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I like tea. PhD.

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K_REY_C, to random
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Hello lovely people.

I'm not able to be there this year ๐Ÿ˜ญ but I've got a question that I'm certain someone there knows something about.

Do you know any ML/AI researchers working on or interested in better, assistive, generative SVG output?

Maybe something to improve the quality of something like 1 potrace or work with Vector artists to produce a more "human" output of SVG objects as a resource 2.

K_REY_C, to opensource
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Question to the lovely #opensource crowd.

I'm using #inkscape and needing to limit my colors for screenprinting. Is there any #libre #openSource software that takes an svg design and does something akin to the Newsprint plugin in #gimp to prep for screenprinting with 4 colors? https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/plug-in-newsprint.html

Ideally preserving the SVG format?

Absent that, what's my best process here?

K_REY_C,
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@yoasif

Jokes aside, are you using Firefox? Any updated organizational strategies? @mmasnick

j_bertolotti, to godot
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Keeping in mind I don't really have the time or mental space to truly learn it, and I definitively don't have the skills necessary to actually make a game: any advice for a beginner tutorial?

K_REY_C,
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@j_bertolotti

This.
https://youtu.be/LOhfqjmasi0?si=N2wXE_a7L3qPQIKw

K_REY_C, to random
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Lovely #inkscape people, I'm looking to do the following:

via cli ask inkscape to export every object and/or group in an svg file and output as a PNG.

This link seems to have some answers, but I'm not at all clear about how I might get a list of objects or groups via the command line? Is this possible?

https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Using_the_Command_Line

ntnsndr, to random
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Just saw thisโ€”my interview with the great theorist and journalist of technology Mike Masnick is up and out on the Techdirt Podcast: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/09/techdirt-podcast-episode-386-democratic-design-for-online-spaces/

I hugely admire Mike's grounded thinking on protocols and decentralization. This was a really fun conversation.

K_REY_C,
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@ntnsndr this was great! Thanks so much!

ntnsndr, to random
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We don't ask this question nearly enough. Part of a plea (at Princeton last week) for designing online governance for an internet full of .

Thanks for the photo by Liz Barry.

K_REY_C,
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@ntnsndr I love this question. It's hopeful and challenging!

gedeonm, to random
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Immediately tosses all my existing subpar teapots out the windowโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ˜ข

Video showing various teapots being pour tested, some splashing a lot, others with the smoother stream and a longer distance

K_REY_C,
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@gedeonm Clearly I don't like tea enough. I've never even lived! These are amazing!

brainwane, to movies
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https://tubitv.com/movies/595077/rivers-and-tides

The 2001 documentary "Rivers and Tides" on Andy Goldsworthy's art process and work is free to view, in the US, on Tubi.

Slow, reflective, fluid. Moments that stuck with me when I first saw it decades ago, and then freshly struck me when I rewatched it this year. Musings on failure, artistic practice, and flows.

K_REY_C,
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@brainwane Ooh! Lovely. I don't believe I've ever seen the whole film (only clips). Some of his work is near me and it's lovely.

https://dsmpublicartfoundation.org/public-artwork/three-cairns/

Watching the first 10 or so minutes now reminds me of this Jenny Odell's "Saving Time" book that also (but in literary form, kind of) shifts ones whole perspective of time toward the infinite and ever-changing.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/saving-time-discovering-a-life-beyond-the-clock-jenny-odell/18556369

K_REY_C,
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@brainwane I really should write up a review somewhere, but... I find it hard to explain. One moment it's a day-journal, the next it's softly introducing Josef Pieper's philosophy of time, and the next it's citing historical writings about Taylorism or what you call the people too far away from the church to hear the bell. All related.

Reading it is like taking a relaxing walk.

I read her earlier "How to do nothing" when it came out and I actually gifted "Saving time" to my brother this year.

K_REY_C, to random
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Anyone know what the typeface on this page of an old book is?

Page 26

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175035172421&seq=26

K_REY_C, to random
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Maybe an easy #inkscape question, but one I'm not familiar with: How do I convert an inkscape fill pattern to plain vector object?

Process-wise, I'm wanting to migrate these to scribus for CMYK color replacement for printing if that changes what I should be doing.

