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Raster Graphics

GIMP

... well, I'm out.

(No, but more seriously: I like GIMP's functionality, hate the UI. emacs has a couple modes to make the defaults a lot more ergonomic for people familiar with vim or a text editor not written in the '60s... Has anyone done something equivalent for GIMP to "make this act like Photoshop?" Because I can use it, but I don't have to like, for example, having to go push the "ANCOR" or "STACKIT" layer buttons every time I paste something).

@gabrielesvelto We can try, but you're admonishing a species that talks to potted plants and holds one-sided conversations with washing machines.

It's gonna be a steep hill, is what I'm saying.

@david_chisnall I like this one specifically because the Cloudflare gate is there to address the problem of "Too many visitors."

@rk @cstross Exactly. It's literally a "This is a stupid idea and the only reason we do it is we were forbidden from putting it on Earth" kinda thing.

As I said at one point or other, to paraphrase myself, "Sure, there's no convenient cooling and radiation will scramble your data, but just think how much CSAM you can store out of reach of any terrestrial law... Until you try and download it and they bust your ass the moment it hits a radio dish!"

@cstross The most compelling argument I've heard for putting datacenters in space (in the "didn't immediately discount it as a stupid idea but took some time to engage with it" sense) was from Scott Manley, notorious fan of everything space-related, and even he concluded that it only makes sense as an end-run around terrestrial regulation (i.e. it's a stupid and expensive idea but in the grand scheme of markets it may be cheaper than "buying enough politicians to steal a community's water rights out from under them so you can get the permits to build on land").

Which... Yeah, when that's the forcing function, maybe we tech folk should sit and have a think about the entire project.