"Austerity has scarred the UK for the last 14 years. If it wants to finally break free, then it’s time for a radical new approach. And that starts with rethinking how government finances work"
Excellent in the New Statesman re Green Party leader, Zack Polanski's use of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) in a recent interview.
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The economics behind Zack Polanski’s claims
In these pages last week (25 November), Green Party leader Zack Polanski told George Eaton that “The fiscal rule we need to have is to make sure that inflation doesn’t go higher than the skills and reAaron Teater (New Statesman)
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Trop rageux de merdouiller depuis plus d'une heure, panne de logique.
Martin peut bien faire ce qu'il veut, ça change rien, pour moi 😶
Je l'avais "innocenté" à tort, et je vois pourquoi il restait une option ouverte qui bloque cette conclusion... mais pas pourquoi il serait forcément crimi.
Je comprends pas pourquoi la règle des 2 crimis minimum compte, ici.
J'arrive plus à "voir" les hypothèses, encore moins celle où quelqu'un n'aurait pas ses deux crimis.
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Sur téléphone, je me met sur une case et je maintiens appuyé, ça fait apparaître un nuancier
@SiestⒶcorta Merci, je peux cliquer long sur mon ordinateur portable !
Par contre je suis bloqué même avant toi, je ne pige pas comment innocenter Zoe !
J'ai calculé un maximum de trois combinaisons possibles entre Alice, Bobby, Daniel, Gus, Martin, Sofia, Vicky, Wally et Zoe à partir des indices que j'ai, j'ai refait le calcul deux fois, du coup il ne me manquerait plus que deux indices pour finir le puzzle même s'il y a 9 personnages restants. Mais là, je ne vois rien qui me permette d'écarter un personnage en particulier.
@SiestⒶcorta Ah, c'est la règle des 2 criminels minimum qui m'a sauvé en retirant deux combinaisons possible, ce qui n'en laisse plus qu'une, et tu déduis le statut de 9 personnages d'un coup.
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PhotoGIMP - The Photoshop Like Experience on GIMP
A patch for optimizing GIMP 3.0+ for Adobe Photoshop users, including features like:
- Tool organization to mimic the position of Adobe Photoshop;
- New Splash Screen;
- New default settings to maximize space on the canvas;
- Shortcuts similar to the ones in Photoshop for Windows, following Adobe's Documentation;
- New icon and Name from custom .desktop file.
github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/…
Flatpak (Linux)
In order to install the newest version of PhotoGIMP on your Linux operating system using Flatpak, just follow this simple steps:
- Make sure you already have GIMP installed from Flathub; (for Ubuntu/Mint user just select Flatpak below the install button in the manager)
- Start and quit GIMP after you installed before you continue!
- Download the files from this repository or just click here - > github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/…
- Extract the content of the zip file on your home folder (.config and .local - they are the important ones) and overwrite the files if needed;
(if you can't see the file click Ctrl+H to see hidden files)
-You're done, enjoy it! 😄
PhotoGIMP/screenshots/photogimp_3_-_diolinux.png at master · Diolinux/PhotoGIMP
A Patch for GIMP 3+ for Photoshop Users. Contribute to Diolinux/PhotoGIMP development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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The muscle memory is hard to fix
Also this is software, we should celebrate and embrace the fact that the same tool can be customized to look and be organized differently to maximally ease users into learning it. This is one of the super powers of software!
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This is just wrong. I love foss and the effort put into gimp, but there are so many little ux things that it gets wrong.
The big one for me is non destructive resizing of pasted objects. Photoshop puts the little drag handles on them allowing for resizing, the top middle one allows you to rotate, holding the shift key locks proportions etc, all right away after pasting.
On gimp you can open a menu and specify the height and width, or you can click shift + s, which kind of works like Photoshops but is somehow clunkier & destructive when shrinking.
I also really miss smart objects and the universal tool options menu (not sure what it's called but it lives on the top of the canvas on PS and gives you all the relevant options for whatever tool you are using. I'm sure gimp has an equivalent but out of the box I find it much more correct and confusing.
I highly recommend you watch one of the free video courses, from the beginning, on youtube.
