Just got a letter in the mail that our healthcare information may have been compromised in a potential data breach. The hospital was very adamant that it wasn't their system that was compromised, but the systems of a third-party contractor used by the province.
Dear government, I take great pains to secure our personal systems. Can you please stop authorizing deals to hand over our sensitive information to sketchy third-party contractors without our consent? It's your responsibility to vet them. You don't just get to wash your hands of it when they inevitably screw it up.
Interestingly enough, as I was painstakingly tracing out my guidelines, I noticed a colouring mistake in the graphic on the tshirt that I hadn't noticed in all the time I'd owned it.
Somehow the drawing seems more attractive than the real thing. I love Krita but I used to stick to vector and Inkscape was my favorite, but then I started to play with a pen in an AOC screen and Krita shined to me.
@Krit To be honest, I've always been a little intimidated by Krita. Sooo many tools and buttons and widgets and options. I look at the work of @David Revoy, and think, "I could never do that!"
Then I finally just started playing with it, and it's actually not half bad.
Am I doing things the "right" way? Probably not. In fact I'm doing things I know my high school art teacher forbade back while I was in school. When he gets into my head though, I just tell him, "shut up! This is a digital medium and the rules are different."
Here's the question: should I do the artwork on the shirt too, or should I just leave it blank? It's a bit of a pain, but I feel bad wasting all the work I did on the guidelines.
So as much as I love #Krita's assistave tool that smooths out my lines, I'm finding that with this fine detail work, it's easier to turn it off and just carefully draw by hand than it is to fight against the tool.
I guess it's about knowing what is and isn't the right job for the tool, right?
Me: I don't like that gap in the line art between my arm and the shirt. I'm just gonna make my arm a little wider to close the gap so I don't have to deal with it.
Katy: You know, when most people doctor pictures of themselves, they do it to make them look skinnier.
@Aeon Yeah, I couldn't decide which way I wnated to take it, which is why I decided to do both. This is one of the things I like about digital art. That's not an option I'd easily have on a physical medium.
Why is it that I always find some stupid little line or two that I forgot to draw when I go to colour? The bucket fill tool is a harsh mistress. Also, because the lines are anti-aliased, the bucket fill tool is not a silver bullet. I had to manually touch this up in a lot of places. Still better than colouring everything by hand though.
The decision to add the art to the shirt definitely complicated the process, still the finish line is within sight.
As a side note: the limitations of my artistic talent, and the art style I'm using makes my beard look significantly fuller than it actually is. 😅
The checkered pattern on the wall behind me is acoustic panelling, which I'm hoping to make more evident when I do the shading and highlighting. That's going to be tedious AF to do.
Interestingly enough, as I was painstakingly tracing out my guidelines, I noticed a colouring mistake in the graphic on the tshirt that I hadn't noticed in all the time I'd owned it.
Have you been testing adjustments to the Spread and Grow Selection options for the Fill Tool? I think limiting the Threshold value might make the tool more forgiving about the tiny missing lines.
Got some shading done, but I still have to figure out what to do about the acoustic panels on the wall. I haven't even really attempted that yet. I have some ideas about how I might try to go about this, but despite any appearances to the contrary, I really have no idea what I'm doing. I'm just kinda making it up as I go along. #krita #drawing #art #cat
The only thing I think is bad about the shirt artwork is that the text is not in a position it can be easily understood. Other than that it looks good to me. If you are using anything other than a mouse you will probably get things better setting accurately the brush dynamic options. Also I believe Krita has a threshold setting for the smooth. Those are just my views and opinions, not meant to mess up your way of doing things.
I know it's a little late to cash in on the #caturday points, but here's another drawing I did of @Benny in #Krita. This time, in addition to cell shading, I also threw in some highlights. Also, this time his rear end isn't featured.
Decided to dust off my copy of #Krita and play around with #drawing again. This is my current work-in-progress. I'm pretty happy with how it's turning out considering I'm pretty much a novice.
