Bforartists is made for everybody. Hobbyists, indie developers and professionals. It gives you a low entry barrer for beginners, and the full power for advanced users.
A fork of BLENDER with lots of extras.
#Blender
https://www.bforartists.de/
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
What the hell Windows 10 - why did you install this????
What the hell Windows 10 - why did you install this????
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
On the heels of Voyager 1's historic 2012 breakout from our solar system its twin, Voyager 2, has begun to detect...
On the heels of Voyager 1's historic 2012 breakout from our solar system its twin, Voyager 2, has begun to detect signs that it too may be on the verge of entering interstellar space and crossing over to the great galactic beyond.
https://www.kqed.org/science/1933555/on-their-way-to-retirement-voyagers-1-and-now-2-explore-interstellar-space
https://www.kqed.org/science/1933555/on-their-way-to-retirement-voyagers-1-and-now-2-explore-interstellar-space
Socialhome allows you to build a rich profile that federates across the federated social web.
Socialhome allows you to build a rich profile that federates across the federated social web. Your content will be available to tens of thousands of users that you can also follow and interact with their content. The code is open source under the AGPLv3 license hosted on GitLab. There is also a mirror available on GitHub.
They lost me at the first page! What the?
#Web
https://socialhome.network/
They lost me at the first page! What the?
#Web
https://socialhome.network/
Monday, October 29, 2018
Saturday, October 27, 2018
The Duchess of Kent was gracious enough to visit Eric after the accident.
The Duchess of Kent was gracious enough to visit Eric after the accident.
http://cyberneticzoo.com/robots/1928-eric-robot-capt-richards-english/
http://cyberneticzoo.com/robots/1928-eric-robot-capt-richards-english/
Your metal friend who's fun to be with.
Your metal friend who's fun to be with.
http://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/179270631790
http://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/179270631790
Friday, October 26, 2018
It would be so easy for me to think that working on the Seconds Grid might be "cursed".
It would be so easy for me to think that working on the Seconds Grid might be "cursed". In the last week the grid was acting crazy for reasons that were not apparent. My suspicions were several scripted buoys were going nuts for some reason, because they were both physical and phantom, but that was never confirmed. Eventually the problem was tracked down to something happening in Urbania-East.
However this morning it ran (after a couple of glitches). It just ran. I thought "great, now to get on with the building" but twice now while I was logged on via Firestorm on the RecRoom PC, that PC just shut down with no warning. Um, but, but but....
In truth I've been having issues with all three PCs on the network since the last Windows 10 update. The NUC (where the grid lived) had been the least obvious because mostly I run the grid on it and otherwise mostly leave it alone. But the Media PC decided to re-show Cortana, and mysteriously would reset the keyboard options to US International, for no reason!!!! The RecRoom PC's most obvious glitch was that at times it would go to screen saver or a blank screen, and not come back. I couldn't get the sign-on screen to come back. I've researched this and tried various things and nothing has changed. Part of the issue is probably the fact that the RecRoom PC has a custom graphics card in it. And today it just turned itself off using the viewer.
There will be a fix, no doubt. The good thing is because it was only the PC that I was running the viewer, and not the one with running the grid server, so the builds were not lost. But this all takes time to sort out. Frustration.
Grrr, Windows update. Grrr, damn you Micro$oft!
#Windows #Windows10 #Intermittent #Fault
However this morning it ran (after a couple of glitches). It just ran. I thought "great, now to get on with the building" but twice now while I was logged on via Firestorm on the RecRoom PC, that PC just shut down with no warning. Um, but, but but....
In truth I've been having issues with all three PCs on the network since the last Windows 10 update. The NUC (where the grid lived) had been the least obvious because mostly I run the grid on it and otherwise mostly leave it alone. But the Media PC decided to re-show Cortana, and mysteriously would reset the keyboard options to US International, for no reason!!!! The RecRoom PC's most obvious glitch was that at times it would go to screen saver or a blank screen, and not come back. I couldn't get the sign-on screen to come back. I've researched this and tried various things and nothing has changed. Part of the issue is probably the fact that the RecRoom PC has a custom graphics card in it. And today it just turned itself off using the viewer.
