Spyke
lemmy.ca

We honestly should rename GIMP. It’s a bad name. I think a new and better acronym would substantially improve brand recognition. Something like:

Free Utility for Creative Kits, Brushes, Overlays, & Imaging

FUCKBOI

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Rentlarreply
lemmy.ca

Free FOSS Utility for Creative Kits Brushes, Overlays, & Imaging

You forgot that for whatever reason we have to have an acronym in our acronym.

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lemmy.eco.br

FUCKBOI Utility for Creative Kits, Brushes, Overlays, & Imaging

it's have to be recursive too.

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ssfckdtreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

There was a fork that did nothing but replace the name and graphics to GLIMPSE

The gimp oss community is really fucking rabid about NOT EVER changing the name

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Probably because they never thought to change it to FUCKBOI.

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Based, Tbh

We shouldn't fuck ourselves to the sensibilities of sterile bullshit corporate AmeriKKKa

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_____reply
lemm.ee

I genuinely believe Fedora would be far more popular if it had a different name

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Like name it after something you don’t grab when you meet someone gallantly

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xylolreply
leminal.space

TIL I always imagine the guy in the basement of the shop in the movie pulp fiction

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How do you come to that conclusion? He was a guy in a full on latex-BDSM suit on a leash, that they kept in a box in the basement.

We don't learn much about his character or mental ability in the movie. It is much more likely, that he was called a gimp in the BDSM sense, that is also mentioned in the Wiktionary entry that was linked here.

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pretty sure that use of the term originated with that exact movie scene.

There's also a point where the gimp tries to speak and it's pretty clear he has at least a speech impediment if not a mental disability.

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I just figured because he was abducted chained and abused in a basement I didn't realize, that makes it even more sad

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

created an image editor

named it GIMP

mascot is a furry face in a black leather mask with a brush in the mouth

is open source community okay?

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wewbullreply
feddit.uk

mascot is a furry face in a black leather mask

That's what you see?

I think a few Rorschach tests might be in your future.

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lemmy.ca

It’s supposed to be the Gnu logo in a gimp suit (mask)

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That face doesn't even look remotely like a furry that is closer to a boomerang or an actual wolf than a furry.

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Zagorathreply
aussie.zone

I love fuck! I can never be bothered creating upstream Git branches when I've branched locally, I just type git push and it complains there's no upstream, and then I type fuck and it does it for me.

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There is also a zsh-Plugin for the fuck. That way you can just double hit esc and zsh… uhm… fucks… automatically for you

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slampiskoreply
lemmy.world

You can also type git push origin HEAD and it also does that

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slampiskoreply
lemmy.world

It's less typing but technically it's one more request to the server which you have to wait for to fail before the correct request can be fucked, so it might be faster to do it the correct way from the get-go. Especially if you've done it before and you can just Ctrl+R and find it in the history, or you have a git alias (e.g. git phead)

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No, your local Git knows the branch isn't tracking any upstream branch, so it never makes a request to the server.

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Reading that, and you just know there's a Linux distro that has fucking as an alias for sudo

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lemmy.world

Also sorta funny since one of the best drawing apps for iPad is literally called procreate and agreed

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lemm.ee

Hey look at that, you were able to describe the joke.

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lemmy.ca

The Gimp is sleeping Well we're just gonna have to wake him up.

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It's not a motorcycle baby, it's a chopper. Did you get your blueberry pancakes?

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kattfiskreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

This is an outrage!

Coq was such an excellent name. Short, memorable, unique, related to its origins and logo, as well as funny.

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And you can have two versions at the same time! And if you do, you can eat one while sitting on the....actually guys...

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Hadriscusreply
lemm.ee

"to procreate" means to reproduce, or breed, in english.

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NeatNitreply
discuss.tchncs.de

There is literally a drawing app called procreate. Nothing about this joke is forced, it's just a direct observation.

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lemmy.world

Procreate means to reproduce.

The counterpoint references yhe fact that the GNU version is Gimp which is a term also used to refer to a submissive in an extreme fetish related domain.

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More traditionally it refers to someone with a limp.

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What the hell is wrong with GNU Imp? And a little devil mascot? Problem solved.

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lemm.ee

GIMP doesn't mean anything though (besides for GNU Image Manipulation Program)? Why are you bringing it up?

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sobantoreply
feddit.org

I actually only found instructions on GIMP.

And the I changed from normal search to pictures to make your joke work.

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