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I would suggest using methods other than platforms to find events, as there are lots of people that don’t use them. In fact, where I live, I’ve never seen people using that kind of platforms. I guess this can be different for you, but I think you should at least consider other methods of spreading the word, to guarantee that some people don’t miss the event just because they never heard of it. Here are some.

1. Printing posters and placing them in visible places. It might sound a little old-fashioned, but it gets the job done, especially for local stuff. When doing posters, you have two things to worry about. The first one is what you will write in the posters. You of course have to clearly state what you want to do (“Let’s start a Linux User Group in our town!”), but you also have got to explain what you were thinking the group could/should do (for example “Let’s organize monthly instalation parties”, or “Meetings every two weeks”, or whatever you thought about doing). That doesn’t mean that the LUG must do exactly everything you write in the poster. It’s just to give an idea of whether the LUG’s activities will be of any interest to who’s thinking of applying to it. Put some contact information on the poster. It would be interesting if you decided to organize a gathering with people that would like to be founding members of the LUG, just to figure things out. If you decide to do that, don’t forget to put the meeting’s date and place in the poster. The poster should be eye-catching and have all information clearly visible, while highlighting the most important information. If graphic design isn’t your passion, ask someone you know for help. The second thing you should worry about when doing posters is where to place them. As far as I know, only nerdy people would join an LUG. As such, you should put most posters in places where lots of nerds gather together, such as places where people gather to play board games and tabletop RPGs, electronics stores, … Even then, you could try putting them in places that are more general and have more visibility. For example, I’ve seen some supermarkets with boards for event announcements. Just don’t forget to ask for permission to put the posters whenever you want to do it in a place that isn’t the street. As long you explain what you’re promoting and say it’s non-profit, most places will allow it.
2. Advertising on forums/social media groups related to either Linux or to the place you live in. Much of the advice I gave about posters applies. In places where you know you won’t really be checking constantly for new messages, you might want to redirect people to your contact info (say something like “If you want to contact me, instead of sending me a message through this platform, please use my contact info”). Also make sure to follow the rules of the places, and contact the admins if you have questions. I don’t have much experience with this approach, so I can’t give much advice.
3. Asking Linux users you know to promote it. Word of mouth is always useful ;)

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Wall Street Journal:
Reporting about things to which not enough public attention is being driven to: ❌
Releasing an ad video on how multiple WSJ journalists have been using their work time (read: “their time for doing journalism”) to essentially do quality assurance testing to one of Anthropic’s products in development: ✅

Hey OP, please remove the photogimp[.]com from your post body, as it’s not an official webpage of the project and could lead to something like clueless people installing viruses off of it. Thanks in advance.

(Also, for those who are Brazillian, or just speak Portuguese for one reason or another, I highly recommend the YouTube channel belonging to the people behind this patch –Diolinux (YT) (website))

This isn’t very clever. Kids (or at least teens) will find a way around this. If you want proof, look no further than the UK, where everyone and their mother started using VPNs after the new “child safety” regulations started taking effect. It’s also very unlikely that the rules will be well-written. I don’t know anything about the Malaysian government, but I doubt that they are very tech-literate.

A person that keeps trying to control everyone around them… Sounds like a typical soap opera villain to me…

Pretty cool interview and retrospective of the birth of the world wide web.

I’d say that this article’s arguments on not letting a child alone with an AI chatbot are pretty compelling. I think parents should read the article, specifically parents that don’t know much about AI.

Official response of the Discourse moderators: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/on-discourse-rules-about-politics/66986

The mods say that the mistake was in the misinterpretation of “queer” as a slur (because it used to be a slur), but they also mention that they privately discussed with the new user to convince them to remove a trans flag from the profile… and the mods didn’t really explain in the response why this happened…?

As always, read the response to make your own judgement.

That only solves one problem, unfortunately. Other than that, the FIRE app seems to have the same problems as the ICEBlock app.

Hey OP, do you mind checking if your book explains the type coercions that are used with the + operator? I remember it also being mind-boggling, so I was hoping you book could demystify it too.

I understand your point, but there is a ton of cases where a person does not realize they did something wrong until they are called out, because they really think that what they did isn’t wrong.

It’s interesting to see Apple fighting the EU’s regulatory bodies while complying with everything that the Chinese government asks.

There’s a simple reason for this. If Apple doesn’t follow every single one of the Chinese government’s orders, they may be entirely banned from the country. In the EU, specially being it a union that prioritises democracy, they can complain all they want.

It seems that they have, or at least had in 2023, internal teams that handled the translations. https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/interviews/2023/9/30/international-translation-day-2023

Do you know which GTK version you had installed before updating?

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What about Malbolge?

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I was already aware of this fork. I haven’t tried it, but does it really fix most of the UX issues of GIMP?

From the update:

One area we want to focus on after 3.0 is improving our UI/UX design process. We have set up a separate UX repository to report and discuss issues related to design. We are looking to build a team of designers to discuss and create design improvements to GIMP that also respect existing user’s workflows. Denis Rangelov has taken a strong interest in this area and has already done great work in identifying, categorizing, and moving design issues from the code repository to the dedicated design section. Some design improvements have already been implemented for 3.0, and we look forward to working with community designers to give people a better experience!

It’ll take some time, but it seems like improvments may be coming.