Notices by Pete Prodoehl 🍕 (rasterweb@mastodon.social)

@sjvn I can! I've got plenty of practice thanks to one of our undercover cats.

@pixelfed crashed so hard it won’t even launch anymore. Even deleted and reinstalled and it’s a no go. :(
#pixelfed

@dansup Awesome! But… it seems to be missing features and a bit buggy. :( Hoping everything gets sorted out soon! :)

How much of our efforts go towards trying to prevent things from getting worse rather than trying to improve things?

I had to lie on the couch and within a few minutes was covered in cats…

#cats #mastoCats #fediCats

I wonder what Aaron Swartz would think of this...

"Reddit user content being sold to AI company in $60M/year deal"

➡️ https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/19/reddit-user-content-being-sold/

I’m still in Austin, Texas…

@maggiejk @frogglin That may be the best possible use case for AI.

Electronics Friends, do you want/need any Teensy LC boards? I found a stash of about 20 in my shop. (Will sell at original cost.)

#Electronics #maker #arduino #teensy

I saw some dude's profile on LinkedIn listed his job as "retired" and I said "why the fuck you on LinkedIn if you're retired!?" and then I realized I was on LinkedIn and then I threw the computer out the window...

My daughter is an adult now, but 10 years ago she was a teenager when I gave her some advice...

She recently said to me "Hey dad, do you remember when you told me that I should download my music and make it so I could play it anywhere? You were totally right."

I'm proud of her for remembering that! (I was telling her about DRM and "protected" files and converting them to unrestricted formats.)

Please be kind to the makers you know, as this is a very difficult time of year when they are busy trying to finish making gifts and have to restrain from posting about them online.

Quick test at making a bending jig… it kind of work… I have ideas for improvements.

#3Dprinting @3dprinting

@tux0r Please tell us why Inkscape sucks.

@tux0r Thank you for saying "In my (very personal) opinion" because you do bring up valid points, and they should not be brushed away.

I am happy for it when I use it in specific ways... and I've had a lot of time to learn the quirks and how to live with them.

Do you have suggestions for other alternatives besides Inkscape, Adobe Illustrator, or the Affinity Suite?

I've been using Inkscape for over 10 years. If I had been using Illustrator for 10 years I would have paid Adobe over $2,500 in "rental" fees for a subscription that stops as soon as I stop paying.

Instead I started paying $5 a month to Inkscape to help make sure we can all use it for free for as long as we want.

#inkscape #openSource

@Gargron I don't use Spotify or any streaming music services, I just have a ton of audio files... Last year I just tried to remember the artists that stood out, that I listened to the most, and made my list based on that. 😉

Whew! I think I've been working on this family of controllers for most of the year. (Well, on and off, with long breaks in-between.) Honestly I'm glad I didn't launch these earlier because the new printer has just upped the quality so much.

These are USB HID or USB MIDI controllers... I redesigned devices I've been building since 2020 based on over two years of lessons learned. (And a chip shortage thrown in for fun!)

#maker #3Dprinting #electronics #USB #MIDI

@cstross @blake @acb Probably cost.

This is my neighbor’s cat Mimi.

#cats #Caturday #fedicats #catsOfMastodon