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Just watched The Gorge (2025) recently. I wouldn’t say it’s a bad film, but it was really mediocre.

I love the premise of having the two guard towers, one on each side of a mysterious and foggy gorge, not supposed to communicate with each other, guarding us all from whatever is down there. People have previously gone in but never come out. Strange monsters sometimes attempt the climb up the cliff walls. Is it the gate to hell? What’s the story behind it all? Chemistry slowly happens between the guards of the two towers.

(If you think you might enjoy this movie, don’t read my spoilers. Just watch it. I liked it even though it was a bit disappointing.)

People were very quick to declare it gone for good.

Help a guy out who doesn’t know all acronyms ever made…

• They’re still using the legacy program rcp to remotely receive files on Unix systems?

• They’re switching to reinforced concrete pipes?

• They’re using rapid control prototyping?

• They’re hiring respiratory care practitioners?

• They’re entering the reactor coolant pump market?

• They’re affiliated with the Russian Communist Party?

Same for me, and I use the button in my quick settings as well.

Good to know that you actually give options a try

I’m cheap and have used GIMP, Scribus, Inkscape and Paint.NET for professional work at my job (where I’m basically our one-man marketing and web department). So I’ve had to “make do” with a wide range of free software for a long time. And I may or may not have used a cracked Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator at home, also.

But man, I gotta say the quality and efficiency of my work has improved 10-fold after I bought the Affinity suite (no subscription, and its license allows me to use it commercially too, even though I bought it personally - I love that!)

I haven’t actually used 3.0 yet, but from all the screenshots I’ve seen, it looks basically the same.

Anyone who has, I have a question: Can you draw simple primitive shapes non-destructively yet (without having to open another plugin panel, select something in a very long dropdown, and filling in a bunch of parameter fields)?

PhotoGIMP is the same jank, just taped together in different locations instead. It’s very slightly better, but the actual tools and how you use them are the same. The problem seems to be that Gimp (and all the tools in it) is designed by developers.

The thing preventing me from using Gimp is the terrible UI and UX. And that situation hasn’t really changed very much in the last 15 years, either. I’m getting the feeling that Gimp is stuck as it is because the devs and current users want it like that.

Not the person you asked, but my Jellyfin is only exposed through my reverse proxy (nothing else forwarded), and I simply put Authelia in front of Jellyfin in the reverse proxy using forward_auth (not using OAuth to integrate with Jellyfin!), and that means that you have to be authenticated for any request on my jellyfin subdomain to be able to reach my Jellyfin server at all. Probably means I can’t connect via the app remotely, only via browser, but then I can just use my VPN and connect directly to the local IP.

It’s a huuuugely popular CMS used on around 40% of all websites on the internet, and it has around 70,000 plugins available of varying quality. Most exploits are from badly written plugins.

OH. MY. GOD. How did I not know there’s a Old Reddit style interface included in Lemmy???

Targeting Taiwanese, Tibetans and Uyghurs, you say? I bet it was really difficult to figure out who’s behind it.

Does this site really not support HTTPS? I’m just gonna assume that the author’s views on PHP are also stuck in 2005 then, like his website.

I host my own Tiny Tiny RSS (TT-RSS), but I’ve used the public instance of CommaFeed too, many years ago, before I started selfhosting.

I really like TT-RSS, especially with my own theme I made, but the container image I’m using now is outdated and has some problems, and if I want to upgrade I’ll have to switch image to the official one, and I won’t be able to simply migrate my data over, as TT-RSS has since dropped support for MySQL completely, so I’m considering just hosting Commafeed instead (since I have to start fresh anyway).

I prefer RSS readers that feel a bit like Google Reader (R.I.P. - Gone but not forgotten)

You can’t even buy working batteries for a most of the old phones I have in my drawer.

The idea is nice, but such a government program would either end up just shipping tons of broken electronics to third world countries, or spending more money testing old electronics compared to what it would cost to buy new cheap feature phones for people in those third world countries.

Learn how to use Docker. That’s gonna be a big help.

“I was there, Gandalf. I was there 3000 years ago.”

Didn’t Mac use just CR line endings at some point?

Ogg was apparently not named after Nanny Ogg, no matter how awesome that’d be.

The Xiph.org foundation themselves say that’s where the name came from.