GIMP is a very powerful and important piece of software that I wish they weren't so obstinate about giving the worst name ever. I know it's just an acronym, but it is in effect the name of the project. I've taken to calling it GNU IMP instead.

Given the current world we live in I do not want anything that I create or contribute to itself contributed to an exploitative corporation's bottom line (at best) without my consent or their assuredly begrudging reciprocation. This should not be controversial. The GPL accomplishes this. Nothing more lax or permissive does or will. You are not a cool or chill guy because you don't care what someone does with the code you write. You are handing all of those who would sack you the keys to the castle, ushering them inside. That is not abstaining, it's letting your opponents win. No thanks.

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I have offered to do a lot of education and technical effort surrounding this, e.g. helping groups migrate in some of the circles I'm involved with and all it's really gotten me is abuse and condescension, bafflingly. No one cares and if they do it's mostly superficial and they want the easiest way out—someone/something do everything for me, and I mean everything. I don't want to click more than two buttons and even that is pushing it, buster. Sometimes there aren't easy solutions, though, and I think this is one of those times. Big Tech is massive and in the world we live in now we cannot have all of the things it promises without immense tradeoff, and for the most part it just isn't worth it. The modern web being almost completely centralized around Discord is really harmful, like what happened with Facebook years ago. What used to be simple, publicly accessible websites for all these groups, locations and interests with email, forums and chat rooms for asynchronous as well as real-time communication is now entirely on Discord or Facebook. It's disastrous. Neither of those things are easily accessible or friendly to archival...why do I need to be in a Discord chat room or Facebook group for community events around my public library? It's absurd. I hate all of this so much, and basically no one around me agrees with me so we'll just circle the drain forever while the "pet cameras" start calling DHS on our neighbors.

I'm just going back to xmpp, maybe mumble for voice calls. They're both friendly and simple and xmpp supports modern features just fine. I can host it for myself and my friends who care; I don't have much hope for the masses anymore. I don't really like how bloated Matrix/Synapse is, and everything else is riding coattails we don't need to ride. I don't care about video games or streaming to people in a chat room or anything like that, and if I did I'm sure something like Jitsi handles that well enough. Oh no, a second program!! We are all so dependent on tech in our lives but it seems like so many want nothing to do with being informed about it on any level...I just don't get it.

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No one knew how to use computers at all until they learned. GUIs do not mean anything until you learn them, too.

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Last election was a choice between Palestinian genocide vs significantly more Palestinian genocide + Ukrainian genocide + it’s looking Venezuelan genocide is about to be kicking off + who the fuck knows, we’ve got three more years of this shitshow and that’s assuming we even have another election.

You are doing the thing right now. The other choice is "none of those things," actually, and you don't get that by voting harder because as you've just demonstrated you were not given the choice. Is any genocide acceptable to you? The line is never "less genocide," it is "no genocide."

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I'm also not at FOSDEM! I am watching/reading some FluConf stuff tho! Someone I know is doing a presentation on CO2 maps tomorrow.

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