Pete Hahnloser

Green energy/tech reporter, burner, raver, graphic artist and vandweller.

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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • And you would be … 🤣

    I do kid. I enjoy that we have the options to dive into the deep end elsewhere or just hang out in a space where bullshit is quickly quashed. I’m here for discussion and to be active in ensuring this is a place I never find myself regretting joining.

    Is it what everyone wants? Of course not, but that was never the intent of Beehaw to my knowledge. I’m glad you’re happy here and hope you continue to feel that way. And, you know what? Fuck anyone who tells you not to be happy with what you have. This is not Beehaw- or Lemmy-specific, this is life. Never let anyone else bring you down for what you’re comfortable with.





  • use unsuitable software for years in the hopes that volunteer devs will eventually add the features they need.

    There’s an opportunity here to unbundle Photoshop from itself.

    Since my background is print, I can say for at least a few more weeks, there’s an audience interested in reading RAW, cropping, toning for both CMYK and RGB, scratch removal on negatives and cutouts. And literally nothing else.

    And so now imagine anyone else. They don’t need CMYK. What the fuck is that, anyway?

    That Photoshop has gained bloat is not something to emulate. FOSS shouldn’t try to replicate it so long as there’s a universal file format one can jump between apps to manipulate.






  • This was very much me, and for a rather stupid reason: My resume was in InDesign.

    It would have served me well to realize InDesign resumes are a bad idea to get past ATS years ago, but I eventually came around.

    I can still fire up CS6 in a VM; for my needs, CC never made sense. Like, seriously, for ID, layers and transparency and trapping and anything else I might need for offset or digital is taken care of. Illustrator has a competent Live Trace feature. Photoshop has the magnetic lasso, which is about as advanced as I need to get past cropping and toning. Audition lets me make really bad mashups.

    The only subscription I have that is not a utility or insurance is Mullvad. I don’t want to rent anything on my computer, thank you very much. Yarr!



  • Egregious clickbait hed. I don’t care the source, “than you might think” works psychologically on, well, more levels than you might think.

    Throughout this election, and honestly, past it wouldn’t be bad, wherever you are in the world, this phrase should be a red flag that you’ve run headlong into bullshit.

    That aside, Nature, are you OK? Journal articles tend to have as theses shit that isn’t somehow both obvious and vacuously true then not backed up by the passive voice, the gold standard for scientific literature. “The beaker was observed …”