the gnu image manipulation program is like a fucked-up ossified husk of a tree that prevents any other raster editing saplings from taking root

one place where i've seen a lot more seething on AI is security - everyone hates the fake vulnerability spam

by the way, the only time women are mentioned in this 30-minute documentary is a) the phone operator, and b) "perhaps, in the future, women will be shopping like this". All the other examples of using telephones are specifically underlined as men. the default gender relations in 1960 were wiiiiild.

smh, it involves zero trans siberians

I think for some time, the recommendation was to install MS CoreFonts, but then everything would look even uglier and less consistent. right now ubuntu's font defaults are Just Fine, imo

the worms love it when you have to run something in Valgrind for five hours to see the source of a race condition bug

fantastic news!

i feel like this is First Gundam gender politics too. "look at all these cool women in non-domestic roles. isn't it tragic how war made them do that?"

pick up on Lambda Complex on Black Mesa and provide zero explanation beyond "I guess the art just got better in this part"

i think jesse singal's relevance has never been measured in how popular his takes are, but specifically in how popular they are *with the audience of powerful people*. in that sense, he's never been more relevant than now.

hyaku shiki: this PC will last 100 years! (hubris)

good luck o7. I had that surgery a few times before it actually helped, but it did help!

are there...non-fuck days in the sex castle? does it do book club days on alternating tuesdays?

i've seen a lot of people go for nixos recently! seems to be made for the kind of people who think that arch is baby shit for them. personally im okay with kubuntu but only after i yank out all the annoying personal preferences of ubuntu devs like "no flatpak" and "no hibernation"