K_REY_C, to random
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"Design doesn't matter"

https://www.plainlanguage.gov/examples/before-and-after/car-safety/

davidsirota, to random
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๐ŸšจThe spread of smartphones among adolescents has coincided with a decline in test scores & a mental health crisis.

If - like me - you're a parent struggling with questions about technology and your kids, please listen to this episode.

For real. https://www.levernews.com/lever-time-the-anxious-generation-brought-to-you-by-smartphones/

K_REY_C,
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@mekkaokereke

@davidsirota

A complicated issue to be sure. One thing I have enjoyed is the more recent Surgeon General advisories about the loneliness epidemic and youth mental health.

@mmasnick Helpfully wrote an article, so one doesn't have to read through everything, but the media depiction of the report was very different than the reality.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/30/a-deeper-look-at-the-surgeon-generals-report-on-kids-social-media-its-not-what-you-heard/

https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/youth-mental-health/index.html

https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/connection/index.html

vaurora, to random
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Wow. Any tips on image searches that DONโ€™T return computer generated art? Iโ€™m getting like 90% generated garbage from google images for anything involving โ€œwomanโ€

K_REY_C,
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@vaurora

To quote my optimistic uncle:

"It's going to get worse before it gets worse."

K_REY_C, to design
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Any #icon or #design or #ui people know of any studies related to recognition of the below icon-types by different age ranges?

In general I'm looking for the concept of "Where" or "Location" via the invocation of a "Map".

If there's a recognition study or something I'd love to read it.

In the meantime, a poll will follow asking for which most says "location" to you.

evan, to random
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We got a nice haul of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis) from our back yard vines

Black raspberries on the vine
A bowl of black razzbos

K_REY_C,
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@evan
This is probably my favorite flavor.

K_REY_C, to opensource
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Anyone aware of any #OpenSource tools for #Linux that will essentially mail merge from a CSV with unique attachements via a path?

It seems that the add-on I'd previously used with #thunderbird is still working around some changes, so I'm very open to alternatives in the interim.

K_REY_C, to random
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Thing I learned today:

ALT+Scroll in #Inkscape will allow you to easily select objects below the top, visible object. Video depicts this.

Amazing.

Excellent book already: https://www.packtpub.com/product/design-made-easy-with-inkscape/9781801078771

video/mp4

K_REY_C, to random
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Having trouble getting the addon for to add attachments. It recognizes the full path, but for some reason won't attach the files. Does anyone have any tips or advice?

K_REY_C, to random
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It's been a rough month and a half.

Particularly busy time at work.

Then we lost my aunt to cancer. Expected; still sad.

Then I learned we unexpectedly lost one of the best educators I've ever known, Tim Sheaff. He's the impetus to my education in theater โ€• as he literally screamed at me until I signed up for a class that would change my life.

Below is a tribute to him in but one area of his life.

Much too soon.

https://youtu.be/Uv4GpfOgy2g

doctormo, to random

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    K_REY_C,
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    @CRogers @doctormo Just picked this up from Packt and flipping through I'm going to learn so much and so many new tools and ways to do things even after many many years of daily use!

    Thanks so much!

    K_REY_C,
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    @CRogers @doctormo

    Like, how did I not know about ALT+Scroll? I'm saving time in the 1st couple of pages!

    mairin, to random

    OK, here's the seal reveal on the space pirates....

    Let me know what you think. Would you wear a t-shirt with this? :) ๐Ÿดโ€โ˜ ๏ธ ๐Ÿฆญ๐Ÿช

    K_REY_C,
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    @mairin More than a t-shirt, I'd fly a flag!

    K_REY_C, to random
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    Anyone know why #kdenlive might disallow dragging a clip into the timeline? I'm getting a symbel like this รธ over my cursor.

    Perhaps related:

    1. My #flatpak stopped launching so I installed an RPM ( #Fedora 38 )

    2. There's a non-deletable "Sequences" folder in my Project Bin with a "Sequence 1" clip of some sort in it (even on newly openned files).

    Any thoughts or tips appreciated!

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    @kdenlive @rolandixor Thank you for being a great project that only gets better year after year!

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