lichtmetzger
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- Comment on just one more bro 1 week ago:
This reminds me of the sketch from Chris & Jack, where one person tries to outsmart a genie and almost succeeds, but still fails.
- Comment on OpenAI signs $1 trillion worth of chip deals to feed its AI habit 1 week ago:
Ed Zitron’s gonna have a field day with this. OpenAI’s motto seems to be scaling “to infinity and beyond”. But what can you expect from a techbro CEO that takes Dyson spheres seriously.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 week ago:
Absolutely. 😃 Someone even went through my recent unrelated comments in other communities and downvoted each one. I didn’t think blocking some ads would make people this mad!
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 week ago:
You claimed that I was uploading and batch-processing images on the developers’ infrastructure. I tried to tell you it’s not true, because all of those features still work without internet. Load photopea.com, disconnect your internet - tadaa, you can still “upload” images, crop them, save them, draw on them…
I must be a magician if I can connect to the developers’ machine without any connection at all. There is only one person in this thread who cannot understand how basic technology works. And it’s not me.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 week ago:
Was it the fact that Photopea isn’t FOSS?
That definitely plays into it, but the major point for me is that it’s an alternative to Photoshop, which it literally tries to mimick as best as you can in a browser, down to the same keyboard shortcuts Photoshop uses.
Most people here would probably agree that Adobe is a very greedy company. So when there’s an alternative to their software that works fine for many years and then gets turned into a subscription model while the author actively fights uBlock, it just feels…wrong. It’s just the same playbook, but with a slightly lower cost.
I also think it’s very hypocritical to accuse me of freeloading from Photopea, because that project uses other open-source libraries under the hood. Did anyone ask the developer if he financially supported the projects that he is profiting off? He doesn’t even mention them on the website (or if he does, it’s not easy to find), but you can see them when you deobfuscate the Javascript blob.
If someone criticizes me for using this project ad-free, it’s just as valid to criticize the developer for using open-source libraries in a closed-source project (as closed-source as a web-application can be).
But to break it down to a simple point: I would’ve paid for the software if it cost 5€/month. That’s 60€ per year, which is reasonable for an image manipulation tool that can run most of its features locally. But 96€/year is too much. I’m not moving away from Adobe to pay for another big subscription. Now that ship has sailed for me completely, after this whole uBlock fiasco.
You just called GIMP icky and didn’t do the bare minimum level of searching that’d tell you ImageMagick exists for batch edits.
I know about ImageMagick and as I’ve said in another comment, a commandline tool is not suitable for cropping different areas of multiple images, I need a visual representation. GIMP might have improved, you’re right on that point. I haven’t used it in a long time and I will try to see if it’s better now (2.x was painful and anybody saying otherwise is simply delusional).
lazy, entitled cheapskate
Not sure why this was neccessary. You started out so eloquently and then your emotions got the best of you. I believe you can do better than the typical Reddit “discussion”.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 week ago:
I think you’re taking heat a little bit unfairly.
Most of it seems to come from one user who seems to hate me in particular. :D But it’s fun to start a controversial topic once in a while. At least I’m not getting banned for having a different opinion (which would’ve definitely happened on Reddit).
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 week ago:
You can’t just save the webpage as HTML and run it (which is what woelkchen doesn’t seem to grasp, even though I tried to explain it to him in another thread). But technically, all of the image processing code for cropping, saving, painting on the image etc. runs locally.
You can see that easily for yourself, just disconnect your internet after opening the site and it continues to work just fine.
That’s why all of the accusations that I’m freeloading and straining the developers’ server while not paying a dime are unfunded.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 week ago:
Are you financially supporting literally any developers at all?
Yes, I’ve donated to the digikam project in the past, just to name one example. I also donated to Slackware when it’s creator was in financial trouble. And I am actively donating to the Fediverse instance that allows me to post this comment.
You think you got me here, but you didn’t.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 week ago:
Keep trolling, my man! I’m outta here. :)
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 week ago:
commercial-grade
Today I’ve learned that cropping five images in a row is “commercial-grade”. Sure…
Self-hosting is a good idea, though, if I can find some useful software in that field. See, despite all of the trolling you are actually giving me good advice. I don’t know if it’s intentional, but thanks nonetheless.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 week ago:
Or save the page if “All of that code runs in your own browser.”
Sir, this is not how the internet works. I thought people on the Fediverse are a bit more technically-versed than the average population.
When I disconnect my internet, I can still crop images, save them to my machine in various and use the tools in the left sidebar. Photopea does not use the developers’ server to do these tasks, or otherwise I wouldn’t be able to do them at all, when I go offline.
That doesn’t mean I can just save the whole website locally and run it as is. Mostly, because the developers’ code contains references to online sources or might bug out in certain places if it’s not run on the intended domain, etc.
If I disassembled the obfuscated code and replaced those online references, I’m pretty sure the whole thing would just work. Not being able to save a website locally and just run it as is does not disprove my point that the application does not technically need a server to run. It’s just that the developer coded it that way.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 week ago:
I am not paying another high subscription (yes, 96€/year is high for some people) for a tool that processes images locally, no.
That attitude has worked out fine in my life so far.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 week ago:
You admitted that you do frequent batch processing of many images on their infrastructure.
