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thinkMoult

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Dabbler in the various. Author of http://thinkmoult.com/

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ZachWeinersmith, to random
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So, one lens on the weird direction of the modern Internet is that entities created to route you to cool stuff, e.g. search, social media, have especially in the last 5-10 years been taking an ever larger part of the pie via having giant networks. Google can now control whether a news site lives or dies. Meta can take 99.5% of all ad revenue displayed next to an artist's work and they have no power.

Long-term effect? Damage to the creative class.

thinkMoult,
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@ZachWeinersmith you'd think that with the barriers to entry to self hosting your own blog, gallery, video website, resume, portfolio, etc over time we'd get greater diversity on the web.

But I guess people are fine with being channeled and it's too much work to surf the web yourself.

tomodachi94, to random
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What's the Git GUI of choice for Git newbies nowadays? I'm trying to help out someone who wants to contribute to a GitHub project.

thinkMoult,
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@skyfaller @tomodachi94 @alcinnz I actually really like using lazygit.

thinkMoult, to opensource
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This year, 3 students are sponsored by #GoogleSummerOfCode #GSoC to work on #IfcOpenShell and the #BlenderBIM Add-on, building features for light simulation, IDS authoring, and web UIs. https://ifcopenshell.org https://blenderbim.org

#opensource #openbim #b3d #blender

fribbledom, to random
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Once upon a time I sent in a Linux change that fixed hundreds of typos in the kernel's sources & documentation.

Guess how that worked out.

thinkMoult,
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@fribbledom if I see a PR fixing a typo, it gets merged immediately :)

thinkMoult, to gentoo
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I find it fascinating how #Gentoo #Linux had an income of about $1,500 per month last year. It's seemingly peanuts for a well established distro with over 400 unique committers (Blender has ~200)! In comparison, Inkscape has an income of ~$7,200 per month and Blender has an income of ~$160,000 per month.

Source: https://www.gentoo.org/news/2024/01/22/new-year.html

aral, to Ethics
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The W3C publishing ethical web principles is like OPEC publishing ethical climate principles.

Who are the members of the W3C?

Google,
Facebook (Meta),
Amazon,
Adobe,
SoftBank,
Yahoo!,
…

The W3C is the standards body of surveillance capitalism.

Ethical principles? W3C? Don’t make me laugh!

If they had any ethics they’d have expelled their most prominent members starting with Google and Facebook.

https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/

thinkMoult,
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@aral I might add a little bit of nuance to this. A person isn't a company, and a company isn't a person. Big companies have pockets of people doing both good and bad things for both good and bad reasons. The bigger company, the bigger the potential for both the successes and mistakes. When multiple companies collaborate, more so.

alcinnz, (edited ) to random
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Hey, does anyone have any software development work that needs doing? I have some free months that need filling with contracts!

I know a number of languages including but certainly not limited to Python, Java, C, JavaScript, Vala, Haskell, Lua, Julia, GLSL, & more.

I have experience with standards & standards-setting, geospatial data, metadata, linked-data, opensource, static websites, GTK apps, & I'm developing a browser engine.

Also: I enjoy speaking!

#FediHire

thinkMoult,
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@alcinnz Would you be interested in building some free software? There's a JavaScript app that's been long neglected and unfinished. There's also no end of odd jobs using Python and C++. What hourly rate would you charge?

lowqualityfacts, to random
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I have singlehandedly rescued thousands of ants.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

thinkMoult,
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@lowqualityfacts I feel as though we need a revival of monty python-esque British skits based on Low Quality Facts.

thinkMoult, to blender
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See "Leveraging the Power of Advance Steel, #Blender, and #BlenderBIM [Add-on] for a Seamless #BIM Workflow" by SYSDEF:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leveraging-power-advance-steel-blender-blenderbim-seamless-bim/

#ifc #ifcopenshell #openbim #opensource

prokoudine, to random

Qustion about funding FOSS development. So there are FreeCAD, QGIS and GRASS (and maybe Blender Foundation) who issue grants to developers. Then there's Mozilla Foundation who do awards and Python Foundation who sponsor events. Then there's GSoC and various foundations like NLnet Foundation who issue grants for development of FOSS project. Epic Megagrants are there somewhere too.

Who else do you know? I'm particularly interested in software projects having grant systems of their own.

thinkMoult,
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@prokoudine Cesium Ecosystem Grants?

prokoudine, to random

Question to architecture peeps: why are windcatchers, common in old houses in the Middle East, not used much elsewhere in the world in similar climate?

Photo from this archdaily post: https://www.archdaily.com/971216/what-is-a-traditional-windcatcher

thinkMoult,
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@prokoudine One possible answer is to look at a psychrometric chart with passive strategies overlaid and see how that affects the % of comfort throughout the year (see example img). If the % is too low, it's not practical (or unfortunately no longer acceptable compared to an air-con'd box).

thinkMoult, to linux
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TIL that many years ago #SUSE did parody #Linux #OpenSource music videos.

