cygnus @ cygnus @lemmy.ca

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Never thought of that, I may give it a shot!

You're counting his informal COVID response advice? That's stretching the truth to the breaking point.

when he was advising Trudeau

You mean since all the way back in the... fall of 2024?

Peter Downing prévoit annuler son vote le 28 avril en y inscrivant les noms de Donald Trump et son vice-président, JD Vance. Car le séparatiste rejette autant le chef conservateur Pierre Poilievre que le chef libéral Mark Carney. « Je pense que Poilievre est comme Milhouse dans les Simpsons. Il est faible, c’est un nerd. Il se fait botter le derrière, il vient de perdre une avance de 20 points dans les sondages. ».

lmao

No the (attempted) joke was using an obviously AI-written text hyping up protests, but it didn't really work.

If you’re a fan of the established order of capitalism Carney’s your guy for sure

Carney is a Keynesian and would probably prefer a 1950s or 60s style capitalism than what we have right now.

Political protests are incredibly important to me because they give people a way to express their dissatisfaction and push for change. When I see others out in the streets, organizing and demanding attention to issues that matter, it reminds me of the power we have as individuals to challenge the status quo. Protests help raise awareness about injustices that might otherwise go unnoticed, and they can be a catalyst for real, meaningful change. For me, they represent a critical way to hold governments and institutions accountable and ensure that our voices aren't drowned out. They remind me that political participation is not just a right, but a responsibility to help shape the society we want to live in.

/s in case it wasn't obvious

No, what I'm saying is that PS has features that simply do not exist in any of the current FOSS apps. How do you replicate smart objects or content-aware fill? How about sky replacement or the camera RAW filter?

Even that isn't really true. GIMP for example is nowhere near feature parity with Photoshop, not even close. it only just got non-desctructive editing a few months ago, something that Photoshop has had for at least 20 years if not more! The disparity gets much, much worse when you look at filters or tools like content-aware fill.

I would if I knew anything about programming or UI design, but unfortunately I don't.

Again, you're operating off your own limited experience. Ask someone who does Excel programming (yes it's a thing) if LibreOffice compares. It does not.

Can I ask your perspective on the comments here saying that Krita and Inkscape just aren’t comparable to their commercial alternatives?

I am a professional and have been doing this since... Well, I started with Mac OS 7, let's put it that way. Krita and Inkscape are like using craft scissors to cut sheetmetal. They're simply the wrong tool for the job. They are maybe 10% comparable to Adobe apps. Affinity apps are probably 60% or 70% comparable. Anybody who says Inkscape is a replacement for Illustrator simply does not use it in any serious professional capacity. It doesn't even have any means of adding paragraph spacing!

At best they will repurpose certain features to add them to some "pro" (but still web-based) version of Canva at $50/mo. There's no way in hell we'll get Linux apps for Affinity. I really wish we would because they are literally the only reason I still have a Windows VM.

The way you're describing it, it sounds more like you believe privacy is a privilege, not a right.

And also Berlin 1936, and Moscow 1980.

Is "security breach" still the right terminology if it was a deliberate act?

How is this a gotcha - isn't IDF service mandatory for Israeli citizens? Employing any Israelis at all will automatically make many employees ex-IDF.

Edit: oh FFS I didn't see the news outlet, Grayzone, really? Literal Kremlin propaganda outlet?

Punks are the best, I wish there were more in government. In Canada we have Charlie Angus who is a legend (his band opened for the Dead Kennedys back in the day) but is sadly retiring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Angus#Early_life,_music,_writing,_and_activism

People up here tend to think of California or NY as the most Canada-like state, but they don't know what they're talking about. I've long held it's Minnesota, and you're proving me right.

Our spooks are so good even our own government doesn't know they exist!