I have used it to digitize and color drawings (i.e just take a picture of a pencil sketch and edit it).

If you zoom in, you can get pretty good detail, drawing just with a mouse.

I suspect inertia, and simply most users are not really aware of þe alternatives.

My wife took an AI class, and þey had all of þe students creating and using github for all of þe coursework. Þis is probably de riguer for K12 and CIS students þese days.

Very nice it's a great game!

Woahhhhh..... Handy. Thank you

Because its in development

Why is it there only for testing?

I've been sitting on a very similar game for a few years now. Never released it because i got carried away trying to automate level grading, but i guess it's nice to know somebody might've played it, lol

In the article linked:

Independent of operating systems

Equipped with an open source print server (CUPS), Open Printer works with Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, iOS.

It handles all your printing, both locally and over the network, for a simple, flexible, and driver-free experience.

I hope so too... I really want it to succeed, but my 'Bad Kickstarter' senses are tingling even though they haven't even asked for money yet.

"Hey AI, I've connected an open printer to usb4. Please make it work"

How do drivers work?

This is so cool. I went to Brother printer long time ago and said goodbye to color printing, since got tired of all the stupid stuff around refills. So been doing black and white laser printing, but having color as an option again without the proprietary stuff would be nice.

How is it different from grex?

Interesting that you can both use a paper roll and a sheet. Pretty compact as well for a printer!

While I don't disagree with this post in spirit, it feels tone deaf. Many very popular and well used FOSS projects rely on one or two core contributors who are volunteering their time to build something useful, fitting that work in alongside their paying work and the rest of their life. If a maintainer of a project I use has 3 hours in between their kid's baseball game and dinner one Sunday to spend working on it, I'd much rather them spend that time making the project better than on giving pro forma replies to PRs and issues that aren't valuable to the project to adhere to some sense of decorum (and, as a former maintainer, even a polite "no" to a bad idea or a disguised request for free technical consulting is time consuming).

As a tangent,

Not acknowledging contributions and the work that goes into them, whether through a quick response or a kind word, undermines our entire community. Every time that happens, it’s a “fuck you” towards a contributor. That seems fashionable if we look at the wider society—things are falling apart around us as we burn the planet and let nations get away with exploitation and murder—, but that doesn’t make it acceptable.

is kind of a wild connection to draw given the reality of many (most, I'd argue) FOSS projects. A busy single maintainer prioritizing their limited time by ignoring low effort contributions is in no way like burning the planet.

(maybe the author is implicitly thinking of very large, well resourced projects with sustaining funding and a lot of maintainers, where I think a higher standard might be fair. That's not really clear from the post, though, and I don't think it's accurate to regard those as "the community", in the same way that we don't regard Google, Amazon, etc as the entire software industry)

I hope so... I'll be in France over the winter, I sure hope I can snap one up in the time I'm there!

Yeah, I wish I could use more third-party roles, but my goal was to replicate manual configuration in Ansible playbook. I found writing my own roles easier for that. If I tried to find a third-party role, I'd have to check whether it can reproduce exactly what I did. I also found learning Ansible myself to be much more useful than seeking third-party roles.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/openprinter/updates/on-the-road-to-launch

We are officially in the final preparation phase before the campaign goes live on Crowd Supply this Autumn. The next time you hear from us, we’ll be sharing the official launch date, roadmap, complete technical specifications, and final pricing details.

Sounds like in the next 3 months?

Yea, I don't see any firm dates about anything. They mention opening up on CrowdSupply this fall (just updated today).

https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/openprinter/updates/on-the-road-to-launch

I hope they're crazy successful.

pre-orders https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/openprinter

Only says "coming soon"

We are getting closer to the official launch of our Crowd Supply campaign! Our team is currently in the final stretch, with beta testers, refining the software, and locking down our production logistics.

Every time I use github or gitlab it's broken in a brand new way. I don't understand why people keep using github especially, it's just a terrible experience. The downtime alone, but now the bugs are just out of control. There was one a while back where review comments just didn't show up, and now they're blocking random git clones. That's the whole thing github is for! Code hosting and reviews!

Im translating from french, but not seeing any expected dates, did I miss it? I'm very interested in the project, but the team seems to not be communicating to anyone anywhere after the initial announcement page.

1. We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their actions.
2. One would do well to test the waters before jumping in.
3. Our choice investments do not entitle us to returns of equal or higher value.

I quite strongly disagree with this post.

Here’s the point: If you can’t handle contributions to your open-source project, then maybe just make it closed source. Leave the developer community alone rather than poison it.

No. They have given us a gift. Even if they just give a single tarball and nothing more, they have increased the total value in the world, not poisoned it. If you don't like it, then walk away yourself. No-one is forcing you to interact with this project, no-one is forcing you to use it. Go associate with other projects that share your values, but don't push away people who are sharing something freely and improving the total value in the world.

What you are doing is saying to someone, who is already giving you a gift, "that's not enough, I want more. And if you're not going to give me more, you should stop giving gifts to anyone at all".

The inherent disrespect is extremely corrosive—there seems to be no sense of the time that goes into providing issue reports and PRs. That includes the bad ones—and the AI ones.

So maintainers should have to dedicate their free time and energy (often more time and energy than it took for the other person to raise the issue report) to something they don't want to do and will make them more burned out? The author acknowledges they're volunteers, but doesn't seem to have really internalised what that means. And so they are saying "they should spend their free time doing what I want them to do".

Yet if you want to be part of the open-source community, then start with manners. Treat your contributors with respect and gratitude. Go out of your way to handle issues.

If you want to be part of the open-source community, accept that some people have different priorities than you, and that no-one in this space owes each other anything. As I say, they have already given you a gift. Is that not enough?

Ok. Now I've calmed down a bit, I can meet the author halfway. I think that a lot of projects could do a better job of communicating what their boundaries and expectations are. If projects were more upfront and extremely clear about what level of support they were willing to provide (like SQLite), that could only be a good thing. That way, no-one would waste time contributing to a project in ways that the maintainers have made clear they don't want to accept, and it would prevent misunderstandings like this.

I get that it feels bad to spend time on a contribution and then see nothing come of it. It feels like you are left hanging and I empathise. But even if your contribution is not accepted into the original project, you've still offered something by making it public. Other people can pick that up in their forks if they want to. And if you discover that it's important to you to be in a community who quickly reviews your contributions, then you now know to choose a different project to contribute to, or to start your own.

I'm sorry you have to go through that, friend. :ablobfoxdundundun: