Notices by Eugenia L (eugenialoli@mastodon.social)

@sungo @djsundog There's a difference between tinkering, and software that is meant to be useful. If your code was supposed to be tinkering for your own curiosity, or as tutorial to others, then sure, it doesn't need a structure.

But if that software was supposed to do something useful, then the corpo-construct is needed to ensure just that. Otherwise, it's just gaslighting users that you might made a, let's say, CAD app that's useless. People don't have time to waste on useless things.

FreeCAD 1.0 is out, and the binaries for various platforms are now available for download too (yesterday they released the source, but today binaries are available too). After 22 years of development, it's now a very robust app that competes head to head with heavyweights in the CAD space.

#cad #linux #opensource #foss #freecad #3dcad #engineering

Very happy to see PhotoGimp, which turns Gimp into Photoshop-like, still works fine with Gimp 3.0-RC1. I use it to edit my watercolor paintings (mostly contrast and colors, since my scanner is not accurate). You'd be surprised how much digital editors are used by traditional painters these days. Especially for commissions and book illustrations where clients want changes all the time.

#linux #opensource #foss #gimp #photogimp #photoshop #painting #watercolor #mastoart #fediart

@JRepin @jbqueru here it works from the command line, it loads the last session with the right files. But when I switch the session from within kate (using the main menu entry), it doesn't replace the files. I used the 24.08 flatpak, and the 23.08 debian repo. Same behavior on both. Unfortunately, their appimage daily-build doesn't work at all.

@JRepin @jbqueru nope, it doesn't work correctly either. I have two sessions, with different files loaded on each of them. When I switch between sessions from the main menu, it doesn't switch the open files.

@JRepin @jbqueru I see that you have to invoke the session itself, we were hoping to just automatically load the last loaded files by itself.

@JRepin @jbqueru Another problem is that it doesn't remember the session. I have set it to remember the session (the files that were open before), and it just reloads with an empty file.

I was going to suggest to my husband @jbqueru to move to KDE's Kate code editor (currently he is using SublimeText, and previous VSCode), but there is no ruler feature on Kate. He kind of needs that for his arcane assemblers.

#kde #kateeditor #kate #linux #opensource #foss #programming

This is the #LightWorks video editor on Linux. It's not open source, but if #Kdenlive or #Shotcut doesn't work for you, you might wanna give it a go. The free version is limited to exporting 720p only. Which might be enough if you're exporting for #PeerTube, where bandwidth is expensive.

#videoeditor #videoediting #linux #openshot #video

And before I go to bed tonight, let me introduce you to NewsFlash, a modern, Gnome RSS reader. The only downside for me is that it doesn't come as an appimage, or a .deb (comes only as a flatpak). That's a great app that should be by default in the distros' repos. In some of my laptops, I still use Liferea instead of Newsflash because of that.

Pixelorama is a pixel-based painting app (e.g. to create icons, or pixel art for vintage computers). The interesting part about it is that while it's an app, it's written in Godot, a gaming engine.

#linux #opensource #foss #pixelorama #pixelart

@dansup @loops I don't like algorithms telling me what to watch. That's the reason I'm on fediverse, so I have a reverse-chronological feed, hashtags and search by myself. If we were to have by default the algorithm telling me what to watch (defaults matter!), then there's no reason to leave tiktok. In fact, scratch that, I don't have a tiktok account at all, I don't like to be told what to see.

So I rather see other improvements on the platform than AI algorithms.

@dansup I created an account just now, but I received no email. When I try to login, it says that my account doesn't exist. When I try to recreate it, it says that this username and email address already exist.

Could you please make it so I get the email so my account gets activated? It's the username and email address I want to use, you see... There's no way to ask the system to re-send the activation email.

@dansup I just signed up but I got no email so I can't login

#Switch to #opensource solutions:

Windows: #Linux
Photoshop: #Gimp 3.0-rc
Illustrator: #Inkscape
PremierePro: #Kdenlive, #Shotcut
Office/Acrobat: #OnlyOffice, #LibreOffice
Maya: #Blender
Media: #VLC
Unity: #Godot
ToonBoom: #SynfigStudio, #Pencil2D
InDesign: #Scribus
Nuke: #Natron
Procreate: #Krita
After Effects: #Friction
Mathematica: #SageMath, #SymPy
MatLab: #GnuOctave
Audition: #Audacity
Autocad: #FreeCAD, #QCad
Ableton: #Ardour, #LMMS (daily build)
Lightroom: #DarkTable, #RawTherapee

#foss

@gutocarvalho I'm personally against a nanny state. I want people to be able to express themselves, even if they're on the wrong side of history. I don't want illegal things going on, but opinions don't bother me. They can bark as much as they want, what's the harm if the rest of the population just doesn't listen to them, because they're their own individuals, that can't be swayed. That's why I find Twitter getting banned in Brazil, excessive.

@dansup I love the feature, but it doesn't work properly. I use the web interface, and I can only see 40 posts to choose from to select and put in the portfolio. I have 130 posts in reality, but they don't show up, it only goes up to the 5th page, and up to 40th post to choose from.

@dansup @pixelfed BTW, the web version doesn't work properly on Firefox on my Debian system (it doesn't autoload past the first "page" of my posts on my profile).

@thomasfuchs @kestral Linux is currently around 4%. From the people who are going to continue having a desktop (because we all agree that most will move to mobile devices), I expect these people to be more interested in tech, and as such, going for Linux more so than the 1% you suggest. My take is 10% by the end of the decade.

@thomasfuchs @kestral Which is why I said 10% of the market, and not 90%.