southernwolf

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[–] southernwolf@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't suggest Affinity, given the art and image software of the same name. I really like Parsec though. It's a huge section of space, so it still retains the theme, but it's also unique too.

[–] southernwolf@pawb.social 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I didn't know Red Hat had an account on the Fediverse?

And FYI, Infinity for Reddit was always open source. Still is actually, even though the creator is struggling to keep it alive. Infinity for Lemmy is carrying on a rather proud FOSS tradition.

[–] southernwolf@pawb.social -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The ActivityPub standard is modeled on email. Each instance is a server, and we all have inboxes. It's a very apt comparison to use.

Also, unless the email is E2EE, then it's not private, no more meaningfully so anyways.

[–] southernwolf@pawb.social -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Read my other reply, I'm not talking about email blocklists, my reference is to email providers doing that, which is extremely rare and done with explicit intent and good reason.

Secondly, while I won't disagree there's some vile content out there on the Fediverse, do you trust someone else to make that decision for you? Why would you let someone else decide what is and isn't vile for you and those using your instance? Better yet, how would you feel if some popular instance decides you were the vile one, and because it was a common instance to use for blocking references, your instance is now cut off from a good chunk of the Fediverse?

This is exactly the sort of nonsense that swept Twitter with shared Blocklists, and the potential for negative impact on the Fediverse is even worse from it. Don't let others decide make decisions for you just because it's easy, as it doesn't absolve you of responsibility when something goes wrong.

[–] southernwolf@pawb.social -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wrong comparison. It's not like a server admin using an email block lists (which are also often implemented badly, as anyone with a protonmail account knows...). It's more like if Protonmail suddenly blocked Tutanota, or if Gmail blocked MS Exchange. The uproar and rage from that would be unceasing.

The Fediverse operates on a model like that of email, and in the email world blocking whole email servers from each other is very rare, and usually done with the most explicit of intent and for a very good reason. That's how the Fediverse should operate as well.

[–] southernwolf@pawb.social 24 points 2 years ago (11 children)

This sounds a bit like how to bring the shared blocklists from Twitter to Lemmy. Those were a disaster on Twitter, and I don't expect it'll end any better here either...

Please don't use tools like this. Manually curate instances you feel the need to defederate with. The Fediverse was built on a model not unlike that of email. You wouldn't just randomly block whole email providers willy-nilly, so you shouldn't do so here on the Fediverse either.

[–] southernwolf@pawb.social 60 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Meanwhile...

full-stack developer joker

[–] southernwolf@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just updated with Obtainium, and so far it's working good for me on CalyxOS!

[–] southernwolf@pawb.social 5 points 2 years ago

Actually a useful bot!

[–] southernwolf@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago

Fantastic resource! I've contributed to it myself as well.

[–] southernwolf@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago

I have to agree, Photopea really is the best alternative to PS for Linux users. It's honestly good! I wish Affinity would consider launching a Linux Verizon, as I actually like that a lot more than PS, but that seems equally as unlikely...

So for now, Photopea seems the best option overall. One plus, being written in WASM (probably using Rust?) it's really speedy and fast. It feels faster than Gimp anyways, which is definitely not a good statement on the state that Gimp is in...

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