Notices by surely bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 (bazkie@beige.party), page 2

btw this sign was located behind the most beautiful of trees. here's a pic with the tree included

@multiverseofbadness 😅
cetirizine really helps me fix burning eyes from hay fever! (tho you probably already know about it)

okay, some big debian questions; so I'm using rsync daily to backup all my important stuff (both locally and to offsite)

my debian stable (trixie) has version 3.4.1, which is fine; but I don't want the newer, sloppified version..

so I wondered:

- can I tell my debian install to just keep this version forever? or will that break things sooner or later?

(to everyone explaining how to hold a package, yes thanks but I know that; my question is more like "can I do that forever without things breaking". but I understand the answer must be no 😅 maybe the question was more out of desperation; that clearly isn't the way to go in the long run.. a real solution must come from the debian team then =>)

- since debian tends to be pretty strict when it comes to stability (it's called debian stable after all), is there an active discussion going on, in the debian community, about how to deal with obviously sloppifying packages like rsync?

will debian maybe freeze them at the last non-sloppified version too somehow, so I don't have to deal with that?

surely, it can't be that obviously worse versions of packages go from debian experimental, through testing, to stable, right? 😬

I'm rather curious/puzzled/anxious how debian will handle cases like this, since there's bound to be a ton of them before long.

does anyone, someone more familiar with the debian community, have some insights on this process, and if this is being actively discussed? I really hope it is!

because this is going to be a massive, make or break, problem before long - it kinda already is, at least for me, a random user, who is worried their backups might start breaking soon 😬

btw. I understand I could switch from rsync to some forked version, and I probably will if the answer to my question is "no, there's little discussion, and they are going to let the sloppified packages trickle through the experimental => testing => stable chain"; but that only works around the problem for this specific package.

I don't have time to find slopfree alternatives to all of these hundreds of tools that exist in a standard debian installation..

or maybe, would debian at some point maybe switch to forked, non-sloppified versions of packages, and denote them the new defaults, and handle the upgrade in somewhat automated fashion?

I remember how mariadb became kind of the new standard mysql, after oracle acquired that. but of course that only works if there is a big enough community of hobbyist programmers to maintain these unslopped forks - if only for security fixes; I'd be happy enough if everything just stays mostly fixed in functionally from this point in time on.

questions, questions! sorry this got a bit long and winding. just worried about the future of linux. I'm sure we all are.

#linux #debian

@multiverseofbadness those sure were different times 😬

@multiverseofbadness unsexy? are you crazy?! I peaked multiple times reading that 🥵

*slaps roof of google search*
this bad boy can fit so much misinformation

Personally I think they're into the most perverted of kinky hobbit sex

But that's probably projection

lol was just playing an online 2v2 rocket league match, and one of the opponents ("KINDAROLLR", blue team) was super toxic towards their teammate all match.

so then both my teammate and me started dunking on him, together with the non toxic opponent, which was wholesome af 😁

TIL "wet wipe" as an insult 🤣

@multiverseofbadness math checks out*

*) math done by some slop bot

@janneke @lumi I think you are taking this too seriously! but that's probably the trauma!

@vagina_museum that that twitler account is named "stoic men" and has some roman/greek looking avatar are pretty clear red flags lol

@cwebber She didn't just write like a bot — she delved into the soul of the bot.

@cwebber damn that's catchy af

a new thing is in the making! 👩🎨

OMG ITS GOING DOWN party.bonkwave.org :party_kirby:

painting with bazkie! 🧵 a (slow) thread [1/x]

I figured it'd be fun to share the whole process that goes into making a painting a custom scene. could be useful to some, and entertaining to others :)

👩🦱 ~ EVE & ADAM ~ 🧔♂️

as you all know, I'm a deeply religious person 🛐 so..

the scene: we're in the garden of eden. adam is eating apples from the forbidden tree, because of course he is. eve is having none of his shit, grabs an unfortunate unsuspecting nearby serpent, and is about to whip the shit out of adam. 🐍

#painting

painting with bazkie! 🧵 a (slow) thread [2/x]

so, we're gonna need reference photos. I want eve to be in the process of swinging the serpent around; so then I figured a baseball batter would be a good fit.

so wading through the AI slop, I found this actual photo that has a nice pose and good lighting.

painting with bazkie! 🧵 a (slow) thread [3/x]

I want adam to be in a protective stance, while also holding a forbidden apple, and all this, seen from the side/back. also, the lighting has to come from the same side as the batter. so all and all, it's pretty hard to find a proper reference pic for this, so I am posing for this one myself.

took about 20 pics with slightly different in stances etc., and decided on this one. (the right hand is going to hold the apple)

painting with bazkie! 🧵 a (slow) thread [4/x]

now for the fun part, combining these images into a coherent reference scene.

notable caveats:
- eve has natural lighting, while I'm using an indoor light for my photo.
- also i forgot to switch off a second, smaller light coming from the kitchen counter on the left - so I gotta paint my left side a bit darker than it is in pic
- the color temp / contrasts of the two pics are way different, so I color-edited a lot to bring them together a bit more.
- the baseball batter is photographed using a tele lens, so she has less perspective than my pic. I gotta correct for that manually while drawing/painting.
- she is rotated/looking a bit more to the left than is desired, so I also need to correct for that while drawing/painting.

finally, I added a grid, which is going to come in handy in the next step!

but first, time for a break - not sure if I'll continue later today, or later in the week, so see ya when I see ya! thanks for tuning in to painting with bazkie! 👋

painting with bazkie! 🧵 a (slow) thread [5/x]

so, now we draw the same grid on paper; as in, the right amount of cells and cell size so that we can easily translate the reference image to paper :)

(this photo was pretty hard to make lol)