@CmykStudent It just stops responding -- often when powering back up after a sleep (no other apps crash, just Gimp).

I'll try to get a screenshot next time.

Thanks!

@xdydx Maybe I need to set up another Friendica instance. I've heard good things...

@dianea What I remember was there was a management decision at some point that it was "a failure", so they used the next security incident as an excuse to shut it down.

I don't particularly remember features going away, but there may have been a few (games, maybe?) and I've just forgotten.

I was there the day they shut it down, along with a handful of others I know. We just kept refreshing the page until it went to a generic message about "Workspaces" or something.

#Gimp has taken to just crashing randomly, and I am not loving it.

I tried to use #Krita -- for one thing, it can save all your open images as a session -- but I couldn't figure out how to do some very basic navigation stuff.

So... back to Gimp.

@AJ_andrew69 @KimPerales If Trump wants something, that should be taken as a good sign to (a) not do it, and (b) maybe do the opposite.

The responses to this are really making me wish for a fedi version of G+ Communities.

(...and yeah, there are bots that will kinda do it, and non-Mastodon ActivityPub-compatible things that do it reasonably well, including Friendica... which mountain do I choose to climb, and how satisfactory will the view be upon climbing it?)

@kity Welcome to the future.

@brooke ...and I also almost asked you directly too... ^.^

@scanlime

I'm probably overestimating the difficulty of reconfiguring it later.

I was assuming it would be easier to re-point one domain than to... well, you described the process as "all the video URLs get changed to point back to diode zone instead of backblaze's domain", which sounds like it could take awhile and possibly cause issues.

If you point them one time to e.g. "storage.diode.zone", then even if they later moved to another service, you wouldn't have to do that process again -- just re-point the domain.

(...or am I still misunderstanding?)

@eryn

If they'd only submitted one request, I would probably have approved it...

I don't suppose there are any #StarTrek fans (especially if steeped in TOS) who might enjoy being a test-audience for a parody-comic I've been working on.

@scanlime

P.S. Tho: you can still set up the subdomain (just point it to the same server for now).

(...or perhaps I'm misunderstanding how the config works.)

@eryn

Code too spicy? Use open sauce.

#lowQualityPost #worksBestInBritish

@darkling Well of course not -- the choir was clearly not being well-tempered. 🥁

@scanlime such fun... ah well, we work with the tech we have...

@eryn

@darkling (I have in fact been known to start playing "Rocky Raccoon"whenever I pull up this patch.)

@darkling Actually, both of mine kinda have a setting for that already. :blobcatthinksmart:

I think they get it by just overlaying the same sound twice but slightly detuned (the same amount for every note, and not adjustable) as well as bringing out the treble to make it sound more like a tack-piano.

@catzilla

my hypothesis, short version: it's a cultural thing.

slightly longer version: it's an authoritarian cultural thing.

additional hypothesis (elevator pitch): authortarian leaders recognize that their followers naturally tend to have sadistic tendencies and are also easily manipulated through fear, so why not satisfy their sadism and also make them afraid of disobeying by publicly executing "examples" who stray too far out of line? It's a win-win! (...for everyone in Omelas except the ones we don't mention.)

Digital pianos should have a feature that lets you randomly de-tune every oscillator just a bit -- not enough to sound bad, but enough to give it more of a "real piano" feel.

The amount of detuning could even be configurable.

Press a button to randomize until you get one you like, and maybe an option to save all the numbers.

#hardwareWish