@blambot When I was collecting comics, she was lettering a lot of them. Still have my old Ghost Riders.
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Wild West Designs
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Update on Janice Chiang's custom font set: Got the A-Zs done for the bold italic.
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@raysan5 In my mind, have to go old school. Otherwise if there is a way to cheat, it will be found. It'll just be a game of catchup otherwise, and that's assuming a greater success rate compared to what we are getting. Gotta love when everyone is looking for that "magic bullet".
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In my current University, it has been a recurrent discussion, how to teach/evaluate programming knowledge in times of AI. My proposal:
Public evaluation of students, on stage, being requested to explain and find existing issues over code generated by AI. Thoughts?
Daniel Lemire@lemire
How do you teach programming in 2026? I have been teaching programming professionally for two decades. It doesn’t work anymore. I now consistently catch students who produced good software during a 15-week course be unable to write a simple loop at the end of the course. « Just forbid AI. » You can’t put someone in a cage for 100 hours and force them to program without AI. We need to change the whole approach. Maybe go AI first. 🤖 This means MUCH harder homeworks.
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@vini2kbsd I would try a *BSD variant, but nvidia and Wacom, and specific program support seem to lag. Atleast the last time I tried. While I can troubleshoot, I still use computers to make money and it's not from troubleshooting computers, so that is a stumbling block for me.
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FreeBSD is incredibly smooth and fast.
And... more stable than most people I've met.
sysxplore@sysxplore
My Linux distro is more stable than most people I've met.
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@mark_k I have seen a few tech upheaval in my life. Inevitably it becomes a black box that people don't know how to do without if necessary. Even people that grew up with computers have a problem with abstraction. As I have gotten older, I don't mind automation, hate black boxes.
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Why are devs so 'pro-AI' while artists are so 'anti'? 🗣️
It feels like coders are leaning into the tech to work faster, but creators are genuinely angry and frustrated by it.
Is the difference just that programmers are used to constant change, or is the impact on their jobs just fundamentally different?
Would love to hear some insights on why these two groups are reacting so differently!
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@ostechnix I would seriously consider *BSD, if there was decent Wacom support, Nvidia support and the creative apps that I used treated *BSD like they do the usual 3. With Linux pushing Wayland, even Linux is starting to be an unattractive choice. Shame after almost 20 yrs on it
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GhostBSD is going to abandon Xorg after 15 years. Eric Turgeon explains why GhostBSD switched from Xorg to XLibre instead of Wayland.
Full details here: ostechnix.com/ghostbsd-switc…
#Ghostbsd #Xlibre #Xorg #Displayserver #Freebsd #Bsd #Unix
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@raysan5 In some ways, I think Sqlite has it right. I understand the reason why that was done initially, I just think now, this is perhaps the way to go. I think Blender is also having this problem as well.
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It seems AI-generated PRs (usually barely tested) are already polluting open-source codebases, generating burden for maintainers... I can't imagine the future implications of this trend... 😣
Game Developer@gamedevdotcom
Godot co-founder says 'AI slop' pull requests have become overwhelming gamedeveloper.com/programming/go…
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@LudensLudonauta @ziggyrim I still animate frame by frame, shoot, I'll still go way old school and use dip pen and paper. Snow Bear was done by hand. I think Castlevania was a combo of hand and 3D. Using interpolation at the mercy of software and sometimes that's not a good thing.
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"quer que ela anime frame por frame?"
silêncio, as pessoas estão descobrindo o conceito de ANIMAÇÃO
Lev🇸🇱@havixtiu
UÉ? KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK E VC ACHA QUE DESENHO É FEITO COMO?
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@cgcookie Ironically GP is what got me to Blender back in the 2 7x days. Only gotten better and unfortunately overshadowed by people thinking Blender is only for 3D.
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For artists looking to move beyond timeline-only animation, Grease Pencil opens up a very different workflow.
Draw, animate, and build scenes in 3D. This free course shows you how to get started.
👉 cgcookie.com/courses/grease…
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@ccarp87 @LundukeJournal I would just use the default browser for the ui(still a c/c++ app) and that way the browser is not a dedicated dependency but a shared one. Plus, I like a static musl build. I cry sometimes when I use a web based ui, but build size, totally static build helps since on Arch.
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@WildWestDesign1 @LundukeJournal I completely agree that Qt is better than GTK. But, I'd use Electron for a little widget app like this in a second. Stupid easy desktop integration + it lends itself to web-connected dynamic content like this.
