That’s good too. Not a Monero hater or a Zcash fanboy—I just think we need to be honest about the capabilities even if the methods of getting there are different.

It does add a level of convenience for the type of transaction you might want to actually be tracked all being on the same currency. Most don’t even offer the option. Zcash can do the thing—it’s just not the only way.

Depends how you view it & how green the grass is on the other side. Personally the Forgejo approach of copying MS GitHub to ease onboarding doesn’t resonate with me as a user over, say, making a better product by fixing some of the major flaws like the pull request model being a major slowdown, CI in YAML soup, needless social features… but others prefer this approach & a rocked boat is scary.

I had one with fresh minced mint + basil along with diced bittersweet chocolate & it went so beyond the average enjoyment of mint chocolate.

Not just community managed but operated as a non-profit. Codeberg won’t be scraping your deleted history to train their LLMs that they will sell back to you unlike Microsoft.

I am still convinced Git is overrated & overly complicated—and it is a shame all of the decent forges (even basic ones) are all built around Git.

Gemini has accessibility & bandwidth problem. HTML is a more accessible format & HTTP offers compression. Add that Gemtext has too few ‘elements’ for technical writing or even basic blogging & I don’t think it should be seriously considered for anything than a novel toy.

Shielded addresses & transactions are private using zero-knowledge proofs like Monero. You can also have transparent addresses & transactions like how Bitcoin operates on Zcash as well which is true. But there isn’t a default, some wallets autoshield by default making your comment misinformation.

Zcash’s shielded transactions can do smiliar things

GitHub isn’t open source

This needs to be repeated for those in the back that still didn’t get the memo. You do not need to use Microsoft products, especially if your goal is free, open, and/or ethical software.

Linux, Capyloon, KaiOS… kinda don’t care so long as it isn’t controlled by some US megacorporation

XMPP + OMEMO & Mumble for chat, offline maps from OSM, self-hosted feed aggregator

NixOS, OpenWRT, LineageOS for microG, but would like to remove Android from my line up.

Snap! I forgot about the rename news already… forgettable new name :)

Rant: there are so many false positives, & every time there is pair programming over video (I don’t know why you would do this for text) or some smug presentation where the presenter thought it was a good idea, there is always confusion in the audience about what this is all supposed to mean. If you like ‘fancy symbols’, then use fancy symbols & make sure your language adopts Unicode support (great for non-Western folk accessibility too!). Do you write (with a pencil) an != or <= instead of ≠ or ≤? No one means dash, greater than, they mean → so why not say exactly what you mean with RIGHTWARDS ARROW? In 2024, the input problems are solved in a myriad of ways (Compose key, keyboard layers, autocorrects, digraph supports in text editors, character pickers like Kitty, & so on) that it’s just not a good argument… else you are arguing against punctuation just like the OP. Hell, I saw this week somebody trying to create their own lightweight markup syntax with less symbols saying Markdown, as flawed as that language is, is too hard to type on a phone. Like what are we doing? Especially when virtual keyboards make it trivial to add an infinite amount of character key combinations without the burden of physical keyboard limitations (even if the tactility is obviously missing)…

2.0 was released 20 years ago in 2004… a lot of things, including software, can change in 20 years. 3.0 finally has adjustment layers, et al. that they have been working on since I first started following in 2008 but had blockers on GEGL & all sorts of massive refactors… which are now finally coming. If there was a time to try to get a new opinion on GIMP, it will be now (or very soon when 3.0 is finally officially released).

Everyone in the DNC should be fired. Horrible strategy & leadership yet again… & no one should be keeping their job & no one should be taking any corporate donations.

Which island are they reaching across?

I weep at the beauty of old keywords for APL or ALGOL programming with all of these useful symbols for programming. Now everyone says “I cAn’T tYpE aN aRrOw On My KeyBoArD” when I use Unicode in the languages that support it… buddy, you used to be able to & I have news for you when it comes to the symbols you think every keyboard has just because you are used to ASCII.

Ironically these are often the same folks abusing ligatures in their text editors.

I hope all of these anti-GIMP folks have looked into the 3.0-RC* releases…

Minetest*

Do you want cool & slow fascism or hot & spicy? That was the choice.