Pat David @patdavid@mastodon.social

New Pepper&Carrot episode 30: "Need a Hug" is now published online! https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article463/episode-30-need-a-hug
#krita #webcomic #creativecommons

Steinbock - equipped with a great scratching tool

#exploring #nature
#landscape #photography
#pixelbook #adventures

@kev

Pat David covered a way of switching themes using local storage to keep the setting without using cookies.

https://patdavid.net/2018/05/switching-themes/

He's on Mastodon too I've just seen.

@patdavid thanks for your content. :)

oh new people on mastodon. welcome! what happened this time? :)

I am on my way to Krita Sprint 2019!

The price of this shelf is close to 2000€ . These are the books I still use from my engineering studies. I hope scientific editors feast on caviar and champagne everyday, because I know their authors don't.

Facebook Messenger still scans all messages, even with end-to-end encryption. Scanning is done locally on the device before text messages are sent and after received messages are decrypted.

Facebook privacy lol

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/07/26/the-encryption-debate-is-over-dead-at-the-hands-of-facebook/#3e1668c45362

My friends over at the Geeqie image viewer project have released version 1.5! You can see the details here: https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/releases/tag/v1.5

#ArtWithOpenSource #viewer #cull #photography #photos #images #foss

So many exciting UI updates!

- New Metro Profile layout
- Updated Dark Mode
- New Collections layout
- Updated Moment Profile layout
- Updated ComposeUI
- Direct Messages
- Remote Follows

They will be shipped in v0.10.1! #pixelfed

I want to challenge you to fund #OpenSource software today!
https://link.medium.com/h76o8IMnKY

Congrats to @Blender for an awesome release! They're giving us a lesson on running a successful Free Software project.

I grew up on dialup. 1200bps, max. I remember what it was like to get anything done at that speed, and now that it's no longer a thing I wouldn't inflict it upon anyone. That's why I try to keep my stuff as lightweight as possible, with as few deps as possible.

Treat others as you'd want to be treated, right?

A couple of years back I went to an HTML5 meetup and hung out with a bunch of web developers. I suck at web design (so much so that I didn't bother to try to write a new theme for my website, I used one that someone else made and tweaked it a little). One of the webdevs noticed that I use a couple of adblockers and yelled at me for taking money out of his mouth. That one cannot eat money, and that he gets paid a (much larger) salary (than I do) is beside the point.

So I put my laptop on the local network (Windbringer had been tethered to my mobile - OPSEC, ya' know) and asked him for the URL of the website he works on. He gave it to me. I opened it in a bare Firefox profile (no addons, no config tweaks, new right out of the box). His precious website loaded fully after just under three minutes.

Then, to make things fair, I rebooted Windbringer, got back on the local wireless, and opened it in my usual Firefox profile, with all the adblockers turned on. His website loaded in about five seconds.

"Your website loads so much tracking garbage up front that your page won't load in less than three minutes. I don't have time for that." And I left.

Unsurprisingly, I haven't been invited back, but my point stands - too much crap means your page won't load in a reasonable period of time.

#GIMP has Line Art Detection, Grow, and Gap Fill!! It has the "All Visible Layers" option!! Look at this! My artsy lines NEVER connect but I can still use Bucket Fill!

#ArtTips #MastoArt #ArtWithOpenSource #goldfish