I learned this morning of the passing of Akira Toriyama, the father of Dragon Ball, Dr. Slump, designer of Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger. Also, probably the artist who influenced me the most when I started drawing. Here is an old fan art I drew of Arale. My heart is really heavy this morning...
@lanodan Oh thanks for the two info: I had no idea why all the effort to put the link this way while they could paste it in the email. Now it makes sens. Also, good to know the link is down. I haven't even tried to click on it. I even was affraid about copying the URL in my clipboard, that's why it's a screenshot of my bottom bar adress and the font is super ugly on the 3/3 screenshot xD
For the curious, here is a follow-up on the scammer who pretended to be from the Kdenlive team. (Email posted yesterday, I'm replying to it ↑).
Confirmed: it's a scam and their goal is to get the target to install malware.
Here's the whole discussion as screenshot, and it wasn't easy because I had to use an old inactive Gmail account 🤢. That's because Protonmail is banned from this impersonator's email address, kdenlivevideo.site (handled by emx.mail.ru).
@tatianasaito That's a super service you have! Here it doesn't exist yet for pets in my part of France, except for farmers when they need a specialized vet for sheep, cows, horses. I have to drive 25 minutes to find the most nearby vet. 😅 I'll check again next year online if this service exists in my area.
@me_the_fl00f Hey, thanks for the investigation. I replied ( https://www.peppercarrot.com/extras/temp/2024-03-05_screenshot_172610_net.jpg ) because I'm too curious to see where this thing is going and also I'm curious to see the type of malware they have if they repackage the app, to bisect this and see if a protection can be found (or report it to a database of malware). Unfortunately, emx.mail.ru return a fail because Protonmail is banned on it. So I used another old email address to test if I can reach them. I'll keep informed.
Be careful: fake emails are circulating in the name of Free/Libre and Open Source projects. Below, an email received by @kdenlive that the official team does not recognize. Be vigilant, these are no doubt scams.
[edit: adding kdenlive hashtag, a request by the team]
@Bookherd Thanks for her! :blobcatheart: Tigrette is a sweetie, the kind of cat who can't resist to sleep on any available legs in the house. Very social, always around.
@sentinian Oh yes, that's why after I bought the first one, I continued with the same model for the #3 and #4. They are incredibly easy to clean and easier to monitor the cat from the top once driving. Good to know they are also good for vets. It's also great in the waiting room when the cage is on the floor to keep a visual contact with the cat from the top anytime.
A recent photo of my sketchbook, still training with ballpoint pen directly, a cruel training. But I am beginning to get a better ability to imagine perspective grids without tracing them, and I can even begin to plan full-page compositions. It takes a while to build these new skills, but they are worth it.
Stop sending me your novels or texts written by an AI.
I definitely don't want to read or be exposed to AI output. I don't want to AI-poison my imagination with the most statistical tropes, and a big mix of story data that might be plagiarism from I don't know what source. Furthermore, I think that feeding my imagination with human-made imaginary is a better diet to train my own ideas.
(I thought it was obvious, but apparently it's not. I'm writing this to pin to my profile.)
@hj@peterdrake That's totally aligned with my observations about the five ones of yesterday: they were text-only with a URL on top, and then around five quoted account pasted under, with a line break after each. They were very similar.
@peterdrake Same observation here, but mainly yesterday: I received five of them. Today, however, not a single one so far. I hope it will be soon under control and no new spammer will be inspired by replicating this.
@risavisven 😭 Oh no, someone else reported me a minute ago also a spam. So yes, not totally over... I hope this wave didn't gave the idea to more new spammer to enter the game.
@SuperDicq For artistic reasons (composition, two characters side by side) and limited time budget (I only had from 16h to 18h30), I restricted myself to two mascots this time. Thanks for understanding! 😺