I use this instead of Acorn/Gimp/etc now for regular web image editing (for app dev)
Krita fund has no corporate support
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Maybe a stupid question, but if Krita can read/write .psd then why does this matter?
Because just like the most "open source app reading/writing proprietary format" scenarios, it doesn't do it perfectly. Even if you simply import a .psd and re-export it again as-is, it will still break things like smart objects and layer blending options. It's not Krita's fault: .psd is not an interchangeable format. Implementing .psd support perfectly is basically implementing the whole PS itself. It's all the artis…
And PSD is notoriously complicated. I remember reading some rant by an open source developer and there were things along the lines of different endianness in the same file.
It’s a 30+ year old format that went to multiple transitions. I don’t envy the poor soul that has to reverse engineer it.
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#65I 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 was also disappointed to see them using a KDE account for donations. I like KDE but i'm pretty sure there's tons of krita users who do not use kde, me included. Found that there is a Krita on liberapay, which i much prefer as platform, but who knows if that's official or not, since it's not linked on this thread's link.
If you're using Krita, you're a KDE user because Krita is a KDE project. The Plasma desktop environment is just another KDE project.
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Are they really paying a full time developer only 3000 €/month?
it should be noted that european developer salaries are SIGNIFICANTLY lower than US ones. US dev salaries have been completely skewed by stupid levels of VC money. European ones not so much.
Great developers in India make more than Great developers in Europe in my experience. (India has a lot of okay developers who don't make very much, but if you want someone great you will pay more) some of this is Europe culture makes potentially great engineers limit themselves to good - they refuse promotions to great, and they refuse to officially mentor younger engineers (they do mentor but in ways where they don't get credit for as credit would them them a promotion). As such it is difficult to have great engineers leading the project and without that leadership you can't have a project at all.
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#67I 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…
thanks.dev does this. I think I saw GitHub Sponsors also started (or will start?) doing something like this, but I'm not sure on the details off-hand.
But yeah, I've argued for this a long time as well: who is going to look up 100 to 2,000 dependencies and see if they accept donations and set that up and cancel when you stop using it, add new ones when you start using them (and many will be transitive deps, so you have to check if it changed every month or something), etc. etc.
You just want to give one organisation $500/month or whatever and let them sort it out. You don't even need SBOMs, just start by sending them your go.mod or package.json or Cargo.toml or Gemfile or whatever.
That the FSF and OSI are doing basically nothing in this regard is why I have trouble taking either organisation serious.
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#68This looks like a really neat project… But on the homepage it does say, Intel is a gold corporate sponsor? Look, I don’t have a horse in the race, but that is kind of silly :)
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Hate defacto standards behind corporations. M$ Windows, Photoshop, each company gets locked into their own CAD nightmare. On the flip slide, we have Blender, Linux Server, (enough)SQL, Git, Stable Diffusion, and maybe python/python libraries if that counts.
When I moved from web dev to game dev, the second most surprising thing I found is how much this industry depends on proprietary solutions compared to web dev. The most surprising thing is how little professional people get paid, again compared to web dev.
> 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.
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When I moved from web dev to game dev, the second most surprising thing I found is how much this industry depends on proprietary solutions compared to web dev. The most surprising thing is how little professional people get paid, again compared to web dev.
> 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.