Full disclosure: While no so-called generative AI was used in the creation of this drawing, there was a liberal amount of tracing from a reference photo I took.
So... twice this week now the alarm that reminds me to take one of my meds has gone off, but when I've gone to take the pill, it's already missing from the organizer. No record in my medication log of my having taken it either.
@Jonathan Lamothe that's incredibly concerning. Both because the lack of log event means you're either sleepwalking, or in a state to not perform a log. And the alarm is likely the trigger. Uh - can you account for theft? Are they worth stealing?
Sorry - that's "my brain goes paranoid" level of fear
@silverwizard No, they're antacids. If someone were going to steal a pill, the ADHD meds were in the same organizer.
There are many benign possibilities. It's possible that when I loaded the organizer, I accidentally put only one of those pills in it (I take two a day). It's possible that since I was late with meds today, I got the schedule wrong, and accidentally took one at the wrong time. These are much more likely.
@silverwizard My medication schedule is... complicated. Med X needs to be taken with food. Meds Y and Z can't be taken within two hours of each other. It's like the damn wolf, goat, cabbage problem.
Getting old sucks (though it's preferable to the alternative, I suppose).
It's the result of my half-asleep brain taking the wrong pill in the morning—by feel, in the dark, of course—and then failing to log that anything even happened. Problematic, but not so much as the potential reasons that had been proposed.
@Jonathan Lamothe I once made a complaint against an office for pulling up to a bus stop at the mall and immediately drawing a taser and attacking a dude.
i got told drawing a weapon in a crowd was SOP and the standard plan for officers.
I've been using #Emacs's #Gnus for news/mail/RSS, but for whatever reason it's having trouble subscribing to ATOM feeds (RSS is fine). I seem to be missing the nnatom backend. Is there something special I need to do to add it? #AskFedi
@superketchup Right, I started using nnatom in the past few weeks and noticed its part of Gnus now. I've also running Gnus v5.13. Maybe there was no version bump when they brought nnatom in?
I had problems getting nnatom to work. IIRC it does not want http:// or https:// when specifying the server, unlike nnrss.
@juliadream Yeah, I looked outside immediately afterward, looking for any obvious signs of a nearby lightning strike, to see that the ground was wet. I couldn't immediately tell if it was actively raining or if it had just done so recently.
@SnoopJ yeah and it's probably worth also mentioning the double feature, also usually unrelated, which will start a few minutes after the main movie ends on @miru. Not officially part of the #Monsterdon event.
Are you on Miru? If so, yes. Usually a pre-show (episode of a Japanese monster TV show) and a post show, usually a whole other feature film somehow connected to the main event
We've got a pre-show sometimes, and a post-show sometimes. For people who like #Monsterdon ing so much that one feature presentation is not enough. Attendance is not obligatory. #Monsterdon #SonOfDracula1943
I mean, the guy is still wanted for murder. It's not like you can just say "whoopsie-doopsie" and ignore that. Intentional or not, he's still guilty of at least manslaughter. #monsterdon
One thing I love about #emacs is that even though the documentation is generally pretty good, in the cases where it's inadequate, it's still really easy to find and step through the relevant source for a feature to find the answer I need.
Over the weekend I was messing around with ibuffer, integrating my custom ibuffer groups with @sanityinc's ibuffer-vc (recommended).
I was surprised to discover that documentation for ibuffer (in since 22.1?) is ... sparsely documented. But it was fun to get it working because the code (and Steve's add-on) is
PERFECTLY LIMPID
(the real story here is that I have been waiting a lifetime to drop the phrase "perfectly limpid" for internet points and here is my opportunity)
@jameshowell @sanityinc I also use Ibuffer but I am slightly annoyed that point changes on auto update (in contrast to Buffer-menu-mode). I would like to fix this sometimes.
@jameshowell @sanityinc Even for few buffers you will see the effect with ibuffer-auto-mode, since point always jumps back to the beginning. Extremely annoying or I am doing something wrong...
