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Cake day: October 7th, 2024

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  • I work in the screen printing industry and one of the things that is generally very difficult to do without many hours of work is take a photographic image and make it work for the screen printing press. An expert can do it in 15-30 minutes.

    For most non skin-tone images (we generally fall back to heat transfer for human faces), I wrote a GIMP plugin (in Python) that allows you to extract each color of the image into its own layer with an automated process that’s done in a few seconds.

    It’s not as good as the expert result, but it’s also infinitely easier to do. Also, GIMP 3 released like a month after this was finished and I don’t know if I can be bothered to port it.

    Here’s the page for the project: https://github.com/otacon239/inksplit



  • I guess I have to put my foot in my mouth over a comment I made a month or so back. I had said an XBOX handheld would sell out against the Steam Deck simply due to brand recognition.

    This was of course before I thought they’d be dumb enough to make a console twice as expensive aimed at the mass market. If this was targeted at the same price as the Deck, they might have had a chance.

    I don’t know anyone that would consider one of these now.






  • I agree that listening in public is a crime.

    On a side note, if anyone here has heard some of the latest gen iPhones, they honestly sound dramatically better than the vast majority of Bluetooth speakers, especially when held sideways for stereo. At medium volume with my eyes closed, it sounds comparable to my MacBook speakers. I’m seriously shocked at whatever magic Apple is pulling off there.

    Obviously neither compare to an audiophile setup, but they’re far above listenable.

    I’ve not yet heard an Android compare personally, but I’d love to be proven wrong.




  • But that’s exactly what an encyclopedia is. The internet isn’t Wikipedia. The real difference was that the library was now in your living room. You didn’t have to hope they had the material on hand and wait weeks for something specific if they didn’t have it already on hand.

    There’s also just the idea that, with a library, you already have to have an idea of what to look for. You’re always browsing by genre in an alphabetical, organized fashion. With the internet, it could become discovery-based. One link could lead you to 13 others and those all branched again. You never knew what to expect.

    A book contains either one really clear idea, or a reference with no substance to a bunch of random stuff.