#Open Source Community

[charlottemadison42]

Hey guess what? Firefox's creator, Mozilla, is considering whether to integrate an AI button/feature into their browser. If you, like me, use Firefox and wish to offer feedback, here is the thread: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/share-your-feedback-on-the-ai-services-experiment-in-nightly/td-p/60519

Pass it on.

[koduflower2000]

Using KolibriOS to draw something for the OSC on Tumblr: 2024-04-12 03:00

it's been ages since the last time i played with the VM workstation i had on my tablet PC, and now i'm back again with cool things to show here. :D

Back in 2022, before I was an object show fan, there was an application which enabled to run real operating systems on a smartphone or a tablet. It was an emulator which ran operating systems using the x86 or x86_64 processor technology. Of course, I'm talking about Limbo Emulator, in which it has QEMU as the whole framework. It wasn't just based on QEMU, but was basically just QEMU, ported to ARM processors, with a graphical interface. I once created a VM, created a disk and formatted it using DOS, and ran KolibriOS on it.

However, it is to be noted that the VM runs so slow because the tablet has an ARM processor, and ARM processors, including ARM-based ones can operate only in about 1-2 megahertz when emulating x86 or x86_64 chips. The only operating system which can be booted from start to finish in less than a minute is KolibriOS, and let me tell you, it's much more fun to work with.

Then, when I opened Tinypad and wrote something down, I thought to myself, "Hey, what if I made something like a souvenir for the OSC on Tumblr using this operating system? It'll be like the next leap forward to the power of computing. It'll definitely be something like a wonder of lightweight OSes!! It doesn't have to be big, but little. I'm gonna draw something for the OSC!"

I then got an idea. A bright idea. I can draw a TPOT character ship!

When I chose a ship to draw, I considered 2 things:

The ship should be a popular one.

The ship contains characters which are easy to draw.

I had many ideas for that, but the closest ones so far were Fireafy (Firey x Leafy), and Sawty (Saw x Gaty). Both of these ships are popular, but they have either one or both of the characters in each ship which are hard to draw, especially considering the processor is too slow to render curves properly. Even drawing Fubble (Fanny x Bubble) is somewhere between difficult to impossible. Draw a curve very slowly, to the point you would never see the pointer moving, and you get a nice one. Draw it faster, and surprise, it's a collection of lines connected to each other, or in other words, a polygon.

And so, I settled for Coinypin (Coiny x Pin). It took a long time to neaten up everything until I got the result in which I liked. Yeah, I know it's just a bunch of lines and circles, but who cares? I'm happy with it though.

apologies for making a spelling error on the filename, it was supposed to say "tpot coinypin" but i was too lazy to rename it, and then i did it afterwards lol

This is a story in which I did the unthinkable. Next TPOT ship to be drawn on KolibriOS is Sawty (Saw x Gaty), sooner or later, and I hope it turns out fine as the Coinypin one.

The end.

Love,

- Kevin, the real koduflower2000.

[mgarocks]

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[joforcecrm]

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[wangleline]

It's beautiful how easy it is to learn new skills compared to 10-15 years ago. I like to say I taught myself a ton of stuff in all kinds of creative fields, but in reality, "self-taught" means a hundred different people made free resources that helped me get here.

This is one of the reasons I vouch so much for open-source projects, free resources, good educational youtube videos etc.

I want to dedicate my life to creating cool, fucked up art, and at the same time, nurture the internet as a public and open library for learning how to make cool, fucked up art.

[novella-november]

Free Resources for Writers Masterpost

created October 10th 2024.

Will update every now and then, so click on the original/source post to see any updates that may be added in the future!

Free writing programs (offline):

LibreOffice, Free and Open Source.

FocusWriter, Free and Open Source (?)

Free Writing programs (Online; cross-platform)

4TheWords, (free tier with paid upgrades available) Tracks your daily word count and rewards for daily streaks. 10/10 recommend!

Google docs (Free, requires Google Account.)

Community Writing hubs:

4TheWords (I'm fairly certain the multiplayer option includes this)

Ohwrite - Word Springs with friends.

Online Goal Trackers:

Trackbear word goal tracker

Pacemaker goal planner

Of all of the above links, my absolute champion here is Libreoffice for pure functionality, and for fun and writing goals, 4TheWords!

It is like google docs in that you are writing on an online platform that autosaves your work (don't forget to give it a few seconds to save changes before clicking away from it), but it also means you can write on your desktop or mobile phone while on the go;

it keeps track of your words written for the day, keeps track of daily writing streaks, and makes it easy and fun to stay focused on completing word goals of various levels in one sitting, by "battling" monsters that have different word goals in a time limit.

once you reach that word goal, you've successfully defeated the monster, and earn loot to level up your character if you're interested in the RPG aspect of the site, otherwise, you can use it to simply write and keep to small, steady goals!

[rustyscreech]

open source software is literally one of the most amazing things in the world and it can save us I'm not kidding. steeping your work into mostly open source software feels freeing and like you're actually connected to people like the fucking purpose of the internet. every time I look up blender addons and come across a new github repo I feel like I've reached nirvana

[unitedfrontvarietyhour]

A Tale of Two Ws, and neither are America's.

Womp womp.

[bmpmp3]

not used to this kind of mascot

[tec-a0l]

the writings

this book compiles a large chunk of the stuff that dylan and eric wrote! it’s stuff from their journals, classwork, drawings, eric’s website, and some other miscellaneous stuff.

here’s the front/back of the book with my hand as a size reference, it’s a little bit bigger than a standard 8.5 x 11” piece of paper & has a total of 290 pages.

here’s some examples of the pages from both eric & dylan’s sections. the first row is one of eric’s journal entries and a page from his website, and the second row is a journal entry and a drawing done by dylan.

the only significantly blurry pages are these from dylan’s section, which i think is mostly due to his use of the chemical bothers’ font. the rest of the pages are quite clear, or at least as clear as jeffco was able to copy as evidence.

the content is available digitally via acolumbinesite, but if you’d prefer a hard copy, this is the way to go!

[foxyeemisfit]

Inhaler art dump

II finale spoilers below

[mrcheezzz]

you, me, gas station..

[strawberrycandy014]

I had planned to post this like a week ago but I forgot to oop-

I still post here from my old phone and I keep forgetting that I have it

Anyways they're chilling

[m3xyuu]

OSO 8 is finally out so here my frame i made for the episode a while back!

i signed up for a diamond or pitcher scene and got a diamond (+ glowing heart) one! 🫶 i still like the piece a year after i made it and was glad to see it in the episode ^_^

bonus versions with accessories + my progress screenshots YAY

[anarchistfrogposting]

The “no one would ever work for free” crowd never really considered the eternal bond between humans and increasingly complex tools