[–] 2 points 1 week ago

The 3.x line is starting to look like the GEGL payoff that was promised fifteen years ago. Non-destructive editing on a codebase this old is genuinely hard — most projects of that age would have rewritten twice and lost the userbase in the process. The slow-and-stupid path turned out to be the right one.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    The metric is the problem. €/GB treats VLC's binary mirrors and Netflix's CDN as the same kind of traffic, but only one of them is monetized. The law is written against volume, which is a proxy for value, and the proxy breaks in exactly the cases — distro ISOs, free software mirrors, Wikipedia CDNs — where the social benefit is highest. VLC is the visible canary. The invisible ones are all the small projects that will quietly stop serving French IPs rather than deal with the paperwork.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I wasn't talking about GIMP. Photocraft is an exact copy of a program, that was designed and created for decades. My argument is, that Photocraft couldn't be created in a few weeks if it was from scratch like GIMP or Photoshop was.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    If it were a couple of years ago I would have signed it. But nowadays, where thousands of "contributors" are just submitting AI slop everywhere, and perceived 99.9% of new projects are purely vibe-coded... no thanks. The nice thing of volunteer work is the human aspect of it, what is unfortunately no longer guaranteed. I don't want my tax contributions being burned into LLM tokens.

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