Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st February 2026
Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. What a year, huh?)
In an effort to gain ~~votes from moderates and republicans~~ campaign contributions from billionaires
(Not even a dig, just the economic reality of modern campaign finance. What do you do, as a progressive running against a fascist, if you’re offered a chance to 10x your reach, and “all you have to do” is downplay your most controversial positions?)
(Edit: Quotes around “all you have to do”)
Oh yeah, the rest of the meme still 100% applies.
You know the four most ~~expensive~~ dangerous words in the English language, right? “This time it’s different”.
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Joe Biden changed nothing.
really? Joe Biden continued disregarding the CDC with regards to COVID and a zillion other things he did different to trump?
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Joe Biden continued disregarding the CDC with regards to COVID
His administration repeatedly said that the pandemic was over, you don't need to wear masks anymore, you can go back to work, and then Omicron happened. None of that was at any point ever true. Biden himself caught COVID during the very press release he gave to say COVID was over in September of 2022! COVID/Long COVID are still billable conditions in hospitals; doesn't sound very "over" to me! Everyone is always sick. They sell 4-in-1 swab tests OTC at pharmacies now. Is it really over? "Back to normal" happened with his administration's blessings in 2022, and that playbook was primed as early as the second year of the pandemic in 2021, under Biden. Now no one cares about the most communicable disease in history that shows no evidence of ever being cleared, has no cure, and is still spreading and mutating to be vaccine-avoidant like a wildfire, not just the anti-vaccination crowd. Tons of opportunistic viruses re-emerge with new outbreaks of one terrible thing or another spreading every year because people are wrecking their immune systems catching COVID over and over and over, even while vaccinated. All of that happened during the Biden years. All of that continues to happen because the good blue man said we could go to the movies again. He is culpable.
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what are your current daily covid prevention steps?
EDIT : And are you sure you want to claim that Biden's covid plan is as bad as "shove lightbulbs up your ass, wash down horse de-wormer with bleach"?
"I say let things fall fast"
You must not be in the crosshairs of the Trump regime... yet.
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shut your gringo ass up you ballotmunching Uncle Tom freak
demanding that the opposition not trail the right-wing on every single talking point and give a single fuck about the lives that the so-called US would continue to destroy beyond its borders is not accelerationism or 'whiteness'.
when non-'United' SStateSSians have to listen to you about your fucking 'damage control' instead of actually doing anything you sound like two SS officers bickering over how painful our torment should be. we don't fucking care about your comfort you imperial hog.
the collapse of US soft power institutions under Trump has been a fucking godsend for the rest of us trying to actually improve our nations.
stop running DARVO for your abuser and find a healthier relationship with politics.
Ok but the US has a first past the post system so regardless of how you feel about it, abstaining or voting third party in any general election is a vote for the republican candidate. That's the reality. So unless you're voting for the Dem candidate you are tacitly condoning the republican candidate. That's the reality, full stop. So unless you've voted Dem, you have explicitly voted for this. It doesn't really matter what you think about it, that's how it actually fucking works.
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They can protest(more freely) to demand change.
Yes, like those Palestine protests in 2024 that were so gladly welcomed by the liberal establishment. Those protesters were absolutely not decried as useful idiots, Russian trolls or both. Stop kidding yourself. Regarding imperialism specifically like 80% (random guess) of the US gargles fucking MIC balls when it's democrats at the helm.
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As long as you realize that radical action means changing the top brass among the democrats.
Nope, it means creating parallel workers' organizations that don't rely on bourgeois political systems. Expecting lasting change from bourgeois politics is a fool's errand no matter who is in charge.
The meme mentions this like it's a Democrat issue, but Republicans do the same thing.
For example, Trump disavowed Project 2025 policies as too extreme, but then obviously followed them very closely.
The issue is election winners are almost always the one with >50% popular support. So candidates are incentivized to align their policies with those of the median voter. This persists across different voting systems, so rebuilding it for that reason may not help.
But you can still elect a progressive by voting for them in the primary election (where they can be more authentic) or if the median voter becomes more progressive (more progressives vote).
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he didn't stop trum from getting elected to a second term
edit: somehow responded to the wrong comment. whoops
So candidates are incentivized to align their policies with those of the median voter.
