Drawpile 2.3 is gonna add a Pigment blend mode, based on MyPaint's. It makes the paint mixing more "realistic", e.g. mixing blue and yellow will result in green instead of a dull gray.

I know there's some people that are very enthusiastic about this stuff. If you are or know someone that is and got a better curve or whatever to use, give a poke somewhere.

For some reference, these are the curves from MyPaint, the T matrix is to go from spectral to linear RGB and the three other arrays are to go from linear RGB to spectral: https://github.com/mypaint/mypaint/blob/master/lib/blending.hpp#L21-L41

MyPaint has some documentation about it and what I think is a curve generation script or something: https://github.com/mypaint/mypaint/tree/master/doc/spectral

(To pre-emptively answer some things. I'm not into this stuff, your gradients wont tell me anything, just give me numbers and I can check how it looks when I plug them in. Yes I know of the Krita merge request and spectral.js, they're unusably slow because they do like over 80 calculations instead of 10. Yes I know of Mixbox, it can't be used for anything because it's under a stupid license.)

#tootlog script is working again. Had to just remove #fosstodon from the accounts that toot was logged into, as toot whoami doesn't seem to work anymore once your account is migrated out :'(

I think I will update the script to give a sum for each account, as well as a total. I probably won't present that level of details in my toots, though.

Drawpile 2.2.2 is out now: https://drawpile.net/news/release-2.2.2/

For an illustrated guide on what changed, take a look at this page (it's also got a ferret in a tube and a water dragon with a mousesprite) https://docs.drawpile.net/help/common/update2x2x2

Just pulled the trigger, migrating my account from #Fosstodon.

cc: just FYI, @amin

#Fosstodon is down?

#Fosstodon is down, so I'll be here for a bit guys

Just a heads up for those of you who support us in keeping the lights on. Patreon is now using #Apple's in-app purchase system. That means if you choose to donate in the future, 30% of what you donate is going to go to Apple and not #Fosstodon. If you login to the web page instead of using the app that won't be the case.

Fiddling around with a new file format for Drawpile. OpenRaster archives (ORA) are great for interop with other programs and archiving. But since they're ZIP files that require a table of contents at the end, you can't really use them to store recordings, which Drawpile really ought to be doing because it's a great autosave mechanism, lets you make timelapses and potentially even time travel to fix stuff in the past. And while Drawpile is comparatively fast at saving and loading files, it's still annoyingly slow to read and write an ORA file sometimes.

The new format uses SQLite (As Every File Format Should) and zstd to compress pixel data. Results are promising so far, reading and writing a 50 MiB ORA file takes around 38 seconds, wheras reading and writing an equivalent 63 MiB snapshot in the new format takes 1 second. A 38x speedup for 25% extra size.

Oh yeah, and an equivalent Krita Archive file is around 100 MiB, an equivalent Photoshop document (PSD) file is around 120 MiB. So the extra size compared to ORA is probably not much a concern.

In light of today's #Twitter outages, I just thought now would be a good time to remind everybody that even though #Fosstodon is an invite only instance, any member of our community can create an invite. If you know someone you feel would enjoy being a part of our community, don't hesitate to invite them.

My Fedi Requirements:

1) Must not have a US-Domain Extension

2) Must not be hosted in the United States

3) Uses CherryPick or Misskey (Mastodon is a last resort)

4) Must be OK with people who write in English.

5) Must have at minimum a 2,000-character limit. This simple list is more than 500, for example, so 2,000 may sound like a lot, but it's not.

6) Must be well connect. - The less fragmentation, the better. I want to have no problem following people.

7) No hate speech or illegal activity

Number 6 is the problem, because of sites like Fosstodon or Mastodon Art, for example, that blacklist damn near every possible site, left and right. Go back to Reddit, if that is your goal.

Fosstodon really pisses me off.

Anytime I try to move to a Fedi site, I have to double-check to see if that site ACTUALLY connect to Fosstodon.

They're nearly as bad a Mastodon Art.

You do not, make the Fediverse, fun.

Today was the day!
@Tutanota and @Internxt installed.
Still learning the ropes. Hoping to transition as soon as possible.
Lacking a calendar widget, though.
Lacking a sync feature for my phone's pics.
Still dependent on the Android features connected with Google.
I'm I missing something? Help?
#WeLoveOpenSource #OpenSource #DeGoogling #fosstodon #Feditips #Hivemind #EuropeanAlternatives #EncryptedEmail #EncryptedDrive

@AkaSci it would be nice to report something about technology and not that #political crap which comes to me from every damn corner of this world. Your account is on #fosstodon so act accordingly !

One good advantage of #GoToSocial is it accepts up to 5,000 characters toots/statuses/messages, compared to just 500 in #Mastodon (at least in my #FossTodon instance). I can post blog-like contents in here.

With all these #GoToSocial troubles today, I wonder if it's still worth selfhosting your own Fediverse microblogging instance? #Fosstodon seems fine after all. Please help me decide.

Drawpile 2.2.2-beta.5 is out now: https://drawpile.net/news/release-2.2.2-beta.5/

Unless any major issues are found, this will be the last beta before the final release.

Highlights in this version include multi-layer selection, letting you rearrange/group/merge etc. multiple layers at once, a local sketch mode for layers, better session host page, quick drag for selections, a color circle dock, a reference image dock, better tablet support and more.

If you find any issues, let me know somewhere.

For the android users out there that listen to podcasts with regularity, y'all need to check out @AntennaPod

Random plug, but I've been using it for a few weeks now, and it is absolutely fantastic as a podcast-focused solution. Free, open source, and fully fleshed out (from my perspective). Big fan so far!

Ej jak to jest. Za napisanie że jest tylko dwie płcie, a wszystko inne to po prostu zaburzenia w ich rozwoju taki post jest kasowany przez #Fosstodon, a kiedy na innym serwerze #101010.pl jest konto które wrzuca obraźliwe memy z JP2 to jest ok? Dodam że zgłoszone.

To jest ta sprawiedliwość i równość w wykonaniu Mastodona?
Oba serwery kierują się w regulaminie podobnymi zapisami.

Tak niektórzy narzekają, że na innych systemach niby obrażanie a tutaj jest to samo niestety...