Hah! I don't believe this for a second. No, you need the 8k, a business entity (at the very least), five different licenses of some sort, and then some form of accreditation.
> It is so elegant and common that even though it is not part of a standard ...
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss seems valid ISO 8601 to me, isn't it? Neither the "T" nor the timezone are required as far as I recall.
EDIT: The site says ISO 8601-1:2019 requires a T for datetimes, and that even though previous editions allowed for no T, a space was never allowed. This is shocking news to me.
Funnily enough, the linked page shows The Lounge IRC channel among the ten most populous on Libera. (The Lounge is similar to IRCCloud but self-hosted.)
Even the features it does have are behind UX so bad you'd rather cram scattered glass down your urethra than use it. Just yesterday I gave Gimp a go again to do some very basic exposure blending and rage quit 10 minutes later. It's impossible to work with comfortably or with any sort of fluidity, everything is either a fight or a drag.
It's a me problem alright, but I'm in no way unique in refusing to put up with the mountain of grief that the Gimp UX is.
> I've been using it productively for photo editing and web design for two decades+.
I know Gimp must have its share of long term users but they're a miracle to me and I don't know what to say to that. I suppose it's good people reading these threads who are open to giving Gimp a go see there are users for whom it's working out.
Not gonna say gimp is perfect. But, the comment above is a poster child for folks who learned a certain software and refuse to use another with a slightly different interface.
I personally learned Paint Shop Pro first, after baby steps of Mac/MS Paint. Later on didn't find Photoshop particularly intuitive... although liked 3.0 on the Mac. It's even worse now according to professional friends.
I've used many others over the years and never had a problem with basic to medium features. They all work roughly the same—WIMP. Point, click.
Gimp works similarly to every other graphics program, so using it for common tasks is not hard. It's not "full of grief." If you can't do it, you either never learned how to use a GUI program properly[1], proceed by rote, or refuse to consult the manual for more specific tasks.
For one thing, it's a helluva lot easier to learn than Blender, which has no chronic troll posts that I've seen.
[1] Not uncommon in web times. The original Apple HIGs might help.
You are missing the point. Nothing in Gimp I haven't managed to do when I've decided it's important enough to put up with it but not so important I'd renew an Adobe subscription and boot Windows. The UX is simply so bad I'd rather avoid it at all costs if possible, and I get zero enjoyment from using it.
Blender being harder to learn has pretty much zero to do with how great or poor the experience of using it is. On top of missing the point, you're also missing the connection between the lack "troll posts" and what the user experience is like.
But since you're muttering to yourself about troll posts and how it's really just a skills issue, I might as well go and mutter to myself about how great Gimp could be if it had users who had standards instead of being chronic enablers who just cheerfully whistle through the wart fair it is.
I've had my yearly share of discussing Gimp I think. I'll just keep to my routine: see an update, install it in hopes of finding it has changed, and quit it ten minutes later kicking myself for being dumb enough to allow myself to hope.
Can I come live in whatever bizarro world you're in? I've never heard of Hotwire before but I'm up to my ears with htmx this and htmx that. It's impossible to spend a minute on Youtube without seeing programmer influencers with their moronic thumbnails featuring their face twerks next to htmx.
> The article doesn't have enough details to form an opinion!
It does, unless your interest is in justifying the breaking of law and abuse of powers.
These people were granted amazing powers, are paid from taxes, and yet somehow it's too much to expect that they'd have an ounce of respect for the law and the privacy of their supposed fellow citizens. Unscrupulous individuals who work overtime to figure out ways to abuse their powers.
And it really is unfathomable to me how it's possible for someone to be an agent of government, knowing you're responsible for being that for which no one nowhere should trust their government with any powers, and somehow still being able to go about your daily activities without your conscience tearing you into pieces. Impossible to say enough bad things about these specimens.
> ...past releases and alternate SSH implementations...
Absolutely not faulting the devs in any way for wanting to rid themselves of having to maintain the DSA bits, but this idea of "just" using past releases seems theoretical. I'd be surprised if I managed to compile an OpenSSH release from even just a couple of years ago. There'd be some glibc incompatibility or something equally gnarly.
Being a gatekeeper to something important is sufficient. If Apple and Google both consider you a persona non grata, you will have a tough time getting by when the businesses you use daily (let alone government agencies) start insisting on interacting only via an app. Meta does that, and businesses that use only Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram all suddenly can't see you.
Similar effects with money, though at least PayPal is no longer really a gatekeeper.
I don't know about you but ruin your life brings to mind something like what almost happened to Steven Donziger. No corporation is able to do that to you without the help of governments.
Not being able to interact with a business on Facebook or on any of the other equally insignificant platforms simply does not rate.
And if a governmental agency requires you to use Facebook to interact with them, without any stipulations to bind Meta to serve you, well it's alarming that anyone would have time to say a single thing about Meta instead of address the real issue of the agency having the power to in effect force you to interact with facebook.com.
> Sometimes you just wanna share your unhinged thoughts with a friend
Oh my, meanwhile I'm too scared to type even the most generic of questions to ChatGPT. Keep in mind that your "friend" in this instance ends up being OpenAI, the company, made of bunch of people, people other than your friend.
