Oh… yeah, you’re right. No idea then.

Even your own posts will be hidden from your own profile, if you have “show read posts” unchecked, I think. Like I say it has some pretty weird behavior sometimes.

They definitely do check. I don’t know how detailed the checks are or how major a crime it is to use someone else’s info, but there are enough checks in place, you can’t just type in Porky Pig or made-up nonsense or anything.

• Do you maybe have “show read posts” unchecked? That’s a deceptive setting.
• Are you on a different instance than where the posts were originally created (meaning they might have been blocked or otherwise not federated to where you’re checking from)?

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I hope she crumpled it up, then reconsidered, uncrumpled, took the photo, and then presumably recrumpled it before throwing it away.

Edit: Regendered

Yeah, probably. The other side of “this is so badly needed why haven’t you done it for us” is “if this is so badly needed why haven’t any of the server admins or mods implemented it yet.”

I feel like this is an example of how the core dev team running on an instance that basically just has 3 of the admins do more or less all the moderation for the entire site is not ideal. This type of feature is probably one of the most-requested pain points for most people who run most servers, but my guess is that it’s basically completely invisible to the .ml team why it would even be needed, because their model works fine for them, so why would they.

Of course they’ve got a right to work or not work on whatever they want, but if their goal is success and good moderation for most servers this type of scalability and teamwork enabling thing is super important.

• Tiny pop-up tent, easier to carry if you can fit inside
• Headlamps
• Sleeping pad or something to separate you from the cold ass ground
• Don’t interact with the cute little bear cubs

Google bought Waze, so at this point you’re probably not making any Israeli spies money if you make use of it. On the other hand, you’re making Google money, which is almost as bad.

Somewhere out there is an article by someone who walked around a games conference and came away from the experience horrified that so much of the content he was seeing was from small indie studios who weren’t in a position to hire wastes of oxygen like himself, and was furiously nail-biting about what this would do to the state of the industry.

Related news is the authors of Dave the Diver having to explain that they are in no way an independent studio, and they do not deserve the award they just received for “best independent blah blah,” because “indie” has at this point simply become completely synonymous with “original and good.”

Nice try Steve Bannon

Exhibit A: the text tool.

Oh… yeah, you’re not wrong.

Then suffered with GIMP for a few years, hating every nanosecond of it, til PhotoGIMP came along.

You’re also not wrong that the GIMP developers stubbornly refusing to create something like this as the normal way of doing things is evidence of them not really caring about how well their software works out for most people who are going to use it.

If you needed some more evidence, holy shit the scripting interface is bad. However bad you think it is, multiply that by about 3 to 5 times, and that’s how bad it is. I’m not trying to talk trash on people who made something awesome which I use frequently which does the job I need it to do perfectly (and were fine with making it available for PhotoGIMP to take advantage of to make some different thing to serve other people’s need). But holy shit the scripting is bad. It’s so bad.

What did you try to do that you found confusing or difficult? I’m genuinely just curious.

Idk, I guess it is personal taste but I like GIMP substantially better. The whole “separate windows is the default” thing is a baffling and wrong decision, but once you get over that small hurdle, it just seems like everything is more straightforward. Every time I have to rotate an image or something in Photoshop it’s just weird and off putting.

Maybe it’s just what I’m used to. And, some fancy things like layer effects or AI image stuff are straightforward in Photoshop whereas in GIMP you have to go into the awful scripting if you can do it at all. But to me for most things GIMP is easier and better.

Instead of asking people to install a GNU / Linux-Libre operating system immediately, they now ask people to install Libre-Office, or something

This is a great idea, but I think I would really emphasize the “or something” part of this, not the “Libre-Office” part. It needs to be something that’s an upgrade or at least on par with what they were doing before experience wise (GIMP instead of Photoshop). I actively recommend against people I know taking on free software stuff that I use, if I know that it’s a pain in the ass to get going with just to avoid a bad experience that turns them off to the idea.

Yeah, almost to an excessive degree. To me it’s fine, it just means the designer has room to grow in terms of their skill at getting the right balance, but also it’s going to be a little bit of personal taste. This video includes some pretty interesting discussion of the balance between spelling things out, making sure that everyone can notice and enjoy them, versus making things opaque knowing that you’ll leave some people behind but making it that much more special for the people who found them “all by themselves” without any kind of prompting.

TIL.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unique definition 3 includes examples like “very unique” and “fairly unique.” So it’s incorrect only if you assume that American usage is wrong and British usage is right, I guess. According to the Cambridge Dictionary I think you are right about how it’s used in British English.

Yeah. It’s not a perfect game, it has many issues, but it is fun and exciting and it does something very very different, very successfully. I’m reminded of the Zero Punctuation review of Psychonauts basically saying that its number one good point was that it was something genuinely mad and original, in contrast to the sea of imitation that is modern gaming, and for that alone hooray.

Yeah. That one was on my list to play but I haven’t checked it out yet, I have heard similar things about it.