The problem with GIMP (www.spacebar.news)

submitted 4 weeks ago by corbin@infosec.pub to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 29 points 4 weeks ago

I don’t even want to tell people I use it because of its name. I would never bring it up in a work setting in this day and age when I look at Slack and see everyone list their pronouns.

The fact they haven’t clued into this is just wild to me. A shame it throws the work of so many people under the bus.

Also, to call it after the Pulp Fiction character is insane to me. Let alone that everyone on the team signed off on it. What were the second choices? Diarrhea? Herpes? Like dafuq.

[-] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 4 weeks ago

It reeks of 12 year old boy saying “FART” to make his friends laugh

[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 weeks ago

Or some edgelord trying to get people to watch 2 girls 1 cup back in the day. The scene in the movie was deeply disturbing. It actually made my partner at the time cry because she had been SAed before. Even for me, I did not enjoy and while the movie was amazing, the scene only took away from the film (I know the entire thing was hyper violent and disturbing).

I can’t even imagine referring to it let alone thinking back on it fondly. I always thought GIMP was an acronym. This news shook me because I’m actually on the contributor list.

Also, I would never admit its origin in this day and age. I’m still in shock learning this!