🎵 🎶

Linus said that it was open
Linus said that it was GPL
All could use it for whatever they like
And it was okay

🎶 🎵

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHNKTlz1lps&list=PL6sYHytyKN2-X93TurF3JptW8qSVm0DzA&index=3

thinkMoult, to architecture
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Just sharing a screenshot from @theoryshaw 's latest #architecture work doing wet area construction details in #blender using #NativeIFC. It's. Just. So. Cool.

#b3d #ifc #openbim #opensource #blenderbim

thinkMoult, to blender
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Does anybody know if there is any research done on ballpark project statistics for famous creative FOSS projects (#Blender, #Godot, #GIMP, #Krita, #FreeCAD, etc) for things like their annual income, annual downloads (approximated of course), size of dev team, number of unpaid contributors, annual bugs, funding model, project age, etc?

Trying to learn more about sustainable creative #FreeSoftware #OpenSource and put some numbers to it.

prokoudine, to random

Bounties don’t help users fund FOSS projects in a sustainable manner. Here is why that is the case and what better ways are out there

https://ondsel.com/blog/software-bounties-are-a-dumb-idea/

thinkMoult,
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@prokoudine completely agree with this from my experience.

What's interesting however is how the #IFCJS guys are doing things. They're open source, but culturally more akin to a private company. They've raised a few hundred thousand USD by preselling training courses with a lot of marketing, even before the software is complete or mature, then used the income to pay bounties. It seems almost significantly bounty driven.

Time will tell if it's sustainable.

thinkMoult, to django
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Hey hey! Are you a #Freelance #WebDeveloper looking for a part time job who knows #Django etc and likes #OpenSource? Would you want to help build #OpenSource software and promote #OpenData standards to help transform the highly proprietary #AEC industry?

Check this out and give us a shout! https://community.osarch.org/discussion/1552/were-hiring-for-validate-buildingsmart-org

#IFC #OpenBIM

thinkMoult, to opensource
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Today's commit writes docs about the binary tree feature. Creating a geometry tree allows you to quickly filter objects by coordinates and bounding boxes.

This feature is useful for doing any type of geometric analysis. For example, what pipes are going through an opening and therefore what fire rating should they have? Or select a subset of objects in a 3D bounding box in a large building.

https://github.com/IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell/commit/0beea4255a878a4476ae067870902b98f1a9bb11

Published https://blenderbim.org/docs-python/ifcopenshell-python/geometry_tree.html

voj, to opensource

Here comes another #opensource project then

Revolt is a chat platform that is basically clone of #discord. While they are planning implement e2e encryption, it seems like it will take them some time. Also, discord nitro perks like animated avatars and emojis are free on revolt. Revolt has a developer team behind it who is eager to listen to feedbacks.

https://revolt.chat

thinkMoult,
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@voj how does it compare to matrix?

thinkMoult, to opensource
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https://github.com/IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell/commit/a980ce1bfad49b00f6b5b9495ac7921acc25e8e7 - this commit in the #BlenderBIM Add-on reimplements camera snapshot images in BCF results from clashes.

What this means is that if you do collision detection between two models, you get nice image previews where two objects intersect. This is critical when architects and engineers coordinate designs. Pipes shouldn't go through beams!

#b3d #OpenSource #OpenBIM #IFC

thinkMoult, to opensource
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Go #OpenBIM. Go #OpenSource. Free #BlenderBIM Add-on v0.0.230701 has been released with 418 new features and fixes.Drawing and parametric modeling improvements. Raster styles, external materials, and glTF styles. IFC Git integration. IFC SQL storage. Brickschema GSoC begins! By you, for you. Get it today: https://blenderbim.org/ - see release notes: https://community.osarch.org/discussion/comment/16243/#Comment_16243

matthiasott, to random
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Let’s say I am new to the Web and want to build a personal website. Which website (or websites) would you send me to for inspiration? ✨

thinkMoult,
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@matthiasott not for everyone but https://thinkmoult.com :)

louis, to fediverse
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I disagree with the current CEO of Mastodon about his stance on mid-sized instances. We don't want to be run in isolation, we are part of the Fediverse. "Normal users just want the default", he can repeat that as many times as he wants, it doesn't make it true because of that.

Diversity is the DNA of the Fediverse and Mastodon is just one part of the whole. Thousands of people spend their time and money to make it successful. Anyone who dismisses that and single-handedly tries to market the Fediverse as a Mastodon brand and use "crowding out" techniques to prevent users from even being encouraged to choose an instance from a diversity will ultimately fail.

I am super disappointed with the direction Mastodon Corporation is taking. If there is not enough headwind here soon, then sooner or later it will lead to a schism.

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #fediverse

thinkMoult,
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@aral @louis what if there was a pledge of mastodon instances to only grow to a maximum of 150 users (or 1k, whatever) and anybody who is part of the pledge must defederate with any instance larger than this? "The small federation pledge" :)

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