I’m not sure why you keep commenting this as a fact, when it’s literally not true. As I’ve said in another thread, you can open up the site, disconnect your internet and process all of the images just fine.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 week ago:
This won’t work because there is actual server-side code running
That is not true! You can figure that out for yourself - open up the site, disconnect your internet and resize/crop some images. It will do it just fine.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 week ago:
If anything, you seem entitled and willfully ignorant
I understand why people might think that. As I’ve said in another comment, it’s the attitude of the developer that mildly infuriates me. I am not against paying money for a good product and I would’ve even paid the subscription, if 1. it wasn’t so high (96€/year for a tool processing images in your own browser) and 2. he wasn’t such a dick on Github to people.
I know developers need to put food on the table, but then they should at least be honest about that. Going into the uBlock Github and trolling people there while claiming you “always supported ad blockers” isn’t the right way and I am not financially supporting developers who act like this.
Also, some people don’t seem to grasp that I’m not actually processing images for free on the developers’ infrastructure. The image processing is done via Javascript on my own machine. So all I’m doing is loading the website initially, it’s not like I’m taking money out of the devs’ pocket by blocking his ads. Added to that, the site worked fine for many years, why do you need to put an aggressive Adblock detection in now? It’s a cat and mouse game against uBlock and he must now he will never win this game.
Of course, it’s his own tool and he can do whatever he wants with it, but it’s still shitty to do it.
After all, you’re right, I’ve decided to give tools like GIMP another chance. The problem for me is that I used Photoshop for many years (that’s what I learned when I was attending art school, blame the system) and moving away to another tool like GIMP is a lot of work, because it works very differently. I learned there are plugins for easing the transition and I’ll find another tool.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 week ago:
The images get processed in your own browser. The only infrastructure I’m using is the bit of Javascript and HTML I am loading when accessing the site, the rest is handled by my own machine.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 week ago:
Thank you, that’s my opinion as well. I know developers need to put food on the table, but then they should at least be honest about that. Going into the uBlock Github and trolling people there while claiming you “always supported ad blockers” isn’t the right way and I am not financially supporting developers who act like this.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 week ago:
I’m not the one getting nervous at looking at other alternatives.
I am not nervous, I am mildly infuriated.
Use the right tool for the job
imagemagick certainly isn’t the right tool for batch-cropping, unless the cropped area is always in the same place. But thank you for at least trying to suggest an actual solution instead of patronizing me.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 week ago:
Oh, that’s nice! I still remember Gimpshop but it’s been dead for years. But I see now that there’s at least PhotoGIMP, that’ll really help me out.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 week ago:
That’s true, I was working with Photoshop many years and it’s hard to unlearn that.
Maybe I’ll give it another chance. - Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 week ago:
maybe using computers isn’t the right thing for you
Sir, this isn’t Reddit. Calm down. :) And now tell me how to batch-crop and export multiple images as .webp, if it’s doable in Krita. Because I don’t know how.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 week ago:
It’s nice but I need something simple for cropping images in a certain aspect ratio/resolution and then exporting it to webp. I think Krita isn’t the right tool for that.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 week ago:
I am totally supporting developers wanting to make money with their product.
But the developer of Photopea has basically built a product for people who want to get rid of Adobe’s stupid subscription model and now he tries to force them to pay for his own subscription by breaking the application. That really doesn’t sit right with me.
Why would I need to pay 8€/month for image editing features that run in my browser?
It also doesn’t help that he went on Github and complained to the developers of uBlock Origin, replying with troll answers like “How can I help you?” but not wanting to accept any other answer than them allowing him to serve ads.
This guy can get rekt, in my humble opinion. I did like the product before this change, though. Does anyone know of similar image editors out there? (GIMP is terrible)
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- Comment on The sheer amount of websites that are completely unusable without JavaScript 1 month ago:
Luckily, PHP times has ended
I guess I earn my living with nothing then. What an absurd take. PHP powers WordPress, Shopware, Typo3 and many other CMS systems and is still very strong. Especially in Europe.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I imagine you must be quite skilled to be able to manage your whole-ass company (and run their systems into the ground). So it shouldn’t be a problem to get another job after being fired.
Why fuck with your own life, just because of your own ego and a drive for revenge? That guy must’ve watched too many animes.
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 1 month ago:
There isn’t a CFW for PS4. But what we have is GoldHEN (which enables us to run decrypted games, also called fPKG’s) and various methods to run GoldHEN.
Up to firmware 9.00 (I believe) there is a browser exploit to run it, up to 11.00 you can also hack the console via PPP (pppwn) and up to 12.02 GoldHEN can be loaded with a BluRay you have burned before.
So you basically start the system and put it in a state where it accepts unsigned code. It’s very similar to PS3HEN. There’s also a method of hacking the console with some obscure Japanese games and one with a PS2 game.
The channel MODDED WARFARE always reports on those methods and makes tutorials, highly recommended.
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 1 month ago:
And a PS4 BluRay exploit has just been released, so you can crack the whole thing by burning a BluRay (up to a certain software version).
- Comment on Which way? 2 months ago:
This is so disturbing lol 😵💫
- Comment on Apple’s lock on iPhone browser engines gets a December deadline 2 months ago:
Yep, apart from the bugs that really annoys me, too. To effectively debugg an issue on iOS, you need an iPhone and connect it to a Mac (or iPad) to use the debug tools.
Every other browser can be run on a typical PC. You can emulate Android, run Firefox and Chrome and just get cracking. I’m not getting paid to buy an expensive device to do my work, lol.