*The median donor. The median voter is way to the left of your average Dem politician.
I understand the spoiler effect, but since neither party represents me in any capacity, there's nothing to spoil. PSL represents me. I also understand that it's impossible for a working class party to win, currently, so I actually organize politically in real life, year-round, not just voting once in a while and talking online. MAGA took power because the US Empire is declining, and the DNC is incapable of representing the working classes, so there has been a rightward shift.
Even if every single third-party voter voted Harris in every state, she still would have lost. Nothing you claimed is true in any capacity.
abstaining or voting third party in any general election is a vote for the republican candidate.
oh i was told by one of your 'republicans' that it's actually a vote for 'democrat'.
three votes for the price of one? third-parties sound pretty powerful.
fake ass electoral system.
Voting vs other actions isn't a dichotomy - you can vote for the lesser evil to buy time, AND do the things that will make a real and lasting impact.
In our current system though, red team vs blue IS a dichotomy - using your vote you can nudge the counter a tiny bit closer to one side or the other; or opt out / vote third, which both equate to doing nothing and letting you're countrymen choose for you, but the potential results are the same: red or blue.
So, you can use your vote however you want, but I'd recommend pitching that nudge away from the more blatant Nazis. ...but also build those guillotines for use against hostile actors regardless of party.
What folks 100% should NOT do though is vote and then consider their 'civic duty' satisfied, which is ofc the sentiment OP is aimed at.
Voting for a different party of genocidal imperialists doesn't actually buy time to organize, though. Both parties fund ICE, both wage war on the global south, both are actively against worker organization that stands to threaten the system they both stand for.
I personally do not care if someone votes, as long as they are also organizing. If someone is only engaged with politics via voting, then they have no leg to stand on when others advocate for voting third party and organizing in real life. If someone organizes and happens to vote DNC, I really could not care less, they can do that as long as they actually participate in party building.
Why let the lesser evil win when we could have the bbeg? Commit to servitude on the most evil!
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Man, that's some overtly defeatists stance. There still is time to stop them. There are people out there willing to die, to stop the worse from happening.
At the very least give them some support.
Seriously, what's with democrats and their "well I told you so, my work ends here, see ya" position?
Track Your Congressmembers' Connections to the Israel Lobby — Track AIPAC
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Survey analysis reveals China as the 'most valued bilateral partner' for small island states; Chinese expert says appeal lies in reliability against global uncertainties
Survey analysis reveals China as the 'most valued bilateral partner' for small island states; Chinese expert says appeal lies in reliability against global uncertainties
Small island developing nations such as Mauritius and the Maldives showed China rated as the top bilateral development assistance partner amid US aid cuts and Washington's pivot away from climate change, a survey by ODI Global published on Wednesday…www.globaltimes.cn
Netribution, 25 years on
It’s 19-and-a-half years since I first emailed the late James MacGregor, in a state of major excitement: Netribution wanted to republish an article I’d written on work experience about short films!
That was May 2006. A month or so before, my brother and I had been checking out the mastheads of his beloved film magazines in our local Sainsbury’s, so I could find editors’ details and gain work experience (thank you, Hotdog magazine, RIP). That is an extremely mid-Noughties sentence. Hotdog itself was closed down in 2006.
A 2005 graduate with an English Lit degree, I’d been teaching English in Spain, but knew that I really wanted to embark on a journalism career. Hotdog let me interview and review; those pieces led to more stories, which I used for my next work placement; and suddenly I was being published online! You couldn’t have told me that I wasn’t living in THE golden age of journalism.
Upon seeing my article republished on Netribution, I emailed James to offer him another story. He was very warm and encouraging, telling me: “We want to publish good quality material that stands the test of time” – a wonderful welcome. He introduced me to Nic Wistreich over email, and so our story began.
Thanks to Netribution, I attended the London Film Festival for several years through the Noughties as press, darting in a daze between daytime screenings, before my evening shifts at my main job for The Associated Press, working on international breaking news. I had a lot of energy back in those days. Making the press pen at the LFF meant that I ended up on PR lists that were still helpful to me a decade later, leading to the making of the Black Mirror Cracked podcast for the Daily Mirror.
