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[-] Ilixtze@lemm.ee 64 points 1 month ago

I always thought it was a clever sex pervert acronym for

Graphic

Image

Manipulation

Program

[-] zurohki@aussie.zone 61 points 1 month ago

And we're pronouncing it JIMP?

[-] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

gust take your upvote and jet out of here

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[-] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

Ohh fuck no don't start this suit again

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Listen here, Legoland, I don't live in the Kingdom of Jondor

[-] samc@feddit.uk 41 points 1 month ago

Its actually GNU image manipulation program, so pretty much.

Or "Green Is My Pepper" if you ask RMS...

[-] lime@feddit.nu 9 points 1 month ago

oh is that why that brush is in there

[-] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

it stands for GNU is Not Unix Image Manipulation Program....

wait it is GNU is Not Unix is Not Unix Image Manipulation

oh no, they put a recursion in the name!!!

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[-] superkret@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

Gimp
Is
Mangy
Photoshop

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago

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[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 50 points 1 month ago

YouTube apparently censors "GIMP"

Screenshot of PewDiePie introducing GIMP, presented by Brodie Robertson

[-] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

What "Gimp" could stand for?

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 1 month ago

A type of bondage suit

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 16 points 1 month ago

It's also a slur for disabled people.

[-] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 month ago

GNU(not linux) Image Manipulation Program.

Its all rolled into GIMP, kinda like someone zipped up a suit. Oops.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 6 points 1 month ago

GNU image manipulation program.

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[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 1 month ago

Green is my pepper.

[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 47 points 1 month ago

Idk abt GIMP but hard agree about Gnome. Whenever someone uses a human foot as a logo = certified sex freak.

[-] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago

sometimes a footprint represents humanity and isn’t about fucking it….

i’m so happy i didn’t get that foot fetish hardwired in… it seems so silly to me…

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

sometimes a footprint represents humanity

sometimes, but in GNOME's case i think it is not intended to be a human foot but rather the foot of a mythological creature (a gnome). note that it has a squashed aspect ratio compared to a human foot, and also has only four toes.

apparently it's also problematic in some cultures: https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/FootAndCulturalIssue

[-] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

that’s a good point about some cultures seeing a foot the way i would see using a linux distribution with Goatse as a logo….

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Can you imagine a distro made in Nepal, using as its logo a symbol of health, commonly seen patterned into gates and doors, displayed in windows, drawn on streets...

[-] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

could be a little controversial… although maybe they should take the swastika back… take away it’s power the way n-——- has changed meaning…

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[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 month ago

My pro open-source teacher in HS pushed for all of us to use the handful of Linux computers and recommended GIMP over Photoshop. He even said we can download GIMP at home for free.

Back then, searching for GIMP gave you bondage suits.

And because we were immature fuckwads, we played real hard into that joke, to a point where the principal had to send a letter to parents about how to actually find free open-source software with links.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 17 points 1 month ago

Or how about 3 naked people in a circle holding hands. And somehow this guy is like one of the least problematic white South African billionaires.

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[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 30 points 1 month ago

Bet they couldn’t even find the cli terminal.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

The clit, for short

[-] anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

I'm just trying give her that system-d.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 21 points 1 month ago

I've come to think of it as a (really) good thing - no financially motivated tech megacorp is gonna sell a monthly "sub to Gimp".

(Tho a clothes rental company might.)

[-] SupremeDonut@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Leather clothes, at that.

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[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Virgin Media would like a word

[-] raltoid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I knew they were British, so I always assumed it had something to do with the whole Virgin Queen thing(it was and is a nickname for Elizabeth the first) or something like that, but it was apparently because they considered themselves virgins in business when they started their first record store.

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[-] Reckless_Moose@ttrpg.network 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

alias daddy='sudo'

[-] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago

Can you change the password prompt to "tell me your safeword first:"?

[-] Skeletonek@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

Of course you can

export SUDO_PROMPT="tell me your safeword first: "

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[-] Abnorc@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

I remember someone pointed out that GIMP probably would never get adopted in a company or professional environment just because of the name. Imagine suggesting that someone should use "GIMP" in a work meeting, lol. It's not necessarily a problem, but it's a funny limitation that they put on the software.

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

See, most people have no clue that "gimp" is a sex thing. They just see it as a funny-sounding acronym. In an actual work meeting, the people who do know wouldn't say anything about it to avoid being seen as the weird ones.

[-] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 month ago

Coq cowardly renamed their project because of this.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 11 points 1 month ago

IMHO Coq is a much worse name, because everyone knows what a cock is.

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[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 9 points 1 month ago

I use GIMP at work. It's officially approved in a very tightly restrained environment, literally in a repository of software people can install from. At an enterprise with thousands of employees.

I'm pretty sure only people who know what it is install it, never heard anyone so much as mention it.

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[-] KernelTale@programming.dev 13 points 1 month ago

I don't understand

[-] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Gimp is a person who gets sexual pleasure from being hurt or treated badly

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 month ago

[-] LouSlash@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Glinux

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