Hannah

Oh boy, Cloudflare is suffering a hiccup and now a huge chunk of the internet is fucked. Who's idea was to shove it all into like, 3 or 4 big-ass companies?

Option 1: Tights thicker than most bricks
Option 2: Suffer for fashion
Option 3: Suck it up and wrap up regardless of looks

IMPORTANT

A new scam is going around where you'll be walking down the street and there will be a big red X painted on the sidewalk.

DO NOT STAND ON THE X!!!

If you do, a grand piano will fall on your head!!! This happened to a friend of mine and his teeth were piano keys for weeks!

BE SAFE!!!

Y’all have got to stop trying to teach people magic with edh

"Protect yourself with 2FA!"
"Can you support TOTP instead of email codes so I can do that?"
"Enable 2FA :)"

"i guess people can turn into spheres now. thats a thing that just happened."

Still need to sort out a pull request for libwacom, rather than just using it locally on my machine, but otherwise all the pieces will be in place for this tablet to someday start also working for other people

I probably should have tested my graphics tablet's dial with a different configuration tool than GNOME's default one, just to check it wasn't my code that was the problem.

But following a system update I can confirm that it was not, in fact, my fault

When I was younger, it was all "Don't copy terminal commands you don't understand from forum posts"

Now we're you're getting "ChatGPT-backdoors-your-whole-network-and-deletes-your-family-photos-as-a-service"

I love being the cool friend, I never get to be the cool friend

A colleague today remarked on enjoying "how curiously and tenderly you talk to computers"

What they don't know is that underneath I am a torrent of pure rage. I hate technology. I want it gone. Next to microprocessors I am god and my will is absolute and they are worthless in their insubordination.

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Translating my to-do list (or at least the recurring tasks) was a great idea. If this doesn't commit some new words to memory, nothing will

Once again:

I've got so much less to annotate on figure drawing for improvement than I did even a couple of weeks ago.

Not to say that my work is "good" - it's not. But proportions and relationships are way, way better than I ever thought I could manage. I know how and where to improve. It's exciting!

It's wild to think that two months ago I was struggling to draw something as simple as a fork, or my teapot, but I'm not at a point where every day I'm sketching out people that I'm largely happy with, even if they're not something I'd want to share.

Free online vector editor & procedural design tool Open source free software. A vector graphics creativity suite with a clean, intuitive interface. Opens instantly (no signup) and runs locally in a browser. Exports SVG, PNG, JPG.

I do have my eyes on @graphiteeditor.bsky.social , though. Not ready for real world use, but it's got quite a lot of promise.

I should probably give it a proper spin at some point; might allow me to contribute something, even if it is only a bug report here or there.

I say "ruined", and that probably misrepresents the point. It actually seems quite good (minus the features that have been yanked away into the subscription) - some of the new free features even seem really enticing.

What's been "ruined" in this case is my trust. "Free" never ends well.

Honestly, every software sale ends in disaster, no matter how "safe" or "trusted" the new pair of hands is.

My greatest fear is Obsidian being sold (even if there are no signs of it now). Sure, my notes are transferable, but the rich plugin ecosystem and my particular setup isn't.

I suppose the upside to Affinity being thoroughly ruined by Canva is that there is no longer any software in my life that I want to keep Windows around for.

I'm not a fan of the UX of GIMP or Inkscape, but needs must.

This is exactly where I thought this was going after the Canva acquisition, and then became more steadfast when financial reports suggested pivoting to focus on user growth rather than revenue.

Given there will come a day when the "growth" caps out, this is a product that will get worse with time

It sounds great (minus the "AI" integration), until you do some digging and realise that some previously core features have been repackaged as "AI" because they use a somewhat complex algorithm

There's little draw to use this over and above Adobe at this point, now that the "Buy once" model is gone

Instead of futzing around with some tools that might be helpful later like date parsers, maybe I should focus on things actually important to my current game idea, like any of the gameplay, or the writing that the gameplay hinges on.

We are engaging in advanced procrastination right now.

There's part of me that's getting tempted to Make A Thing, just to really test my limits. There's another part of me that's quite happy to keep plodding along as-is and just keep experimenting purely from reference for now since it's such low-pressure enjoyable practice

My daily figure sketch today ended up being a really hard pose. Even though there were some bits that were really obviously wrong when stepping back, I'm still really happy with it. The level of improvement is incredible and more than worth the effort to carve out the time for

My best advice to try to get a handle on shit right now?

Make something.

Don't care what. Don't care if it's good. Don't care if it's just a big ass house you made in Sims 4, just lose yourself in something for an hour or so.

It' s like flushing the brain toilet.

This is the only way anyone has ever gotten good.

my hot take is that the fantasy that’s being catered to with videos like the one going around is of participation in a seamless, infinite, directed loop where the player and computer are constantly updating each other. which is where I think a lot of the satisfaction in systemic video games is. 🧵

As much as I've found the story, in particular, to be quite disappointing (mainly attributable to Hornet having a character as well as not being a silent protagonist), I will admit that there was still a small moment early in Act 3 that did briefly move me to tears. That sure isn't nothing.