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For those of you who want the Windows 8 “tiles” Start Menu on Linux… I have good news!
Someone has recreated the Windows 8 Start menu… for Linux.
In Python. Using Qt.
Because… he “kind of missed it”.
He then announced it on Reddit, which caused another developer to chime in…
reddit.com/r/linux/commen…
“heres my one,” said the other dev, linking to his own Win8 Start Menu for Linux project. “i am daily driving it its made in QT and C++ and fully functional its made for labwc and hyprland in mind”
github.com/er-bharat/Win8…
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@ccarp87 @LundukeJournal In my mind Qt is better compared to GTK. Outside of immediate mode or web based ui(not talking Electron, i would prefer webview to Electron or the already installed browser), not many options for GUI in the Linux space. Maybe TK after some styling.
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@LundukeJournal Why do people keep saying Qt like it's a good thing 🤢
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@LundukeJournal As an artist first, I don't use it period, even when writing code for games. I worry more about the lost knowledge that comes when people offload too much to high level abstractions. Sometimes the journey itself is just as important, if not moreso, as the destination.
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Programmers using AI to create art assets.
Artists using AI to write code.
News publishers using AI to write articles.
Movie Directors using AI to create actors or special effects.
It’s fascinating how many people have wildly different reactions to each of those uses for AI.
Loving some, but hating others.
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@chmhofer No package manager, no problems with package management.
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I'm surprised to see responses here that Python is difficult to set up.
Compare,
$ python3.14 main.py
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$ g++ -std=c++23 -O2 -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -o a.out && ./a.out
Dmitrii Kovanikov@ChShersh
Average C++ criticism
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@LundukeJournal I do this mainly to be able to statically link against musl (since on Arch, no real sane libc linkage there). All tradeoffs that one has to consider.
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@LundukeJournal I stay away from Electron for my own stuff, but I have used the installed browser/webview as a gui for my C/C++ apps. Does actually reduce dedicated footprint of RAM and the HD space as well, despite everything compiled into the binary. If non trivial app, it can work.
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@probonopd Flats and snap, never liked. Solution looking for a problem. I prefer portable solutions.
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Does this mean that Flatpak will more or less depend on systemd soon? phoronix.com/forums/forum/s…
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@nixcraft Out of those specifically mentioned, GIMP is the only image editor (doesn't really do it for me). I have been looking more and more at PixiEditor though for this.
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How many of you use open source image editors like GIMP, Krita, Inkscape? Be honest!
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@seamus_coughlin @YinzMetallum I have been off of Adobe since the CS6 days, had used Flash, but since I didn't need to worry about 3rd party users of my files, I was able to move away. Use Blender (even for 2D due to GP) for the bulk of the work. I use Arch for the OS. Although more frame by frame myself.
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@YinzMetallum If I could get Linux to reliably run adobe animate I would 100% switch
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I genuinely can't stand Microsoft anymore. Are MacOS and Linux also getting crappier as society decays?
Windows Latest@WindowsLatest
Microsoft admits File Explorer is slow in Windows 11, and it’s going to preload it in the background to help improve launch performance. “This shouldn’t be visible to you, outside of File Explorer hopefully launching faster when you need to use it,” Microsoft confirmed. If you don’t want Windows 11 to preload File Explorer, you can uncheck the option called “Enable window preloading for faster launch times” in File Explorer’s Folder Options under View. File Explorer is still snappy on Windows 10, but the modernized Windows 11 version also brought slower performance. This change is rolling out to Windows Insiders.
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@ArturSmiarowski My main problem is the knowledge that is lost with this high level abstraction in 2, 3, 4 generations of users that only know the abstraction. Even without what passes for "AI" isn't there, already seen a reduction in what people do with the abstractions that we have now.
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Considering the success of Arc Raiders, I think the AI debate is nearing its end.
Major businesses will use generated content to compete, disregarding the backlash.
Indie creators and artists will continue to get punished for it because they are easy targets for mob pressure.
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@FFmpeg Wrote a little stop motion app (also use it for traditional 2D) software that uses ffmpeg to create the resulting video files.
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@blambot Very true in the corporate world, along with other creative endeavours that have gone more corporate. Is it actually the best thing? I would argue no, but it is what it is. I still animate on paper as well for that very thing. More immediate, more organic.
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