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    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

    Forever ago(last updated 18 years ago) there was a piece of software I used to identify video codecs and the such…horrible name. Windows apps didn’t escape the terrible naming trend either. I’d just say free software can have some…interesting names.

    Blown up icon…

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Can you change the password prompt to "tell me your safeword first:"?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

    Of course you can

    export SUDO_PROMPT="tell me your safeword first: "

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

    I do feel a dom/sub relationship with Linux right now as I try to build some flatpaks - so that is very fitting.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Though I don't know how, I'd be surprised if it wasn't possible.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

    Even if it's not possible via some config or shell wizardry, you can always recompile the modified source

    [–] [email protected] 119 points 2 days ago (11 children)

    Idk abt GIMP but hard agree about Gnome. Whenever someone uses a human foot as a logo = certified sex freak.

    [–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago

    My pro open-source teacher in HS pushed for all of us to use the handful of Linux computers and recommended GIMP over Photoshop. He even said we can download GIMP at home for free.

    Back then, searching for GIMP gave you bondage suits.

    And because we were immature fuckwads, we played real hard into that joke, to a point where the principal had to send a letter to parents about how to actually find free open-source software with links.

    [–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    sometimes a footprint represents humanity and isn’t about fucking it….

    i’m so happy i didn’t get that foot fetish hardwired in… it seems so silly to me…

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    sometimes a footprint represents humanity

    sometimes, but in GNOME's case i think it is not intended to be a human foot but rather the foot of a mythological creature (a gnome). note that it has a squashed aspect ratio compared to a human foot, and also has only four toes.

    apparently it's also problematic in some cultures: https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/FootAndCulturalIssue

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    that’s a good point about some cultures seeing a foot the way i would see using a linux distribution with Goatse as a logo….

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Can you imagine a distro made in Nepal, using as its logo a symbol of health, commonly seen patterned into gates and doors, displayed in windows, drawn on streets...

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

    could be a little controversial… although maybe they should take the swastika back… take away it’s power the way n-——- has changed meaning…

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    [–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Or how about 3 naked people in a circle holding hands. And somehow this guy is like one of the least problematic white South African billionaires.

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

    Well, the bar is subterranean

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

    Obviously Tarantino was involved. A little foot fetish never hurt nobody-- right? Right???????

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

    What the fuck i use foot to walk not sex...

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    [–] [email protected] 89 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    I've come to think of it as a (really) good thing - no financially motivated tech megacorp is gonna sell a monthly "sub to Gimp".

    (Tho a clothes rental company might.)

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

    Its called Harley Davidson

    [–] [email protected] 103 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    I always thought it was a clever sex pervert acronym for

    Graphic

    Image

    Manipulation

    Program

    [–] [email protected] 91 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    And we're pronouncing it JIMP?

    [–] [email protected] 63 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    gust take your upvote and jet out of here

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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

    Listen here, Legoland, I don't live in the Kingdom of Jondor

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    [–] [email protected] 73 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    Its actually GNU image manipulation program, so pretty much.

    Or "Green Is My Pepper" if you ask RMS...

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    it stands for GNU is Not Unix Image Manipulation Program....

    wait it is GNU is Not Unix is Not Unix Image Manipulation

    oh no, they put a recursion in the name!!!

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    [–] [email protected] 77 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    YouTube apparently censors "GIMP"

    Screenshot of PewDiePie introducing GIMP, presented by Brodie Robertson

    [–] whyNotSquirrel 19 points 2 days ago (8 children)

    What "Gimp" could stand for?

    [–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

    GNU(not linux) Image Manipulation Program.

    Its all rolled into GIMP, kinda like someone zipped up a suit. Oops.

    [–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago

    A type of bondage suit

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

    Green is my pepper.

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

    It's also a slur for disabled people.

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    [–] [email protected] 80 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

    Virgin Media would like a word

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

    I knew they were British, so I always assumed it had something to do with the whole Virgin Queen thing(it was and is a nickname for Elizabeth the first) or something like that, but it was apparently because they considered themselves virgins in business when they started their first record store.

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    [–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Bet they couldn’t even find the cli terminal.

    [–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago

    The clit, for short

    [–] anonymouse2 3 points 1 day ago

    I'm just trying give her that system-d.

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    I remember someone pointed out that GIMP probably would never get adopted in a company or professional environment just because of the name. Imagine suggesting that someone should use "GIMP" in a work meeting, lol. It's not necessarily a problem, but it's a funny limitation that they put on the software.

    [–] [email protected] 70 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    See, most people have no clue that "gimp" is a sex thing. They just see it as a funny-sounding acronym. In an actual work meeting, the people who do know wouldn't say anything about it to avoid being seen as the weird ones.

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Coq cowardly renamed their project because of this.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    IMHO Coq is a much worse name, because everyone knows what a cock is.

    [–] zarkanian 3 points 1 day ago

    A male chicken?

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    [–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    I use GIMP at work. It's officially approved in a very tightly restrained environment, literally in a repository of software people can install from. At an enterprise with thousands of employees.

    I'm pretty sure only people who know what it is install it, never heard anyone so much as mention it.

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