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PhilipTheBucket

@ PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat

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1y ago

Fediverse alternative for Tiktok?
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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago
Hey did anyone say loops yet?

1y ago

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

All of you in this thread are fucking psychopaths

Kalamata olives and similar little food objects are fine, they are often delicious

Eating the rest of these unflavorful little saltpellets on purpose is a ridiculous thing though

1y ago

Idaho bans ‘Everyone Is Welcome Here’ classroom signs, calling them ideological

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

Q: What about that massive photo of Trump and the backpack checks for DEI literature

A: That's fine why do you ask

1y ago

What's your best tip or hack for camping?

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

Tiny pop-up tent, easier to carry if you can fit inside
Headlamps
Sleeping pad or something to separate you from the cold ass ground
Don't interact with the cute little bear cubs

1y ago

Is trump a tool being used by the "good guys"?

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

Nice try Steve Bannon

1y ago

Did PewDiePie Just Crack the Code for How to Present Libre Software?

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

Exhibit A: the text tool.

Oh... yeah, you're not wrong.

Then suffered with GIMP for a few years, hating every nanosecond of it, til PhotoGIMP came along.

You're also not wrong that the GIMP developers stubbornly refusing to create something like this as the normal way of doing things is evidence of them not really caring about how well their software works out for most people who are going to use it.

If you needed some more evidence, holy shit the scripting interface is bad. However bad you think it is, multiply that by about 3 to 5 times, and that's how bad it is. I'm not trying to talk trash on people who made something awesome which I use frequently which does the job I need it to do perfectly (and were fine with making it available for PhotoGIMP to take advantage of to make some different thing to serve other people's need). But holy shit the scripting is bad. It's so bad.

1y ago

Did PewDiePie Just Crack the Code for How to Present Libre Software?

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

What did you try to do that you found confusing or difficult? I’m genuinely just curious.

1y ago

Did PewDiePie Just Crack the Code for How to Present Libre Software?

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

Idk, I guess it is personal taste but I like GIMP substantially better. The whole “separate windows is the default” thing is a baffling and wrong decision, but once you get over that small hurdle, it just seems like everything is more straightforward. Every time I have to rotate an image or something in Photoshop it’s just weird and off putting.

Maybe it’s just what I’m used to. And, some fancy things like layer effects or AI image stuff are straightforward in Photoshop whereas in GIMP you have to go into the awful scripting if you can do it at all. But to me for most things GIMP is easier and better.

1y ago

Did PewDiePie Just Crack the Code for How to Present Libre Software?

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

Instead of asking people to install a GNU / Linux-Libre operating system immediately, they now ask people to install Libre-Office, or something

This is a great idea, but I think I would really emphasize the "or something" part of this, not the "Libre-Office" part. It needs to be something that's an upgrade or at least on par with what they were doing before experience wise (GIMP instead of Photoshop). I actively recommend against people I know taking on free software stuff that I use, if I know that it's a pain in the ass to get going with just to avoid a bad experience that turns them off to the idea.

1y ago

Not sure where to ask - unmarked bot?

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

When you crosspost, it’s basically a link to the post in the “original” instance.

Yeah, don't do that.

Why do you think this person is a bot?

1y ago

Not sure where to ask - unmarked bot?

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

Ideally, they’d crosspost instead of repost.

? This isn't how it works. Any repost of the same link is a crosspost. What do you even mean by this?

Why do you think this person is a bot?

1y ago

Mocked Trump Mobile yanks coverage map that ignored Trump renaming Gulf of Mexico

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

Next you’re going to tell me people aren’t signing on to “Arabian Gulf”

1y ago

Billionaire Sunjay Kapur has died after swallowing a bee at a polo match

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

I was once on a farm, laughing at something, and a horsefly came up and bit me on the tongue.

I had no idea why it happened, still don't, but it was one of the worst things that had ever happened to me at that point in my life.

1y ago

Project resource management? Gantt charts, timelines, etc

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

No idea about tools although I hope you find something.