There will be a fix, no doubt. The good thing is because it was only the PC that I was running the viewer, and not the one with running the grid server, so the builds were not lost. But this all takes time to sort out. Frustration.
Grrr, Windows update. Grrr, damn you Micro$oft!
#Windows #Windows10 #Intermittent #Fault
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
What you can do using KRITA.
What you can do using KRITA.
#Krita #Opensource
https://www.deviantart.com/kronikinocnejzmory/art/Portrait-765760110
#Krita #Opensource
https://www.deviantart.com/kronikinocnejzmory/art/Portrait-765760110
Monday, October 22, 2018
Friday, October 19, 2018
Yes, but only if they buy into social media platforms uncritically and expect only good things from them.
Yes, but only if they buy into social media platforms uncritically and expect only good things from them.
Originally shared by Rupam Nayak
📵
Thursday, October 18, 2018
The latest preview build of Windows 10 is allowing users to uninstall more pre-installed apps from the OS.
Originally shared by AlternativeTo
The latest preview build of Windows 10 is allowing users to uninstall more pre-installed apps from the OS. This feature is set to be included in a future feature update.
https://altrn.tv/2NOK6FJ
The latest preview build of Windows 10 is allowing users to uninstall more pre-installed apps from the OS. This feature is set to be included in a future feature update.
https://altrn.tv/2NOK6FJ
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Been thinking about consistent hashtag usage over in the new platforms, and will probably settle for this bunch,...
Been thinking about consistent hashtag usage over in the new platforms, and will probably settle for this bunch, which mirror the collections I have here in G+.
#APaganHeart #Americana #ApocryphalTales #ApplicationNotes #ArtyCraftyCleverStuff #Australiana #BlindedbyScience #BlinkDetected #BogusStuff #ComicNarratives #InterWebCompuMadness #CuriousPasttimes #FaanishStuff #Flatliners #HighandLowWeirdness #LauraEss1957 #ListenUP #MemeGirls #PicsPiecesAndPlaces #QueerStuff #RainbowHaven #SecondsGrid #SoundAndVision #VideoMania #VirtualDestinations #WhatsThisFoolishness
Mostly, this is for my benefit, but some of these, like Apocryphal Tales, have been with me from before the Internet and anything remotely like a hashtag. That one comes from old paper fanzines from the 70s and 80s. Not to be confused with other more common tags. Two or three tags ought to suffice, and rather than explain what the tags above mean, it'd work better by demonstrating it by usage. Anyone familiar with me from G+ knows that Rainbow Haven is the name of my home, so f that's in the post it's about me and mine.
And, I suspect that with posting this list on those platforms puts the tags into the system, so that in future it'll be easier for me to pick them when making posts. Maybe. Who knows. Can I lie down now? ;-)
#InterWebCompuMadness #hashtags
#APaganHeart #Americana #ApocryphalTales #ApplicationNotes #ArtyCraftyCleverStuff #Australiana #BlindedbyScience #BlinkDetected #BogusStuff #ComicNarratives #InterWebCompuMadness #CuriousPasttimes #FaanishStuff #Flatliners #HighandLowWeirdness #LauraEss1957 #ListenUP #MemeGirls #PicsPiecesAndPlaces #QueerStuff #RainbowHaven #SecondsGrid #SoundAndVision #VideoMania #VirtualDestinations #WhatsThisFoolishness
Mostly, this is for my benefit, but some of these, like Apocryphal Tales, have been with me from before the Internet and anything remotely like a hashtag. That one comes from old paper fanzines from the 70s and 80s. Not to be confused with other more common tags. Two or three tags ought to suffice, and rather than explain what the tags above mean, it'd work better by demonstrating it by usage. Anyone familiar with me from G+ knows that Rainbow Haven is the name of my home, so f that's in the post it's about me and mine.
