GreyBeard @ greybeard @lemmy.one

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Same on Android.

I generally agree with you, GIMP is way behind the commercial options. And is almost unusable by the lay person and is lacking features a professional needs, which leads it to be almost useless for the majority of people. I use it, but also get frustrated at it every time I do. Let's hope 3 really is an inclection point.

I agree with your core point, if the watermark is a maker's mark, then it would be wrong to remove it.

Depends on the watermark that is being removed. So many memes out there have random watermarks on them of some crappy facebook account or random website that has nothing to do with the content, they just slap their logo on everything they share.

I think you will find progress accelerate with the release of 3. They did a lot of groundwork and factoring, it's one of the reasons it took so long. But now that the work is done, it will allow for more rapid changes in the future. I'm hoping it will be kinda like Blender 2.8 or Godot 3.

Chrome is (basically) already open source. That's why there are a million crappy browsers out there, they are Chromium clones. Google could give Chrome to the Chromium project and cut ties with Chromium, I suppose.

Thanks! The background is 5 different colors blended. That's the magic of hueforge. The total color changes for that print was only 4 start to finish, so even someone without a multicolor printer could do those easily. Alice was 6 colors, but was changing multiple times per layer, so a little harder to do. My printer only supports 5 colors, so I had to manually change one out after the first layer went down (a transparent base layer).

I'm pretty proud of this. It's for a gift.

I didn't do the artwork work, Disney did that many years ago, it's Disney Classic #8 book cover. But what I did do is worth through Hueforge for the background, and my own custom process for Alice. Which involved a quite complicated process of redrawing Alice in vector, separating the colors, and manually selecting the colors per layer to create a good contrast.

The frame was generated off my frame/shadowbox generator you can find on Printables. https://www.printables.com/model/1120635-frameshadowbox-generator

OpenSCAD lends itself to be treated as a function/stand alone program for generating models as well. Some of the 3D modeling websites even have OpenSCAD integration that runs it in your browser to generate the model based on the flagged configurable parameters. That's powerful for basic functions like the mentioned adapters, because you can have a page that just spits out adapters of any size and shape.

Theoretically, a more standard CAD program like FreeCAD can use OpenSCAD for a standard parts library like threads, screws, bolts, sprints and allow for custom creation of those outside the standard. FreeCAD has some OpenSCAD support, but I'm not sure if it uses it in that way.

That's a real stretch. 3B is basically stating the size of the model, not the name of the model.

I'm a fan of ARM. https://github.com/automatic-ripping-machine/automatic-ripping-machine

I run it in a podman container, passing my BluRay drive though. It rips automatically, and attempts to even lookup the metadata for the disk to file it properly. It's not perfect, but it does work quite well. The only issue I have with it is it does a poor job on TV shows, but I've found nothing better, so it is good enough for me.

On the internet, nobody knows your a baby face.

Unfortunately, it wont stay contained to the people who are doing it. Kids will die, across the world, because of these anti-vacs people.

But you can make an average of 1 baby a month in 9 months with 9 woman. It's all about proper planning and budgeting over longer periods.

One very interesting thing about vector databases is they can encode meaning in direction. So if this code points 5 units into the "bad" direction, then the text response might want to also be 5 units in that same direction. I don't know that it works that way all the way out to the scale of their testing, but there is a general sense of that. 3Blue1Brown has a great series on Neural Networks.

This particular topic is covered in https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/attention, but I recommend the whole series for anyone wanting to dive reasonably deep into modern AI without trying to get a PHD in it. https://www.3blue1brown.com/topics/neural-networks

Really, the guy currently in charge of trying to dismantle the US government you don't particularly care about? Assuming you aren't from the US, so perhaps US internal politics don't bother you, but he is also pushing for the far right in Germany, which means he wont stop at destroying America for his own profit. The richest man in the world is currently dismantling one of the largest countries in the world should probably concern everybody in the world, at least a little.

If it works, then great. I recommend getting a kitchen sale out so you know when you need to chump it up for sure.

I've been trying to get better about using the full roll. I've taken to weighing the roll to see if I have enough. Thankfully most rolls will list the weight of the spool itself. I've gotten similar close results, I feel a lot better about throwing away like 2 foot of filament instead of like 20 turns. The tough part is finding prints that are so small.

My Palm Pre people. I loved that phone. It was under powered, buggy, and felt like the future.

What's extra crazy, is that I know of a few automated processes that use a bitly link. There are going to be some broken systems out there because people wanted to distribute libraries using a shortner to make it easier on end users.