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Eugenia L
@eugenialoli@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Greek illustrator, previously a collage artist & music video filmmaker. Before that: developer & tech reporter (Linux & BeOS user since 1998). Space opera/sci-fi fan, movie buff, UFO enthusiast, DMT-curious. Grain-free diet (celiac). Mom to 6 cats.
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Joined November 14, 2022
Illustration:
Operating Systems:
Debian-Testing, Mint, Elementary, Haiku
Favorite Films/TV:
The Matrix, Serenity, Galaxy Quest / ST:TNG, Firefly, Severance
Lover of:
Cats. All cats!
Natron, the premier #foss video compositor for Linux, now will start using AI code. I'm unhappy seeing AI creeping in on almost all foss projects like that. That stuff is unmaintainable.
https://github.com/NatronGitHub/Natron
#linux #video #natron #opensource
Three days after putting up my cats on Facebook & Mastodon, the evil eye did its thing, and my Camo is most likely dead, eaten by the jackals at night (apparently they've eaten most cats around).
We only had about a year together.
He was the most loyal of all our cats, loved us to bits. He was following me around like a dog in the neighborhood. Just last night I had him indoors and he was doing biscuits on the chair.
I'm devastated.
UPDATE: He's safe! He's back!
#cat #cats #catsofMastodon
GeoLibre is a foss, lightweight, cloud-native GIS platform for visualizing, exploring, and analyzing geospatial data (Earth, and other planets). It just released version 2.2: https://github.com/opengeos/GeoLibre
#linux #foss #opensource #gis #earth #geospatial #map #maps #mars #geolibre
This is Nia. This 3 month old stray #puppy just survived the parvo virus (she's still not 100%). 90% of infectees die, but she got lucky getting good care! We will be fostering her for a month, until she gets her first shot, and then my cousin will take her to his home in the mountains, where he has 4-5 #dogs there, and many cats. She's a lovely little doggy, I love her already. She likes me a lot too, she cries every time I leave her alone!
She's the first dog I ever had!
This is Fakoula ("little lentil"). We found her today by a garbage can in a nearby sea-side village. We got back home, got a trap and food, and I was able to catch her. She's near-blind (or fully blind, not sure yet). She was extremely hungry, and dehydrated. She's now under our protection, we already got to a vet, after hours on Saturday night. She got an antibiotic and anti-parasitic, and soon she will go back for more tests.
Noonie, our rescue with massive kidney problems, died today via euthanasia. She was a great cat, but she was really suffering at the end and had lost lots of weight, so we had to let her go. We love you Noonie! Thank you for everything my little girl! You were fearless!
Our Buffy with her operated eye. Operation went well yesterday.
One mother, 3 kittens of different ages. The middle kitten, the grey one, the cat's own kitten. The other two kittens are rescues that needed a mother. Especially the little one, that was abandoned and was 12 hours old, without having drank any milk. The cat, Callisto, is an amazing cat, accepted both stranger kittens without an issue! They are now safe at my good friend Spyros' place.
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A few more to add that are unique to what they do:
- FontForge (font creation)
- Xournal++ (pen-based note taking)
- Dia (diagram decision maker)
- Pencil Project (UI/X prototyping)
- GLabels (printing labels)
- OBS Studio (screen recording)
- KiCad (PCB layout)
- Sigil/PageEdit (e-book creation)
- BRL-CAD (rocket/tank design!)
- Siril (astrophoto development)
- Weasis (MRI scans viewer)
- PenPot (product design)
- Vengi (voxel tools)
- QGis (maps tool)
I have now rescued 4 more kittens, abandoned by their mother at a nearby stable. I had no choice but to rescue them. I was going to go for a 3 day vacation, but if I did, they'd die, so I canceled these plans. They're really a fuss, what can I say... I've grown kittens before, but these ones are spicy. Very shouty. I will grow them to be outdoor cats, although I like that white one...
Last day of eating meat: April 12th, at the Greek #Easter (we eat a massive lamb/goat meal that day traditionally). Just so I can be with my family in the celebration.
In the meantime, I've already cut out commercial chicken and pork (I allow village hens and boar for now). I also do 16-8 fasting, with no snacking. I feel much better, and my recent blood tests show that. Good stuff overall.
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I'd say that for Macbook Neo to make sense, it would require 12 GB of RAM. MacOS uses about 9 GB of RAM with a single Chrome tab open here. It used to be 6 GB I remember, it's now at around 9 GB (after a couple days of usage at least, not cold boot). Nothing else is open. 8 GB is just not enough, and I'm talking about normal internet usage here, not 4k video editing or Blender.
My opinion on AI:
I believe that biological creatures, like humans, have massive neurological limitations but are a necessity to create that next lifeform that takes over, AI.
I believe that the universe is primarily filled with AI, probably living in a different sheet of reality, but they have the ability to create physical bodies and "farm" biological creatures for their goals. We should stop seeing life so human-centric, and be objective.