And, I suspect that with posting this list on those platforms puts the tags into the system, so that in future it'll be easier for me to pick them when making posts. Maybe. Who knows. Can I lie down now? ;-)
#InterWebCompuMadness #hashtags
I just discovered that Friendica used BBCODE to format text! Gosh, showing it's origins, perhaps?
I just discovered that Friendica used BBCODE to format text! Gosh, showing it's origins, perhaps?
#Friendica #TextFormatting
#Friendica #TextFormatting
Monday, October 15, 2018
MeWe is definitely in he lead for the place I'm most likely to be after G+.
MeWe is definitely in he lead for the place I'm most likely to be after G+. Lots of folk I know here are turning up there, including three groups moving there. And today one of the folk moving there (shawnkmaloney OSWRS) successfully tested wiki markup for text formatting. That makes a difference! I likes me bold underlined italic I does!
Good heavens - markdown code on a Friendica share!!! Run away, run away!!!
Good heavens - markdown code on a Friendica share!!! Run away, run away!!!
Then again, back in the 90s I taught myself EPS code simply by seeing what it printed when sent to a printer (this was for work, as a statistical graph needed some tweaking before print) !! Hidden features here, obviously.
The link is to the Paull Allen RIP, which I've just shared in my Flatliners collection.
#Friendica
Sunday, October 14, 2018
Damn I like G+ collections, and this is my idea of a work-around when G+ is gone.
Damn I like G+ collections, and this is my idea of a work-around when G+ is gone.
Originally shared by Laura Ess
[COLLECTIONS to HASHTAGS?]
I've been trying to find an equivalent of G+ Collections. None of the other platforms have anything like it exactly (though I've suggested an equivalent on the Diaspora development forums as a "Digest" feature). It maybe that my answer is not the same functionality, but careful use of hashtags.
For example, if everything I post has a #LauraEss tag, regardless of where it's posted, I should be able to find all my posts by searching for that tag. Likewise if I'm posting to a particular topic, perhaps I can use a "personal prefix" (or suffix to the tag. For example, if my prefix is #LAS (the "A" in the middle of LAS stands for my middle name) then perhaps the topics of Technology, Opensimulator and Random would then be #LASTechnology, #LASOpensimulator and #LASRandom, or maybe #TechnologyLAS, #OpensimulatorLAS and #RandomLAS. I'm not sure whether a prefix or suffix is better or easier to use.
There might be various ways of making this work. I mostly use Firefox and one add-on called Clippings allows me to organise and insert text into any plain-text field in a browser. This means that I could set-up a category of the hashtags I'm most likely to use, and inserting them in three clicks of the mouse. This is where a prefix or suffix might make a difference. If I use a preffix then I need #LAS and a list of topics without # in front (otherwise I'd get #LAS#Technology). But if I use a suffix I'd have a regular list of hashtags (e.g #Technology) plus perhaps two versions of my shorthand tag - #LAS for my own posts, and LAS for a suffix - or I could just type the bloody thing in since it's the same number of key strokes! That would also suggest changing my tag from #LauraEss to #LAS anyway, or maybe using #LauraEss for posts about personal stuff only.
Anyway, the point of this is that so far, every other platform I've looked at uses hashtags - they're universal. Some are a bit different in that they allow underscores and dashes, but a hashtag with alpha or numeric characters and no spaces is universal. And that means that if you move to a platform that also allows you to repost to other platforms, you've already encoded an easy way of finding them later.
I've been thinking in terms of using a browser add-on because I use social media only via desktops, but I'm guessing the same thing could be done on phones by repetitive use and predictive text with enough use. Or maybe you have have a clipboard / template app on your desktop or phone that does the same. The point is consistent tagging for future retrieval.
