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Image tooltip text made me laugh: >>It was bound to happen eventually. This data theft will enable almost limitless [xkcd.com/792]-style password reuse attacks

by deletes 13y ago

Image tooltip text made me laugh: >>It was bound to happen eventually. This data theft will enable almost limitless [xkcd.com/792]-style password reuse attacks in the coming weeks. There's only one group that comes out of this looking smart: Everyone who pirated Photoshop.<< [xkcd.com/792]: http://xkcd.com/792/ http://xkcd.com/792/

RyanZAG 13y ago
He missed a group of people: any designer who did not entrust their entire professional workflow to a single, for-profit company whose best interests are in moving your workflow in ways that benefit the company over the user. Being dependent on something like Photoshop for your only income is a terrible position to be in, yet it is how I'd describe most designers today.
- sz4kerto 13y ago
  That situation cannot be (or should not be) avoided if a product is significantly better that any other competitor on the market. You can choose between - depending on the for-profit company - having disadvantage on the marketplace because of inferior tools I think the former is often preferable.
  - bigiain 13y ago
    FWIW, I think people are doing their careers a great dis-service if they're selling themselves just as "Photoshop Technicians".
- hengheng 13y ago
  Not being able to use CMYK is a terrible perspective if you ever get a chance of printing something.
  - hnha 13y ago
    CMYK is not exclusive to Photoshop, is it?
    - arb99 13y ago
      I guess one of the main competitors to Photoshop is gimp... last time I checked it had bad support for CMYK (see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CMYK_support_in_The_GIMP https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CMYK_support_in_The_GIM... )
      - hnha 13y ago
        Gimp is just one free alternative, i guess you knew about its cmyk troubles and posted because of that. Why limit yourself to Gimp though? Check.out other alternatives. I posted some in another comment in this thread.
  - RyanZAG 13y ago
    Possibly a kickstarter to code CMYK into gimp would be a good idea? If the gimp team doesn't let you do it, it should be easy enough to fork it with a bit of financial backing from a kickstarter.
- j2kun 13y ago
  Of course he missed that it's not funny.
p4bl0 13y ago
He forgot users of The Gimp ;-).
- sz4kerto 13y ago
  I don't think they look smart at all ;) /s

by deletes 13y ago

RyanZAG 13y ago

He missed a group of people: any designer who did not entrust their entire professional workflow to a single, for-profit company whose best interests are in moving your workflow in ways that benefit the company over the user. Being dependent on something like Photoshop for your only income is a terrible position to be in, yet it is how I'd describe most designers today.

sz4kerto 13y ago
That situation cannot be (or should not be) avoided if a product is significantly better that any other competitor on the market. You can choose between - depending on the for-profit company - having disadvantage on the marketplace because of inferior tools I think the former is often preferable.
- bigiain 13y ago
  FWIW, I think people are doing their careers a great dis-service if they're selling themselves just as "Photoshop Technicians".
hengheng 13y ago
Not being able to use CMYK is a terrible perspective if you ever get a chance of printing something.
- hnha 13y ago
  CMYK is not exclusive to Photoshop, is it?
  - arb99 13y ago
    I guess one of the main competitors to Photoshop is gimp... last time I checked it had bad support for CMYK (see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CMYK_support_in_The_GIMP https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CMYK_support_in_The_GIM... )
    - hnha 13y ago
      Gimp is just one free alternative, i guess you knew about its cmyk troubles and posted because of that. Why limit yourself to Gimp though? Check.out other alternatives. I posted some in another comment in this thread.
- RyanZAG 13y ago
  Possibly a kickstarter to code CMYK into gimp would be a good idea? If the gimp team doesn't let you do it, it should be easy enough to fork it with a bit of financial backing from a kickstarter.
j2kun 13y ago
Of course he missed that it's not funny.

p4bl0 13y ago

He forgot users of The Gimp ;-).

sz4kerto 13y ago
I don't think they look smart at all ;) /s