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@kazitor
Actually an avid archosaur aficionado – when you write ‘flying dinosaurs,’ I read ‘birds’
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Best posts made by kazitor
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RE: Advanced Trolly Logic
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Mozilla alienating everyone and everything
The latest in Mozilla’s continued misadventures…
What next in the mission to demolish everything?
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RE: What users say versus what they mean
@topspin I don't know what it is about error messages that cause people to momentarily lose all reading comprehension.
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RE: ⏱ You know you've been spending too much time on TDWTF when...
@Tsaukpaetra This happened last month
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Google’s .zip
Two weeks ago, Google Registry announced a set of new TLDs:
Two of these have drawn the ire of techy security people: .zip and .mov. The drama is summed up as follows: financialstatement.zip
TLD;R: software that helpfully adjusts URL-looking things into clickable URLs is now going to have reason to amend any mention of a zip into a link that opens something the mentioner of the zip probably didn’t intend. For example, an email that says “You’ll find more information in financialstatement.zip” which is actually referring to an attachment, but looks for all intents and purposes like a useful link.
I was going to upload a megascreenshot with some superfluous despairing but other real examples, because whoever put it together was apparently somehow unaware of “links,” but evidently it’s too for :
So instead, have a real zip with it inside:
Some select excerpts (i.e. screenshots of a screenshot of screenshots):
Squatting on steroids! I’m sure Google is loving the extra cash injection.
Latest posts made by kazitor
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RE: WTF Bites
Okay, whatever, I’ll just cut and paste. Cutting… fills the region cut from the layer with white?
Well I still have the selection so I’ll just cumbersomely erase it out… the erase tool just paints in the background colour?!At this point you should have reali
zsed the layer you were editing did not have an alpha channel. Whether that's a or not is left as an exercise to the reader.It’s graphics software. Every layer has an alpha channel, always. Why would it not? When you delete or cut something, you want to see behind it, always. Not fill it with white.
Incidentally, that doesn’t explain the erasing problem. I had set the background colour to something not-white for a gradient, and then using the erase tool just painted over with that not-white.
As for inpainting… apparently that’s not a feature. Something so fundamental to Image Manipulation is, of course, not available in the GNU Image Manipulation Program.
Then what the hell is the Heal tool for? Serious question. I'm not experienced with it.
Beats me. I think I saw mentions of it which were similarly in the ‘copy something in and then clean the edges’ vein. If it’s like similar tools in Photo it would just copy a patch verbatim from elsewhere with interpolation at the edges.
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RE: WTF Bites
I pay $9.99 a month for PS
0 “It’s not Photoshop”s out of 5.
Oh bugger, I wrote ‘Photshop’ up above… if I’d meant to be disparaging I’d have gone with ‘Photoslop’
find another tool (maybe Krita)
Using Krita for image manipulation feels so wrong (hence the comparison above). It’s a Creative™ drawing tool for drawing creatively and whatnot. And yet, it has a (pretty poor) inpainting tool. If you want to patch something in a drawing you can just draw over it, in the exact same manner you already drew all the stuff around it!
My tastes are very niche:
- Works exactly like Affinity Photo/Designer in every way
- Runs on Linux
Literally every game I’ve thrown at Proton or Lutris works fine. But somehow graphics software eludes it. :(
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RE: WTF Bites
Today I used the GIMP. For a simple task, shouldn’t be hard. And… well, it took less than an hour and left no lasting trauma, so I hereby bestow GIMP with the ‘Less Shite Than Photoshop’ award!
It’s certainly changed a bit since I last glanced at it. The UI is no longer spread across a half dozen panels and boxes – you can just ‘move’ the ‘window’, and all the toolbars will ‘move’ with it. I wonder what ancient, sacred temples they had to defile to dig up such arcane technology.
But… you know what thread this is. Well, you do now that you’ve looked. In approximate order of discovery:
Make a selection, fine. Use the move tool, fine. Click and drag and… the whole layer moves? What was the point of the selection? Set it to ‘move selection’… and the selection does indeed move, but not the pixels within?
Okay, whatever, I’ll just cut and paste. Cutting… fills the region cut from the layer with white?
Well I still have the selection so I’ll just cumbersomely erase it out… the erase tool just paints in the background colour?! If I wanted to paint, I’d use a paint tool!
As for inpainting… apparently that’s not a feature. Something so fundamental to Image Manipulation is, of course, not available in the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Looks like there’s some plugin for it, but of course 90% of the search results involve ‘stable diffusion’. Otherwise I just saw mentions of copying some texture in yourself and warping around it. Yuck.
Finally… use the text tool, it makes a new layer / text object. Sensible enough – desirable, even. So why does using the scale tool on this text object immediately rasterise it ‽ I don’t want to play font size bingo, just give me text [ this ] big!
The end result was fine and mostly unnoteworthy, but evidently Krita would have been faster.
In summary… 4 “It’s not Photshop”s out of 5.
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RE: Quotes Out of Context
@Arantor said in Quotes Out of Context:
@Zerosquare said in Quotes Out of Context:
Well, while he's doing that, at least he's not doing PHP
*foot tapping with increasing urgency*
I can quit any time I want
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RE: WTF Bites
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
There was almost no sound from the left speaker - virtually all sound came from the right speaker only.
Did you install your sound equipment in the ?
The echo chamber provides unparalleled reverb
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
cut. Poorly cut loop is poorly cut. Poorly
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@Gern_Blaanston said in I, ChatGPT:
I suspect that accusations like this will become standard for every shitty movie/television show/news article and every sloppily photoshopped picture.
Someone remarked “At first I thought it was AI art that somehow knew how to make hands.” in response to that recent thing
Filed under: Another suggested it might be traced instead.
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RE: Scientific Science
@topspin said in Scientific Science:
This discovery of a New Force is fundamental in that electric fields alone can generate a sustainable force onto an object and allow center-of-mass translation of said object without expelling mass.
They’ll be miffed to learn that Hendrik Lorentz managed to snag that one 129 years earlier. Or maybe Maxwell by 159 years
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RE: Today in reading the headlines...
@Benjamin-Hall said in Today in reading the headlines...:
The effects weren't always negative. In fact, I found myself naturally being harder on the first few until I settled into a rhythm.
a.k.a., the “Oh my god, I can’t believe they’re all this terrible” approach