Is one of their top 3 supporters, the Titanium level 'User Manuals' just paying for a good backlink?
Krita fund has no corporate support
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"Contact us for a quote" Any idea how much that is?
No pricing info, no easily accessible demo, government agency logos on the landing page. This is setting off all of my "enterprise trash software" alarms. And if there is one thing those all have in common, it's being way too expensive.
Not just in billing, but also in implementation cost and general overhead. I actively avoid buying anything which requires talking to a salesperson to get basic service info; ideally one has something like the Cloudflare self-service model with enterprise upgrades. I know someone currently paying >$800k/yr to Cloudflare who started out a couple years ago with a $200/mo plan.
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#103I'm migrating from Krita to Photoshop lately. Don't get me wrong, I love Krita. I used it for years and I wrote ~30+ bug reports. It's a positive thing -- I won't bother reporting bugs to Adobe cause I know they don't care, unlike Krita devs. However every time I need to collaborate with someone else, they use Photoshop. They use .psd like it's an interchangeable format[1]. Out of 10+ artists I've only seen one who d…
Same here. I want a Photoshop alternative that has built-in tate-chu-yoko but I've never seen one
Perfect example of something that most people will think of as "not necessary", but a whole industry will understand as close to, if not outright, a deal-breaker!
It would be really cool to have some kind of open source community that developed these kinds of "usage specific" plugins across multiple open-source projects, to kind of patch in that functionality where it's missing. Some people to work on ever-evolving interfaces for the supported applications, and then some other people to write plugins that provided these features, progressively enhanced, based on those interfaces.
It would be a gargantuan effort, though, and you would just end up with a plugin soup without careful moderation (even more effort; and easy to go awry!) so c'est la vie!
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
But then you have to waste a salesguy's time generating a quote for a product that I'm not likely to purchase. I hate doing that. I'm basically stealing from them just because I'm trying to shop around for the best product. I'm calling salesguys and giving all of them my information and getting several different quotes, but I'm only going to execute on one of them. And now they're spamming my inbox every time their c…
So you'd rather someone else subject themselves to that for your own benefit than do it yourself? Seems kind of selfish, does it not?
I'm sorry I don't understand. The alternative was to have a basic price for the product or service on their website that a person could look up.
Maybe if I'm some big bulk buyer and think I can get a better deal by talking to the salesguy then I'll do that. But if I'm some small fry buying like 1 or 2 of the things I know they aren't going to give me a break, but I still have to go through the "contact the sales person, they call you back, you explain what you want, they generate a quote within 5-7 business days that is good for 30 days after being generated, you end up not buying the thing for whatever reason" rigamarole.
Sidenote: I've never had a vendor balk at me using an "expired" quote to buy something. Our purchasing process never proceeds within 30 days, but turns out the prices don't change either. It is very common to be executing on a quote that's 6 months old.
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#105I want someone to build this: SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) are slowly becoming ubiquitus around the world due to regulation. I want to be able to aggregate all SBOMs within my company, have a small tool that scans my machine and creates a SBOM for all Open Source tools I use (e.g. Firefox, VLC etc.), uploads that to my corporate registry. This data is then submitted to a donation aggregator which analyzes those…
I have made a simple CLI utility[0] with this purpose in mind. It scans your entire filesystem for README.md and FUNDING.yml files for a set of donation/sponsor links and tag it with the associated repo (No HTTP calls, just the assumption that most repos link their support URL in either of these files). The output is a CSV sheet containing the open-source dependencies/libraries you use in your system that accepts don…
Hey this is pretty great, and the code is so simple. I guess it only works if you have the sources checked out somewhere, which isn't the case for all build tooling and package managers, but I could see an extended version of this that hooks into the standard package managers to fetch the required information to complete the report.
If you can also hook into an accounting system (eg plaintextaccounting.org) then you could also calculate the whole dollar amounts to donate as some percentage of income from the product.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The most surprising thing is how little professional people get paid, again compared to web dev. They pay less because they can - there are many more highly motivated people who dream of making video games than there are open spots. People are less highly motivated who dream about making Another Corporate CRUD App 2.0 (this time with Firefox support), and there are a lot more job openings.
Yes, I understand that. It's just like filmmaking industry but not that bad. If I had had the same level of understanding of economics as I do now, I probably would have stayed in web backend development.
From an engineering perspective, are there any things you prefer, or are at least glad to have learned from, in game dev?
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#107I'm migrating from Krita to Photoshop lately. Don't get me wrong, I love Krita. I used it for years and I wrote ~30+ bug reports. It's a positive thing -- I won't bother reporting bugs to Adobe cause I know they don't care, unlike Krita devs. However every time I need to collaborate with someone else, they use Photoshop. They use .psd like it's an interchangeable format[1]. Out of 10+ artists I've only seen one who d…
Seems that a near-perfect psd import/export would be the killer feature that enables it to compete with Photoshop. That would be huge.
I highly doubt if Krita has the man power to do this. They've been developing a new text system for more than one year. The new text system isn't designed to be compatible with Photoshop.
And even if it is, rendering text just like Photoshop is just a tiny step towards rendering everything like Photoshop.
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#108Is one of their top 3 supporters, the Titanium level 'User Manuals' just paying for a good backlink?
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps it's a just me, but I've never met someone who uses Affinity Photo as their main digital painting app. The one artist who doesn't use PS actually uses Clip Studio Paint. I'm not saying it's not a great app (I'm not familiar with it enough to judge it). But if I'm not using an open source one, I'd use the industry standard one.
I'm not a real artist. I do programmer art for game jams, MVPs, UI mockups, etc. I always liked Affinity Designer on iPad for that. It's got nice Apple Pencil support, it was inexpensive, and it works with other file formats pretty well. Last time they had a sale on their "Universal" bundle, which got you Mac, Windows and iPad licenses for all their products for $100, I had just received some illustrator files that I…
The Affinity Suite has substantially better UIs than the Adobe pendants. It just works immidiately without tutorials, and it works really well
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#110This type of software is an excellent fit for "eventually open" licenses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12459492 This way, corporations and business users can pay to get the latest version and features just like commercial software, while the hobbyist community still gets a relative recent and feature-full release they can use for free, has source available and is guaranteed to become fully GPL code in 3-5 yea…
No it ain't, those are just an attempt to pass something closed source off as open source.
At least, I haven't seen the authors give their blessing to a fork of the old version of their software, beyond the text of the license itself. Maybe it hasn't been long enough, but it soon should be.