A few years ago I tried putting text on a path (think “curvy text”). First tried gimp, quit frustrated after about a hour. While at some point I “kind of” got it to work, it looked like shit. Then I opened photoshop, was done in about three minutes. Note that I never did it before in photoshop nor gimp.

Luckily, nowadays I just open photopea whenever I would have used photoshop in the past. The fact that one single guy built a better photo editor than gimp should tell you everything.

I, too, use KDE at work.

Cloudflare is just your average, often free, TLS-terminating proxy everyone uses and definitely NOT a NSA operation for being able to read and control all internet traffic.

You should definitely use it, preferably with AWS or Azure (or both!) as the underlying server.

Also, pick US-East1 so you are down when everybody else is.

Article reads more like a typical redneck American trying to convince someone from another country that their gun legislation is reasonable, while proving it is not.

I don’t like it, but I just recently switched to Brave on Android coming from Firefox.

I’ve been using Firefox on Android for years, but the same problems kept bugging me. Tabs would instantly close after putting the browser in the background, effectively making it impossible to e.g. get the 2FA out of my Authenticator without restarting the login flow. Also sometimes the browser would right out refuse opening websites on fresh tabs.

This were likely problems with my OEM, but I could never get it fixed. There are some threads online claiming battery optimization, but I disabled everything possible.

So on Android, I’m stuck with Brave for now.

People here talk about doing crime with the black pill, but I would instead just be the perfect astronaut.

Think about it, they could shoot you in space without having to think about how to get you back. No landing, no parachute, just a one way rocket launch.

Space agencies would be practically forced to hire you on the spot.

Funnily enough, PoW was a hot topic in academia around the late 90s / early 2000, and it’s somewhat clear that the autor of Anubis has not read much about the discussion back then.

There was a paper called “Proof of work does not work” (or similar, can’t be bothered to look it up) that argued that PoW can not work for spam protection, because you have to support both low-powered consumer devices while blocking spammers with heavy hardware. And that is very valid concern. Then there was a paper arguing that PoW can still work, as long as you scale the difficulty in such a way that a legit user (e.g. only sending one email) has a low difficulty, while a spammer (sending thousands of emails) has a high difficulty.

The idea of blocking known bad actors actually is used in email quite a lot in forms of DNS block lists (DNSBLs) such as spamhaus (this has nothing to do with PoW, but such a distributed list could be used to determine PoW difficulty).

Anubis on the other hand does nothing like that and a bot developed to pass Anubis would do so trivially.

Sorry for long text.

Modern neoliberal capitalism is mostly based on Friedrich Hayek who thought that any regulation to the market is harmful. Smith is long overdue.

During a party meeting, Margareth Thetcher literally pulled out a book of Hayek out of her handbag, slammed it on the table and declared “This is what we believe”.

My conspiracy theory is that OpenAI makes their generated images easy to recognize so that they can filter them out for learning when scraping pages.

The burger people never go the extra mile to translate their freedom units to something reasonable, so neither should we.

No stable state with a strong currency would ever do that.

USK rated Balatro with a minimum age of 12 because of “elements resembling gambling”. Sounds more reasonable to me than the PEGI rating.

Unfortunately, at least in Germany it’s legal. There was a special ruling recently.

(Link in German)

https://www.datenschutzkonferenz-online.de/media/pm/DSK_Beschluss_Bewertung_von_Pur-Abo-Modellen_auf_Websites.pdf

Fair.

If something looks, walks, barks and smells like a dog, chances are, it’s a dog.

The world is complicated enough as is, no need to make it more complicated.

I think you are in the wrong here. Europe is definitely ruled by capitalism. What Americans don’t understand is that universal healthcare benefits capitalism, because the state makes sure your workers are healthy.

Your employee is sick? State money is going to fix him up and pay (most) of the wage in the meantime.

Invade ukraine apparently.

I think the To the moon series hides the fact that it’s RPG Maker rather well

Fun fact: While pictures of Mohammed are a no-no for Sunnis (Arabic World), it’s a common thing for Shias (Iran mostly).