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cat -vconsidered harmfulWhat’s #cat-v?
Considered harmful.
It’s the IRC channel for https://cat-v.org/ There are some very clever people there with very specific ideas and opinions about computing.I open the site and see:
‘The Internet is not for sissies.’ – Paul Vixie
It’s always important to make a good first impression or whatever.
I think it’s achieving the intended goal of gatekeeping the site to 50+ year-old graybeards with narcissistic tendencies and a persecution complex which have decanted over the decades into a nasty brew of unfiltered bitterness.
Well it’s always nice to get an unbiased opinion
I guess being queer is an incompatible bias with whatever these curmudgeons have going on
I looked at some of the other pages and the whole site has this charm.
Best example was “dangerous” software that no one even needs an alternative for and among them were GNOME and KDE…
Well, it cites Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell in the affirmative, so clearly, it is a place for 🤡
so we can keep being stuck with corposhit products with no alternatives?
Yeah, there’s room for both, but I think replacing proprietary software is actually a bit higher priority than just being different.
I suppose it depends on what you are replacing, tho.
what’s the white pin on her coat?
I think there are examples of projects getting criticized for not recreating the corposhit. Take GIMP — sure some folks really like it, but there are huge swaths of people who basically just say, “why doesn’t it work like Photoshop?!” and get very frustrated with its different approach.
Personally, I like Google Photos — the interface, not the product — so when Immich came along and basically cloned it, I was really happy (I think Immich is fantastic, and at this point calling it a Photos clone is kinda offensive tbh — it’s way cool).
Some corposhit just sucks, yeah, but some is actually well thought out — no shame in taking the concept and running with it, IMHO.
I like GIMP and have never used Photoshop.
I’ve never used either, honestly, so I’m pretty sure I’m not entitled to an opinion, but I do know that every time someone says they ‘use’ or ‘like’ GIMP all I can imagine is the dude from Pulp Fiction going, “Eh, it’s a living!” with a defeated sort-of shrug (a la the wooly mammoth-cum-showerhead from the Flintstones)
I mean, either way, you do you and all, I don’t kink/platform-shame