James and Nic suggested that I apply for the Berlinale Talent Campus’s Talent Press scheme, and gave me all the backing that a budding critic would need, like letters of recommendation and website analytics. I was accepted onto the 2008 cohort, and spent the week running around the festival with my colleagues from around the world, working with heroes like The Guardian’s late, legendary Derek Malcolm, and Stephanie Zacharek (then at Salon.com). The friends I made on that trip have led me to travel the world, from Lima in Peru, to finally making it to Brighton, a seaside city less than two hours by train from my hometown of London.
What I’m trying to say is that Netribution changed my life in ways that I couldn’t have foreseen. Twenty years trying to make a living in the quicksand of a constantly-evolving media landscape is tough, but so much of the good I’ve been graced with in my career has come from Netribution.
Now that I’m moving on from journalism to writing and making my own things, I’m grateful for everything I learned about creativity from writing for Netribution, and look back with wonder at the space and time I was given to grow.
Here’s to another 25 years!
‘A giant among critics’: Derek Malcolm remembered by film-makers
The former film critic of the Guardian, who has died aged 91, was a friend to many of those whose work he admired – and criticised. Here, Stephen Frears, Asif Kapadia, Jeremy Thomas and Stephen Woolley pay tributeGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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We are not YPTB. If you have a problem with the way an instance or community is run, then take it up over at !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com.Addendum: Yes we know that you think ml/hexbear/grad are tankies and or .world are a bunch of liberals but it gets old quickly. Try and come up with new material.
Locking this up to give @Deceptichum@quokk.au an opportunity to remove it. If not, I'll remove it in 12 hours.
Al Jazeera denounces YouTube’s compliance with Israel’s ban on network
Al Jazeera has condemned YouTube’s compliance with an Israeli law banning the network’s livestreams in the country, warning that the move signals how major tech companies can be “co-opted as instruments of regimes hostile to freedom”.
YouTube’s submission to Israel’s ban became apparent on Wednesday, days after Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karahi ordered a 90-day extension of an existing ban on the network’s operations in Israel, blocking broadcasting and internet companies from carrying the network’s content.
Al Jazeera denounces YouTube’s compliance with Israel’s ban on network
Livestreams of Al Jazeera Arabic, Al Jazeera English and Al Jazeera Mubasher blocked in Israel.Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera)
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Dlaczego połowiczna zmiana art. 196 k.k. (obraza uczuć religijnych), polegająca jedynie na usunięciu kary pozbawienia wolności, nie chroni wolności słowa?
Dlaczego połowiczna zmiana art. 196 k.k. nie chroni wolności słowa - Sieć Obywatelska Watchdog
Wspólnie z ARTICLE 19 i Helsińską Fundacją Praw Człowieka w ramach konsultacji przekazaliśmy nasze stanowisko dotyczące projektu zmiany art. 196 Kodeksu karnego.Redakcja (Sieć Obywatelska Watchdog Polska)
'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells
Lemmy's active userbase has been stable since September 2025
A post from 2 days ago presented a graph that showed an important variation in the active userbase: discuss.tchncs.de/post/5256565…
Using the daily rather than monthly view on lemmy.fediverse.observer/daily… shows a much stable line (especially if you take into account Piefed's growth: piefed.fediverse.observer/dail… )
Going through the comments in the other posts, a few recommendations that can help with the overall experience
- use different feeds: either using different Lemmy/Mbin accounts (one account per type of content), or Piefed personal feeds, but being able to browse different feeds such as "Good news", "Hobbies", "Art", "Life advice" help to see more content than politics and tech
- discover communities: subscribe to !communitypromo@lemmy.ca, !fedigrow@lemmy.zip and !newcommunities@lemmy.world to add active communities to your feeds
- go to general communities rather than specific ones: the current user base only allows so much specialization. Your favorite city builder community may not exist, but !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works does. !stationery@lemmy.world and !pen_and_paper@lemmy.world may be inactive, but !journaling@sh.itjust.works is not.