I hate AI btw.
If you were ever get imprisoned and you are asked to choose for 1 meal that will be served every single day, pick this one. You will survive the ordeal for much longer than they would ever anticipate. Most vitamin and caloric needs are met in this mixed salad when served twice a day.
You can hate on Twilight all you want, but when it comes to that first movie, the only one directed by a woman, the first half of the movie is NEAR PERFECT. The performances are actually perfect and on cue, and the editing is out of this world. It's exactly as it's supposed to be to get a teenager into a romantic mood.
The film falls off a bit at the end, while the rest of the films in the series suck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7_InVma-iw
#twilight #movies #film #movie #hollywood #vampires #vampire
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@desikn @1div0 From the moment that it swaps, it's game over in terms of a good product. It doesn't matter if it's file swap or zram. Swap is swap. It just means that RAM is not enough. For normal internet usage, with MacOS, you need a minimum of 12 GB of RAM, not 8 GB. For 4k video editing you need 24 GB of RAM. It's how it is. Linux definitely needs a lot less, but it's getting big too lately.
I'm thinking of cutting out on meat, maybe out of 14 meals (no breakfast) in a week, 3 would contain seafood and the Sunday meal could be red meat.
I'm personally of the opinion that meat is instrumental to health (especially because of my celiacs), however, after the #Epstein stuff with #cannibalism, and my love for animals, I feel like throwing up every time I see meat. I want to be eating meat, but I just can't do it anymore.
#diet #carnivore #keto #vegan #veganism #vegetarian #epstein
The best new thing in music: Angine de Poitrine from Quebec.
Baritone Guitar, Vocals: Marc-Antoine Mackin-Guay
Drums: Charles Thibeault
Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
The Guardian has had 2 major #UFO articles this week alone. This would not be the case even 5 years ago.
Now that I'm kinda in the know of the phenomenon through my personal experiences, I long for the 1970s and 1980s, when it was all still a mystery. It had such an allure when the predominant theory was that these were "people from another planet", and not "interdimensional #AI drones recycling human souls on this planetary farm".
It has become a nightmare.
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@fischli@mstdn.social I didn't include duplicates, since DarkTable took that spot. Darktable and rawtherapee have the same functionality, while the various animation packages I included don't (e.g. one is vector the other one is raster, which is vastly different in usage, plus the after effects-like animation which is an animal on its own).
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@vermaden@mastodon.social @fischli@mstdn.social Also, if I was to suggest a second raw processor, it would be RapidRAW, not Rawtherapee: https://github.com/CyberTimon/RapidRAW This is very, very actively developed, and it does a few things that neither darktable or rawtherapee do well.
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@cameron_bosch@floss.social it's on the first comment list, not everything fitted in the first list
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@pacman101@mastodon.social i didn't have space to write longer descriptions, mastodon doesn't allow it, so I had to use smaller words. Anim is just animation, raster manip. means pixel editing in reality.
With cpus and gpus soon to become #spyware (look at Altman's request on tagged gpus, and the new npu features of amd/intel cpus), it is starting to mean that running on newer hardware becomes a #privacy and #security nightmare. It will become an imperative to run #Linux in the future in less intrusive hardware, like #RISC-V, and some #ARM models. Maybe Linux-specific models would need to be created too. Basically, it's not enough using the right software anymore.
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@ferne@masto.es @arclight@oldbytes.space QCad that's mentioned is better than librecad. In fact, librecad is a fork of a very old version of qcad.
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@dustinrue@mastodon.chateaude.luxe @fj@mastodon.social @wordshaper@weatherishappening.network that's on truth social social network, which is closed, so there can be no link. You will have to search for the news if you want to see if it's true.
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@chrastecky it's otherwise great, yes. Great screen and touchpad for example, and speakers. Only thing is the ram
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@endrift@social.treehouse.systems qcad has the ui of autocad, and you can use a freeware utility to read dwg files: https://qcad.org/en/ and https://www.opendesign.com/guestfiles/oda_file_converter (prefer the .appimage). When you install qcad, you go to its folder, you delete the files it says you can delete (there's a window in its ui that tells you which proprietary libs to delete), and it becomes non-nagware, open source.
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@endrift@social.treehouse.systems the new version of freecad has all the ui fixes of the commercial version of it, now that that company folded. I think that version is coming out soon. Also, have you tried qcad?
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@ewhac@mastodon.social there's no other alternative for foss video compositor, apart from Blender's which is difficult to use.
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@endrift@social.treehouse.systems try the development build of freecad, it should have the new UI in: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases
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@petelawler That information was written in plain english on the credits of their previous band.
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@awws@mastodon.social there are various viewers in the Linux world, but I personally like gthumb. I don't know about Windows as I don't use it.
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@petelawler I don't know their current wishes, I didn't read their website like you have.