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   meeper@mai.waifuism.life's status on Monday, 19-May-2025 22:47:28 JST meeper

   Linux is joining the GNOME project.
   
   From now on it will be called GNOME/Linux

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 22:47:27 JST 翠星石

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     @meeper So GNU/GNOME/Linux?
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     waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:02:54 JST waifu

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     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @meeper@mai.waifuism.life I never said the #fediblocked image I made was free software it's my intellectual property so remove it from your profile picture

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:05:14 JST 翠星石

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     • waifu
     @waifu @meeper Cope and seethe; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
     
     Such a drawing isn't creative enough to qualify for copyright regardless.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:05:39 JST 翠星石

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     • david :_biflag:
     @david @waifu @meeper It's not a gif - it's an animation - an animated webp to be precise.
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     david :_biflag: (david@pl.dav1d.lol)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:05:41 JST david :_biflag:

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     • waifu
     @waifu @Suiseiseki @meeper I like it as a gif it looks nice
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     waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:06:25 JST waifu

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     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @meeper@mai.waifuism.life not my problem I'm in Argentina anything I make is my property for 70 years

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:07:22 JST 翠星石

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     • waifu
     @waifu @meeper I'm never even going to that proprietary country so seethe harder.
     
     Copyright laws are not property laws, as what kind of property law expires after 70 years?
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:10:37 JST Phantasm

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     • waifu
     @Suiseiseki @waifu @meeper Yet you care so much about garbage some rando from the Guh-Nu project wrote, if a company "misused" it. Quite ironic.
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     ロミンちゃん (romin@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:10:56 JST ロミンちゃん

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     • waifu
     @waifu @Suiseiseki @meeper when are you going to tell him you made it on photoshp
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:12:18 JST 翠星石

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     • david :_biflag:
     @david @waifu @meeper Graphics Interchange Format is in fact primarily an imaging format (but it sucks and can't even display colour properly - it requires dithering to pretend to show more than a pathetic number of colours - as a result, png has replaced it and thus you don't see it used for images anymore).
     
     It also supports multiple images in the same file, which can be played back as an animation and of course proprietary software programmers only bother to support animations in the gif format, despite all the defects of gif, rather than supporting superior animation formats like MNG, apng & webp.
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     david :_biflag: (david@pl.dav1d.lol)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:12:19 JST david :_biflag:

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     • waifu
     • david :_biflag:
     @Suiseiseki @meeper @waifu gif is a animation
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     david :_biflag: (david@pl.dav1d.lol)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:12:20 JST david :_biflag:

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     • waifu
     @Suiseiseki @waifu @meeper same thing but ok 🤓
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     waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:14:19 JST waifu

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     @romin@shitposter.world @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @meeper@mai.waifuism.life laughed irl

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:15:00 JST 翠星石

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     • waifu
     @phnt @waifu @meeper If it was so garbage, how come some business was able to use it to support a core functionality (which of course would be good if the business respected the freedom of the users)?
     
     I have not done anything proprietary with my profile image like attaching a proprietary EULA.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:17:17 JST Phantasm

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     • waifu
     @Suiseiseki @waifu @meeper Every business uses Windows even though it's absolute garbage. Argument irrelevant.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:19:08 JST 翠星石

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     • waifu
     @phnt @waifu @meeper Not every business uses windows.
     
     You think google or netflix or meta or whatever cancer company uses windows on any computer that needs to work?
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     waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:19:59 JST waifu

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     • Phantasm

     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @phnt@fluffytail.org @meeper@mai.waifuism.life yes

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     waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:20:18 JST waifu

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     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @phnt@fluffytail.org @meeper@mai.waifuism.life sauce: i made it up

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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:21:19 JST Phantasm

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     • waifu
     @Suiseiseki @waifu @meeper And what needs to be done with people that support communism...
     open-source-communism.jpg
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:24:25 JST 翠星石

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     • waifu
     @phnt @waifu @meeper They'll get what they deserve for not using free software.
     
     (The following image should say weak licenses).
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     waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:25:13 JST waifu

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     • Phantasm

     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @phnt@fluffytail.org @meeper@mai.waifuism.life you mean cuck licenses like MIT (Evil)

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:30:00 JST 翠星石

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     • pom
     @pom @waifu @meeper @david >with older machines on pixel art using an indexed color palette (256 colors inclusive)
     Just because a machine is old doesn't mean there's a reason to use proprietary software.
     
     PNG supports an 8-bin colour pallet without alpha, resulting in a smaller filesize - which can be set in GIMP for pixel art, so gif is worse at that.
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     pom (pom@spergia.net)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:30:01 JST pom

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     • david :_biflag:
     @Suiseiseki @waifu @meeper @david GIF is superior if you're working with older machines on pixel art using an indexed color palette (256 colors inclusive) without alpha blending, (A)PNG is superior for literally everything else.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:32:04 JST 翠星石

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     • waifu
     @waifu @phnt @meeper Yes, MIT has released many evil proprietary licenses, but MIT expat isn't inherently evil, as it is a free license.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:37:16 JST 翠星石

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     • pom
     @pom @waifu @meeper @david Yes, that is proprietary software, thus support for png cannot be reasonably or legally added.
     
     The solution is to stop using it and to use free drawing software instead.
     
     You shouldn't kneecap your freedom to support ancient proprietary software.
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     pom (pom@spergia.net)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:37:17 JST pom

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     • david :_biflag:
     @Suiseiseki @waifu @meeper @david interoperability with older tools I meant, I'm very certain stuff like dpaint on pc doesn't support png but very good odds it supports gif. anyway, it's all a moot point once you start going past the turn of the millennium and support for png becomes ubiquitous.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:41:54 JST 翠星石

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     • pom
     @pom @waifu @meeper @david Skill issue - GIMP works great for pixel art.
     
