Many years ago I spent quite some time getting used to Gimp and did some designing on it, etc. I also wrote a tutorial for it to create some torn paper effect.

I say all this to give some context to the following: GIMP is just not great software. It is super unintuitive and when you don't use it for a while, you totally forget how to use it to select things, put them on layers, etc.

I use Pixelmator on Mac. I bought it years ago and haven't regretted it. It is getting better and better of the years, the UI is great. When I use linux I miss Pixelmator more than I do Photoshop. So if someone were to create a Pixelmator-inspired editor for linux, that would be great.

The unfortunate part is gimp is intensely useful software with many amazing features...buried under such an awkward interface.

I used it today for doing a color range selection to get an estimate for parameters to use in image magick. It had the easiest dynamic visualization of the matte for the selected range as I was selecting. It did exactly what I needed, very well.

I also tested out krita and nuke. Was easier in gimp.

But gimp is still the tool of last resort as it is just so painful to use. I wish there was a more positive engagement between the graphics community and the gimp devs. It feels very combative and negative compared with tools like krita and blender.

That doesn’t sound healthy man. Unless that other thing you should’ve been doing is giving CPR or something then stop feeling guilty.

“Productivity” is not the end goal, you are allowed to play games in life. In fact, shouldn’t work be about enabling you to enjoy life?

Weirdly, playing games is typically something I the feel least guilty doing, precisely because it's a distraction from the other stuff I'd otherwise not be doing. There's just a lot of stuff I want to do, that I struggle to do, and so I feel guilty about not making progress on that stuff. Then, whenever I try to do something else, I feel too guilty to do that something else.

It's a real self-reinforcing negative feedback loop. I agree that it's not healthy. It's just hard to break out of.

I deal with the exact same mental model. I think for me, while actively gaming I do have fun. It’s only after the fact I look back on the time wasted gaming and think “wow, I really should have worked on that project I want to build instead of playing a game”. It’s also hard to rationalize time spent gaming when you have nothing to show for it afterwards.

If you ever figure out the solution to this negative thought-loop, let me know please!

Comments such as these are what allows developers to justify ignoring our privacy.

"Everyone knows in {{BUSINESS_TYPE}} there is no real privacy".

Be it fintech, AI or social media. You give them a free pass with being flippant about companies respecting privacy.

Being flippant about anyone being careless about our privacy is doing us as a society and injustice. We should demand privacy, not laugh at the notion of privacy.

The parent comment is exaclty right. "LOL" is best possible response.

>We should demand privacy, not laugh at the notion of privacy.

Recently got m3 ultra 512gb studio. LM Studio runs frontier models routinely. Going local is the ONLY way. That's all you can do. "Demanding privacy" is security theater. Act accordingly.

You have a graph that shows a multi provider setup for a domain. Where would routing to either machine happen? As in which ip would you use on the dns side?

For the public cluster with multiple ingress (caddy) nodes you'd need a load balancer in front of them to properly handle routing and outage of any of them. You'd use the IP of the load balancer on the DNS side.

Note that a DNS A record with multiple IPs doesn't provide failover, only round robin. But you can use the Cloudflare DNS proxy feature as a poor man's LB. Just add 2+ proxied A records (orange cloud) pointing to different machines. If one goes down with a 52x error, Cloudflare automatically fails over to the healthy one.

I looked into this yesterday for making Caddy HA on my Proxmox cluster and stumbled upon keepalivd. It will provide you with a virtual IP and failover but not load balancing so you'd need to still point that at something like HAProxy for that.

Could be something interesting to integrate though.

Not OP, but you could do "simple" dns load balancing between both endpoints.

As I mentioned in the sibling comment, please note that in this case you only get round-robin, not failover. If one of the addresses is down, the DNS record will continue returning it and users will hit a dead end.

A proper load balancer or Cloudflare DNS proxy would handle this.

For some reason this confirmation is always much louder than the music you are listening to.

If you tell Siri to play some obscure artist or title of which there seem to be about 10 possible hits, then sure, we need confirmation. If I tell you to play Riders on the Storm by the The Doors, just play it damn it.

I read it as they meant all Apple apps, not all apps.

Back when deepseek came out and people were tripping over themselves shouting it was so much better than what was out there, it just wasn’t good.

It might be this model is super good, I haven’t tried it, but to say the Chinese models are better is just not true.

What I really love though is that I can run them (open models) on my own machine. The other day I categorised images locally using Qwen, what a time to be alive.

Further even than local hardware, open models make it possible to run on providers of choice, such as European ones. Which is great!

So I love everything about the competitive nature of this.

WDYM? Isn't https://chat.deepseek.com/ the real DeepSeek?

Good point, I was assuming the GP was running local for some reason. Hard to argue when it's the official providers who are being compared.

I ran the 1.58-bit Unsloth quant locally at the time it came out, and even at such low precision, it was super rare for it to get something wrong that o1 and GPT4 got right. I have never actually used a hosted version of the full DS.

Apart from the fact that not even every human would read this and add it to the subject, this would still work.

I doubt there is any spam machine out there the quickly tries to find peoples personal blog before sending them viagra mail.

If you are being targeted personally, then of course all bets are off, but that would’ve been the case with or without the subject-line-trick

It's not so much a case of personal targeting or anything particularly deliberate.

LLMs are trained on the full internet. All relevant information gets compressed in the weights.

If your email and this instruction are linked on your site, that goes in there, and the LLM may with some probability decide it's appropriate to use it at inference time.

That's why 'tricks' like this may get broken to some degree by LLM spam, and trivially when they do, with no special effort on the spammer's part. It's all baked into the model.

What previously would have involved a degree of targeting that wouldn't scale now will not.

Getting a pop-up like this would be a sure way to get me to never buy your brand again.

They are based in the UK. That is technically Europe, but I believe for privacy regulations it isn't the same as a EU-country, but I could be very wrong. Would love to be educated on this by someone.

UK inherited the same gdpr from the EU, so practically it remains the same.

MailPace data is also hosted in the EU only