just try pizza with nutella.... Thanks me later ;D

@Liiuc You know that's just hot bread with nutella on top ?

@reed I can't tell you percentage-wise, but I can tell you that a lot of restaurants or takeaways selling pizza are turkish-owned here, and have a different recipe for the dough.

I guess it's just sold as "pizza" because that's a more recognized name

It's not even that it's bad really, it's enjoyable, but it's difficult to distinguish the two. If you ever unsure, see if they offer kebab meat on a pizza. If they do, it's likely turkish

Would you consider my answer suitable for this?

I think "If you have been hacked and don't know why, it's best to call a professional to figure that out for you" is generally good advice.

Hello! Just realized I haven't been here all week - it's been busy

@MechMK1 I found and upvoted that before I got here. It's really the only answer

@ConorMancone Lovely to see you here again

Yeah, we lost the pregnancy so I was off most of last week. There were minor complications so I spent most of last week taking my wife back and forth to doctor's appointments and the hospital

that's sad man... hope you all are fine

I'm very sorry to hear that

If you need someone to talk to, I'm here for you

Thanks guys. It's not fun for sure. My wife especially is having a much harder time with this one than the last.

On a different note: this will be interesting...

Sigh...

Did you do an OPSEC oopie again?

:) luckily it was just an AWS policy

Does it need history removal too?

No, nothing especially sensitive

theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/10/20/21454192/…

The US is officially bringing anti-trust allegations against Google for search advertising.

At least it wasn't as bad as lil Jeff :D

It's not exactly new territory: EU has done this before. I suspect though that it will hurt a lot more coming on their "home turf"

@MechMK1 now I'm curious :)

Oh you didn't hear?

Apparently not!

Jeffrey Toobin was on a Zoom call and "exposed himself" "accidentally"

There's a picture floating around, though some have argued it's fake. I'd err on the side of caution.

But damn boy, even I put on some form of underwear on before I hop on a call

Ouch...

I joke about having to put pants on before a meeting, but it's always just a joke

Based on 3 seconds of googling he had a pretty distinguished career that is now being destroyed. That's pretty sad

I mean I'm not in favour of destroying someone's career. But I mean in 2 years people will have forgotten about that, let's be honest

Weirdest thing I've ever done on a meeting was take a shit

I mean what am I meant to do, the meeting took 3 hours

Meetings longer than an hour should be banned. If we're being honest, most people don't have an attention span that is 3 hours long

I know I don't, I actually managed to chart my attention span a long time ago

Yeah I zoned out as wlel

I had been keeping track of hours for a side job (for billing purposes). I had been keeping track of it to the minute, and after a few months, just for kicks, plotted up a histogram of the length of my work sessions. There was a clear peak around 55 minutes and then a quick decline after that.

This was a few years after college, and my college classes were 50 minutes long, so I was trying to decide if my attention span had adjusted itself to match or if colleges were just smart and new that ~an hour was the longest you could expect someone to actually pay attention in one go

Fortunately most of my meetings with this job are usually under an hour. I've only had 2 or 3 hour meetings a small handful of times

I think one hour to perhaps one and a half is the longest I can reasonably pay attention to one thing before I need a different stimulus

Yeah, pretty much. My work day gets broken up like that. Work for 60-90 minutes. Go down stairs and grab a snack. Work some more. Read an article. More work! Bathroom break... the details don't matter so much as giving my brain a little break

Understandable. Home office is starting to take a toll on me though. I miss being around people.

Yeah, a lot of people are getting burned out on WFH. Some of my colleagues even go so far as to occasionally rent out a shared working space, because the company refuses to open offices

@ConorMancone Also I asked if "cunt" is a valid pronoun I can declare for myself. Rory was not enjoying it :D I guess it's not.

I have a stupid question completely unrelated to everything:

Adobe sells the "photography bundle", which is Photoshop and Lightroom, for 9.99/mth. They also sell Photoshop standalone for 20.99/mth.

Why?

so even if you don't want to buy anything from them, 9.99 is cheaper than 20.99, so you buy now before the price changes

like all summer sale games we got on steam and never play them

@MechMK1 lol, I can't help but chuckle over that one. I can see it going badly in many circumstances though :)

@MechMK1 Can you still buy photoshop outright?

@ConorMancone I think they used to have a student version that wasn't a subscription, but I don't see anything like that on their website anymore.

I miss the old days when you could actually buy things

@FireQuacker That legitimately irritates me...

seriously...

I converted to Affinity instead. Not as good, but it was reasonably priced and not a subscription.

How does gimp compare? I've only ever used Gimp, but I don't do serious photo editing.

Photoshop has more capabilities, but beyond that it's such a completely different design that if you're used to one, you'll hate the other

Gimp honestly is shit

Do you want an example?

Task: Create a text with a glow effect

Photoshop: Select the text tool, then click on the image. Type the text and configure it however you like (size, font, etc.). Then right-click on the newly generated text layer, click "Add effect", select "Inner Glow" or "Outer Glow", depending on what you want, then configure the glow to however you like. The effect will automatically be applied to any changes you make to the text (e.g. moving, scaling, etc.)

GIMP: Select the text tool, then click on the image. Type the text and configure it however you like (size, font, etc.). Then right-click on the newly generated text layer click "Text to path", then click "Select" in the menu bar and select "From Path". A selection around your text will appear. Now select "Border" and select the width of your desired glow effect. Create a new layer and position it below your text layer. Select the new layer and select the paint bucket tool.

Now fill in the selection with your desired colour. Now keeping the new layer selected, select "Filter" in the menu bar, select "Blur..." and select "gaussian blur". That's it, you created a glow effect. If you ever want to adjust your text in any way (position, font, etc.) you have to redo all these steps again

I mean, I feel sorry for all the people who work on GIMP that I am calling their project shit, but it's just...it's just so bad in comparison to a commercial product

It existed for 24 years and you can't even simply add a stroke effect to text

@MechMK1 Obviously this is because you haven't jumped into the project and added this feature yourself! It's open source man, if you aren't willing to fix it yourself then you can't compalin!!!!

@ConorMancone I don't have time to fix it myself. I want a thing that works.

@MechMK1 You're clearly not a true Open Sourcer

I'm now making that a label and officially copyrighting it, so you owe me a dollar if you use it

@ConorMancone Correct, I'm not. I'm a guy who appreciates stuff that works. And if you say "copywrite" I will kneecap you

I don't know what you're talking about :p

I am the omniscient

Fortunately for me the extent of my image editing is to crop screenshots and add very-poorly-drawn arrows, so Gimp works okay for me

It's useful if you want to splice screenshots together

But like....photo editing

Photoshop is heavenly

So many functions that just work

Like for example, the "healing" tool

I had a smudge on my shirt. Just poof and gone

if only real life was that easy :D

@MechMK1 I tend to use paint.net

which used to be FOSS, but the workflow just works for me. It also is indespensible for part of my office workflow, and they're too cheapass for PS :D

I take photos of a screen, de-keystone them with a plug in tool for adjusting the thing, sharpen, and its almost as good as a screenshot

._.

yes, the workflow is stupid

I know enough not to ask

@MechMK1 client took away our USB drive rights cause of an incident that never happened.... but want their daily reports

so instead of spending 10 minutes, its a half hour chore.

actually more. There's a lot of reports :D

@JourneymanGeek Add a new report: "Time wasted this week because of inability to use USB drive when sending reports: 5 hours"

I have complained about this 😁

I love including this in my reports

"This could not be tested because of the restrictions of the syste"