I watched the Borderlands movie at the cinema. The most entertaining part was how disappointed the audience was. I mean, I knew it was trash. I hoped it would at least be entertaining trash, but no, that movie is just extremely boring.

The TRON franchise has always been in the wrong hands. Disney is doing the bare minimum with it, to not lose the license.

The first movie was great, TRON 2.0 is one of the best games ever made and I also liked TRON: Uprising (which was promptly cancelled after one season, of course). Everything else is just mid or mediocre.

It kept confidently spitting out answers for VBA code, which is similar to, but very much not the same as VBS.

What I get from this is that Microsoft is absolutely terrible at naming products. Even a human will get confused about Exchange Online and Exchange Server being two different products. So it’s no wonder the LLM can’t handle it either.

For fucks sake, they even renamed the Remote Desktop app to “Windows App”, have fun finding any help for that one.

The director admitted he doesn’t even have a plan for the future in an interview, and that really shows. No one significant dies in the final episode, basically nothing happens, so they can leave everything open for season 2.

As long as it’s ultimately decided that “Alien: Earth” is not canon, yeah. Let it be forgotten, especially that atrocious final episode.

Avoid Google for discovery. It’s not great anymore. Use DuckDuckGo, Qwant, or Yandex instead. For deeper but less precise results, try Mojeek or Marginalia.

I went with Kagi. It costs some money, but they have a special deal with Google to get access to their API. It’s basically their search results without the AI slop, ads and BS. It works just like Google worked back in the good, old days.

Let’s see how long this will last. But I will enjoy it as long as I can.

Kagi also has a news section. I’m not entirely sure which sites they pull from, but on a first glance it looks more clean and less sloppy than the ones from the big players.

Edit: They explain how they aggregate those news here.

I do wonder how this will all come crashing down, and which company will be left standing.
It seems pretty clear all of these promises of building “gigawatt datacentres” are wishful thinking and can’t be realized in the next few years. By then, the money will surely have run out, right?

But of course OpenAI uses gas turbines and fracking to squeeze out as much power as they can. Despicable.

Beautiful! 🥰 So much hard work went into this and I love it.

That’s true, but there is a project called “ruffle” now, which is written in Rust and can play .swf files. So if you really want, you can still build Flash animations and share them online.

Ruffle also runs in browsers, thanks to wasm.

Oh yes, I miss mature characters in modern animes. I’m so tired of stupid Lolis 😭

80’s anime had believable characters that didn’t all look like they were 10-12 years old. Cyber City Oedo, Robot Carnival, Patlabor…great stuff.

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.

I love that she actually found an interview where Dyson himself said that his paper is pure bullshit. :D He was trolling with that thing and now, in 2025, stupid techbros pick it up like it’s something real.

The Guardians of the Galaxy game did that, at least a little bit. The game seemingly ends, credits are rolling and then they slowly start to glitch out and some of the names are replaced with the name of the antagonist.

Then the credits crash out and a second bossfight starts. You can kinda see it coming, but it was still pretty cool for them to do that.

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!

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.

My point is: Why would I pay a subscription for that “service”? A service that barely uses any resources, except the ~1MB Javascript file and a few image assets that are delivered via the web? A web server hosting a few megabytes of data does not warrant 8€ per month per user. If people believe I am an entitled bitch for thinking that way, they can do so. But it will not change my opinion.

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”.

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).

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 from batch-processing images are unfunded.

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 its 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.

Keep trolling, my man! I’m outta here. :)