Two related suggestions that will change your life:

Grunt Fund if you are making decisions about equity
Have people estimate the total time for a task, rigidly enforce that every man-hour spent on a project has to be allocated to one of those tasks (including the elusive but vital "oh shit we forgot" task), keep track of the coefficient between the two. It'll be different for different people sometimes. When estimating a project, have people come up with estimates and then multiply by the coefficient. Be transparent with everyone about this system. It'll revolutionize your project management life once people get used to it. I tried to find a blog post which explains more detail, but honestly, it's not complicated, and Google is too shit now to find it.

1y ago

Wanting to restart my Webcomic. Any alternative to Wordpress that I could use on my website?

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

If you want to make changes without dealing with update hassles:

Make a child theme to your current theme which inherits from it.
Add a functions.php to your child theme, which only includes specific overrides for functionality you want to override.
Presto change-o you are immune to stuff getting ruined with updates. (Aside from API changes and things but those are relatively rare in my experience, for the most part it all just works.)

1y ago

Wanting to restart my Webcomic. Any alternative to Wordpress that I could use on my website?

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

Hugo is nice if you want extensive customization and you’re okay fighting with Go code and templates, a little bit.

1y ago

Without mentioning smartphones or social media, what societal changes have you noticed over the course of your lifetime?

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

Can you name three incidents since 2020 where the cops have not been charged? I know of one, and even that one has an asterisk next to it. Before 2020 it was multiple every year, there used to be these massive walls with names written on them.

1y ago

Without mentioning smartphones or social media, what societal changes have you noticed over the course of your lifetime?

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

It absolutely has. Before Rodney King it was always fine. From 1992 to about 2014 it was mostly fine. From 2014-2020, it was a debate, and after 2020, they're pretty much always guilty. There's a whole interesting conversation to be had about why it was that all kinds of riot and peaceful protest had basically 0 result until 2014-2020, and then in 2020 it all of a sudden starting working significantly.

Anyway, now under Trump, some of the reform is going backwards. There were some outlier departments that were still in the 1992 mode, and the feds were doing some things to try to come down on them, whereas now it's the opposite, Trump is actively pardoning dirty cops. Great stuff.

1y ago

Without mentioning smartphones or social media, what societal changes have you noticed over the course of your lifetime?

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

The circa 1990 nature of American society has been erased so completely that it is hard to believe how drastically it has changed.

Movies used to depict child molestation (Indiana Jones) or outright rape (Revenge of the Nerds) as normal and to be celebrated when it was done by the heroes. A lot of crimes got viewed through the lens of whether it was “our people” doing them. The thinking features in a lot of old movies.

The cops who beat Rodney King were found not guilty by a jury, in the first trial. After all, they’re the cops, they’re allowed. Drunk driving was fine, as long as you were one of the right kind of people. The cops would beat the fuck out of people and it was fine. The factory in town could be polluting the river and it was fine as long as dad had a job. And so on.

The uniformity of thought that TV enforced, before the internet, is really not well understood. If you thought Israel was bad, then you and Noam Chomsky were literally the only ones. Even as late in the arc as the Iraq War, I would say about 95% of the people who didn’t get their news from the internet supported the war. Watch one of the debates where Ron Paul was speaking against the war with everyone else (except the audience) just weirded out and confused by it, or the “Media-Opoly” short that aired on SNL once and then never again, to get some idea by contrast of how airtight the lock on narrative used to be. TV and newspapers are still kind of that way, but they don’t have the media monopoly they used to. It used to be that someone probably would live their entire adult life without ever hearing the kind of political viewpoints you see every day on Lemmy as normal things.

On the other hand, along with the expectation that everyone was kind of a piece of shit and that’s how life is, came a kind of backbone for resistance that I feel like is missing today. Woodstock ‘99 would be a pretty normal “yeah they robbed us” badly organized festival today. It was way better than the Fyre Festival, and people at Fyre just took it, or called their lawyers. At Woodstock ‘99, the kids threw bottles and batteries at Kurt Loder, broke in the ATMs and stole their money back, and then ripped the venue apart with their bare hands and burned it all to the ground.

1y ago

These Island Birds Are So Full of Plastic They Crunch When You Touch Them

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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 1y ago

If the heartbreak I feel didn't come through about the destruction of our home and everything that makes survival on it easy, the possibility of our total extinction and the certainty of massive scale suffering of every living thing on the planet, then let me make it clear: Yes, that's a bad thing.