I’ve only recently started trying out KDE and it’s giving me grief in the weirdest ways. I had the tray just outright break while I was trying to customize it, the Windows exe thumbnailer just won’t work despite being enabled and having icoutils, and I can’t seem to get a consistent look.

HD button in the top right corner.

I know it can’t, I had to remove it from my toolkit because it can’t. It’s something to do with the colorspace added in 2.10. Now, when you export an image with an alpha channel, every other piece of software sees that alpha channel with much higher contrast. There’s been a bug on the tracker for years, but the devs seem split between completely not understanding the issue and claiming it’s intended behavior.

I’ve noticed something that isn’t mentioned in the issue that pretty much proves it isn’t intended, however. If you export a PNG with an alpha channel, then immediately reimport it to GIMP, the alpha channel will have the correct contrast, but will be completely crunched. Lost information. No way in hell destroying the alpha channel entirely is intended.

Alright, yeah, that’s fair, as long as those images don’t have alpha components at least.

Believe me, the interface isn’t the problem with GIMP, and there are definitely problems.

My favorite part was a member of the SC talking about how the moderation team are the only ones who can appoint other moderators when two comments above a user was talking about being approached by a member of the SC the night before who was offering to make them a moderator.

Hell yeah, I think it’s time to take out some Nazis myself. I’ve still never played the sequel or Young Blood.

American court grants Nintendo trademark on unenforceable trademarks

This is exactly what happened with AMC.

So… Final Fantasy, Oblivion, Inscryption…

Well, my main concern is the characterization of this as “piracy.” It’s not like image generating AIs are reproducing their actual films, right? Sure, it could be used to produce similar artwork to comics or stills or something, but it’s not gonna recreate the substance of the media. Yet, that’s how they’ve chosen to classify it, and I worry that it could set a precedent that could be used to sort of sidestep fair use protections.

Cool. Counterpoint: The primary point of failure in the DualShock 3 was a small foam sponge which was the only thing holding the small ribbon cable coming from the battery in place. One of the most smooth-brained design decisions I’ve seen in my life.

“Midjourney has made a calculated and profit-driven decision to offer zero protection for copyright owners even though Midjourney knows about the breathtaking scope of its piracy and copyright infringement.”

That… sounds worrying. It’s not hard to imagine a success here eventually being extended to criminalize any and all fan art as “piracy.”

Every autistic person I’ve met has had more empathy than every Republican I’ve met.

Man, fuckin’ Sony does it again. The PS2 is the last time I had a positive thought about their hardware. Not even just consoles, I got a Sony Blu-ray player years ago, and it was an absolute waste of money that has the distinction of being the first piece of tech that wasn’t a console or a computer to plague me with crashes.

That’s not playing both sides, it’s just not an extremist perspective. That’s like saying driving a car without running down cyclists is playing both sides.

Seriously surprised no one has said this yet, but overzealous companies sometimes flag mobile ISPs just for being mobile ISPs. I have T-Mobile as my home internet provider and I deal with this fairly often.

I take it as a sign of less than great security. Users on mobile ISPs tend to change IPs a lot, meaning implementing blocks like this is lazy and unhelpful. At best, they delay a bad actor until they flip a switch. At worst, they impede or completely block legitimate users such as yourself.

Forrest for the trees

The person I was replying too didn’t mention Left or Right and neither did I.

Question: are you really this dense, or just acting in bad faith?

Silencing your ideological opponents is ethically and morally inferior and I don’t care what your supposed motivation is.

“I want to eliminate all of insert racial or religious slur.”

“That’s bad.”

“I want to stop that person from saying and doing that.”

"That’s exactly as bad.*

Ah yes, the classic “lOOk aT tHE TOlEraNt LEfT” argument.

Or is it maybe this one?

Or maybe it’s both. Ya know, because they’re the same argument. This exact argument has taken so many forms in the past decade, and it’s always founded on the same fallacy. It’s a false equivalency.