Notices by Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)

@tael @shlee @zzt I would love to like Gimp. I'm not a graphic designer, and all I really want to do from time to time is to perhaps select part of an image and move, resize or rotate it.

In Gimp, I do a rectangular selection, and then use the move tool: The entire image moves. What?

Perhaps I want to add some text: I select the text tool, click on the screen where I want it and type. This works. Then I want to adjust its position slightly, so I use the move tool again. The result: The entire screen except the text moves.

And no, I'm not looking for someone teaching me what I'm doing wrong. I'm sure it has to do with the text being in a floating layer and the move tool moves the main layer. That's beside the point. The point is the Krita does things in a way someone like me would expect. This might be as simple as selecting a more reasonable default layer, I don't know. Bur Krita seems to at least try, while Gimp revels in doing things differently.

@chris Emacs? What kind of work are you doing?

@soatok @eltrac @cheeaun it's reasonably easy to think of various scenarios. But I suspect that whatever I say, the reply will be "that's not a real problem" or "there are other ways to protect against that".

Suffice it to say that I'm not worried about specific scenarios that I can envision. It's the ones that may happen in the future I'm concerned about. Proving the chain of changes is what I think itbis is just a good idea. Especially since my primary project uses SHA1 hashes.

@eltrac @cheeaun thanks for explaining. All of this was very fuzzy for me until now. Your description is very clear.

It also means that I nedd to avoid this function.

Unless of course that I am the author of all subsequent commits. O
I wonder if there is a simple way to resign the commits?

@eltrac @cheeaun @soatok from my perspective, I want to have the history included in the signature, and I don't think there is an alternative to gpg for that.

@mcc @cwebber hah, always nice to see references to the legacy computing characters. My name is on the Unicode document that added it. 😀

Those missing characters was a gap that needed addressing.

@thomasfuchs the interesting thing is that one of the few things it can do that is useful is to find some information you're looking for, but to do that you have to fight the damn thing to actually give you that, instead of a predigested version that is often outright wrong in the most important ways.

And it's only useful for this because search has been so utterly enshittified that it's next to useless.

Imagine this technology being used to build an actual search engine instead of whatever the current thing is.

@anna you're back in Singapore? How long this time?

@anna are you taking the bus? I was thinking of doing that to visit the ramadan bazaar there, but now I'm getting scared.

@anna that took a while. I hope you find some good food. 😀

Don't you love it when you were asked for an expert opinion on a topic, and you reply with a correct answer given the particular circumstances that the question was asked in...

And then someone comes back and said "why should we do it that way, that's not what [my favourite llm] said"

I've had to force myself to not reply immediately, as the tone of my reply would probably get me in trouble.

@skinnylatte they're seems to be this widespread belief in the us that there is a single correct way to say/do things.

As it turns out, things that are offensive in one place are not in others.

A lot of things that are perfectly normal in the us will mark you as really rude in Sweden. Likewise, there are things I do in Singapore that's perfectly normal that would get me ostracised in the us

@annika The east one is Essex, isn't it? There is also Middlesex.

It feels incredibly uncomfortable that there is no nossex.

@chris I was waiting for it while reading tge article, and it delivered in the last sentence. CV-squared. Because of course.

@whitequark sure you can, just add another layer of insane complexity on top of it (kubernetes).

I notice people posting about trying to get a job, so here's hoping that an appropriate candidate reads this.

My employer is looking for someone with devops skills (Linux, databses, networking and development) who's willing to work in Singapore.

The job involves supporting customers (mostly banks) running financial software.

Let me know if you want to know more.

Not sure what hashtag to use for this, so feel free to boost.

@skinnylatte and the number of food vloggers here in Singapore (and in Malaysia). It's wild.

I mean, sure, some of them are influencer type people, but it's an indication of something that I don't think exists to the same extent in other places.

@catsalad Clearly I have to implement this in Kap:

Or run in the browser

@libreoffice Do you know if odfdom-java is maintained? It has a bunch of outdated dependencies, but there seems to be at least some activity in the source repository.

There is also something odd with the versioning, where there is a 1.0.0-beta from 2019, but the latest release is from 2023 is 0.12.0. This causes dependency check tools to be somewhat confused.

Or is there perhaps an alternative library I should be using instead to connect to a running instance of Libreoffice?

#libreoffice

Who started the trend to stuff the title bar of windows full of buttons? I sure love playing "find the background" every time I want to move a window.

Also, at aome point someone looked at the colours for active vs. inactive windows and said: "you know what would make this better? If these colours were completely indistinguishable. All users will love that"