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mathew

GIMP maintainers respond to criticism of project name, change it to GNU Open Art Tools Supporting Editing.

mx alex tax1a - 2020 (4)

@mathew we know a minority of people who call it the Free And Gratis Graphic Operation Toolkit

jrm4

@mathew

i know, the jokes

but like, i will DIE on the hill that GNU Image or Glimpse or whatever would have eaten a MASSIVELY HUGE CHUNK of Adobe Photoshop's lunch many years ago if the powers around it grew the hell up and changed the name

#opensource #freesoftware

mathew

The ISO 7 layer model as actually encountered:

1. Radio transmitters with buggy firmware.
2. Things pretending to be ethernet.
3. Networks broken by NAT.
4. HTTP.
5. Other protocols layered over HTTP.
6. Reliable connections implemented using other protocols layered over HTTP.
7. (Soon) HTTP over HTTP.

mathew

I can see why people like ChatGPT. I asked it โ€œWhat would happen if I stuck my dick in the Large Hadron Collider?โ€ and it gave me a very detailed and plausible sounding answer, whereas CERN didnโ€™t even reply to my email.

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Steven Pigeon

@mathew That's all the difference between natural intelligence and artificial intelligence.

Schroedinger

@mathew I found that it make my dick huge, and I was fully able to satisfy all the women - several in one night. Just sex all the time.

Ha - joking. It withered and died.

mathew

โ€œMastodon is yet another demonstration that worse is better. So come onto Mastodon, and *be* that worse.โ€

โ€” David Gerard, @davidgerard

Coty Rosenblath

@mathew So weโ€™re just going to talk *about* @davidgerard like that?

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@mathew @davidgerard
" 'Become the worse you wish to see in the world.' - Gandhi"
- Michael Scott

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