Joeboy

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by Joeboy 9y ago
Honestly this reads a bit like a PR-speak way of saying that Diaspora indeed doesn't really provide better privacy than Facebook. I'm on it, and I donate to (or pay for) a pod so I'm not anti-Diaspora by any means, but it jus
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Does Diaspora actually provide better privacy than Facebook? It removes the need to trust a centralized entity, but it seems to me that it largely replaces it with the need to trust a multitude of distributed entities. At least if we&#x27
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by Joeboy 9y ago
But irrespective of its conceptual quality, why should anybody care, outside of compsci? Why doesn't the doubly linked list get to be a household name or a hotly tipped investment buzzword?
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Fair enough, although I'll counter that GIMP didn't actually get single-window mode until 2011 (a full 10 years after that bug report), and it seems like the GIMP devs spent a lot of the intervening period trying to claim lack of
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> I can even point you to a post by a former lead dev who literally said that GIMP's usability sucks and then implemented single-window mode It's ancient and of academic interest only, but here[1]'s a bug report where peop
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by Joeboy 9y ago
In theory https://www.gimp.org/downloads/devel/ , but it currently says "Note: the currently available package provides GIMP 2.9.8 and has not yet updated to the lastet version, GIMP 2.10.0-RC1. We're wo
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I googled "Photoshop alternative" and GIMP was suggested in the first five hits (I stopped checking after that). There's this annoying FLOSS motte-and-bailey conversation that you see over and over again that starts with &quo
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I think this reputation for intransigence was probably merited by ~noughties GIMP team, but it doesn't seem to me to be deserved at present. I think the UX issues that remain are more due to lack of development resources than intransig
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Yeah, I think GIMP has this "open source best in class" status that it maybe deserved ~20 years ago but now it's kind of punching above its weight in terms of popularity. That said, I actually think the current devs are doing
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by Joeboy 9y ago
My problem isn't that the UI isn't "intuitive", it's that it's bad - eg. the annoying "layer boundary" thing and the tendency for shortcuts to do different things depending on where you focused last
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by Joeboy 9y ago
When was this? I remember getting a similar impression like a decade or so ago but I think now GIMP definitely has devs that are interested in usability. And usability has certainly improved in the last few years, although it still has some
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Is this the development-hell branch that has exciting stuff like 16 bit colour and GEGL everywhere? If so then a release candidate is quite exciting. Hopefully getting this out of the door will make the roadmap a bit simpler and ease future
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> Slippery Slope was coined to describe a logical fallacy. Is that true? I always assumed the fallacy was named for the already existing expression.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
On a similar note, the UK's longest ever trial[1] was a libel case about a leaflet that was discovered, 16 years later, to have been co-written by an undercover cop. One of the defendents unwittingly had a two year relationship with a
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Maybe an apt time to mention the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_massacre
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by Joeboy 9y ago
The former is not likely to be an issue for the site I'm talking about. Ad injection is shitty but I don't think it makes my blog "irresponsible".
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Are you paying for http on top of your internet connection costs?
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by Joeboy 9y ago
This is incorrect - I won't go into details as I'm busy fixing my server and need to go out in a couple of hours.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Nope.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
FWIW I just tried the automatic tooling. First observation is that my email (which was already using LE) still seems to be working, which is honestly surprising but I suppose I should be pleased. My website still seems to redirect a couple
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by Joeboy 9y ago
If you personally don't want to have an internet connection then I'm afraid it's going to be hard for you to run a webserver for free. I think this would be unusual though.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Yes, you can host your own server and use your home internet connection. This is the whole issue really - the web was designed as a decentralized, anarchistic, read/write thing, and it's subsequently become a thing where it's
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by Joeboy 9y ago
That's nice for you, but that's not how it is for other people.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
How am I compromising anybody's privacy or security by hosting information about my defunct bare metal Raspberry Pi project? What is the threat model?
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by Joeboy 9y ago
That's an artificially induced cost, though. You are correct that I'm going to have to letsencrypt my blog if I want to people to be able to read it (I might just take it down). But I don't think the people are correct who ar
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Isn't it reasonable for me to value the security of my customers at $0? Given that a) I don't have customers as such and b) My website is just a (very out of date) blog with some innocuous nerdy stuff on it.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Can't deny the price is right but the keyboard looks a bit too big and the display too small and limited. Interesting device but I think I'd rather schlep my (also not quite portable enough) netbook than that.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I really like the idea of having the Gemini or Pocket for occasionally writing on the move, but I don't think I can justify them at that price. Is there any cheaper option for somebody who's not too bothered about Linux or powerfu
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by Joeboy 9y ago
They are pursuing cases, but they are not rape cases. I believe they're human rights and other cases.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I think, tbf, that was more about dodging the question of child support than rape. I don't think any of the women targeted by undercover police officers are pursuing rape cases.

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