The filter groups are defined as a list (of lists), which (per the definition of list) has an order.
That order determines the logic of which buffers get assigned to which groups. That order also determines the order in which those groups get displayed.
Sometimes I want those orderings to be different. Which would require two lists.
Each element already has a name string, so a display-order list could reference elements in the filter-order list. But that gets complicated when some of the elements are generated dynamically, like from ibuffer-vc.
This annoyance is probably not worthy of the effort to rewrite the package with a different abstraction. Especially not the effort to do so without introducing breaking changes.
@bmp @jameshowell @sanityinc Yes, bufler looks nice! Alphapapa has many great packages. But I have slightly different preferences regarding dependencies and library usage. In addition to bufler I would have to install these libraries: burly, dash, f, hydra, lv, pretty-hydra and s. This is pretty large footprint. I care about this for multiple reasons - supply chain issues and consistency on the Elisp level. To be clear, this should not matter much for most users.
@bmp @jameshowell @sanityinc @pkal I am by no means a package minimalist - I have many packages installed and I suggest that people take advantage of our large ecosystem. However I differentiate between packages on the user level and the library level. On the library level my preference is to rely on Emacs builtins for basic functionality (instead of dash, f or s). If crucial library functionality is missing it can be added to subr.el and then ported back via Compat.
@bmp @jameshowell @sanityinc @pkal Unfortunately it turns out that adding new functionality to subr.el sometimes leads to long emacs-devel discussions with little progress. Not all additions are not welcome, like the recently discussed file-to-string function. These are the gaps which are then filled by libraries like dash, f or s.
Agreed. I think the point to stress here is that users can decide. Hydra, for example, always struck me as relatively bloated, buggy, and a little too idiosyncratic with respect to (at least my mental models of) Emacs internal and UI conventions. But obviously it was very popular! Let a thousand flowers bloom. Cherish the Four Freedoms 😀
@jameshowell Actually I found Hydra pretty good and simple. It is a smaller variant of Transient. But given that Transient is now the standard why not rely on it? I agree with you that users should decide and I want to emphasize that on the user level the underlying libraries do not matter. @bmp @me @sanityinc @pkal
@minad I mean I would never dream of using evil-mode. But I am glad that evil-mode people can depend on evil-mode. Follow your nose to the Emacs that is your Emacs.
@minad @jameshowell @sanityinc @pkal I haven’t gotten to the point of discerning between packages based on such criteria:-), I’ve been relying on packages that help provide the functionality I need. Maybe, sometime in the future I’ll start a screening process before I use them!
Okay, I need to do a hacky #elisp thing. Yes, I know it's terrible.
Basically, I have an existing defun. Let's call it foo. I need to replace it with a new function that calls the old one and transforms its output before returning it.
Also, there's still something Gmail isn't liking. Looking at the differences in the headers between emacs and my other clients (whose mail does get through), the next most obvious difference is that the Content-Type header doesn't specify an encoding. Whether this is the actual problem or not, I should probably fix that. I'm just working on how.
Okay, so I wrote this hacky nonsense in my ~/.emacs.d/init.el, but it doesn't seem to be having any effect. The function in question seems completely unaffected.
Perhaps this code is being evaluated before the original function is defined?
;; Mail hack
(defvar jrl-mail-hack nil
"Flag to prevent from overloading the function a second time")
(let ((oldfunc (symbol-function 'message-unique-id)))
(unless jrl-mail-hack
(defun message-unique-id ()
(secure-hash 'sha256 (funcall oldfunc)))
(setq jrl-mail-hack t)))
The idea is to hash the Message-ID header in outgoing mail because Gmail seems to have decided the original format looks like spam. #emacs #elisp #AskFedi
I'm definitely not an expert, but could it be the (let ...) statement causing a problem? Can you move the (unless) outside? I wonder if your changes to the function only apply inside the scope of let.
