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This color picker on Flathub got rated 12+ (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 159 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It ships a file called snark.py which is apparently used to name colors. Examples:

(0, 85, 85, 'liquid Nyquil'),

(85, 170, 170, 'smurf blood'),

(255, 170, 170, '"nude" tights that only match Becky's skin'),

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (4 children)

... Why would they include that. Fucking programmers man

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

iirc sudo has a bunch of quotes to spit out when an incorrect password is typed. Gentoo exposes that feature with the offensive USE flag.

Edit: Looks like Pick is sourcing the weirder names from this site: https://glitch.com/~name-that-color

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

You can turn it on in other distros using Defaults insults option

[+] [email protected] -24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

iirc sudo has a bunch of quotes to spit out when an incorrect password is typed. Gentoo exposes that feature with the offensive USE flag.

Argh, why tho?

Like, I get that it is sometimes fun to throw some humor and things like that, but it is just too much trouble. It looks unprofessional and makes translation more of a pain than it needs to be. And that isn't even opening the can of worms that insults actually are

Edit: alright, I got it. L for me

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

Then don't use the feature lmfao

Stop complaining about developers having fun with software they're providing you for free

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It looks unprofessional

Often times, projects like this aren't necessarily going for "professional" - its something the developer has made for themselves and is just being nice to share it and the source to the world.

Also, sometimes that sort of thing is directly related to making sure translations do actually work. While I doubt that was the case here, I remember seeing RedHat Linux for a while had a specific language option that changed the phrasing quite a bit (I believe it was in relation to how one of the devs on the team commonly spoke) and it was done to make sure that translations were working.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

people expecting “professional” out of one of the world’s largest hobby projects …

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

why

Because fun

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

IIRC It was added because too many people had been hacking together such a feature in their configurations, more often than not compromising their security. They added the option to reduce the amount of damage such a stupid much-asked-for feature deals.

P.S.: Honestly, I have used the feature before. While it's usually funny, it can be brutal from time to time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Who gives a fuck about professionalism. This is software made by people for fun. Why don't you try and have a lil fun

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It looks unprofessional

Are you complaining about this for free software when some software and platform thatcost around $44B (or $8/mo) are literal Nazi stinkholes?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

Because it's mildly funny and hurts nobody?

[–] Supermariofan67 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because it's funny

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I just read all of them, there's a bunch of names doubled up on different colors, 5/10

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't like it? Fork it.

[+] [email protected] -15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah sure I'll maintain a fork just over this and get it mainlined. Or they could just be normal lol

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, I enjoy the humorous colour names.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

It makes translation more of a headache than it needs to be.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

so don't translate that file

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, a colour picker is the last piece of software you should be translating names for. Even everyday colour names don't have a direct translation. The line between "blue" and "green" is very slightly different than the line between "bleu" and "vert", and the same goes for any other two languages. If you're serious about your colour picker accuracy and you want to localize to another language, it would actually be more correct to have a completely different set of colour values, rather than trying to translate them. (Though "Liquid Nyquil" may be perceived the same across languages. I haven't seen any studies on that one)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The line between “blue” and “green”

grue

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know about this specific program, but pretty much every other time I've seen something like this it's been treated as another language and is a way for developers to test that that feature actually works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not if you ascribe to Woolseyism.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So let me get this straight, you want other people to work on a project that you yourself think is a hassle to maintain for free while also expecting the same level of professionalism of a 9to5 job?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

It's like we are in a big, nonstop Southpark episode.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

such edge

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't do colours kids!

Edit: that came out kinda racist lol.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

"References illicit drugs" lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Fortnite ratings be like: