I like to point out to folks that pre-google Youtube was built on ffmpeg. You can set up streaming servers on it and all kinds of stuff. So who is stealing from whom… the pattern is theft from open source, not the other way around.

yes, I hear you. I have dreams of a publicly funded linux distro with accessibility and security (for elderly dudes and the like) the main design focus. My rebuilt federal government would develop this.

These features come from maintained modules or scripts that can be added if desired. There is a tiny bit of animation support in plain GIMP, mostly for working with animated gifs.

true that it wasn’t good for mac. I gave up apple/mac and their increasingly shitty overpriced products 10 years ago. Since then Linux has come a long way and so has GIMP. Good enough to kill Photoshop? Not any time soon, but good enough for professional use certainly and good enough for new artists to start on. Install G’MIC and it’s so much better.

some open source projects have very unpleasant communities around them, GIMP is not one of them. very easy to get into and everyone is extremely helpful and friendly.

Linux comes (at least on Mint and Ubuntu) with the poppler-utils suite of tools. you can merge, extract pages, even rip all the images out of a pdf in source quality. very useful.

Maybe you mean a more “brush and canvas” interface without complexity and distraction. I’m an artist that uses gimp. They are both great, Krita is just made with ease of use and emulation of irl tools in mind. GIMP can do emulation stuff too, but it can also do tons of other things, even video fx and animation.

I have been using “social software” for decades now. In the early 90s I ran a single line BBS networked across Canada and USA (every modem in the network called the nearest modem and we shared posts this way). I went to friendster (before that “makeoutclub”, if anyone remembers that thing), myspace, then piled onto facebook like everyone else.

The only thing that seems to make a social media tool relevant is when a critical mass of young people, in that 15-30 demo, decides that it’s time to adopt a new social media platform. This has been because they want a place away from their families, but there’s also all kinds of memetic reasons behind it that have nothing to do with function.

Young people need to flood to open source, distributed networks like Lemmy. I don’t mean to be a token old guy and speak poorly of an entire generation, but I’m not impressed with the embracing of Tiktok, Facebook and reddit. I find it hard to take anyone with a cause who inhabits these spaces seriously. I told my niece about why Facebook sucks, and she said “that’s so boomer.” Like, wtf?

So yeah. Young people, stop using twitter and all that junk. I promise if you come here I’ll go somewhere else.

Firefox doesn’t really need to make money so long as Google has to worry about being broken up by the Fed for antitrust reasons… Obviously so long as there is a national socialist/Trump regime in place that’s not really something they have to worry about. Why, Goog even donated $5m to Trump’s little Whitehouse evisceration/ballroom project, and will get their very own plaque in the ballroom that all the ballpeople can look at.

Google has donated over $USD 1B to Mozilla. The standard conspiracy fud is so that it can sink its claws into its open source competition, corrupting it with its omniscient googliness, but FIrefox barely blips on the radar of browser use, not even including Tor, Waterfox, Librewolf (which I’m currently using), and other forks. It’s just not going to threaten any of the megas any time soon.

The actual motive for giving Mozilla so much money is simply to deflect any accusations that they’re a monopoly that hurts market competition.

Humility? Is that possible with the new conservative movement? I remember good old Richard Nixon, he stepped down, apologized, and disappeared.