Submitted 7 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
This makes entirely too much sense. I’d love to see sanity prevail and this to trend, but I no longer have reasonable hope for much anymore.
I do secretly feel bad for any government workers that were using Photoshop and have to switch to Gimp though.
GIMP is fucking awesome what are you on about
Glad you love it. This is kind of a tired debate but specifically if you are well versed in Photoshop and try to convert to Gimp you feel like, well, a Gimp. From personal experience I tried for a solid year and it never felt right. I could still do the things I needed but it took longer and was more cumbersome. Probably a different story if you grow up with it.
Eh, really depends on the use case. For example if you want to edit something distributed in a psd format gimp won’t even tell you something got imported wrong. So the file will import but will look wrong.
And then there’s the UI. It just refuses to follow any current standards. Whether that’s a good or bad thing depends on the user.
Personally I use affinity photo. Works for my use case and is a one time purchase product, which for me is ok.
Soon: “Open source software or pirated copies of photoshop only”
I mean wouldn’t everything be a security concern in relation to government agencies?
I work for the UK government. Everything my organisation does is licensed in either MIT or OGL (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/…/3/)
Developing code in the open really helps ensure you nail down your secure coding practices.
In my opinion especially security code needs to be open source…
Nothing like bored programmers on the internet to nitpick the governments code.
If you don’t release your source code due to security concerns, you just announced to the world that your software is vulnerable and you’re relying on security through obscurity.
never let them see you cry
Meh, not really. The risk with making it publicly available is that a nation state or leet hacker types can comb over it and find exploits or know what libraries/etc you are using so when a zero day pops up they can target you directly. Whereas without direct access to th source code they’d have to do their own enumeration and surveillance.
There is some security through obscurity.
Also, just want to point out: being open source doesn’t mean it’s more or less secure. There is plenty of vulnerable open source code out their.
I feel like a lot of the front ends can be open sourced.
This is really cool. I do wonder how often “third-party rights or security concerns” will be deemed to apply, though.
Fuck does this mean LibreOffice might get actual sponsorship, funding, organizational support? And not be a buggy steaming pile of shit that crashes my computer every ten minutes???
An engineer can dream, right?
I hate spreadsheet and slide deck days. Please oh universe help me get back to my happy place: codeland.
I’ve never had LibreOffice crash my computer. Sure, it crashes occasionally, but it never takes anything else with it.
If you’re putting enough stuff into a spreadsheet to crash it, it’s time to move to a real database.
“unless the rights of third parties or security-related reasons would exclude or restrict this.”
Without a narrow and specific definition of what qualifies, this clause looks to me like a free pass to ignore the law. I hope its inevitable abuse will lead to a quick shoring up of the language.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 7 months ago
Security concerns? Closed-source software is a security concern in itself!
yeather@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Probably meant for military applications or classified materials.