AlexanderMars
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2026-02-07

Imagine sharing a link to your fediverse account to someone not on the fediverse, hoping they follow you.

Now imagine instead that the link you share takes them to a beautiful yet simple landing page that carefully guides them to the ideal platform, geographically closest, and helps them through the onboarding process, recommends the best desktop/mobile client and then follows you from their new account.

Stop dreaming. I'm building this. Wanna help?

webintents.net

AlexanderMarsAlexanderMars
2026-02-04

@eugenialoli I was an freelance Animator and a beta tester for Macromedia during Flash 4/5/MX, basically up until the Adobe acquisition. I am quite familiar with the medium, I changed careers after getting tired of looking at a CRT all day.

These are both open source projects, the users that get involved and give thoughtful, quality feedback will be the ones that get the tooling they want to do their jobs.

AlexanderMarsAlexanderMars
2026-02-04

@eugenialoli there's two new foss projects in development that are worth keeping an eye on, and maybe helping out with constructive feedback. I believe both are Alpha, so temper your expectations.

github.com/GraphiteEditor/Grap

pixieditor.net/

Graphite just released standalone Lin/Mac/Win apps on discord(yuck) might just be a good time to check it out.

Good luck,

AlexanderMarsAlexanderMars
2026-02-03

@wobbe my condolences

AlexanderMarsAlexanderMars
2026-02-03

@nilsmielke there's a LONG abandoned project that was called Ella renaissance, or something like that.

There's two new projects under development intended for animation.
github.com/GraphiteEditor/Grap
pixieditor.net/
Probably don't drop them into your work flow just yet. Be a good time to start testing and give feedback to get features included.

Krita has animation tools, last time I used Animate, it was still called Flash, so I can't speak to how well Krita fits current production flow.

AlexanderMarsAlexanderMars
2026-02-03

@jomada Some weird little artifacts on the rounded corners of the Nothing global theme.

AlexanderMars boosted:
2025-11-17

Recently did an interview on behalf of @GrapheneOS with David Bombal which can be found below.

I'd like to say a huge thankyou to David for his kindness, patience & consideration, his team are also a huge credit to him too. All round great experience.

youtube.com/watch?v=eUEtc6gblK0

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2025-10-29
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Michael Ross Tech newsMichaelRoss@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-24

Plasma Bigscreen Gets a Fresh Boost from the Community
The Plasma Bigscreen TV-focused UI sees a fresh life as a KDE contributor revives it, modernizing the design, settings, and controller support for Plasma 6.

linuxiac.com/plasma-bigscreen-

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Star Labs Systemsstarlabssystems
2025-10-24

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2025-10-22

To the Privacy Community: We need your help to help make Grid an effective tool!

1) Test it in real conditions and tell us where it fails.
2) Audit us. Grid isn’t built for the lowest common denominator but for security and privacy. Check our github out, help us identify where the gaps are so we can close them.
3) Ideas for improving self‑hosting security, map privacy, or making it usable on phones without Google services. We SO welcome contributions!

(we also have a discord community!)

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2025-06-08

#PublicDomain no AI icons! Meant to look well with the Creative Commons symbols (despite them not being anti-AI, last i looked at least) and yah, feel free to use on your instances or websites or art or wherever!

Here's the source so its easily modifiable too! freesvg.org/no-ai-icons

-- :gay_cactus:

#openSource #vector #symbol #iconography #noAI #AI #disabledArtist #fediArt

A red crossout circle over the word "AI" which is in blackA black crossout circle over the word "AI" which is in reda crossout circle over AI, using a white outline over black. the circle backgrond is solid blacka crossout circle over AI, using a black outline over white. the circle backgrond is solid white
AlexanderMarsAlexanderMars
2025-06-04

@getgrid I've not been able to get passed this screen for months. Everything is up to date, googleplay, grid as of this morning, latest version of android 15(for Xperia 1vi) I'm on a trip abroad right now, where this would be very handy and I can't use it.

AlexanderMarsAlexanderMars
2025-05-19

@camiloh the black column on the left is very dominant, gives it weight over the rest of the interface. Neofetch results look subdued in comparison(even over the white background). Maybe the column could have it's own subtle alpha so it's not so heavy?

I thought antergos stopped development?

AlexanderMarsAlexanderMars
2025-05-09

@prokoudine @GIMP @inkscape @Blender @FreeCAD spell check for the win!

AlexanderMarsAlexanderMars
2025-05-09

@starlabssystems the question will be what type of stylus will it support? I'm sure we can't discuss until an announcement. Fingers crossed for Wacom's EMR, though AES would be much better than alternatives.

I hope you guys didn't pay to play with USI, they got a dog and pony show about being an open platform(as long as you cut a cheque) but their tech has not delivered a professional drawing experience, and I'd argue the only reason people think it's better than MPP is no Microsoft.

AlexanderMarsAlexanderMars
2025-05-06

@fedora hmm, as a tablet user I've been considering pitching a Maui shell spin for some time. I've been waiting for the Maui dev(s?) to finish migration to Qt6, including the mauikit apps. I believe there's still some dependencies missing from the fedora repos, c'est la Linux.

AlexanderMarsAlexanderMars
2025-05-05

@fedora wait, so could I make a custom spin with say MAUI desktop shell on atomic Fedora?

AlexanderMarsAlexanderMars
2025-05-01

@starlabssystems although I installed Yellow Dog on my G3 Mac back in the day, I still used a Mac daily because the graphics options on Linux were nowhere near level they are now(ignoring inkscape's CMYK).

I finally got fed up with Adobe, tried out Krita, Inkscape, nextcloud and realised I didn't need MacOS. They went with soldered ram and non-upgradable storage, I realised I didn't need Apple.

On my 5th year now, free of big tech full time.

AlexanderMarsAlexanderMars
2025-04-25

@ctrlsaltdelete @arstechnica at TP links prices, I'm sure they could paint the routers bright red and changed the name to "CCP's backdoored gear" and cheapskates would still buy them because all the sockpuppet accounts gave 'em 5 stars on Amazon.

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