xoggy

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[–] xoggy@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

Most people here (who didn't grow up in the US 50+ years ago) wouldn't give negative connotations to the software's name. I'm on the side that it is well divorced of an ableist meaning but that's where the disagreement lies and some people are making a big fuss over.

Should we stop using words like taser and amok as well for having historically racist associations despite being divorces of those meaning? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift_and_His_Electric_Rifle

Our language is littered with more "land mines" that we realize if we want to make land mines out of them.

[–] xoggy@programming.dev 66 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Do you have evidence of that? That's not what I saw: https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#i-dont-like-the-name-gimp-will-you-change-it

I don’t like the name GIMP. Will you change it?

With all due respect, no. We’ve been using the name GIMP for more than 20 years and it’s widely known. The name was originally (and remains) an acronym; although the word “gimp” can be used offensively in some cultures, that is not our intent. On top of that, we feel that in the long run, sterilization of language will do more harm than good. GIMP has been quite popular for a long time in search engine results compared to the use of the word “gimp”. So we think we are on the right track to make a positive change and make “gimp” something people actually feel good about. Especially if we add all the features we’ve been meaning to implement and fix the user interface. Finally, if you still have strong feelings about the name “GIMP”, you should feel free to promote the use of the long form GNU Image Manipulation Program or exercise your software freedom to fork and rebrand GIMP.

[–] xoggy@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

WARS to my fellow Colemak users.

[–] xoggy@programming.dev 9 points 2 weeks ago

For some reason I first read the title as "journalists take to archiving their own hands" and thought this was some morbid kind of protest.

[–] xoggy@programming.dev 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think it's saying you start with owo but then do the vertical equivalent of that emoji which would be :3 then 13 I guess is the eyes are closed? That's the best I got.

[–] xoggy@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Very cool! I like how changing either variable gives you a completely different pattern. Though not the same idea here's another fun one: https://codepen.io/josetxu/pen/mdoaKEr

[–] xoggy@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

If you want to make a shade without choking life to death how about a big parasol in space? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade

[–] xoggy@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago

1996 was the beginning of the chaos. We went from a document that the user's browser parsed and styled to a free-for-all of website designs glued together on construction paper. Accessibility took a step back. You now needed a graphical desktop to view the web. Page content was no longer machine readable and became less portable. Now in a world of dynamic page content generated by javascript you need a v8 browser in crawlers just to index page content.

 

Last autumn I stored several acorns in a 5-inch pot that was filled with potting soil and covered. I took the cover off 2 days ago to discover 7 saplings between 3 and 7 inches long. They are too big for the pot I was storing them in. Are they safe to transplant at this stage? What size pot should I transplant them in? How do I safely move them without damaging them?

[–] xoggy@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When they say writing code comments is important this is what they mean. This is how we programmers pass on important life lessons that save the next dev weeks of heart pain and hair loss.

[–] xoggy@programming.dev 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why stop at a tag-based file manager? Why not a tag-based filesystem?

[–] xoggy@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

Gotta love the heavy use of buzzword technologies and no actual information on what is actual is. Then you click the "How does it work?" button and it takes you to a Google powerpoint... so much for the sleek website design.

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