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3d ago

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Idk abt GIMP but hard agree about Gnome. Whenever someone uses a human foot as a logo = certified sex freak.
- 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.
  
  Well, the bar is subterranean
- 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…
  
  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
  
  and sometimes it is!
- Obviously Tarantino was involved. A little foot fetish never hurt nobody-- right? Right???????
- It's a gnome foot though.
  
  shortstack foot fetish with a little bit of dom sprinkled in
  
  Guh-nome
  
  Yeh I was gonna say, has to be a gnome foot, thats some bookie shaped foot if it's human.
- What the fuck i use foot to walk not sex...

I always thought it was a clever sex pervert acronym for
Graphic
Image
Manipulation
Program
- And we're pronouncing it JIMP?
  
  gust take your upvote and jet out of here
  
  Ohh fuck no don't start this suit again
  
  Listen here, Legoland, I don't live in the Kingdom of Jondor
- Its actually GNU image manipulation program, so pretty much.
  Or "Green Is My Pepper" if you ask RMS...
  
  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!!!
  
  oh is that why that brush is in there
  
  GNU Incredible Magic Projector.
  If it did circles, it'd destroy half the world.
  
  *GNU Is My Pepper
  
  And originally it was "general image manipulation program".
- Gimp
  Is
  Mangy
  Photoshop

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.)
- Leather clothes, at that.
  
  Its called Harley Davidson

- One of the very very few times this meme is used correctly. Congratulations!

YouTube apparently censors "GIMP"
- What "Gimp" could stand for?
  
  A type of bondage suit
  
  GNU(not linux) Image Manipulation Program.
  Its all rolled into GIMP, kinda like someone zipped up a suit. Oops.
  
  It's also a slur for disabled people.
  
  GNU image manipulation program.
  
  Green is my pepper.

Bet they couldn’t even find the cli terminal.
- The clit, for short
- I'm just trying give her that system-d.

Virgin Media would like a word
- 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.
  
  I thought Richard Branson just liked sex

I don't understand
- Gimp is a person who gets sexual pleasure from being hurt or treated badly
- dont worry, neither do i

alias daddy='sudo'
- Can you change the password prompt to "tell me your safeword first:"?
  
  Though I don't know how, I'd be surprised if it wasn't possible.
  
  Of course you can
  export SUDO_PROMPT="tell me your safeword first: "

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.
- 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.
  
  Coq cowardly renamed their project because of this.
  
  I'm sad that more people haven't seen Pulp Fiction.
- 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.
  
  You're lucky to have IT even know what GIMP is, much less have it officially approved.
  Every place I've been at was like "what's that?"
- Aint good at graphic design but Krita's better anyways, we used it in school, along with PS, didn't really see a difference in either program, tho I was equally shit at using both.

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…

Glinux

It does check out

megalois griffin kmao

- No! I will not ignore this!
  G'day! How's it going?
  
  Just trying to debug some weirdness with outgoing activities from my server, looks like it's back to normal since you saw my comment and replied to it ;)

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