     Yes, there is other free software available for pixel art, but the GNU/Freedom implementation is best.
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     pom (pom@spergia.net)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:41:55 JST pom

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     • pom
     @Suiseiseki @david @meeper @waifu also gimp is terrible for pixel art, if you wanted to make the non troll version of this argument, at least bring up grafx2 or autodesk animator or something
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:43:39 JST 翠星石

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     • pom
     @pom @waifu @meeper @david The user deserves and must have the 4 freedoms with all the software that they use; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms
     
     Just because the proprietary malware doesn't have many of the malicous anti-features other programs have, doesn't mean such programs are acceptable; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html
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     pom (pom@spergia.net)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:43:40 JST pom

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     • david :_biflag:
     @Suiseiseki @waifu @meeper @david what difference does it make if the software is offline, feature complete, running on a free operating system, and capable of exporting to interoperable formats like gif and postscript?
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     • Phantasm

     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @phnt@fluffytail.org @meeper@mai.waifuism.life isn't MIT evil since you're not forced to share your changes if you make them? you basically say to companies "here, fuck me up"

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:48:08 JST 翠星石

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     • waifu
     @waifu @phnt @meeper A license that forces you to share your changes if you make them is a proprietary license.
     
     Although the "OSI" has approved a few of such proprietary licenses (for example "openwatcom"), the FSF will never assist with or approve anything of the sort; https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Watcom
     
     
     A free license is a free license, even if it's weak and poorly written.
     
     Evil only results if the developer has intentionally chosen to write software that is guaranteed to take the freedom of billions of users for the purposes of popularity.
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:50:42 JST Johnny Peligro

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     • waifu
     @waifu @Suiseiseki @phnt @meeper i prefer bsd3, only thing it forces is to give me credit. idc if u use my shit to make a baby destroyer 9000
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     • GNU Tar

     @freetar@freesoftwareextremist.com @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @meeper@mai.waifuism.life I will eat every single capybara in argentina and you can't stop me

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     @waifu @Suiseiseki @meeper
     I'm in Argentina. Anything you make is my property until I die.
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     @pom @waifu @meeper @david I'm in the GNU/Reality - I have had no problem drawing and manipulating pixel art in GIMP and many of GIMP's image manipulation features only make drawing pixel art better.
     
     You should escape from proprietary workflows to frees workflow.
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     pom (pom@spergia.net)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:52:44 JST pom

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     • david :_biflag:
     @Suiseiseki @waifu @meeper @david ok now I know you're living in an alternate reality, for the serious pixeler, it's a dpaint (westie) or mps (japanese) style workflow or nothing. gimp is an image manipulation tool and is tailored to that purpose to the exclusion of niceties for creating new drawings from scratch.
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     @pom@spergia.net @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @david@pl.dav1d.lol @meeper@mai.waifuism.life yes he's dumb dw about it just laugh at it

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     pom (pom@spergia.net)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:53:06 JST pom

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     @Suiseiseki @david @meeper @waifu (and I say this as someone who generally defends the usability of gimp in most contexts against adobe baby ducks who denigrate it using forced memes and false narratives)
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     @pom @waifu @meeper @david I'm in the GNU/Reality - I have had no problem drawing and manipulating pixel art in GIMP and many of GIMP's image manipulation features only make drawing pixel art better.
     
     You should escape from proprietary workflows to free workflows.
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     pom (pom@spergia.net)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 23:54:11 JST pom

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     • david :_biflag:
     @waifu @Suiseiseki @meeper @david I'm aware, I just like replying because it gives me a chance to flesh out my own thoughts on the matter
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     @mischievoustomato @phnt @waifu @meeper But it requires to give credit? How is that any different to requiring that the users freedom is respected?
     
     I do not wish for my software to go into an immoral "baby muncher 9000" and I will not implement baby-munching functionality - but legally there is nothing a copyright license can enforce when it comes to private usage of the software.
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     @Suiseiseki @waifu @meeper
     >A license that forces you to share your changes if you make them is a proprietary license.
     Because how dare someone should be forced to publish everything and have stronger copyleft than any GPL license.
     
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybase_Open_Watcom_Public_License
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     • GNU Tar

     @freetar@freesoftwareextremist.com @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @meeper@mai.waifuism.life wasn't expecting that response, 🤝

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     @waifu @Suiseiseki @meeper
     I can, but you are free to eat capybaras.
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     @Suiseiseki @phnt @waifu @meeper because it's the only thing i care about and it's ez
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     • pom
     @pom @waifu @meeper @david >competent pixeling tools available for free
     Are they gratis, or are they free?
     
     I suspect they're proprietary and not even gratis either.
     
     >where in my post did I say anything about sticking to proprietary workflows?
     "it's a dpaint (westie) or mps (japanese) style workflow or nothing." is clearly about sticking to proprietary workflows or nothing.
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     pom (pom@spergia.net)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 00:02:13 JST pom

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     • david :_biflag:
     @Suiseiseki @waifu @meeper @david where in my post did I say anything about sticking to proprietary workflows? on contemporary oses, there are competent pixeling tools available for free, across a number of different workflows, the only question is whether people are aware they exist. even retro oses have a few as well, although unfortunately not nearly as many as I'd like.
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     • Johnny Peligro
     @mischievoustomato @phnt @waifu @meeper Yes, all you care about is popularity - no matter the consequences.
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     @Suiseiseki @phnt @waifu @meeper just recognition, popularity is hardly gotten from that but nice if so