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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 10:56:24 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   A discussion from Tumblr about my Brazilian Pride Flag Conflict re: VGAPride got reposted on reddit, and it's hilarious how different the reaction is.

   So many people there are like "why are you having this problem? MS-DOS? just design the flag in inkscape or g*mp! why would you want to design a pride flag for DOS?"

   It's real sad. They just don't understand why anyone would write software to display pride flags on DOS.

   • bri (brhfl@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 11:01:38 JST bri

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     @foone do they think you were doing this… by accident?!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 11:03:10 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     @brhfl I honestly don't know what they think. Why would someone be doing this in 2024 if not because they're a retrotech nerd?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 11:04:09 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     no one had the correct response, which is FOONE THIS THREAD IS SIX MONTHS OLD
     WIKIPEDIA STILL HAS THE BAD FLAG
     WIKIPEDIA STILL THINKS THE BAD FLAG IS PUBLIC DOMAIN
     AND VGAPRIDE HASN'T BEEN UPDATED TO HAVE A BETTER FLAG YET

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 11:06:35 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     You can see the thread here:

     https://www.tumblr.com/foone/755662493071900672/

     But the tl;dr is that VGAPride (my DOS program for showing pride flags) has a very complicated Brazil flag, which was annoying to implement, but it's also wrong. It turns out it's wrong because wikipedia is wrong. And wikipedia has the wrong copyright on the wrong flag.

   • T (devt@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 14:29:27 JST T

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     @foone Just to add, if you haven't seen it, this is one of my favorite variations of the flag. It was made by the Mangueira Samba School during carnival (I think it was 5 years ago). It says "Indians, Blacks & Paupers" (Literal translation would be Indians, Black people & poor people I believe.

     In Portuguese "Indians" isn't considered pejorative as in English I think, I really wish we would use something else like "Original people", etc.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 14:29:27 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     @devT I haven't seen that, but it's awesome

   • T (devt@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 14:29:28 JST T

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     @foone I just want to say that idea behind the variation of the rainbow replacing "Ordem e Progresso" is amazing. Like one of the replies point out, "Ordem e Progresso" is kind of lame, lmao. I would love to see one with the rainbow in the middle but keeping the regular flag colors (keeping the stars might be another story, lol). As a Brazilian myself, the thread was an enjoyable read!