GIMP is a really sophisticated piece of software designed for maximum technical control and flexibility. If you can dedicate a few hours to learning it you can do basically anything, for free, forever. If you only need to do basic stuff it might be worth looking at something else like Tux Paint for example, which is faster to pick up. It also has sound effects and is great fun.
It was a long time ago now but I distinctly remember having to watch videos to learn how to do things in Photoshop.
IMO Gimp will always get flak about the UI not matching Photoshop, rather than the other way around, for the simple reason that users are always switching in that direction. I haven't heard of anyone ditching GIMP for Photoshop.
I agree. I transitioned to GIMP on my own hardware a couple of years ago but still have to use Photoshop once a week for work.
Panning and zooming - a massive part of graphics UX - is miles better in GIMP for example and makes PS look primitive by comparison.
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Not in the popup dialog, but in the text tool properties (on the left under the tools after you select the tool). You can scroll through the fonts there and your selected font will apply to the currently selected text.
My biggest pet peeve is having to scroll past 5000 versions of Noto font.
GitHub - Acly/krita-ai-diffusion: Streamlined interface for generating images with AI in Krita. Inpaint and outpaint with optional text prompt, no tweaking required.
Streamlined interface for generating images with AI in Krita. Inpaint and outpaint with optional text prompt, no tweaking required. - Acly/krita-ai-diffusionGitHub
At it's heart, Krita is a drawing program with a few concessions to photo editing/manipulation. Whereas Gimp is a photo editing software with a few concessions to drawing.
Unless Krita decides to go the full adobe route and try to do both (which I doubt will ever happen), a feature like setting a white point (or any feature that isn't solely useful for photography but not drawing) will ever be in it.
People making the comparison as though Gimp and Krita are both trying to do the same thing are utterly exhausting.
Yeah, that's kind of a thing; the Adobe suite kind of doesn't have a raster drawing program, Photoshop gets used for that but Photoshop is meant to be a photo editor.
A "digital artist" or "digital painter" will want to use Krita, a "graphic artist" designing logos or signage is gonna want Inkscape, and people wanting to lie via photograph want GIMP.
Well, I'll put it to you this way: If I hire a graphic artist to design a logo for my company, and they turn in a .png they drew in Photoshop, GIMP or Krita, they're fired. Because I'm going to have my logo on my website, printed on business cards, on key fobs, on the side of work trucks, and painted on the side of buildings. I need a four color variant, a black and white variant and an outline variant, and they all need to work when printed at any scale. Raster art can't do that. "Hey, can you plasma cut my company logo out of stainless?" "Send over the file." "...what the fuck is this?"
Hell just having it in .svg format rather than .ai format is gonna be a problem, because Adobe Illustrator is a proprietary industry standard. But I mean, the rest of society is dying, why shouldn't graphic arts also have the disease?
people wanting to lie via photograph want GIMP.
Taking digital photos without editing them is like taking analog photos without developing them.
Whether you use those tools to lie, or to get closer to what your eyes saw is your choice.
But if you just use the unedited RAW image from the sensor, it won't look anywhere close to reality either.
Thank you. Works well. I'm much happier with the interface I used for over 30 years in Photoshop, it's helpful to have that emulated somewhat in GIMP.
I also tracked down how to set the scroll wheel to zoom without the need for the Ctrl key, which was another annoyance. I've tried before to discover this, but failed. Maybe I was looking at the official documentation, which could use some work. Anyway, here's how to get the scroll wheel to zoom without the Ctrl key:
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Just did that, thanks👌.
btw the comand x me was just :
view-zoom-in
view-zoom-out
To save anyone from having to watch a video:
Edit > Preferences > Input Devices > Input Controllers > Main Mouse Wheel
In this menu, double-click "Scroll Up", and select view-zoom-in-accel. Then do the same to "Scroll Down" with the value view-zoom-out-accel.
Kate, Geany and Micro are already pretty good.
I'd argue that they're even better than Notepad++. There's certainly no shortage of good text editors on Linux...
Kate is too bloated to fill the role of Notepad. Kwrite is lighter but like Kate all the shortcuts are different from Notepad and the Gnome Text Editor. Took me three attempts to get the shortcuts right, first because I didn't save them correctly and second because I missed one of the way too many things you can configure.
Kate and Kwrite make the OOTB experience with KDE bad for new users from anywhere else.
Keyboard shortcuts? I don't know any and use it effortlessly. Having session restore is a gift. If you don't want stuff open, close. However, if you are regularly going to edit multiple files, having them reopen is far superior. Multiple tabs is far better than multiple windows and much easier to work with a mouse, rather than hover over program and select other window which is slow.
If you prefer alternative good for you, but expecting a text editor to not support sessions in 2025 is bizarre. Do you consider DE's bloat too?
You open it you're greeted with a list of options instead of a blank file ready to use. When you open it again you'll have 10 open tabs from previous sessions. On the left side you get multiple buttons with coding features ... and I think most KDE users aren't programmers. At the top there are dropdown menus with and most of the hundreds of options there are irrelevant to the non-programmer.
It's much better to leave these kinds of programming-centric features out of the default text editor. The programmers know how to install something better.
I'm not saying Kate shouldn't exist, nor that it shouldn't be installed by default. It just shouldn't be the default.
I think this may be a configuration issue. I suspect you may have Kate set up very differently from the way I have it.
When I open Kate, I'm greeted with a blank file, ready to use.
When I open it again... I'm greeted with a blank file, ready to use.
On the left side I have four icons that I largely ignore except for the top one which is handy if I have a lot of files open.
At the bottom is the status bar. I may be allowing my privilege to show a little here, but with a 1080p screen, I can afford to lose 50 or so pixels to that.
At the top there's New, Open, Save, Save As, Undo, and Redo.
I'm not saying your configuration of Kate is bad. I'm not even going to claim that my configuration is the default, because I've used it for over a year and a half now and I don't know what the default configuration looks like. What I am saying is that your experience and my experience do not align.
Excuse me for being out of the loop, but is there a path towards AI photo manipulation coming for gimp? (Or already here?). Basically doing things like generative fill and other AI editing capabilities?
(I use affinity photo for my photo editing at the moment, so it's been awhile since I've been paying attention to gimp.)
I think there's a plug in. But it does connect to an api. So you have to have an endpoint available for that. Being an online service (mostly paid) or your own service running in your machine.
github.com/thndrbrrr/gimp-stab…
GitHub - thndrbrrr/gimp-stable-boy: GIMP plugin for AUTOMATIC1111's Stable Diffusion WebUI
GIMP plugin for AUTOMATIC1111's Stable Diffusion WebUI - thndrbrrr/gimp-stable-boyGitHub
I'm not sure about Gimp but searching for Krita tutorials i've found something about that:
docs.interstice.cloud/selectio…
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Its also trained on stolen data, artists work without their permission. AI training, even for the offline models, uses massive amounts of electricity and water and is currently accelerating climate around the world as well as unaffordability as demand for water and electricity cause prices to skyrocket. At the same time its accellerating the unaffordability of personal computing, including phones, and threatening to remove open PC hardware platforms by removing direct access to affordable DIY hardware.
On the other side of this, continued use and justification of LLMs existence is enabling the founding of mass surveillance and control systems that will be the foundation for totaltarian states, while at the same time enabling the rich to manipulate and control truth. And because of randomized token tie breaking, anything that comes out of it is only partially correct even when its one of the 30% of the times the reply is partially useful.
And - on top of all of that, you are nerfing your own skills and brainpower everytime you use it, in addition to having it do something for you that you could be learning yourself, which would have increased your existing skills while teaching you a new one.
AI is a horrible technology, doesn't matter where you run it.
It doesn't verify the authenticity of all the software that it downloads with cryptography.
Compared to something like apt, which will refuse to install something if it was maliciously altered, verified with pgp signatures.
It's pretty pathetic, but most of these new package managers are a security nightmare
This is not true. Flatpaks from flathub are signed with a gpg key.
Now admittedly, they use a single release key for all their signing, which is much weaker than the traditional distro's model of having multiple package maintainers sign off on a release.
But the packages are signed.
Edit: snaps are signed in a similar way.
From flahubs docs: docs.flathub.org/blog/app-safe…
The build itself is signed by Flathub’s key, and Flatpak/OSTree verify these signatures when installing and updating apps.
This does not seem to be optional or up to the control of each developer or publisher who is using the flathub repos.
Of course, unless you mean packages via flatpak in general?
