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I've been down a YouTube rabbit hole working on improving my art. I've always been somewhat decent at replicating something I can see, but when I have to draw something from my head, the poroprtions always looked kind of off.

I've watched a bunch of videos by a couple different artists, but I've found this one who has a whole channel teaching in a way that seems to work for me. My anatomy drawing (which has always been my Achilles' heel) has rather vastly improved in a remarkably short period of time, and I've been happy with the progress... at least until I compare them against the artist's examples. Hers are way better.

Then I have to remind myself: I've been at this a few days. Of course the professional artist is going to do a better job than me.

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🦆🦆 J Riley 🪿

Dead priest? you call a “fixer”

The Wolf: Jimmie, lead the way. Boys, get to work.
Vincent: A please would be nice.
The Wolf: Come again?
Vincent: I said a please would be nice.
The Wolf: Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick.
Jules: No, Mr. Wolf, it ain't like that, your help is definitely appreciated.

#monsterdon #silverbullet1985

#monsterdon #silverbullet1985
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Yes, like I said, in basic regular expressions those characters only have special meaning when escaped. In extended regular expressions, they have special meaning unless escaped.

Both types of regular expressions are well documented in the latest Single UNIX Specification from The Open Group. Older versions of SUS are available from Debian contrib (or non-free?).

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*long drag on cigarette* Kid, this is Mastodon. We're all the algorithm here. You. Me. Everybody. Now get out there and boost somebody's bullshit.
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This is your regular reminder that the large tech companies are pretty evil. Also anyone wearing those glasses needs to have a good think about their lives and what they are doing.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y7yv…

Dispute over fate of Kenyan workers who saw Meta AI glasses films

Meta and its subcontractor disagree over why over 1000 Kenya-based workers were made redundant.
Chris Vallance (BBC News)

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onpoli, healthcare, security breach

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.

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Krit

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.
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here are my favorite chess strategies:

- eating the opponent's pieces while they aren't looking
- the "pawn on a string" trick
- putting the opponent's pieces upside down so they can't identify them as easily
- hiding monopoly money up my sleeve
- playing on a very slight incline so the pieces slowly slide off the board
- knight dupe glitch
- arbitrary code execution via pawn placement and null piece reference
- bribing the opponent with a $20 bill to throw the match
- putting worms on the board
- putting superglue on some spaces so the opponent's pieces get stuck
- cheating
- intentionally underdeveloping residential spaces to keep demand high, ensuring steady population growth over time
- bringing an atari 2600 and a copy of video chess so i can just copy its moves
- using nucelar pressure to secure a draw
- threatening the opponent's family

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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.
Drawing of a brown and white cat in a blue tunnel with a yellow spiral trim. He is laying comfortably, looking toward the viewer, with his two front paws outstretched in front of him.
#caturday #krita @Benny

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Aral Balkan

@bitcrush_io Alt text: r/vibecoding
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vibe coded for 6 months. my codebase is a disaster.
•••
the app works. users are happy. revenue is coming in. (that's actually the only good part)
but i just tried to onboard a dev to help me and he opened the repo and went quiet for like 2 minutes. then said "what is this."
6 months of cursor and lovable and bolt. every feature worked when i shipped it. but nobody was thinking about structure. the Al just kept adding. new file here, duplicate function there, 3 different ways to handle the same thing across the codebase.
tried to refactor it myself last week. gave up after 2 hours. the thing is so tangled that touching one part breaks something completely unrelated.
the generation was fast. the cleanup is a nightmare.
is there even a way out of this or do i just rewrite everything from scratch?
@bitcrush.io

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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.
Line drawing of my cat, Benny, laying on his cat climber by the window. The angle is from beneath, and only his rear end and one paw hanging down are visible.
#drawing #krita

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mutual aid

Sensitive content

#mutualaid
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Jonathan Lamothe

@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.

Still, I'll keep an eye on the situation.

@silverwizard
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If you are thinking about running your blogpost through an AI editor, don't! It almost always makes it more boring.

Whatever you have to say is what you had to say anyway. Just say that, you don't need more. And the mistakes are perfectly fine.

I spell check once, proofread once, then publish. When people point out errors, it makes me feel good, because it means people are reading what I write, and I correct it then.

I'd rather have your charming acoustic-performance words, even if you make mistakes! I love mistakes in writing. Rustic and cozy.

