Photo of a street scene, focus is on the end of a series of houses that has a large, windowless wall. Painted on it is a photorealistic mural depicting four people, in outdoor/army gear. Two of them have “PRESS” written on their clothing. They’re standing in front of a wall of rubble, above them is written “Heroes of Palestine” and the artist collective name “Creative Debuts”.
I’d be very interested in feedback in this description (is it too long/detailed, missing something?).
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 … 😓
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.
Deutschland steht auf Platz 10. Das ist ein Aufstieg gegenüber 2023 (21). Betrachtet man die Gesamtpunktzahl, hat sich die Situation in Deutschland aber nur geringfügig verbessert und auch nur in der Kategorie Sicherheit. Der Sprung auf Ranglistenplatz 10 ist zudem auch der Tatsache geschuldet, dass sich andere Länder auf der...
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:
Mural painted on a house in Ilford, England (files.mastodon.online)
mstdn.social/...
Neonazi: Drei Finger weg – Verstümmelung in Chemnitz offenbar abgesprochen (www.t-online.de) German
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...
Really? 😍
#dadsandtheirlawns #lawndad
Tesla plans to charge some Model Y owners to unlock more range (www.theverge.com)
The company is apparently awaiting regulatory approval.
"What's your gender?" "Well..." (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Firefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs saved over two years after they can’t restore browsing session (www.tomshardware.com)
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)
Pressefreiheit in Deutschland von Rang 21 auf 10 verbessert - weil andere Länder schlechter geworden sind (www.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de) German
Deutschland steht auf Platz 10. Das ist ein Aufstieg gegenüber 2023 (21). Betrachtet man die Gesamtpunktzahl, hat sich die Situation in Deutschland aber nur geringfügig verbessert und auch nur in der Kategorie Sicherheit. Der Sprung auf Ranglistenplatz 10 ist zudem auch der Tatsache geschuldet, dass sich andere Länder auf der...
Shower thought: Linux would be more popular if we could all agree on a distro
Linux is super fragmented (and generally has been historically)....
He gives no effs (midwest.social)
lil robot (mander.xyz)
We have Torrent. AND Magnet! (feddit.it)
in the center of France
Found on boomerbook (midwest.social)
Ugh
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....
party poopers (mander.xyz)
chapter3_finalfinal8FINAL5.docx (mander.xyz)
Canada's economy is losing momentum — quickly (financialpost.com)
Canada’s GDP slipped lower in February, suggesting growth is slowing quickly. Read more
The Phantom Hunter - Blair Bruce (1888) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Raw (lemmy.sdf.org)
Chesspiece (Rook equivalent) from Scotland, depicting a Norse berserker biting his shield, 12th century AD
PeerTube 6.1 is out! (joinpeertube.org)