@romin Your take on it looks nice too! Yep, it's color-coding that is important, of course you can do the same with just font color, but emojis just make it easier to achieve — and they are compact, while still being descriptive. I'm a huge fan of Microsoft's Segoe UI emojis and use it on all of my systems, I even use them in TUI applications: https://breloma.m0xee.net/notice/Ae47oB15Z60jbuxoWm They have outlines and look nice with both dark and light background. @kirby@aetios@newt
@romin@aetios@newt Yeah, it can actually look quite nice with a minor facelift: https://breloma.m0xee.net/notice/AebJ02y8p2B1q47prM I've added simple navigation to the top of the page to make it usable without frames, replaced most actions with color emojis, added a button for bookmarking posts and made the emojis "interactive" (heart becomes red when you favourite, book gets closed/opened when the post gets bookmarked/unbookmarked, etc): https://breloma.m0xee.net/notice/Ac8xznoHgiH42tirei It's as good as mobile clients are at this point. I'll share the patches at some point, just have to clean them up a bit.
@kirby Chris, I swear, I'll do it sooner or later :marseybegging:
@romin@Moon Yep, Python and Lua are also supported AFAIK. Originally drawing circles wasn't very straightforward in GIMP, probably still is — there was no built-in tool for that, but it was still possible by filling a square and then culling it with circular selections to make a circle. I thought your reply is a reference to that. But ImageMagick has always had a rich drawing toolset, for as long as I can remember, so contrary to what one might expect, using CLI tools for this is easier :marseyemojismilemouthtighteyes:
@romin Is this a GIMP reference? :marseyhmm: The opening post is about CLI tools and drawing circles is relatively easy and straightforward with ImageMagick, as much as it's at all possible with CLI tools: https://imagemagick.org/Usage/draw/#circles @Moon
@menherahair I don't even know why a lot of people on Fedi are against these things so much — Station, a popular Gemini forum/social capsule has likes/thumbs ups and I've never seen anyone whine about how bad it is, on the contrary, I think it's a great way to show that someone is actually reading your ramblings without littering the comments and not bringing anything of substance to the table :marseyshrug: @kirby
@kirby@menherahair snac2 would fit nicely, I'm not sure about its maturity level, I'd have to assess it at some point, but I hope it gets there sooner or later to become a viable solution for older/low-powered machines. I'm not happy about its developer being against "popularity" metrics, like followers count — I barely pay attention to these things most of the time, but why the hell not? To me it looks like another attempt to find a technological solution for a people problem.
@kaia Russian authorities have been working on it for quite some time, but I'm afraid for them it's not about hot Asian girls and more about poverty. However, I think that Russia would be out of place even in Asia nowadays: https://time.com/6960924/thailand-same-sex-marriage-law-parliament/ Africa — that's more like it, besides healthcare outside of big cities is already more or less on that level, traditional values prompt for traditional medicine: chamomile, plantain… :marseyemojismilemouthcoldsweat:
@phnt@dcc@MK2boogaloo@romin It's surprising that GMail can still send messages to other servers at all. I think they do it for the sole purpose of making up arbitrary requirements like this one and laughing at those attempting to comply 😏
@romin@catto@splitshockvirus Nonstandard port + fail2ban keep the log spam at a minimum, it's like five tries and then goodbye for 15 minutes. Few are insistent enough to keep going and in this case you can block the whole subnet manually.
@lowqualityfacts@CWilbur That's a very sweet story :marseylove: I give my #cats new nicknames every other week — it's fun and they don't seem to mind. They have primary/formal names too — one of them even has a middle name :marseysuit: I refer to him by it when he puts on a particularly serious face :marseyemojismilemouthtighteyes:
@kaia Oh, you're about the handle's position, I thought that you're about it being wide — which it is! Yes, the model looks short — not that there's anything wrong with that, short girls are hot :marseystars: @newt