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  • All this babbling about complex constructs, it’s really quite simple.

    When we have no moments to outselves, when everything we know, we think, we do, is being recorded and processed (which it luckily isn’t yet), then regurgitated in one way or the other, we lose identity.
    Identity is a core part of being human. There are reasons that other people shouldn’t know what we think, I think you can figure those out for yourselves.

    So when someone says “They have nothing to hide”, then they ignore a fundamental part of themselves, which they need to live. It’s like saying someone doesn’t need eyebrows, because they have no emotions to show. It is just false.

    Everybody has something they do not want others to know. Whether it is you thinking badly about your elders, which you do out of love and to protect them, or thinking how your colleague is doing something wrong, which will train you to be better than them in that instance.

    Once these things are no longer private, identities break down and society does not work anymore. Socialism, capitalism, communism, all those depend on faces.

    This is even true for the animal kindom. Or do you think a lion could catch prey, if the prey knows the lion’s though, or the prey could escape the lion if the lion knew the prey’s thoughts?

    There are places where privacy can instrumentalized, but that’s where we can do something against it. The problem is about finding the fine line where we maximize privacy for a healthy society, while minimizing potential issues through it. We’re way past that line.










  • Absolutely that’s an issue. But we’re not talking about that here. We are talking about a base os from where we can progress. I don’t care much for Google phones, even though I must admit they are nice phones. Google can not un-opensource AOSP. They can, to a certain extend, stop open sourcing changes, but that’s about it. Doesn’t mean we need to follow their os. Also doesn’t mean we can’t, slowly but surely, develop Android to be more of a Sandbox ontop of a newer Linux kernel than it is right now. Utopian, I know, but if Google stops AOSP developmentz what would we rather do?



  • I don’t actually see that though, taken a look at their repo, they only seemed to remove branding and easter eggs to distance themselves from the GIMP project. They even went so far as to linger on versions and not merge features from GIMP, so they were actually behind. That would be what I mean by hate fork. Nothing technically good has been done with the repo.

    Edit: I think they wanted to change the UI abit too for better accessibility, which would actually be a technical change for once, but other than that I don’t see anything contributed to better software.





  • What I meant by “when the time comes to fork, let’s use another name” was not “let’s fork it for the sole purpose of rebranding”. For me a good reason to fork a project would be governance. “Hate forks”, whatever the fuck that made up phrase may be, cause division, so I absolutely understand why people would be against this. That being said, malicious branding is more often than not connected to bad governance, so that would be interesting to find out.

    This seems to be quite the nuanced issue, so this will be the last I said, but I would be hella interested to see some more viewpoints on this.



  • Thank you. I get that this can be problematic, but as a non english-native, I don’t think it’s that big of a deal. GIMP is a transnational project after all and as I understand they try their best to be (all)inclusive. Getting hung up on the very well established name and outright demanding (in another comment), seems a bit silly to me. Were it a more serious slur, one that may be more timely relevant, I would feel the same, but given what I just described, I don’t feel that harsh about it.

    Very hot take: I actually prefer it having that name, because it can lead to that term not being recognized as a slur by newer generations. When being asked “Whats a gimp?” they might then answer “An image processor.”. Would eliminate a whole slur. And with time it might even go so out of fashion it gets eliminated from dictionaries. Instances of this exact phenomenon happening include, in developing order: Dude, Yankee, Nerd. Or if you want a devolvement: Bully, which used to mean sweetheart. Language is like that. Let the slur die.

    That aside, I do not feel that Krita is better than GIMP technologically. I prefer both.

    Perhaps when the time comes to fork the project we can avoid a slur as a name? That would be nice.

    Are you yourself affected by this? Maybe I, as a non affected person, am misjudging.