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Dear @doctormo@doctormo, I'm a great admirer of your work in general and hopefully I won't creep you out by telling everyone I'm your fan!
As a creator of digital vector-based art I find the color management stuff (trying to figure how to generate things to print "in CMYK") mind boggling. I slowly try to read and acquire the concepts and vocabulary to understand more about this. I'm grateful for your work in this area. Thank you!
Since 2020, I've been putting together one playlist every year, in which each track represents one month of that year. However, I also have assigned each season two specific songs, which do not change year-to-year: Spring: "A Little Bit Of Love" by Weezer and "Gretel" by Alex G; Summer: "Dumb" by Roe Kapara and "Endless Bummer" by Weezer; Autumn: "1979" by The Smashing Pumpkins and "The Dead Come Talking" by Roe Kapara; Winter: "Red Water (Christmas Mourning)" by Type O Negative and "Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)" by The Darkness
Se calhar foi distracção e azelhice minha: quando ouvi falar de reverter a fusão de freguesias pensava que iam ser todas as qie foram fundidas, na generalidade. Quando soube que foi aprovado, pensava que nestas autárquicas ia ter freguesias separadas por aqui. Fui hoje surpreendido quando fui ao Tribunal para ler o registo das candidaturas para as próximas #autárquicas (se me cingisse à imprensa local ainda ficava convencido que só seriam candidatos PS e a coligação PSD/CDS) e descobri que afinal, por aqui, as freguesias continuam todas fundidas.
Se calhar foi distracção e azelhice minha: quando ouvi falar de reverter a fusão de freguesias pensava que iam ser todas as qie foram fundidas, na generalidade. Quando soube que foi aprovado, pensava que nestas autárquicas ia ter freguesias separadas por aqui. Fui hoje surpreendido quando fui ao Tribunal para ler o registo das candidaturas para as próximas #autárquicas (se me cingisse à imprensa local ainda ficava convencido que só seriam candidatos PS e a coligação PSD/CDS) e descobri que afinal, por aqui, as freguesias continuam todas fundidas.
Se calhar foi distracção e azelhice minha: quando ouvi falar de reverter a fusão de freguesias pensava que iam ser todas as qie foram fundidas, na generalidade. Quando soube que foi aprovado, pensava que nestas autárquicas ia ter freguesias separadas por aqui. Fui hoje surpreendido quando fui ao Tribunal para ler o registo das candidaturas para as próximas #autárquicas (se me cingisse à imprensa local ainda ficava convencido que só seriam candidatos PS e a coligação PSD/CDS) e descobri que afinal, por aqui, as freguesias continuam todas fundidas.
I have to be fair and update this: turns out, there is another country I would be unable to ship to, and I only found out now: Syria. So... congratulations, I guess, to the USA for joining Syria in how inaccessible it has become.
I have to be fair and update this: turns out, there is another country I would be unable to ship to, and I only found out now: Syria. So... congratulations, I guess, to the USA for joining Syria in how inaccessible it has become.
I have to be fair and update this: turns out, there is another country I would be unable to ship to, and I only found out now: Syria. So... congratulations, I guess, to the USA for joining Syria in how inaccessible it has become.
@bender That is a noble goal. We can talk about that – as long as it doesn’t mean giving up essential freedoms like choosing which software you can run on your device (without having to ask someone for permission).
@bender That is a noble goal. We can talk about that – as long as it doesn’t mean giving up essential freedoms like choosing which software you can run on your device (without having to ask someone for permission).
@thecanine I think Google's Android is as vanilla as it can be, coming from the "source". The bloatware is more often than not vendor's provided, no? I don't consider Google apps and services bloatware, but an intrinsic part of the Android "vanilla" experience.
@prologic, the very first sentence addresses something that needed to be addressed. Maybe tech savvy people will not have these issues, but many non-tech savvy people (and old people) I know has had, and has, cyclically, a myriad of malware, pestware, etc., issues on their Android based phones. It is a wild-west.
@prologic I’m not smart enough to answer that question. 😅 Certainly feels like unregulated capitalism. Governments being too slow and/or unwilling to intervene … It’s a mess.
@prologic I’m not smart enough to answer that question. 😅 Certainly feels like unregulated capitalism. Governments being too slow and/or unwilling to intervene … It’s a mess.
@prologic Yes, this is another instance of restricting “personal” computing. You won’t be able to install arbitrary software anymore (“sideloading”, as they call it).
