Kilometer/revolutionary french decimal hours

I wish just by having my jellyfin server up media companies would actually get hurt, like fiscally hurt.

I do not live in a English speaking country. And my mother tongue is not english.

I still sometimes think in English. As I use it a lot.

It’s free will as long as you don’t know and/or control all of that chain of causality.

I’ve seen a lot of cheating. So I suppose it’s common. Not the norm, but common.

In the end it all just boils down to people not being really good on general.

What’s interesting is that I got blatantly being called a nazi by those particular mods. I reported to admins and nothing happened.

So obviously there’s a double filter here about “not tolerating accusations of nazism”.

I just left, blocked !europe@feddit.org and became very wary of feddit.org administration. So this doesn’t take me as much as a surprise as I have already seen issues with both that community and an admin team that’s clearly not objective when talking about that community admins.

I emit a series of sounds that would be considered a crime by every advanced civilization.

I cannot sing.

I love the fediverse.

But same as big platform issues and entshification ultimately comes from a small number of people owning the sites. Many fediverse issues comes from a architecture of a bigger but still small number of instance owners.

Fediverse is a BIG step forward. But it’s true, instances are fragile, and a lot of pressure is put on instance owners and final users still have a limited amount of control. Though they still have the choice of becoming an instance owner, which is a plus.

I have only be in the fediverse one year or so. But I have already seen several instances fall and a lot of “instance wars”. I don’t think this is long term sustainable if we keep growing.

I have been thinking about it lately, and remember one of the most resilient protocols I have found. eDonkey protocol, unmaintained but still alive because users want to use it.

I think the “ultimate” internet/social network protocol could/should be something similar. Which mean truly p2p. Probably some kind of p2p storage and control. People depending more on themselves instead of instance owners.

There was a project about this (plebbit) but I looked at how was it’s state after a post here and they have fallen intro cryptoscams :( so that’s not going to make it. But I hope someone pick the torch of that idea.

Crow life is best life.

I economically support other foss projects. Not just gimp really, as I have not probe whatsoever, but I have this feeling that there’s some development issues with it. It’s not normal that people have been asking for a dedicated shape tool for decades and they refuse to add it.

Godot is one of the ones I think is going to grow bigger than commercial alternatives (like Blender) for instance.

Lately every big GIMP update would be a minor version bump in other projects. Gimp 1 to Gimp 2 was some of a big upgrade. 2 to 3 not so much. Great software. But some of the things introduced in 3.0 are just fixes and patches to try to merge some of the decisions made 20 years ago with the current expectations on UX. And it’s still not there.

Yesterday I just did something very simple. Make a selection cut and copy selection to new layer. I don’t know why but things didn’t work as expected and the new layer had weird behavior, not allowing the use of the selection tool anymore and staying always on top. Not great UX for something that the user expects to be trivial.

I have never used any of those other softwares in more than a decade.

I still only use GIMP for image editing out of principle.

Still have to check every time for GIMP shortcuts because they are so counter intuitive. And there are so many counter intuitive things about it.

IMHO it have the same issue that Libreoffice. It was really made decades ago and never really updated. It’s like that meme about workflows. In their efforts not to break workflows they have gotten behind in UX compared to other software.

Also development seems to be stopping to a halt with each release compared to other more modern foss projects. I suppose it’s due an ancient codebase that’s probably really hard to work with.

I use it. It can do a lot. But UX and development speed in GIMP is not up to par with projects like Krita, Inkscape or Blender (to name a few).

Great software still. But I get why people complain about it.

This is like Nostradamus for me. I don’t want to update and deal with potential breaks.

This is just right. Massive amounts of corporations have a complete dependency on Microsoft Office. In a way that cannot be substituted by Libreoffice or similar.

Change need to happen. But there need to be a viable alternative before it.

I think is promoted by hispasat. But I don’t know if they use their satellites or they hire others.

You can download a collection of thousands (maybe a million I don’t even know) of books in Spanish in epub format, from the “secret library”. It’s like a 100Gb torrent, but way worth it.

Ebooks tens to have long lasting battery. I spent a few hours reading on monday.

Just now I’m on my phone, but if you are interested let me know and I’ll try to find the link and will mp it to you if you want.

And just now I’ve been thinking that epubs being so small size maybe there’s a way to transmit them over this radio mesh networks on demand, like some sort of radio library. I’ve have to look into that. Maybe they are too big for that as radio bandwidth for data transfer tends to be incredibly small.

Just in case you ever met someone who lives in a place with no cable internet (strange case in Spain as we have great coverage). Just let them know that in Spain they fund satellite internet that is not owned by elon musk. Is slower but way cheaper specially because the government funds a part of it afaik.

Duck tape it. Because every single product have decided that blinding blue leds is the way to go.

I miss my dim red leds.

That’s one of the reasons I stopped using YouTube. I don’t want to see people’s stupid face, it adds nothing and it detracts from the video.