explanations to cause a string being cut short to this godforsaken form and accidentally run is extremely unlikely, but a valid theoretical possibility: I can easily imagine someone mistyping the first letter after root and, wishing to delete it, pressing Backspace while simultaneously accidentally grazing the Enter key.

Sure, the chances of it happening are about the same as a gun user accidentally dropping their gun, clumsily catching it in the air and accidentally shooting someone right in between the eyes as a result.

I know I write essays which is a weak point of mine. One I should address, but I see the gist of my message didn’t get to you.

For one I use (and like) Inkscape and have strong negative feelings towards Adobe (and run Linux). Just like most of the folks here. That, however, should be pretty clear-cut from my original message.

They have a point.

I’m kind of the other way around:

I’m used to Inkscape since forever. I’m no graphics design expert, but do know my way around Inkscape for simple SVG editing, mostly stuff shamelessly taken off Wikimedia.

Way back in college, I enrolled in an elective “graphic design” course. Of course, being a course, they used Illustrator.

That thing works nothing like Inkscape. It was a long time ago, but I remember being baffled by it, to the point of being unable of doing basic stuff.

To be fair, I had no need for learning Illustrator and no wish to do it either, so I quit the course while I still could and exchanged it. I just felt like i’d be losing my nerves on switching, when I had better stuff to do than becoming dependant on Adobe and losing my minf in the process.

Both programs may indeed sport menus in the same spots, but the menus aren’t the same. They may look like the same thing, but they’re really not.

It’s kind of like a bus and a train. Illustrator (the bus) sports all the nice stuff (i assume) from other Adobe stuff. Just like a bus uses the same road like cars do, with the same signalization.

Inkscape is more like the train. It does things differently from say Krita or Gimp, but it also does other stuff than either Krita or Gimp. Which (dare I say) makes it more effective at what it’s meant to do.

But a “backdoor” which is swung wide open if you don’t secure it isn’t really a backdoor. It’s more akin to an open window.