Toxicity might also be a concern if you compost it by throwing it into nature. This is my big gripe with all these alternatives: Are they less harmful than (micro)plastic?
For me the first Ghost in the Shell movie (the anime, obviously) is the standard when it comes to these questions (though it's of course not the first).
Recently on Reddit there are memes after memes on election. Specifically, rather pro-Israel "No vote for Biden is vote for Trump!" If you open, you see a bunch of same-minded people complaining about anti-Bibi protestors....
I wanna make some games but idk where to start. Thinking of gbstudio but the hardware limits would make making a card game hard, any other easy tools? Is there a gbstudio eqivament for 16-32 bit systems?
There has been a lot of talk about companies and individuals adopting licenses that aren't OSI opensource to protect themselves from mega-corp leechers. Developers have also been condemned who put donation notices in the command-line or during package installation. Projects with opensource cores and paid extensions have also...
I think the route of giving it all away for free and either offering hosting if the project needs it or (business) support is the most successful way of doing this.
I have no problems whatsoever with donation buttons / banners (like Krita does) but I'm afraid random donations is not really a sustainable model for most projects. I try to remember to donate to projects I use a lot (especially if it's for work) but it is another thing on my todo list and not one with high priority, so I don't do it as often as I'd like ... 😓
Yeah, very good points. A while ago there was talk about some kind of foundation where maintainers could bill their hours and people and big tech companies could donate. Not sure if / how that would work ...
During the xz incident I also talked about this on Mastodon and someone suggested that big tech could just employ maintainers without them having to do anything for the company directly, just work on the project / library the company uses. Again not everybody would want to do that ...
I'm afraid there's no easy one-fits-all solution here.
I live alone and I'm just wasting away my time here. It's actually making me very depressed to be honest. I do live in the city which makes think there ought to be at least something to do out here. Though I can't really afford to spent money on it every day....
For me personally I think a big chunk of why FOSS alternatives seem "bad" is because you don't know how to use them (yet). I spend decades of familiarising myself with all the horrendous fucking "quirks" and bad UX and other stuff of Adobe software and internalsing all that bullshit. When Inkscape had different "quirks" (= ways of doing things) of course it's easy to dismiss it as "bad".
And yes, some software that is mostly made by a bunch of volunteers for free can't feature-compete with a multi-million company, surprise.
I think it would be more interesting to find out why Adobe software is still so abysmal after they've probably thrown hundreds of millions of dollars on it. I recently watched my brother work on a complex project with Premiere and it was almost non-functional, quite fascinating, actually.
I'd like to buy a French comic I can't find online from any store that sells French Bande dessinée (Amazon, fnac or anything else) and then ask for a refund so I can keep a nice *.cbz or *.cbr file on my hard drive....
Do you know what format the comics come from Amazon (and if they actually have DRM)? I'm not sure if I've ever done it with comics but ebooks from Amazon usually worked well with DeDRM for Calibre:
Good old Brackeys, his videos helped me so much back when I was using Unity. I'm checking out Godot atm for fun (started way before the current Unity debacle, it was apperent that they don't care about what's good for game-devs when they started buying spyware companies) and it looks pretty good, obviously it suffers from not having thousands of people doing assets and tutorials for it but if the enshittification of Unity continues (which it will) this will hopefully change to the better even more.
Luminance 1.1.0 released with GTK4 ( github.com )
Green Mermaid by Jenna
Source: https://cara.app/post/db59f28e-78b7-4e5f-ade5-311370a2ead6
Researchers invent 100% biodegradable 'barley plastic' ( phys.org )
He has cancer — so he made an AI version of himself for his wife after he dies ( www.npr.org )
Company he works at eternos.life
25 Years of Krita! ( krita.org )
Twenty-five years of Krita today! Join us for a trip down memory lane -- KImageShop, Krayon, Krita through a quarter century....
Sympathy for the Machine | Curious Archive ( youtu.be )
a cool video i think is tagnentially related to solarpunk meows!...
Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training ( arstechnica.com )
Emoji Rule ( files.catbox.moe )
Reddit full of political bias
Recently on Reddit there are memes after memes on election. Specifically, rather pro-Israel "No vote for Biden is vote for Trump!" If you open, you see a bunch of same-minded people complaining about anti-Bibi protestors....
Has Generative AI Already Peaked? - Computerphile ( www.youtube.com )
"Has this ever happened to you?" rule ( lemmy.ml )
Original image: https://twitter.com/HasegawaKeane2/status/1762805360635560410
What podcasts have you been listening to the most during the year?
I'm getting close to the bottom of my backlog on a few podcasts, so I'm looking to get something new in there....
Beginner gamedev projects?
I wanna make some games but idk where to start. Thinking of gbstudio but the hardware limits would make making a card game hard, any other easy tools? Is there a gbstudio eqivament for 16-32 bit systems?
JWST: NIRCam - Uranus ( www.nasa.gov )
How are companies or developers supposed to make a full time living with OSI opensourced projects? ( opensource.org )
There has been a lot of talk about companies and individuals adopting licenses that aren't OSI opensource to protect themselves from mega-corp leechers. Developers have also been condemned who put donation notices in the command-line or during package installation. Projects with opensource cores and paid extensions have also...
"What's your gender?" "Well..." ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
What are some free interests/things/hobbies you can do in the city?
I live alone and I'm just wasting away my time here. It's actually making me very depressed to be honest. I do live in the city which makes think there ought to be at least something to do out here. Though I can't really afford to spent money on it every day....
Why Are Open Source Alternatives So Bad? ( youtu.be )
We have Torrent. AND Magnet! ( feddit.it )
in the center of France
How to de-DRM comics
I'd like to buy a French comic I can't find online from any store that sells French Bande dessinée (Amazon, fnac or anything else) and then ask for a refund so I can keep a nice *.cbz or *.cbr file on my hard drive....
Raw ( lemmy.sdf.org )
PeerTube 6.1 is out! ( joinpeertube.org )
Substack Competitor Ghost Announces ActivityPub Integration ( wedistribute.org )
I have literally developed bespoke coping mechanisms around such scenarios ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
Unity tutorial creator Brackeys highlights systemic issues with public company, promotes Godot (FOSS) ( programming.dev )
https://www.youtube.com/@Brackeys/about...