- use a client that allows for comments consolidation: I don't remember which mobile apps does it (Sync, I think?), Piefed has that feature built-in too. It allows to see all comments on a cross-post in the same view: piefed.zip/c/privacy/p/928874/…
- report toxic users and avoid communities that do not handle your reports: quite a few comments mentioned that issue in the other thread. Mods can't see everything, reporting helps to keep the atmosphere of a community enjoyable.
- use a client that implements keyword filters: quite a few mobile apps and alternative Lemmy front-ends do, Piefed has it built in. It can really help avoid the "doom and gloom" overwhelming your feed.
Finally, a few communities recommendations for lighthearted communities
- !casualconversation@piefed.social
- !goodnewseveryone@piefed.social
- !wholesome@reddthat.com
- !nicememes@sopuli.xyz
- !dullsters@dullsters.net / !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
- !twogoobers@lemmy.zip
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'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells
Artificial intelligence took center stage at this year's CES gadget show, but not always for the right reasons.
Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social
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deliberately misleading error message.
pyfedi/app/community/forms.py at 6405e51dab23f43eaea18d0ee4d9e7a773a3fd31
pyfedi - Project background: https://join.piefed.social. Flagship instance: https://piefed.socialCodeberg.org
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There are all kinds of fun stuff in the Piefed code. Allow me to dredge up a comment I made recently:
@edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space was looking at PieFed code the other week, and I ended up taking a look at it too. Its great fun to sneak a peak at.
For example, you cannot cast a vote on PieFed if you've made 0 replies, 0 posts, AND your username is 8 characters long:
def cannot_vote(self):
if self.is_local():
return False
return self.post_count == 0 and self.post_reply_count == 0 and len(
self.user_name) == 8 # most vote manipulation bots have 8 character user names and never post any contentIf a reply is created, from anywhere, that only contains the word "this", the comment is dropped (CW: ableism in the function name):
def reply_is_stupid(body) -> bool:
lower_body = body.lower().strip()
if lower_body == 'this' or lower_body == 'this.' or lower_body == 'this!':
return True
return FalseEvery user (remote or local) has an "attitude" which is calculated as follows:
(upvotes cast - downvotes cast) / (upvotes + downvotes). If your "attitude" is < 0.0 you can't downvote.Every account has a Social Credit Score, aka your Reputation. If your account has less than 100 reputation and is newly created, you are not considered "trustworthy" and there are limitations placed on what your account can do. Your reputation is calculated as upvotes earned - downvotes earned aka Reddit Karma. If your reputation is at -10 you also cannot downvote, and you can't create new DMs. It also flags your account automatically if your reputation is to low:
PieFed boasts that it has "4chan image detection". Let's see how that works in practice:
if site.enable_chan_image_filter:
# Do not allow fascist meme content
try:
if '.avif' in uploaded_file.filename:
import pillow_avif # NOQA
image_text = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open(BytesIO(uploaded_file.read())).convert('L'))
except FileNotFoundError:
image_text = ''
except UnidentifiedImageError:
image_text = ''
if 'Anonymous' in image_text and (
'No.' in image_text or ' N0' in image_text): # chan posts usually contain the text 'Anonymous' and ' No.12345'
self.image_file.errors.append(
"This image is an invalid file type.") # deliberately misleading error message
current_user.reputation -= 1
db.session.commit()
return FalseYup. If your image contains the word
Anonymous, and contains the text No. or N0 it will reject the image with a fake error message. Not only does it give you a fake error, but it also will dock your Social Credit Score. Take note of the current_user.reputation -= 1PieFed also boasts that it has AI generated text detection. Let's see how that also works in practice:
# LLM Detection
if reply.body and '—' in reply.body and user.created_very_recently():
# usage of em-dash is highly suspect.
from app.utils import notify_admin
# notify adminThis is the default detection, apparently you can use an API endpoint for that detection as well apparently, but it's not documented anywhere but within the code.
Do you want to leave a comment that is just a funny gif? No you don't. Not on PieFed, that will get your comment dropped and lower your Social Credit Score!
if reply_is_just_link_to_gif_reaction(reply.body) and site.enable_gif_reply_rep_decrease:
user.reputation -= 1
raise PostReplyValidationError(_('Gif comment ignored'))How does it know its just a gif though?
def reply_is_just_link_to_gif_reaction(body) -> bool:
tmp_body = body.strip()
if tmp_body.startswith('https://media.tenor.com/') or \
tmp_body.startswith('https://media1.tenor.com/') or \
tmp_body.startswith('https://media2.tenor.com/') or \
tmp_body.startswith('https://media3.tenor.com/') or \
tmp_body.startswith('https://i.giphy.com/') or \
tmp_body.startswith('https://i.imgflip.com/') or \
tmp_body.startswith('https://media1.giphy.com/') or \
tmp_body.startswith('https://media2.giphy.com/') or \
tmp_body.startswith('https://media3.giphy.com/') or \
tmp_body.startswith('https://media4.giphy.com/'):
return True
else:
return FalseI'm not even sure someone would actually drop a link like this directly into a comment. It's not even taking into consideration whether those URLs are part of a markdown image tag.
As Edie mentioned, if someone has a user blocked, and that user replies to someone, their comment is dropped:
if parent_comment.author.has_blocked_user(user.id) or parent_comment.author.has_blocked_instance(user.instance_id):
log_incoming_ap(id, APLOG_CREATE, APLOG_FAILURE, saved_json, 'Parent comment author blocked replier')
return NoneFor Example:
- Cowbees comment on lemmy.ml: lemmy.ml/post/41587312/2328877…
- Non-existent on piefed.social: piefed.social/comment/9647830
(see Edies original comment here)
More from Edie:
Also add if the poster has blocked you! It is exactly as nonsense as you think.
Example:
I made a post in testing@piefed.social from my account testingpiefed@piefed.social, replied to it from my other testingpiefed@piefed.zip account. Since the .social account has blocked the .zip, it doesn't show up on .social, nor on e.g. piefed.europe.pub.
I then made a comment from my lemmy.ml account, and replied to it from my piefed.zip account, and neither .social, nor europe.pub can see my .zip reply, but can see my lemmy.ml comment!
[ Let me add more clarity here: what this feature does is two things. On a local instance, if you block someone who is on your instance, they cannot reply to you. However, this condition is not federated (yet, it would seem), and so, to get around this "issue", the system will drop comments from being stored in the PieFed database IF the blocked user is remote. This means you end up with "ghost comment chains" on remote instances. There is NEW code as of a few weeks ago, that will send an AUTOMATED mod action against blocked remote users to remove the comment. So long as the community is a local PieFed community, it will federate that mod action to the remote server, removing the comment automatically. For PieFed servers, eventually, they would rather federate the users block list (that's fair), but it would seem this code to send automated mod actions to remove comments due to user blocks is going to stay just for the Lemmy Piefed interaction. I don't really understand why the system simply doesn't prevent the rendering of the comment, instead of stopping it from being stored. It knows the user is blocked, it already checks it, it should then just stop rendering the chain of comments for the given user, prevent notifications from those users, etc. ]
But wait! There's More!
- PieFed defederates from Hexbear.net, Lemmygrad.ml, and Lemmy.ml out of the box.
- The "rational discourse" sidebar that you see on the main instance is hard coded into the system.
- ~~Moderators of a community can kick you from a community, which unsubscribes you from it, and does not notify you.~~ This has been removed actually, the API endpoint is still there.
- I was going to say that Admins had the ability to add a weight to votes coming from other instances, but the videos that showed this are now gone, and as of v1.5.0 they have removed the instance vote weight feature, claiming it was "unused".
All this to say. Piefed is a silly place, and no one should bother using its software.
pyfedi/app/community/forms.py at main
pyfedi - Project background: https://join.piefed.social. Flagship instance: https://piefed.socialCodeberg.org
The difference, one would assume, is that on the whole, Reddit's political biases influence more what is not shown (much like lemmy.ml banning people for any criticism of Russia, China, or North Korea, or the echo chamber in hexbear), whereas Lemmy's tankie issue also manifests as people actively sea-lioning (e.g. Cowbee) and (especially from hexbear) overt trolling, which shows up more in people's faces. Both are issues, neither are good.
