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this_was_postedon The Amazon Is Not the Earth’s Lungs

from the air that it takes in, just like lungs do

this_was_postedon The lunar laser ranging experiment is still going 50 years later

isn't the lack of impacts near the retroreflector due to the fact that the moon surface around the reflector is always facing earth?

this_was_postedon Publishers blocking IPs for alleged sci-hub use

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/ I would use this

this_was_postedon Google admits listening to some smart speaker recordings

But is it also natural to assume that this is done without explicit consent? With telemetry data for applications you can usually disable this kind of inspection of your data.

this_was_postedon Gimp 2.10.12

> This was a stupid change that added absolutely nothing of value, introduced unnecessary UI complexity and the only reason the GIMP developers did not revert despite all the users requesting it is arrogance as they believe to know better than their own users (which is to be expected by anything related GNOME - see the file dialog woes).

I can imagine that they made the change due to many beginners being confused about having lost editing capabilities by storing their work as a png. The developers probably spend quite some time on the fora where users report these kinds of questions, so I don't think it is all that arrogant of them to believe that they know what causes confusion and what doesn't. Thinking that as a single user you are more knowledgeable on what is better for the over all ux than the actual developers, that I do think could be seen a little bit arrogant.