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It is an impressive piece of software, and there are lots of other low(er) cost alternatives to Photoshop; but I think the broad appeal of GIMP is that it it is free in the GPL sense of freedom, not just as in beer and that can't be ignored in any discussion of the software. Also the fact that you can use it fully offline

GIMP still lags behind the photoshop I used in the late 90s/early 2000s. Then there is the name thing. I am *NOT* telling anyone else how to feel about it. I have no interest in relitigating it, but I am disabled and had it thrown at me as a term of hate; I just can't support a piece of software that uses it. We each have to stand up for what matters to us.

I would love to see that statement backed up with data. If you look at the other comments they are talking about more than just furniture

I am guessing because the version of Windows CE (the Dreamcast SDK version) didn't have the source to it; and for whatever reason they didn't want to find that source. Copyright reasons perhaps?

The 2650 was one of the first microprocessors on the market you could buy, it was shockingly simple to design, and had some dedicated I/O lines. Look up the reference schematic and compare to what a 6502 or Z80 needs. It was used in a lot of early embedded systems. It makes sense in that light

While not obvious from the article, it appears that they want something S3 like, but isn’t from Amazon, and possibly want to self host it. The article could be much more clear about the goals

Can you back that up? It supports `os_task_create()`, `ps`, `top`, and the default for `MAX_TASKS` is 8.

Question: Do you mean real time, meaning there is some kind of expectation of task switching time, nothing can stop other threads from executing, etc; or do you really mean embedded?

Help me understand: why does knowing the language matter? I can see why for contributing to it, though there are other ways to contribute than code. However to use it, why? Do you only use projects you can contribute to?

I disagree, it was a response to the article's title. I could have said it better, but it wasn't just a random rant

Personally I don’t care what it is written in. I care what the code does and how well it does it.

Rust is a cool and interesting language that helps solve some problems, but it doesn’t make it immune from all. But that doesn’t make it inherently better, or worse for the job. We have seen this trend for everything from C++ onwards (Java, Ruby, C#, Python, etc etc)

Well somewhere between a ZX80 and a ZX81, it had a better video system than either, but at the cost of dedicated video ram (IIRC)

I am curious, do we have any confirmation that the "AI hit piece" thing is real? It feels like everyone is just assuming it is, but it would be nice to see some confirmation.

Additionally Geerling raises good points, but I am not sure we should jump to his conclusion yet.

And where did I say any of that

I am glad markdown is very reliable to you (and many people), and if you’re just talking about something with very light, formatting, then it can be. However, link have documents can be incredibly hard to read. I am dyslexic. I find markdown documents, markedly worse for me. All I’m saying is that we can’t universalize this experience

You might not, it depends on your use case. However SQLite is very small and lightweight, and amazing for read heavy databases. Using SQLite lets you bypass a lot of setup and configuration; then adding something like marmot lets you add being distributed after the fact.

Yet they didn’t get copyright extended again in the 27ish years after, and Mickey is in the public domain (well steamboat willy).

Because accessibility should be front of mind for all apps. We don’t want disabled people to be treated like an afterthought or only using specialty apps. Anyone can become disabled and need these features, either temporarily or permanently and shouldn’t have to change their entire tool chain to adapt

Not really, I should have acknowledged it, to be sure. I am just saying a lot of people put a lot of faith into geohot's musings/side projects/whathaveyou, that doesn't pay off.

I mostly think of when geohot wanted to make his own RISC-V core and cranked out some basic verilog. It was incomplete and barely commented, and never touched again. I suspect we are going to get a few blog posts of analysis and then he moves on to something else

It’s been around since at least occam, maybe longer

Not just Chinese companies, Ti has done this forever with their Sitara SoCs. This is the chip in the beaglebone. The chip includes two PRUs which are microcontrollers that run at 200mhz and share memory with the rest of the system.

TIs latest version of it (AM625x) has four A53 cores, one PRU, and a Cortex M4F. It is similar in performance to the Qualcomm chip in my own benchmarks

Help me understand your point better. How do you want the services to work? Is there some standard you are advocating for, or for them to mimic existing services, or what?

I meant >= he currently seems to think that sex with someone 14 is morally acceptable. He now believes that sex with a 12 year old isn’t. He doesn’t understand that there is a reason we say minors cannot legally consent to major things like contracts and sex.

The problem is that better is not an abstract measure. It is better at what, for what purpose, in what context? I like fossil in the abstract, but it isn’t integrated well into any of my tools; there is only one hosting service I know of; and they took away the wysiwyg option from the build in wiki (a preference of mine). So it isn’t better for me

Your better will be measured against different criteria, etc.

Oof embarrassed I didn't proofread that, but I was saying "That is what the man is saying in that statement".

Stallman is like Humpty Dumpty (""When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less") and that masks some of his terrible beliefs. Also in his clarification (I refuse to call that an apology) why aren't we questioning why he needed to be told that sex with minors is bad? Why did he lack the skills to look up anything about consent and child development before saying that he though sex with >= 13 year olds was ok?

If you look up his anti-glossary, the definition of child he uses is:

> Children: Humans up to age 12 or 13 are children. After that, they become adolescents or teenagers. Let's resist the practice of infantilizing teenagers, by not calling them "children".

Older than 13 is not a child. Man is using that statement. Even if you want to argue that he didn’t really mean it like that, which I disagree with, opponents would have a field day with that to discredit him

Do we need people to stand up and push back? Yes. Stallman? I would rather not. The man doesn’t hold influence outside of some of our community, and is toxic because of things he has said and done to the outside world. Just look up his definition of “child” and read that in context to his statement about sex and he is discredited to most people

That is just the binaries, unless I am very much mistaken. I was (trying to) refer to the sources as well

I hope one day the source for Whitesmiths unix clone Idris gets released. IIRC it was the first unix clone, and it would just be nice to have that preserved for history