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Canada separatists accused of ‘treason’ after secret talks with US state department
Canada separatists accused of ‘treason’ after secret talks with US state department
Alberta activists’ covert meetings with US officials revealed, outlining group’s increasingly emboldened effortsLeyland Cecco (The Guardian)
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Canada separatists accused of ‘treason’ after secret talks with US state department
Canada separatists accused of ‘treason’ after secret talks with US state department
Alberta activists’ covert meetings with US officials revealed, outlining group’s increasingly emboldened effortsLeyland Cecco (The Guardian)
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Kto i w jaki sposób zaatakował w grudniu 2025 polską infrastrukturę energetyczną | Zaufana Trzecia Strona
Kto i w jaki sposób zaatakował w grudniu 2025 polską infrastrukturę energetyczną | Zaufana Trzecia Strona
29 grudnia 2025 miały miejsce niespotykane do tej pory w Polsce skoordynowane ataki na infrastrukturę energetyczną. Zespół CERT Polska opublikował właśnie bardzo szczegółowy raport (także…Zaufana Trzecia Strona
Sandisk Reports Fiscal Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results
Sandisk Reports Fiscal Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results
Sandisk Corporation (Nasdaq: SNDK) today reported fiscal second quarter financial results. "This quarter's performance underscores our agility in capitalizing on better product mix, accelerating enterprise SSD deployments, and strengthening market d…TechPowerUp
Alternatives for Photoshop?
Hello fediverse penguins!
Being in Linux for 2+ years, I have found alternative solutions for the apps I used on windows. But I can't find something like Photoshop.
I started using Krita, which is amazing and does lots of things I do, but the text editor when I try to resize text, it just ruins it and gets blurry sometimes.
Then I found inkscape, which was good for, text and everything else worked fine, but not much of photo editor.
So what next? any recommendations ?
I also use kdenlive for video editing, and rawtherapee for DSLR photos editing.
There's a github project called PhotoGIMP that makes the GIMP UI feel a lot like photoshop, aimed at transitioning users.
Edit: here
PhotoGIMP – GIMP Patch for Photoshop-Like UI
PhotoGIMP is a patch for GIMP 3.0+ that makes it look and feel like Adobe Photoshop with familiar tools, shortcuts, and UI layout. #PhotoGIMPEvie Kenneally (PhotoGIMP)
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I made/maintain a UI-style from scratch for Inkscape, if anyone is interested. It addresses various UI issues
Hey, I tried it. Is it only themes in the settings, or should I do something else. The interface became a bit more aesthetically appealing, so a nice work on that regard. But my pain point is the panels and their very weird behaviour (like you do resize and they are too much all the time). I expect you cannot address that with a theme.
I’m going to keep it, so I may comment more some days / weeks later, if you will.
Yes, this is “surface level” styling as a theme. It targets Inkscape-specific widgets as much as possible, which improves things considerably. It does not change Inkscape beyond the styling level
If you could explain your panel issue in more detail (I don’t understand what you meant exactly) and if there isn’t already, it would be good to submit it as a issue to Inkscape directly
Well, I use an XP Pen display tablet, so effectively a second monitor. I've used both Krita on Ubuntu using X11 (in 2024 and before) and since the start of 2025 been using Bazzite which uses Wayland.
Can't say I've run into any display specific issues. Pen tracking gave me some trouble, but it was some setting in KDE and Open Tablet Driver I had to play with to fix that.
My issue was that when run through XWayland, Krita would work only on the primary display (no concept of that in Wayland) with 0,0 coordinates. So, if I’m on a laptop, it would work only on the primary (laptop) screen, but not the external one. I have a script that reorganises my workspaces and makes the external display the primary one, then runs Krita. But it would never work on any other display, if I wanted to use that too, for some multi monitor setup.
I may want to try that again, perhaps that was some bug that was fixed. But I’m surely not going to use X instead of Wayland for Krita.
Interesting. I've never experienced this. Back when Wayland wasn't even considered as a main display server yet there were problems with resolution scaling and desktop sizes, but... Straight up not working?
Hmm... But what do you mean with it doesn't work? How doesn't/didn't it work? What prevented you from, say, opening Krita and just dragging the window to the monitor you want?