I have rewritten and stand-alone tested the behaviour of an inner function invoked by one of the Emacs functions bundled with Emacs 24. What is the preferred way of incorporating - e.g. in my init....
Of course there's a question about your underlying logic lurking here: Why don't you just define a new function that calls the old function and transforms its output and then just call the new function.
Transforming the output of an existing function risks breaking all other callers of that function.
It looks like #Gmail hates #emacs. Since I switched to using emacs as a mail client Gmail has started marking all my emails as spam. I'm still doing a forensic analysis of sorts, but yeah...
Maybe I'll at least get a blog post out of this nonsense, though.
I have the same issue with @Tutanota : my emails never make it to some recipients. I’ve never sent a single spam on my life. The only factor I was able to isolate is that anything going to Gmail or a Google-managed address doesn’t make it, which I assume means it was caught in some spam filters. But it’s not the only factor. I just haven’t figured out what makes it so I can’t write to some other addresses.
It’s really a PITA, forcing me to keep another email.
@Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️🌈 @Tuta The weird thing is that it works if I use any other client. I'm still trying to figure out what the problem is. When I find it in my spam box and I click "why is this marked as spam" it says that it's there because it resembles other messages that have been marked as spam.
In other words: we put it in spam because we thought it looked like spam, which is... unhelpful.
I'm 90% certain I know what's going on. What I don't know is if it's something malicious on Google's part, or of it's some machine learning algorithm that's not liking something in the headers.
Don't know what software you're using, but I found *outgoing* DKIM pretty easy with Exim. Basically just a matter of making sure the right config variables were set in the relevant outgoing transport.
Verifying signatures on the incoming side was a lot harder; I had the distinct impression few people setting up their own systems actually do that, they just want it for outgoing so that places like Google won't block the mail.
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in reply to Krit • •@Krit To be honest, I've always been a little intimidated by Krita. Sooo many tools and buttons and widgets and options. I look at the work of @David Revoy, and think, "I could never do that!"
Then I finally just started playing with it, and it's actually not half bad.
Am I doing things the "right" way? Probably not. In fact I'm doing things I know my high school art teacher forbade back while I was in school. When he gets into my head though, I just tell him, "shut up! This is a digital medium and the rules are different."
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •Also, what the hell is that weird line beside my nose. I must've accidentally drawn it and not noticed.
Anyhow, I'll fix that and start doing the shirt artwork on a separate layer so that I don't have to commit to it just yet.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •So as much as I love #Krita's assistave tool that smooths out my lines, I'm finding that with this fine detail work, it's easier to turn it off and just carefully draw by hand than it is to fight against the tool.
I guess it's about knowing what is and isn't the right job for the tool, right?
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Katy: You know, when most people doctor pictures of themselves, they do it to make them look skinnier.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •Why is it that I always find some stupid little line or two that I forgot to draw when I go to colour? The bucket fill tool is a harsh mistress. Also, because the lines are anti-aliased, the bucket fill tool is not a silver bullet. I had to manually touch this up in a lot of places. Still better than colouring everything by hand though.
The decision to add the art to the shirt definitely complicated the process, still the finish line is within sight.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •As a side note: the limitations of my artistic talent, and the art style I'm using makes my beard look significantly fuller than it actually is. 😅
The checkered pattern on the wall behind me is acoustic panelling, which I'm hoping to make more evident when I do the shading and highlighting. That's going to be tedious AF to do.
The things I do for my art... 🙃
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •Also, I took the liberty of correcting the colouring mistake in the original art in the tshirt because I can't add a [sic] tag to a picture.
We won't talk about the myriad of new mistakes I added in the process that you can find if you look closely enough. 🫠
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •If you are using anything other than a mouse you will probably get things better setting accurately the brush dynamic options. Also I believe Krita has a threshold setting for the smooth.
Those are just my views and opinions, not meant to mess up your way of doing things.
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