It’s not unique, it’s not new. Boiling the frog alive.
@prologic Yes, this is another instance of restricting “personal” computing. You won’t be able to install arbitrary software anymore (“sideloading”, as they call it).
It’s not unique, it’s not new. Boiling the frog alive.
Its like TV. Very few good channels and many bad channels. Or like books. Very few good books and many bad books. Look for spezialized channels and educate your children. Read the bible.com . But only Jesus is reliable. Forget Moses and the punishing God.
> To combat malware and financial scams, Google announced today that only apps from developers that have undergone verification can be installed on certified Android devices starting in 2026. > > This requirement applies to “certified Android devices” that have Play Protect and are preloaded with Google apps. The Play Store implemented similar requirements in 2023, but Google is now mandating this for all install methods, including third-party app stores and sideloading where you download an APK file from a third-party source.
Since nobody is going to push back on this (I don’t even know if that would be possible), this is going to be a reality on every platform sooner or later.
I’d guess in 20, 30 years, there won’t be “PCs” anymore. No more home computing, no more “I just write my own software”. You won’t own devices anymore, it’ll all be rented and the landlord will tell you what you can do with it.
I hope that I’m wrong, but given where we are today, I don’t think that I will be.
Since nobody is going to push back on this (I don’t even know if that would be possible), this is going to be a reality on every platform sooner or later.
I’d guess in 20, 30 years, there won’t be “PCs” anymore. No more home computing, no more “I just write my own software”. You won’t own devices anymore, it’ll all be rented and the landlord will tell you what you can do with it.
I hope that I’m wrong, but given where we are today, I don’t think that I will be.
I think social media ruined the Web. Think about how much happier and social people would be without those sites feeding themm inflammatory posts and articles.
#Pyxel is a retro inspired #GameEngine for #Python, it's very impressive!
It's not hard to generate a static HTML page that loads your game to run on the browser with #pyodide (WASM). And it comes with an assets editor and a #chiptune making tool.
#BolhaPreguiçosa Qual o equivalente brasileiro do Fourthwall / redbubble que permite fazer uma lojinha com camisetas, cacarecos, adesivos, etc. customizados com os seus desenhos?
Sometimes it's a small thing, it's a bit jarring when orgs that want to pose as international/global publish some copy/event based on US school terms/seasons. That's a reminder of how other people are at the periphery and will be probably ignored most of the time. Isn't it obvious we have different school year arrangements & seasons around the world? I guess @melissawm@melissawm will share my sentiments about this.
I used to be able to sell my music anywhere in the world - and I have managed to send CDs to quite remote places, or kingdoms with nefarious regimes... but now, well, there is one country where I can not ship cassettes or CDs to: the USA 🇺🇸.
It's not like I'm expecting any loss: I rarely sell music, and when I do it is rarely to the states (I don't know why, I think my stuff ought to be way more popular! 😁). But still, it is disheartening to see there is now an effective wall, a country where I won't be able to (directly) reach. Congratulations to everyone involved.
[PS: if you're puzzled about what is this all about - a number of European countries, including Portugal, won't be shipping stuff to the US due to legal uncertainty regarding Trump's tariffs.]
I used to be able to sell my music anywhere in the world - and I have managed to send CDs to quite remote places, or kingdoms with nefarious regimes... but now, well, there is one country where I can not ship cassettes or CDs to: the USA 🇺🇸.
It's not like I'm expecting any loss: I rarely sell music, and when I do it is rarely to the states (I don't know why, I think my stuff ought to be way more popular! 😁). But still, it is disheartening to see there is now an effective wall, a country where I won't be able to (directly) reach. Congratulations to everyone involved.
[PS: if you're puzzled about what is this all about - a number of European countries, including Portugal, won't be shipping stuff to the US due to legal uncertainty regarding Trump's tariffs.]
I used to be able to sell my music anywhere in the world - and I have managed to send CDs to quite remote places, or kingdoms with nefarious regimes... but now, well, there is one country where I can not ship cassettes or CDs to: the USA 🇺🇸.
It's not like I'm expecting any loss: I rarely sell music, and when I do it is rarely to the states (I don't know why, I think my stuff ought to be way more popular! 😁). But still, it is disheartening to see there is now an effective wall, a country where I won't be able to (directly) reach. Congratulations to everyone involved.
[PS: if you're puzzled about what is this all about - a number of European countries, including Portugal, won't be shipping stuff to the US due to legal uncertainty regarding Trump's tariffs.]