I should have mentioned it more clearly that this could be a combination of bugs, not necessarily a Krita bug. Because this issue is not only with Krita, but many (or even all) XWayland apps. All Wine apps shared this too. So, the primary issue is that it needs XWayland instead of being Wayland-native.
I use Sway on Arch Linux, and Gnome on Fedora. I haven’t been doing anything on Fedora for years, as it’s a shared family computer and it has just one display. So, I expect it would be good there. To my memory, it was. I was trying various graphical things, even Photoshop and Illustrator with Wine, and they were mostly working too.
I think I could issue a DE for drawing sessions, when needed, if that solves the issue. So, thanks for mentioning that it’s issues-free on KDE. It’s more obvious to me now that actually Krita is a KDE thing, after all.
But, honestly, it feels the same as doing my hacky scripts to mitigate the bug. I’d love it to just work, that’s why I mention I hope it would be Wayland native one day.
Gimp's latest version is much cleaner and a way smoother experience. I'm actually really excited about it. :)
Totally agreed on Krita. It's a joy to use. My drawing and painting could certainly be better, but I definitely don't feel like the software is what's holding me back!
I have been looking at Affinity as a sub for InDesign. I have never actually tried it though. Does it work on Linux?
I dropped Adobe a few years ago, I do love inscape, however yeh it has limitations, gimp for photos. Not found anything to good with text. Been back and forward with Scribus but it’s just so awkward.
I used Affinity on Mac and Windows.
It was the affordable, well-thought-out, performant Photoshop competitor and is now free to use (with a Canva account).
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I got it running easily, but didn't test it fully, yet.
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GIMP, but you definitely should install also the GMIC and resynthesiser plugins. With GMIC especially, you're getting so many things that not even Photoshop can do, making GIMP objectively superior.
Edit: If you mean you're looking for a raw editor, meaning you change the colors and how the image themselves look, then you need Darktable. This is a raw editor. GIMP is mainly for VFX.
What do personally use G'MIC for?
The example screenshots all look gimmicky (heh) or super advanced scientific image processing.
I guess noise reduction is useful to the average user. Depends on how good it is.
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Photo editing: darktable
Digital Art: Krita
Illustrator type stuff: Inkscape
Pain: Gimp. although the PhotoGIMP plugin makes it bearable.
OR wait for the recent wine patch to mature a bit more and then you can literally just use Photoshop.
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From what I know you'll have to compose with a mix of Krita GIMP and Inkscape because those are the three most reliable and feature rich FOSS image editors at this time. In the current capitalist mode of production, free software will hardly be on the level of paid software, however enshittified, because of how many devs get to work full time on it.
Keep in mind that I say this while operating fully on a FOSS environment, because the relative increase in features and reliability doesn't justify going from free to an absurdly high subscription
I was just getting ready to ask. I've been a paint.net user for years, gets me by well enough anytime I need it. Switching to Linux, I found GIMP way too annoying for my liking.
Might try this out or figure out how to run Paint.net on Linux.
I started using Krita, which is amazing and does lots of things I do, but the text editor when I try to resize text, it just ruins it and gets blurry sometimes. Then I found inkscape, which was good for, text and everything else worked fine, but not much of photo editor.
Inkscape is like Adobe illustrator. It's for vector graphics and text. it's not great for photos/pictures/pixelated things. Like, you can add those as objects to a document. But you want to edit the images somewhere else. Maybe a krita --> inkscape workflow could work for you?
I also use kdenlive for video editing, and rawtherapee for DSLR photos editing.
If you're also just kinda exploring software for fun, I recommend trying to play around with blender for more specialized video editing. Like, if you want to add complex effects, or motion track/stabilize, whatever. It's an extremely powerful piece of software (best to look at tutorials, idk if anyone can figure that shit out on their own). All I've done with it is stabilize some video (which I then used in a kdenlive project), and I absolutely haven't even scratched the surface.
the text editor when I try to resize text, it just ruins it and gets blurry sometimes.
I dunno what you're doing but... When you resize text, you usually want to select the text and increase the font size. Sometimes you can render to vector and resize that. But if you resize the text as pixels, then it'll probably look bad. Generally I try not to render text to pixels or do that last if necessary.
