[–] [S] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

No I haven't tried any of these 12 apps, I am perfectly happy with Gimp, affinity photo and LibreOffice. I posted this because for one, the opensource community three days ago had a fervent conversation about photocraft, the same developer. Secondly, as written in the rules of the community it says "feel free to ask questions and share news, and interesting stuff."

I am not promoting anything AI, in fact I hate the direction it is going in and the threat it poses to real developers. That said, there is clearly a plenty of schadenfreude that comes from this, nobody can't deny its sweet to extend the middle finger to these megacorps.

Not sure where you get the idea that I posted this as a marketing ploy reselling genAI tokens?

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    Brandon Thomas, developer of ArtCraft, a suite of open-source creative tools meant to replicate Adobe applications for free, has now announced apps to replace Microsoft Office tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, respectively, named GridCraft, DeckCraft, and WordCraft, that are created with Claude. Thomas has shared his new clones to ArtCraft GitHub, making them free for all to download.

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    From the article :

    U.S. Admiral Samuel J. Paparo declined to say under what circumstances he would follow an order to attack Canada, calling a question from a reporter about the issue “needlessly emotional.”

    At the Indo-Pacific Chiefs of Defence conference in Victoria Wednesday, a reporter asked Paparo: “Under what circumstances would you obey an order to launch military action against Canada?”

    Paparo, who serves as U.S. commander for the Indo-Pacific region, visibly took issue with the question. He said: “I find that scenario to be absolutely and utterly preposterous.”

    He added: “I follow the orders of the commander-in-chief, but that is a needlessly emotional question.”

    The reporter pointed out that Paparo did not answer the question. The U.S. admiral said he was dismissing the issue, adding: “Would you ask me please also what my attack plans are for the Martians?”

    The reporter replied: “You belittle it and I don’t think that’s the right approach at all. This is a serious question about a serious issue.”

    U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to turn Canada into the “51st” American state since returning to office in January 2025.

    The Canadian military has taken the threats seriously enough to model a response to a hypothetical U.S. invasion, according to senior government officials who spoke to the Globe and Mail this year.

    A Nanos poll taken in February found that three in five Canadians are concerned about the U.S. being a potential threat to Canadian sovereignty. A majority also support making it illegal for Canadians to serve in the U.S. military, according to a poll commissioned by The Maple in April.

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    [Verse 1]
    The stale stink of piss on the RSL carpet
    It sticks to my feet
    I accept defeat as I stand at a urinal
    Next to a racist who follows the same team as I do
    And sadly I'm the minority
    It's easier to pretend that I blend in
    Which is piss weak, and fucking embarrassing
    I drink the same beer as him but I don't think new Australians are second-class citizens

    [Chorus]
    The dying majority
    The dying majority
    The dying majority
    [Verse 2]
    I don't care if they grew up in a different time
    They still manage to learn the names of every new player in the NRL
    So old dogs can learn new tricks
    But they can't seem to grasp the idea that perhaps we don't own this country
    And when the world's in crisis we have no right to say who should and shouldn't be here

    [Chorus]
    The dying majority
    The dying majority
    The dying majority
    The dying majority

    [Verse 3]
    Sadly it's the same old bastards who make up most the votes
    And so we live with their mistakes
    Their massive houses haunting us from their graves
    A reminder of what we will never have
    'Cause of the jobs we'll never get from the degrees we were told we needed

    [Chorus]
    The dying majority
    The dying majority
    The dying majority
    The dying majority

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    "The firings leave the four-member commission with no commissioners, meaning it cannot take official action until new members are installed. They also come days after the Supreme Court granted the president power to fire leaders of independent agencies, weakening a legal framework that for decades had insulated bipartisan federal commissions from direct White House control."

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