What do you think, is this a good idea? Can you think of any drawbacks?
http://aecreations.sourceforge.net/clippings/index.php
Originally shared by Laura Ess
[COLLECTIONS to HASHTAGS?]
I've been trying to find an equivalent of G+ Collections. None of the other platforms have anything like it exactly (though I've suggested an equivalent on the Diaspora development forums as a "Digest" feature). It maybe that my answer is not the same functionality, but careful use of hashtags.
For example, if everything I post has a #LauraEss tag, regardless of where it's posted, I should be able to find all my posts by searching for that tag. Likewise if I'm posting to a particular topic, perhaps I can use a "personal prefix" (or suffix to the tag. For example, if my prefix is #LAS (the "A" in the middle of LAS stands for my middle name) then perhaps the topics of Technology, Opensimulator and Random would then be #LASTechnology, #LASOpensimulator and #LASRandom, or maybe #TechnologyLAS, #OpensimulatorLAS and #RandomLAS. I'm not sure whether a prefix or suffix is better or easier to use.
There might be various ways of making this work. I mostly use Firefox and one add-on called Clippings allows me to organise and insert text into any plain-text field in a browser. This means that I could set-up a category of the hashtags I'm most likely to use, and inserting them in three clicks of the mouse. This is where a prefix or suffix might make a difference. If I use a preffix then I need #LAS and a list of topics without # in front (otherwise I'd get #LAS#Technology). But if I use a suffix I'd have a regular list of hashtags (e.g #Technology) plus perhaps two versions of my shorthand tag - #LAS for my own posts, and LAS for a suffix - or I could just type the bloody thing in since it's the same number of key strokes! That would also suggest changing my tag from #LauraEss to #LAS anyway, or maybe using #LauraEss for posts about personal stuff only.
Anyway, the point of this is that so far, every other platform I've looked at uses hashtags - they're universal. Some are a bit different in that they allow underscores and dashes, but a hashtag with alpha or numeric characters and no spaces is universal. And that means that if you move to a platform that also allows you to repost to other platforms, you've already encoded an easy way of finding them later.
I've been thinking in terms of using a browser add-on because I use social media only via desktops, but I'm guessing the same thing could be done on phones by repetitive use and predictive text with enough use. Or maybe you have have a clipboard / template app on your desktop or phone that does the same. The point is consistent tagging for future retrieval.
What do you think, is this a good idea? Can you think of any drawbacks?
http://aecreations.sourceforge.net/clippings/index.php
Saturday, October 13, 2018
So, I normally use FIREFOX as a browser.
So, I normally use FIREFOX as a browser. It's reasonably good (with hiccups), but I've found that the social media platforms run better under OPERA (particularly MeWe and MINDS), so I'm moving my social media stuff over to that. Not Facebokk however as that runs like shit on O.
I've finally been checking out MINDS this morning.
I've finally been checking out MINDS this morning. The pluses: simple, easy to just post stuff, you can add images and videos which aren't cropped. The minuses: where's the HELP?; not text formatting (I like bolding italics with strikethrus ; blatant commercialism promoting post boosting (just like Facebook); and an almost stroboscopic feed that disturbs me, and it's not obvious apart from hashtags how one collates posts together.
All my posting would have to be done on my channel to avoid that. Might be useful if I can post to it from something else.
https://www.minds.com/
All my posting would have to be done on my channel to avoid that. Might be useful if I can post to it from something else.
https://www.minds.com/
Hurrah - finally got Thunderbird working properly on the RecRoom computer.
Hurrah - finally got Thunderbird working properly on the RecRoom computer. This means I don't ONLY have to use the Media PC for email! That was great for casual browsing, but cramped for reading small text.
I finally figured it was a Windows sharing issue on the NAS folder I was using to store it. D'Oh!
I finally figured it was a Windows sharing issue on the NAS folder I was using to store it. D'Oh!
Friday, October 12, 2018
Frankly I find voting like this on social media (with the exception of polls on G+, which are most fun only) to be a...
