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  • There's constructive criticism and then there's just yapping.

    "Ermagerd GIMP devs are so shit at design" = yapping

    "Just build a platform for designers" = supposed solution + it's so easy, people are stupid for not having built this yet = yapping

    Had it been, something like

    I'm not a fan of GIMP's design. It would be cool if had a way to help them. Maybe a platform to connect devs and designers? It could work like ....

    That would've been a completely different discussion.

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  • Alright making this really simple.

    These are the interpretations of you and your words:

    • you are a dev
    • you think GIMP's design is shit
    • you think GIMP devs should be better at design and are worth shitting on
    • you purport to have a solution

    My words:

    • stop shitting on devs for design
    • build the solution you purport to have

    Nowhere do I say "designers should write code".

    Are we on the same page now?

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  • here should be a platform that enables designers to relatively easily contribute to open source projects without learning git or whatever the fuck.

    Make it then.

    Do you know how difficult it is to make software that runs, let alone runs well? Do you know how difficult it is to stay on top of the constant messages, issues, PRs, and just churn that comes alone when that particular software gets popular? And on top of that devs are supposed to be design gods too?

    If you think you have the solution: build it. Be a part of the solution. The developers of GIMP can't do everything.

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  • @jonny@neuromatch.social I want to like this, but the repo and website do not convey this fundamental information about the project

    • what it is
    • what is does
    • why it does it
    • how it does it

    The repository only has deployment notes.

    The webpage has:

    • The name
    • A quote
    • What SciOp belongs to
    • A call to action addressed at... somebody
    • Some random stats

    It doesn't mention "tracker" anywhere and only mentions "bittorrent" once.

    Please consider people who:

    • know nothing about the project
    • don't care about who you are
    • have under 5 minutes (most likely 1 minute) to be intrigued
    • are not necessarily technically inclined

    Ask yourselves who the target audience is and maybe even state it on your webpage.

    Lastly, it's probably too late to change the name and it's a matter of taste, but making it a homonym to PsyOp make me immediately think that this has a connection to anti-vaxxers, chemtrail believers, flat-earthers, illuminati freaks, and just conspiracy theorists in general.

    Maybe I'm the only one thinking this, but as it currently exists, the project feels very much like the old-school C projects that assumed you were "in the know" before even arriving at the website or project. It does not make it inviting - at least not to me. It may be a completely false impression, but it is my impression nonetheless.

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  • That company really is good at marketing. And their customers will parrot their ads and marketing to you all the time. "No, they care about privacy!", "They are climate-neutral!", "They have the most secure devices on the planet!", and so on. Whatever the company says is gospel at this point.

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  • It do be like that

    Jump
  • I've been in the industry a while too and in multiple countries in Europe. Before COVID there were even some visits to tech conferences. Only once did I meet a trans person (or so I think, they never corrected anybody on the pronouns).

    This seems to be an internet thing, or at least the loud minority thing, but maybe I'm also just a recluse 🤷

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  • I don't know of a tutorial, but most tools have to have support for I2P built in, otherwise they won't work. A good torrent client that does is qBittorrent.

    Browsing I2Ps network with HTTP happens over a SOCKS5 proxy, so if aria supports that, you can use it too. https://geti2p.net/ should have more information.

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  • I would then encourage you to look up how those work and what proof of work actually is. Proof of work requires some work to be done by the client. If you want regular people to browse the internet normally and "do work", that means JavaScript, otherwise it requires them to install an extra binary like TOR or something, which would lock out most of real users. I imagine that's not the goal of site operators.

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  • There must be a tool that allows you to build packages for multiple systems in multiple formats (deb, rpm, nix, flatpak, snap, etc.). Does that not exist? After 20 years of these systems existing, somebody must've tried...

    Also, it's clear that once again, open source needs some kind of funding model, because it's a little crazy that a project like this can get so popular so fast, the dev flooded with praise, thanks, and issues but not money to maintain and develop it.

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  • How would that work? And how easy would it be to circumvent? Anubis probably forces spinning up a browser or something that supports a JS runtime (again probably a browser), so it's not as easily scriptable as just callling an HTTP endpoint. I'm curious how you would implement a system without JS.

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