Flamekebab

Thanks, I appreciate it.

I’ve finally made my repo public thanks to your comment: https://codeberg.org/Flamekebab/FruitBatBot

I’m not here to fight you. I was replying with a cool thing I wrote to share baby pics to family and friends, not trying to be the most perfect hardcore op sec person on the internet.

People I know use Signal. I have never even heard of two of the three services mentioned higher up the thread.

When I wrote it I was dealing with a newborn, auditing whether Signal passes some No True Scotsman test for open source-ness was really not my priority.

Ugh, this kind of response is so off-putting. You can reply if you like but I’m probably just going to delete the whole damn comment thread because fuck this kind of purity test bullshit.

I wasn’t asking for fucking feedback on my work.

Also more secure and trustworthy because it’s open source.

But Signal is open source…?

Getting a phone number was relatively cheap and easy, so for a one-off implementation, Signal was an easy choice as it’s what many friends and family already use.

What would be the advantage?

Yep. I keep an old phone for the bot to be a linked device.

I’ve written a Signal bot that listens for messages from my wife and me. It’s for sharing pictures of our daughter with a small list of people that want baby pics. The images we send it get blurred and sent as a preview, with an unblurred version sent as a “view once” image. Each blurred image contains an ID so that recipients can request the images again.

As I said, the format and the cadence that results from what people optimise for is what turns me off. I don’t want portrait video on my phone, at all. I don’t want min maxing for short run time.

It could be about my favourite topics and I still wouldn’t want to watch it, anymore than I want to watch films on VHS or listen to music on HitClips.

Uhhh, no? I get that I’m apparently alone in that, but I find both the format and the cadence of content it results in horrible.

Didn’t Instagram add those stupid things because it was desperately trying to compete with TikTok?

I love having a platform that isn’t trying to do short form portrait video. Everywhere wants to do it and I detest the medium. It’s so boring!

I’ve got one, I want to hear the sorts of things this instrument can do so I can decide whether it’s worth printing!

It’s not a feature, it’s a bug.

I was thinking this 20+ years ago and it makes me sad that Windows is still treated like a product worth using. My work machine is my most hated device in terms of software. Such garbage.

That’s the same video in the article. Played as in “used properly to play a tune”.

I do wonder how much of this is the seeming aversion to context that a subset of Americans seem to have. The meaning of words varies by context, that’s like, a normal thing in English. If I said in a meeting that I’d been “pissing about the office whilst waiting for John to be done in his other meeting”, that doesn’t mean I’d been urinating on the carpets!

Edit: another funny piss example - if I’d spent my holiday learning to jetski should I avoid telling colleagues how I’ve discovered I enjoy watersports?

A gimp is a sex thing in one context but that’s clearly not the context one would be discussing in terms of software, so why does it matter?

I’m in the UK. I use it as my primary image editor on my work computers. Should we be avoiding using LaTeX too because in a different context it’s a kink thing?

It just seems such a weird thing to be prudish about in this day and age. English words are regularly contextual and in a business environment why would one go to the NSFW context as default?

Wouldn’t it be easier to recommend it and if they give you a look about the name you act like you’ve no idea what they’re talking about?

If they add the feature to set white point in the level tool I’m there. Last I checked they had some bullshit brush-off about how it wasn’t relevant because it’s designed for drawing or some bollocks.

Sorry that my sketches were on paper that wasn’t pure white, I guess?

I can do loads of stuff despite GIMP’s efforts to stop me.

Or, hear me out, a tool that draws a circle.

I don’t know about the person you’re replying to but I would like to hear it played.