Frankly I find voting like this on social media (with the exception of polls on G+, which are most fun only) to be a WANK. Such votes make a number of assumption about who's using social media and how often.
I'm probably an exception, but I don't use Twitter and don't have social media on my phone. If a vot is important, put it officially to the voting pool, not in some transient steam of comment easily subject to trolling, bots and other crap.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-13/politicians-block-social-media-twitter/10365742
I'm probably an exception, but I don't use Twitter and don't have social media on my phone. If a vot is important, put it officially to the voting pool, not in some transient steam of comment easily subject to trolling, bots and other crap.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-13/politicians-block-social-media-twitter/10365742
A google spreadsheet that compares the features of alternatives to G+ (which is also listed).
A google spreadsheet that compares the features of alternatives to G+ (which is also listed). So far I've looked at Diaspora, Minds (which I might exit from), and Friendica. I might replace Minds with MeWe if it's any good. But you have to use a platform to get a sense of it. Minds looks unmanageable to me, which is why MeWe coould be a better. Various OpenSim and DoctorWho communities are moving to MeWe so it might pay for me to follow.
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Something for everyone in these social media platforms?
Something for everyone in these social media platforms?
#TheFederation
https://the-federation.info/#projects
#TheFederation
https://the-federation.info/#projects
Friendica currently supports bidirectionally (reading and posting) the following networks: Twitter, App.net, GNU...
Friendica currently supports bidirectionally (reading and posting) the following networks: Twitter, App.net, GNU Social, Mail (via IMAP and SMTP)
Also you can post content to these networks: Blogger, Buffer (Facebook, Google+ Pages, LinkedIn, Twitter), Dreamwidth, Insanejournal, Libertree, Livejournal, Tumblr, WordPress.
Oooooh, why haven't I checked this out already? Well actually, I thought it might have been trying to imiitate Facebook! :P I have accounts on Live Journal, DreamWidth, Blogger, Tumblr, and Facebook. One post to rule them all?
https://friendi.ca/about/
Also you can post content to these networks: Blogger, Buffer (Facebook, Google+ Pages, LinkedIn, Twitter), Dreamwidth, Insanejournal, Libertree, Livejournal, Tumblr, WordPress.
Oooooh, why haven't I checked this out already? Well actually, I thought it might have been trying to imiitate Facebook! :P I have accounts on Live Journal, DreamWidth, Blogger, Tumblr, and Facebook. One post to rule them all?
https://friendi.ca/about/
Well I'm and old baby boomer. Maybe this isn't for me. I couldn't make head nor tail of it at breakfast this morning.
Well I'm and old baby boomer. Maybe this isn't for me. I couldn't make head nor tail of it at breakfast this morning.
#SocialMedia #MeWe
http://sv.thegmic.com/mewe-next-generation-social-media-empowered-millennials/
#SocialMedia #MeWe
http://sv.thegmic.com/mewe-next-generation-social-media-empowered-millennials/
So it's the day after it was announced that G+ will be closing.
So it's the day after it was announced that G+ will be closing. I've joined a group that discusses how to migrate somewhere else, and already there are heaps of posts waiting for me to look at. But so far I'm not sold on anything I've looked at . I've tried diaspora which to me looks like LIVE JOURNAL from 11 years ago. There's something called WeMe but it looks geared towards phone use and I don't put social media on my phone - what with poor eyesight and encroaching arthritis.
The thing that gets to me is this - no matter what solution I pick I will lose some of the connections I've made on G+. That's inevitable because not everyone will go on to the choice I eventually make, if they bother at all. And that annoys the shit out of me. I don't particularly want to be on half a dozen social media platforms.
I started out using Live Journal in 2004 while I was doing a TAFE library course. I stuck with that for a long time. I originally got on Facebook to share a photo I'd taken at a student conference earlier in the year. But I found I couldn't cope with Facebook very well back then, and I'm now on the 3rd FB account. The reason I stayed was mostly because friends I knew from real life and Live Journal . And while I still have a Live Journal account, Facebook effectively killed it by being "the app that everyone was on".
I joined Google+ after a contact in Facebook mentioned they were thinking of moving to it. They didn't, but I liked the feature mix in G+ - communities that worked and were about my interests and past times, and collections which I could share and/or subscribe to. For me G+ has been a platform I can take my time with, one that wasn't really designed for desktops as an afterthought to smart phone usage. I guess as well that my usage of Facebook has been very different than my usage here Facebook is for day-to-day domestic stuff. Google+ has (mostly) been for my interests , passions, and past times.
I will be missing G+, whatever I do afterwards.
#GooglePlus #LiveJournal #Facebook #SocialMedia
The thing that gets to me is this - no matter what solution I pick I will lose some of the connections I've made on G+. That's inevitable because not everyone will go on to the choice I eventually make, if they bother at all. And that annoys the shit out of me. I don't particularly want to be on half a dozen social media platforms.
I started out using Live Journal in 2004 while I was doing a TAFE library course. I stuck with that for a long time. I originally got on Facebook to share a photo I'd taken at a student conference earlier in the year. But I found I couldn't cope with Facebook very well back then, and I'm now on the 3rd FB account. The reason I stayed was mostly because friends I knew from real life and Live Journal . And while I still have a Live Journal account, Facebook effectively killed it by being "the app that everyone was on".
I joined Google+ after a contact in Facebook mentioned they were thinking of moving to it. They didn't, but I liked the feature mix in G+ - communities that worked and were about my interests and past times, and collections which I could share and/or subscribe to. For me G+ has been a platform I can take my time with, one that wasn't really designed for desktops as an afterthought to smart phone usage. I guess as well that my usage of Facebook has been very different than my usage here Facebook is for day-to-day domestic stuff. Google+ has (mostly) been for my interests , passions, and past times.
I will be missing G+, whatever I do afterwards.
#GooglePlus #LiveJournal #Facebook #SocialMedia
Friday, October 5, 2018
Honestly, I prefer the LIGHT theme. Easily on my bifocals.
Honestly, I prefer the LIGHT theme. Easily on my bifocals.
https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-server/quick-tip-how-turn-dark-app-mode-theme-windows-10-anniversary-update
https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-server/quick-tip-how-turn-dark-app-mode-theme-windows-10-anniversary-update
Some Windows 10 users have learned the hard way that even if upgrades have gone smoothly in the past, it's still...
Some Windows 10 users have learned the hard way that even if upgrades have gone smoothly in the past, it's still wise to back up files before updating the OS.
Sometimes it pays NOT to be first.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-october-update-problems-wiped-docs-plus-intel-driver-warning/
Sometimes it pays NOT to be first.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-october-update-problems-wiped-docs-plus-intel-driver-warning/
Thursday, October 4, 2018
It has been programmed to read faces based on thousands of photos of people that were assessed and ranked by humans...
It has been programmed to read faces based on thousands of photos of people that were assessed and ranked by humans according to 14 characteristics, from gender, age and ethnicity to attractiveness, weirdness and emotional stability.
"Ethnicity: Black"??? I suspect that a misappropriate over simplification, which to me suggests that this is a fairly bogus process based on certain assumptions. I call bullshit on this one.
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/how-ai-is-using-facial-recognition-to-decipher-your-personality/10025634
"Ethnicity: Black"??? I suspect that a misappropriate over simplification, which to me suggests that this is a fairly bogus process based on certain assumptions. I call bullshit on this one.
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/how-ai-is-using-facial-recognition-to-decipher-your-personality/10025634
Nice of the Windows update to mention the missing Homegroup, but it was removed a while ago wasn't it?
Nice of the Windows update to mention the missing Homegroup, but it was removed a while ago wasn't it? And hmm, use my Smartphone eh? I'll take that on advisement.
#Windows10 #WindowsUpdate