Study of the great Patrick Nagel's work, who left us way too soon. "Black Bustier" recreated using Affinity Designer and just a bit of re-colouring. #Affinity#AffinityDesigner#Vector
I have some thoughts about AI and Inkscape, considering the whole Adobe T&C news. But just like the Affinity video, I wanted to talk more about the discussions we've had about the technology and it's readyness and the most important part: consent over training data.
"A power system that is already prone to shortages like those currently forecast on Friday is facing never-before-seen demand from electric vehicles (EVs) and big data centres.
Vector is preparing for it - but the lack of laws and regulations and an Energy Ministry are in its way."
"The New Zealand Electricity Authority (Māori: Te Mana Hiko) is an independent Crown entity responsible for the regulation of the New Zealand electricity market. The Authority was established in November 2010, following a government review of the electricity industry, and replaced the Electricity Commission. The Authority has a narrower focus on industry competition, reliability and efficiency than the Electricity Commission had."
So Helen Clark's Labour government set up the Electricity Commission
"... following extremely dry hydro years in 2001 and 2003, which led to government concerns that the electricity market did not provide adequate security of electricity supply."
It was intended to oversee the reliability of electricity supply in Aotearoa over the long term. Exactly what Vector is pointing out we don't have. Why?
Amazing to think this was half my life ago! Probably my favourite of the mechanical animals I draw back then. And when I really started to develop my gradients-everywhere style of vector drawing.
Introducing Friction 0.9.6 Beta 1. This release includes several changes to the user interface and some additional new features. We are now in feature freeze, please report any regressions etc.
@stooovie At the moment no. We have some blocker issues (memory related, but also UI) on macOS that prevents us from supporting that platform fully.It also has a high maintenance cost compared to other platforms (and potential user base).