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New comment by F3nd0 in "Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform"

F3nd0 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:29:35 +0000

> there's nothing wrong with starting a business rebranding Nextcloud and keeping your development closed source, as long as you're honest about that, which this initiative is not.

I thought Nextcloud was released under the AGPL, making this very much not okay by default. So either I misunderstood something or Office.eu got a permission to make non-free modifications? (Going by what you said; I have not dived into this.)

New comment by F3nd0 in "GIMP 3.2 released"

F3nd0 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:07:12 +0000

It seems like you can assign this action to Ctrl + S, yes. See here:

    Edit → Keyboard Shortcuts → file → Overwrite […]

I think this would be awful default behaviour, but I guess it’s nice to have the option if you really want it, and I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to find after reading your comment.

GIMP 3.2 released

F3nd0 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:51:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/03/14/gimp-3-2-released/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380465

Points: 247

# Comments: 87

New comment by F3nd0 in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

F3nd0 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:36:00 +0000

What Photo app are you referring to? On Debian Trixie, I just get the screenshot app, Spectacle. It shows the screenshot it just took, tells me where it’s been saved, lets me do stuff with it, and lets me take another one. It could do with a facelift, but it’s fairly clear, really. I wonder if they changed it later or if the distribution you used deviated from the defaults.

New comment by F3nd0 in "F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026"

F3nd0 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:41:09 +0000

My reading is they were simply trying to comply with regulations. It wasn't about what ideas they believed the religious texts were trying to convey, but whether their content met a certain definition set by law. The law could be poorly written, or it could be poorly and over-cautiously interpreted by F-Droid maintainers. But I didn't get the feeling they were acting on any kind of moral judgement or own belief about what's appropriate for children.

Does the Bible encourage violence or promiscuity? Not really, no. Does it mention and describe those things in some detail? Yes, absolutely. If that's the kind of content you need to remove from your store, then obviously you need to remove the Bible from your store. Whether that was really the case seems questionable at best, but the stated logic seemed pretty coherent to me.

New comment by F3nd0 in "GNU Texmacs"

F3nd0 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:52:03 +0000

It’s heavily inspired by both TeX and Emacs, hence why it’s named after both of those. As if the author had added the best aspects of the two and then some.

New comment by F3nd0 in "Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018-2026"

F3nd0 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:12:26 +0000

I guess they could just support custom colours, but that seems like a needless complication—much like skin tones themselves.

New comment by F3nd0 in "Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018-2026"

F3nd0 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:08:35 +0000

Why should the Simpsons hold any relevance to emoji?

New comment by F3nd0 in "Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018-2026"

F3nd0 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:30:09 +0000

Why should skin colour be specified at all? Why not leave it as an implementation detail? Yellow is the popular default choice, but it could very well be green, blue, pink, or anything really.

New comment by F3nd0 in "European Alternatives"

F3nd0 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:48:56 +0000

It seems like Taler has been coming along great and the biggest things it’s missing are more interest and adoption. There has been some first ‘real-world’ use recently, but it’s still far from becoming widespread, which would be a dream come true.

New comment by F3nd0 in "ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss"

F3nd0 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:07:20 +0000

They don’t seem to provide a detailed comparison showing how each compression scheme fared at every task, but they do list (some of) their criteria and say they found Brotli the best of the bunch. I can’t tell if that’s a sensible conclusion or not, though. Maybe Brotli did better on code size or memory use?

New comment by F3nd0 in "ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss"

F3nd0 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:43:23 +0000

Going by one of Brotli’s authors’ comment [1] on another post, it probably wouldn’t.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46035817

New comment by F3nd0 in "JPEG XL Test Page"

F3nd0 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:41:58 +0000

It seems to me this point of discussion always tends to get way too much focus. Should it really raise concern?

Of all the people who interact with image formats in some way, how many do even know what an image format is? How many even notice they’ve got different names? How many even give them any consideration? And out of those, how many are immediately going to think JPEG XL must be big, heavy and inefficient? And out of those, how many are going to stop there without considering that maybe the new image format could actually be pretty good? Sure, there might be some, but I really don’t think it’s a fraction of a significant size.

Moreover, how many people in said fraction are going to remember the name (and thus perhaps the format) far more easily by remembering it’s got such a stupid name?

New comment by F3nd0 in "JPEG XL Test Page"

F3nd0 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:19:18 +0000

Because JPEG XL is the first format to actually bring significant improvements across the board. In some aspects AVIF comes close, in others it falls far behind, and in some it can’t even compete. There’s just nothing else like JPEG XL and I think it deserves to be supported everywhere as a truly universal image codec.

New comment by F3nd0 in "JPEG XL Test Page"

F3nd0 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:14:13 +0000

That’s an interesting speculation, but I’m inclined to believe their official reasoning. (That being they just didn’t really care about the format and/or went with whatever Chrome said at first. A year or so later they changed their mind and said they wanted an implementation in a memory-safe language, which prompted the JXL team to work on it.)

Critical analysis of digital euro published

F3nd0 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:57:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.taler.net/en/news/2026-02.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46620821

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by F3nd0 in "XMPP and Metadata"

F3nd0 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:44:09 +0000

I’m not 100% sure on this in the case of AGPL, but I think you don’t need to relicense your project if you include AGPL code; you only need to make sure your project respects all the freedoms the AGPL requires it to (in a suitable way).

So your own code would still be under Apache, and people could follow only the Apache conditions if they only use your code. But combined with the APGL part, the project as a whole would of course have to follow the APGL conditions.

P15 CoNetworkingSpace Accepts GNU Taler Payments in Swiss Francs

F3nd0 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:43:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.taler.net/en/news/2025-04.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46530643

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by F3nd0 in "Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is"

F3nd0 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:13:33 +0000

Not a single dedicated, representative furry emoji that I'm aware of (unless we count 1F43E – paw prints), but there are a couple emoji which happen to be furry. In addition to the plethora of animal emoji (which aren't furry, but likely to be appreciated by furries), there are several emoji of cats with expressive faces (which do technically classify as furry), such as:

1F638 – grinning cat face with smiling eyes; 1F63B – smiling cat face with heart-shaped eyes; 1F63C – cat face with wry smile; 1F640 – weary cat face.

There was also the unofficial and very narrowly supported combination of ‘hacker cat’ and a few others:

https://emojipedia.org/hacker-cat

New comment by F3nd0 in "“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)"

F3nd0 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:54:37 +0000

Knowing that LLM’s have been extensively trained on public code, I wonder how much of it is based on Chromium or Firefox.