Hmmm, this is where my research leads me.
docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/fla…
Though it generally isn’t recommended, it is possible not to use GPG verification. In this case, the --no-gpg-verify option should be used when adding the repository. Note that it is necessary to become root in order to update a repository that does not have GPG verification enabled.
Going further, I found a relevant github issue where a user is encountering an issue where flatpak is refusing to install a package that is not signed, and the user is asking for a cli flag to bypass this block.
I don't really see how this is any different from apt refusing to install unsigned packages by default but allowing a command line flag (--allow-unauthenticated) as an escape hatch.
To be really pedantic, apt key signing is also optional, it's just that apt is configured to refuse to install unsigned packages by default. So therefor all major repos sign their packages with GPG keys. Flatpak appears to follow this exact same model.
When installing an unsigned local flatpak package, allow me to temporarily override the GPG signature errors with a commandline parameter
Linux distribution and version Fedora 33 Flatpak version 1.10.2 Description of the problem When I just want to test a random throwaway flatpak package file like what is the case in https://gitlab.g...nekohayo (GitHub)
Idk what to tell you. I linked to sources showing that flathub signs everything, and that flatpak refuses to install unsigned packages by default.
If you have anything contrary feel free to link it.
Also you multi replied to this comment. Sometimes I had this issue with eternity.
Much, if not all of this, you can set up yourself, without a lot of installing things...
But people really would be better of, getting used to GIMP as it is, because it will cause problems later on, on updates and if the project discontinues and so forth.
Hey OP, please remove the photogimp[.]com from your post body, as it's not an official webpage of the project and could lead to something like clueless people installing viruses off of it. Thanks in advance.
(Also, for those who are Brazillian, or just speak Portuguese for one reason or another, I highly recommend the YouTube channel belonging to the people behind this patch –Diolinux (YT) (website))
On Arch Linux
pacman -S gimp will do, run and close, and then overwrite as instructed above. No need for Flatpak.
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Ich könnte mir vorstellen, dass es bei mir auf lange Sicht auch auf Testing hinauslaufen wird. Ich will mich aber erstmal ein wenig eingrooven auf #Debian. Danke dir aber für den Beitrag. Momentan helfen alle Eindrücke von Leuten, die Debian schon länger nutzen. Natürlich muss ich euch ein wenig stalken, denn zum Meinung-Bilden gehört ja auch zu schauen, wer was mit welchem Wissen & Erfahrung sagt.
Disclaimer: Dies ist explizit keine Herabwürdigung der Erfahrung anderer. Aber, ich muss Aussagen ja einordnen für mich und persönlich habe ich mit Debian trotz langer Linux-Karriere keine Erfahrungen gemacht.
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Aber eigentlich reicht auch stable, das ichbauf meinem Reiselaptop habe. Wo braucht man denn unbedingt die neueste Version? Für einzelne Programme kann man im Bedarfsfall auch oft eine neuere Version über die #backports bekommen.
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I may have reached the "how hard could it be to use a surface mount component on a breadboard, really?" stage.
PROBABLY REALLY FUCKING HARD.
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See also that amazing japanese maker who wires the most incredible prototypes on pad-per-hole boards and magnet wire.
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Unknown parent • • •@Walrus @RichardJMurphy no! the whole thing was a rebuttal of neoliberal economics! in the new statesman! Closing para:
> Years of austerity have conditioned the UK to accept artificial constraints as if they were immutable economic laws. But like a horse with a rope around its neck that’s no longer tied to its post – the UK is constrained only by the belief that it cannot move. The resources are there. The needs are urgent. All it needs to do is go.
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in reply to JuneSim63 💚 • • •I appreciate the paywall free link and the info:)
I particularly didn't understand this in the past
"taxpayers don’t fund the government; the government funds the taxpayers. Taxes serve other purposes, such as controlling inflation (taking money out of the economy) and creating demand for the currency"
That makes it much clearer for me, thanks!
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in reply to JuneSim63 💚 • • •We have austerity and poverty because scarcity is fake. Money is printed on demand. Money is infinite.
But, everyone is brainwashed to believe money is scarce to exploit labour, to serve the rich. Artificial misery creates the illusion money is valuable.
That's the system we have.
The whole system is one big lie, created by Bankers to serve Bankers.
Trade, not money, is what really matters. Money didn't exist for most of history.
Change the thinking around money = freedom.