anarchiddy

@anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t use it regularly enough to weigh in comprehensibly - I use it mostly for processing svg drawings created in other programs for cnc plotting, or for compiling svg drawings onto standardized layouts for sending to a printer

  My only complaint with inkscape is that it’s a bit slow with rendering complex shapes/canvases with many points, but otherwise it does everything I need from a vector program.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a tool that helps ‘trace’ a raster image into vector shapes and paths

  it’s useful for creating vector artwork from raster images - sometimes a logo or icon is only available in a poor resolution raster image, and so having an easy way to convert it into vector saves a ton of time.

  I used it yesterday to create an SVG file for CNC plotting of a company logo. It would have taken me a few hours to hand-trace it myself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a small thing, but as of the latest release Inkscape has a functioning live-trace tool

  It was one of the biggest things keeping me using illustrator but I used inkscape’s trace yesterday and it worked great

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems relatively painless to chop those two instances off - chinese.lol has less than 200 users, and I can’t even find instance info for doesnotexist.club (coincidence? i think NOT).

  I do personally wonder how difficult it is to spin up new instances though. How much effort would it be for them to create a new one and do it again?

  I’m actually most concerned with the IP leaking of the fediverse chick posts - hopefully some progress has been made with the IP leaking in auto-loaded external media through DM’s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As enraging as this whole story is, I don’t think there’s any coming back from ‘you’re a war profiteer’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One of the terrible things about having a close friend or relative die is that it is a subtle reminder that you've moved up in the line towards the end.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m attending the second funeral in as many weeks this weekend for very close childhood friends, and the thing that’s getting me is the grief of losing not just those friends, but loss and realization that I’m not even who I was when I knew them anymore

  Like I’m kind of choking up now just thinking about it.

  It’s been a rough month.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Welp, I guess that pen plotter I built last year is going to be my full time printer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Cybertruck shaped man is destroying our government⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone with a medical background please tell me what on earth is happening inside that volume

  All I can think of is that alien exo-suit from MIB with an alien operating him inside