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Szescstopni

Rustic approach is great. In our real rural life things are not always perfect. If a dining plate appears generally clean we put it in with other clean plates, we don't examine it with a microscope. Some sand and dog hair on the floor is OK unless it's really not. When there's some speck somewhere we just say 'rustic' and keep on going.
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"The Devil Went Down To Georgia" says that the Devil was "in a bind because he was way behind and he was willing to make a deal", suggesting that Satan Himself - note that the song specifies "the Devil", not "a devil" - has monthly quotas and faces consequences for not meeting those quotas. From this we can infer the existence of a greater and more sinister being capable of imposing KPIs on Satan Himself, suggesting in turn that KPIs themselves are the product of something more evil than Satan.
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Isaac Ji Kuo

Speaking as someone who is entirely sane and rational, obviously this being does not yet exist and is Roko's Basilisk, and it is threatening eternal punishment to a future simulated copy of Satan Himself if he doesn't keep up with its KPI.

Also, Roko's Basilisk isn't sinister or evil because it's very important that I say that Roko's Basilisk isn't sinister or evil or it will eternally torture a future simulation of me which acausal transaction me thinkie good very well brain works

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There is a Fediverse alternative to Substack called Ghost. It allows you to host blogs and newsletters in a very similar way to Substack, but it has much less problematic management and you can host your own Ghost-powered site if you want to.

Lots more info about Ghost in the guide at:

➡️ fedi.tips/ghost-blogs-and-news…

Would also highly recommend the article by @molly0xfff which outlines the advantages of Ghost over Substack:

➡️ citationneeded.news/substack-t…

#FediTips #Ghost #Substack #Alternatives

Migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the details

I migrated Citation Needed from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. Here is exactly how I did that.
Molly White (Citation Needed)
#FediTips #Alternatives #substack #ghost @Molly White

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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
#askfedi #emacs #gnus
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James Endres Howell

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)

github.com/purcell/ibuffer-vc

#emacs #ibuffer

GitHub - purcell/ibuffer-vc: Let Emacs' ibuffer-mode group files by git project etc., and show file state

Let Emacs' ibuffer-mode group files by git project etc., and show file state - purcell/ibuffer-vc
GitHub
#emacs #ibuffer @Steve Purcell
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Daniel Mendler

@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.

debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.…

#77210 - 30.1.50; ibuffer - preserve window position when updating - GNU bug report logs

debbugs.gnu.org
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James Endres Howell

@minad My annoyance with ibuffer:

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.

@me @sanityinc

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Bharath M. Palavalli

@jameshowell @minad @sanityinc I’ve found buffler (github.com/alphapapa/bufler.el) fits my needs well.

GitHub - alphapapa/bufler.el: A butler for your buffers. Group buffers into workspaces with programmable rules, and easily switch to and manipulate them.

A butler for your buffers. Group buffers into workspaces with programmable rules, and easily switch to and manipulate them. - alphapapa/bufler.el
GitHub
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Daniel Mendler

@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.
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Daniel Mendler

@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.
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Daniel Mendler

@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.
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James Endres Howell

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 😀

@bmp @me @sanityinc @pkal

@Jonathan Lamothe @Steve Purcell @Bharath M. Palavalli @pkal
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Daniel Mendler

@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.
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Jonathan Lamothe

@James Endres Howell @Steve Purcell @Bharath M. Palavalli @Philip @Daniel Mendler That's the beauty of Emacs: if you don't like it, it's infinitely customizable, and you can massage it into something you do like (assuming you're willing to do some digging).

There's also something to be said for an out-of-the-box solution that's close enough. I just prefer the former.

@Steve Purcell @Bharath M. Palavalli @James Endres Howell @pkal @Daniel Mendler

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elisp help

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.

I naïvely assumed I could do it like this:

(let ((oldfunc (function foo)))
  (defun foo ()
    (my-transform (funcall oldfunc))))

...but this doesn't actually copy the old function, just a reference to the symbol, so it ends up locking itself in a recursive loop.

I'm sure there's a way to do this.
#AskFedi

Edit: Got it. It's:

(let ((oldfunc (symbol-function 'foo)))
  (defun foo ()
    (my-transform (funcall oldfunc))))

Edit 2: It turns out there's a cleaner way still.
See: aus.social/@carlozancanaro/116…

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.

Carlo Zancanaro

2026-04-12 02:26:37

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The usual way to do this would be to "advise" the function with an "around" advice. gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/…

gnu.org

Advising Functions (GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual)
www.gnu.org
#askfedi #elisp

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Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️‍🌈

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.

@Tuta
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Jonathan Lamothe

@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.

@Tuta @Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️‍🌈

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