@brion Nikon does basically the same thing, you're paying the premium for having either NIKON or CANON embossed into the plastic shell.
Nikon also does the battery simulacrum deal, mostly because DSLRs are already stupidly tight half the time, and adding the extra logic for external power is a lot more expensive than just a plastic shell that plugs into an AC brick. Though, SOME of their cameras do allow you to charge the internal battery when connected over USB, but.. yeah that's a weird one.
@scy Just to make sure I'm reading this correctly:
They're taking their platform, that the German government, iirc, has already shown interest in, to promote it as a secure messaging platform.
So we're now gatekeeping privacy-focused apps from law enforcement? Especially since I find it a bit of a stretch to say that presenting your app as a thing that exists during a conference as "collaboration"
@Nour@scy Unfortunately there's already some FUD around Matrix already for... well let's just say a few paranoid reasons. At the same time, yeah, Element / the Matrix platform as a whole has always shot for marketing themselves towards governments and the like, not just for individual users.
And yes, part of keeping a decentralized system decentralized is not all grouping onto one server. See also: mastodon.social.
> Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop
We need #FLOSS tools to get to the point where they can replace Adobe tools. Open alternatives are great, but they are sadly not there yet to replace Adobe tools for professionals.
And won't be unless projects like @inkscape get enough funding to develop to a point of being viable alternatives.
@patrick_h_lauke@rysiek Darktable can iirc, you just need to ask Lightroom to create sidecar files and work with those, not just the single catalog file, doesn't seem that difficult.
@darktable themselves might have some rough idea on where to point you for that
@darktable@patrick_h_lauke@rysiek I wonder, DUMB wonder, if it's possible to read the XMP sidecars you can get Adobe to generate, and try and match them to DT operations. It won't be 100%, but having someone construct a program that knows roughly what LR op corresponds to what DT op, you can get most of it moved over...
...Probably not helpful in a practical sense, but now I'm curious. I just don't have any LR data with me to experiment with.