I only learned about the .envelope object/propriety in #shapely yesterday, before that I used .bounds (a min/max of points tuple), but envelope is good to know because it provides an easy way of getting the centroid and the area of the bounding box, which can be very useful.
@movq Nice picture, this hot air balloon has quite a large basket.
Yes, go for it! :-)
My grandpa went ballooning ages ago and liked it. The balloonist misjudged the height a bit and landed in an open-air pool. Well, not in the water, but on the sunbathing lawn just inside the fence. :-D After the ride, everybody was given a very long personal name that they had to memorize. Decades later, my grandpa still knew his assigned name.
@prologic Anything above a couple hundred Euros. 😅 The current Epson LX-350 appears to be not *that* pricey, though. 🤔
I mean, what do you want to do with it? If you want to use this as an actual printer for daily use, I’d get a laser printer instead, because they’re very reliable and the print quality is top notch.
I got my dot matrix printer mostly for experiments and nostalgia, so I wouldn’t want to pay something like 300-400€ for it.
@prologic Anything above a couple hundred Euros. 😅 The current Epson LX-350 appears to be not *that* pricey, though. 🤔
I mean, what do you want to do with it? If you want to use this as an actual printer for daily use, I’d get a laser printer instead, because they’re very reliable and the print quality is top notch.
I got my dot matrix printer mostly for experiments and nostalgia, so I wouldn’t want to pay something like 300-400€ for it.
@prologic It’s quite similar to how escape sequences work in a terminal. ASCII text is printed as ASCII text and then an escape sequence can make it bold or underline and so on. Other escape sequences allow you to say “the following $n bytes are part of a bitmap image”, and then this gets printed at whatever the current position is (somewhat similar to SIXEL in a terminal).
It’s just that the *units* are a bit weird, because this is all done in bloody inch. 😅
@prologic It’s quite similar to how escape sequences work in a terminal. ASCII text is printed as ASCII text and then an escape sequence can make it bold or underline and so on. Other escape sequences allow you to say “the following $n bytes are part of a bitmap image”, and then this gets printed at whatever the current position is (somewhat similar to SIXEL in a terminal).
It’s just that the *units* are a bit weird, because this is all done in bloody inch. 😅
@prologic Yeah, those POS thingies are similar. There’s “ESC/POS” as a variant of “ESC/P”, if I’m not mistaken.
All I can say is, when I go to big stores like Amazon, then I have trouble finding “traditional” dot matrix printers for use at home. 😅 Epson still sells them, but they’re more expensive than my laser printer was. So yeah, they still exist, just expensive, by the looks of it.
@prologic Yeah, those POS thingies are similar. There’s “ESC/POS” as a variant of “ESC/P”, if I’m not mistaken.
All I can say is, when I go to big stores like Amazon, then I have trouble finding “traditional” dot matrix printers for use at home. 😅 Epson still sells them, but they’re more expensive than my laser printer was. So yeah, they still exist, just expensive, by the looks of it.
> because there is virtually no market for these devices anymore, meaning new ones are very, very expensive.
I think dot matrix printers are still pretty common in many Point of Sales (POS) registers right? At least here in AU they're very common. I had a quick look myself today, there seems to be quite a solid market for these types of printers. In fact even EPSON still sell Dot Matrix printers themselves 🤣
@prologic Hmm, good question. I haven’t checked the market, I got mine from someone I know. But to be honest, I’d suspect that buying a *used* one is actually your best shot, because there is virtually no market for these devices anymore, meaning *new* ones are very, very expensive. 🫤
FWIW, I have an OKI Microline 3390eco. Good thing is, you can still buy new cartridges for it.
If you want to buy a new device, check if it supports the “ESC/P” standard. That’s very widely supported.
@prologic Hmm, good question. I haven’t checked the market, I got mine from someone I know. But to be honest, I’d suspect that buying a *used* one is actually your best shot, because there is virtually no market for these devices anymore, meaning *new* ones are very, very expensive. 🫤
FWIW, I have an OKI Microline 3390eco. Good thing is, you can still buy new cartridges for it.
If you want to buy a new device, check if it supports the “ESC/P” standard. That’s very widely supported.
@movq Kind of curious now... Is there a (to buy new) dot matrix printer you'd recommend if someone wanted to get into this sort of thing (sending plain 'ol bytes to a printer port)? 🤔 (I remember this back in the ye 'old days!)