As someone already pointed out, try to increase font size first.
I personally use a Vector layer and put text there (not sure if it even works in paint layer).
For making it bigger you can then just grab the corner with Select Shapes Tool and resize it. If it doesn't work, enable Scale Styles in the Tool Options docker.
There are ways to bypass some of the issues. But for me, what works the best, is to get used to use the tool that fits the job best, and sometimes that's two or three tools for the same project. It's exactly if I do some woodwork (carpenter work), I might use both a saw, a hammer, a chisel, a drill and a screwdriver... It really doesn't bother me, to use more apps to create something I'm satisfied with. 
Inkscape, Gimp, Krita is my most used apps on Linux... On SloWindows it's mostly Inkscape and Affinity...
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in reply to BlueMonday1984 • • •When all the worst things come together: ransomware probably vibe-coded, discards private key, data never recoverable
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in reply to BlueMonday1984 • • •Gentlemen, it’s been an honour sneering w/ you, but I think this is the top 🫡 . Nothings gonna surpass this (at least until FTX 2 drops)
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in reply to BigMuffN69 • • •Starting to get a bit worried people are reinventing stuff like qanon and great evil man theory for Epstein atm. (Not a dig at the people here, but on social media I saw people go act like Epstein created /pol/, lootboxes, gamergate, destroyed gawker (did everyone forget that was Thiel? Mad about how they outed him?) etc. Like only Epstein has agency).
The lesson should be the mega rich are class conscious, dumb as hell, and team up to work on each others interests and dont care about who gets hurt (see how being a pedo sex trafficker wasnt a deal breaker for any of them).
Sorry for the unrelated rant (related: they also got money from Epstein, wonder if that was before or after the sparkling elites article, which was written a few months after Epsteins conviction, june vs sept (not saying those are related btw, just that the article is a nice example of brown-nosing)), but this was annoying me, and posting something like this on bsky while everyone is getting a bit manic about the contents of the files (which seems to not contain a lot of Trump references suddenly) wo
... show moreStarting to get a bit worried people are reinventing stuff like qanon and great evil man theory for Epstein atm. (Not a dig at the people here, but on social media I saw people go act like Epstein created /pol/, lootboxes, gamergate, destroyed gawker (did everyone forget that was Thiel? Mad about how they outed him?) etc. Like only Epstein has agency).
The lesson should be the mega rich are class conscious, dumb as hell, and team up to work on each others interests and dont care about who gets hurt (see how being a pedo sex trafficker wasnt a deal breaker for any of them).
Sorry for the unrelated rant (related: they also got money from Epstein, wonder if that was before or after the sparkling elites article, which was written a few months after Epsteins conviction, june vs sept (not saying those are related btw, just that the article is a nice example of brown-nosing)), but this was annoying me, and posting something like this on bsky while everyone is getting a bit manic about the contents of the files (which seems to not contain a lot of Trump references suddenly) would prob get me some backlash. (That the faked elon rejection email keeps being spread also doesnt help).
I am however also reminded of the Panama papers. (And the unfounded rumors around Marc Dutroux how he was protected by a secret pedophile cult in government, this prob makes me a bit more biasses against those sorts of things).
Sorry had to get it off my chest, but yes it is all very stupid, and I wish there were more consequences for all the people who didnt think his conviction was a deal breaker. (Et tu Chomsky?).
E: note im not saying Yud didnt do sex crimes/sexual abuse. Im complaining about the 'everything is Epstein' conspiracy I see forming.
For an example why this might be a problem: bsky.app/profile/joestieb.bsky… Joy Gray is ahead of the conspiracy curve here (as all conspiracy theories eventually lead to one thing).
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in reply to Soyweiser • • •Yeah this. It would be nice if people could manage to neither dismiss the extent to which the mega rich work together nor fall into insane conspiracy theories about it.
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in reply to scruiser • • •Charlie Stross
in reply to Soyweiser • • •Years ago (before Epstein, before the GFC, etc) I used to jokingly talk about my pet conspiracy theory, that the world was ruled by the P7: the Pale Patriarchal Plutocratic Protestant Penis-People of Power.
Turns out I was right.
I didn't want to be right …