I use GIMP a lot and learning the interface was hell, but other than that it's perfectly good software. Haven't dabbled much with Krita, but I've heard from colleagues it's pretty great.
Main issue is what the other user pointed out, if you work at a company you need to either use locked in software or somehow convince the whole company to use the foss version. Nowadays lots of people are using Canva despite it also being shit and increasingly enshittified.
President Petro at first said Colombia would retaliate by imposing tariffs on US goods, but the White House later announced that Colombia had agreed to accept migrants - including those arriving on US military aircraft - "without limitation or delay".
Please exercise more caution when reading the BBC. The White House press secretary can say whatever they want, doesn't mean it's true. For instance, see that the statement from Colombia's foreign ministry directly contradicts that. The entirety of imperial media has reframed this conflict over "not accepting deportees", so that no matter what happens Trump can claim a victory and move on before people take note of the truth. Then they launder Trump's lies so that even the basic facts are distorted.
And it worked, people are being transported on Colombia Air Force planes, with dignity, were even met personally by the president and yet even supposed leftist English-language outlets are peddling the "backed down on deportation due to tariffs" lie.
At least non-English leftist news media (1, 2) are reinforcing how this brought Latin America (especially Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia and the Haitian community) together rather than some imagined defeat.
Also, you were not the Yankee I was referring to.
The statement is not about tariffs (it's about USA interventionism and intransigence over mistreatment of Colombian citizens), and the unilateral increase in tariffs from the USA is only mentioned at the very end, with the counterthreat that Colombia could respond in kind if needed. It worked, the USA conceded to their demands for the deportees and dropped sanction threats. 25% import tariffs are still going through in the US side.
Though I concede I misread the original comment, I wrongfully thought people being rounded up en masse and chained like animals for deportation would be more important to Yankees than coffee prices. I suppose that's "cringe" indeed.
Basically Trump has started the mass deportations using military personnel and the foreign citizens were treated like sub-human prisoners even within their own countries' borders in cases like Brazil. You can read this with Google translate, but just browse the images in this Brazilian news article and that'll be enough.
Petro was among the leaders who refused to receive the citizens in such degrading circumstances, was sanctioned for it, and then did this statement as a response. This forced diplomatic talks and now the Colombian citizens will be brought with a presidential Colombian plane rather than a USA military one and the sanctions put on hold.
There'll still be the baseline 25% Trump tariffs, but not the increased 50% of the sanctions.
Critical section from TeleSur
“We have overcome the impasse with the U.S. government. We will continue to welcome Colombian men and women returning as deportees, guaranteeing them dignified conditions as citizens with rights,” said Colombia’s Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo.
“The Colombian government has made the presidential plane available to facilitate the return of the nationals who were scheduled to arrive in the morning in the country on deportation flights,” he added, putting an end to the exchange of messages between Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro on social media throughout Sunday.
The diplomatic tension arose after Petro refused to accept two military planes carrying deported Colombians from the United States. Following his decision not to authorize the landing of the military planes, Trump announced he would impose 25% tariffs on Colombian products and revoke the visas of Colombian government officials. In response, Petro promised reciprocal measures.
Despite the agreement reached, the White House stated that the possibility of imposing tariffs and sanctions remains “on hold unless Colombia fails to comply with the agreement.” Trump argued that Petro’s refusal endangered “the national and public security of the United States.”
Source, emphasis mine.
The statement wasn't about tariffs, it was about the conditions and treatment of the Colombian citizens being deported. People were being sent handcuffed and chained on a military plane.
Please don't project expectations that were never there, the tariffs were a threat of equal retribution. Imperial media is calling this a "trade war" like they peddled the "3 day SMO" lie.
The U.S. decision to send deportees on military planes was the reason Petro cited for his refusal. “The United States cannot treat Colombian migrants like criminals… I cannot force migrants to stay in a country that does not want them; but if that country returns them, it must be done with dignity and respect for them and for our country,” he pointed out, demanding that deportations be carried out on “civilian planes” and that a protocol be established, as “a migrant is not a criminal.”
After the announcement of sanctions against his government, Petro issued a statement saying he had ordered the presidential plane to transport the returnees. He also mentioned that 15,660 U.S. citizens residing in Colombia are in “irregular status.” Therefore, he urged them to “regularize their situation” and assured them of their continued stay in Colombian territory.
Could be completely anecdotal, but browsing the Wikipedia day-by-day timeline of the war I've noticed an increase of "SBU arrested Ukrainians was arrested for treason/corruption" events, which seems like a really dire indicator.
I wonder if Zelensky will get thrown under the bus or if he'll manage to find a scapegoat who "stole trillions" who will conveniently die or disappear and be unable to defend himself.
It's also part of the general Starter strategy of "back down on every single progressive promise" when pushed. Being against Trump was just another remnant of trying to pretend to be left while in the Opposition. This video is a (long) good analysis of the Starmer government in general, but I've timestamped specifically the bit where he talks about Trump and foreign policy.
Browser engines are the clients in a client-server system. Social media interactions follow a client-server-client pattern. Federation merely allows for something like client-server-server-client, and wouldn't make sense for browsers.
What you're probably looking for is simply communities built around forking the codebase of those engines for innovation and development. Those probably already exist, since that's part of the cultural backbone of the FOSS movement.
Trump loves getting some critical support. Sir Kid Starver must go.
Stochastic Lugism. Every single rich or ghoul death will make people ask "is this a class thing?" even if the answer is "no". But as long as the question is asked, it'll be part of the collective consciousness.
Wherever you are, revolution will not come only from reading theory, sharing memes or consuming communist media. It'll be brought about by active party work.
So if you have the time and energy, consider joining whichever local communist organisation you have access to in your area, or even non-communist leftist organisations. Organise your individual anger into class anger.
Comrade workers! Let us then prepare with redoubled energy for the decisive battle that is at hand! Let the ranks of the [Revolutionary] Social-Democrat proletarians close ever firmer! Let their word spread ever farther afield! Let campaigning for the workers’ demands be carried on ever more boldly! Let the celebration of May Day win thousands of new fight ers to our cause and swell our forces in the great struggle for the freedom of all the people, for the liberation of all who toil from the yoke of capital!
Long live the eight-hour day!
Long live international revolutionary Social-Democracy!
Down with the criminal and plundering tsarist autocracy!
Don't think it "surpassing" Deepseek is much better than it just being cheaper (which it doesn't seem to be), for all practical effects. Though the investor panic might produce another fun shock do NASDAQ and disrupt the financial economy a little bit more.