I'm working on Umamo(https://www.umamo.org/)! It's FOSS cross-platform rigging editor for 2D puppet animation built as a drop-in replacement for the Live2D Cubism Editor. It's fully compatible with Live2D's CMO3 and MOC3 file formats so it works within the existing Cubism market share.
Live2D is the company that makes the editor and runtime for many game and vtuber(virtual YouTuber) applications. They have a monopoly on the market and I want to change that. Their application is slow, buggy, and a monthly paid subscription to keep using it along with perpetual licensing costs to use the runtime.
Umamo is in the early alpha stage right now, but I'm planning for a Christmas release of an end user workable experience.
I'm preparing the v0.3.0 release today. It's a big release that adds the full pipeline for ingesting layered artwork, texture atlas packing and editing, and more.
Working for Wikimedia would make me actually consider moving back to the USA for the opportunity.(I'm in Japan for reference.) I previous contributed to Mediawiki and the extensions ecosystem for about a decade.
I own this tablet: For the Japanese price, it is worth it to buy it for the bundled accessories.
The tablet itself: Other than the screen and APU being good, it is a heavily stripped down tablet missing a lot of the features that other tablets in its price range or even cheap tablets will have. No haptics, biometrics, and so on. It is very focused on the screen interaction experience and that is basically it.
I view it being stripped down and focused (and _not_ having biometrics) as a feature --- kind of annoyed my Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360s have a fingerprint sensor, and I've rather consciously _not_ removed the film covering from them.
If I wasn't looking at a stack of tablets I don't use as much as I arguably ought (Toshiba Encore 2 Write 10, Raspad v3, spare SGB Pro 360, Wacom ArtZ pen display) I'd not have been able to resist it.
Blatant about what? I actually own this tablet and I bought it for reading sheet music and doodling.(Also for Android development for a project that I'm working on.)
The Eva interface is pretty cool, but it is not worth what I paid for it. I would recommend people look for other options or maybe wait for something better to come out.
That said, having lived through the dark days when Wacom wasn't making tablets and licensing only a few, it is quite nice that they are now manufacturing/licensing so many options.
Not sure when something better or more interesting is likely to come out in terms of UI --- the days of pen-centric UI experimentation seem to be over (I miss Go Corp.'s PenPoint, kind of wish I'd bought a Momenta, and these days even look back on Windows for Pen Computing and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition w/ fondness) --- arguably, it's been quite downhill since Microsoft crippled styluses as a dumbed-down 11th touch input for scrolling in Fall Creators Update. Windows 11 is barely usable, but I still have to keep the Settings App open so I can toggle back-and-forth between using the stylus as a mouse or no, and the only browser which supports disabling scrolling w/ a stylus is Firefox, so I have to remember a specific Github page which has the instructions for toggling that UI setting.
> Most Linux package managers cannot separate user-installed packages from system packages.
And because of pinning versions to LTS releases on certain Linux distributions many times those packages stay out of date for years. Which is quite annoying.
This gets thrown around a lot, but it's not entirely true. Depending on the particular distro, only certain core packages are likely to get updates on LTS releases. Non-core packages may just get left to rot until the next LTS release. Specifically Ubuntu follows this. A lot of their non-core packages just get imported from Debian and then just sit unmaintained until next release (this goes doubly if not using Ubuntu Pro).
Especially frightening when you look at how much everyday stuff is actually in the Universe repo in Ubuntu. Without Ubuntu Pro, your LTS system can sit in a very insecure state for a long time as patching Universe is "best effort" from the community.
Most popular GUI stuff is from universe, as are quite a few dev tools. Some examples: Gimp, Inkscape, pip (and a ton of python packages), most of gnome, a big chunk of KDE, htop, mariadb, etc.
See for yourself grep -h "^Package:" /var/lib/apt/lists/_universe__Packages | awk '{print $2}' | sort -u
Or to see only what you have installed from Universe: comm -12 <(dpkg-query -f '${Package}\n' -W | sort) <(grep -h "^Package:" /var/lib/apt/lists/_universe__Packages | awk '{print $2}' | sort -u)
> Depending on the particular distro, only certain core packages are likely to get updates on LTS releases.
All LTS distros fix only some core packages sporadically as no one is able to back port all the patches esp. since most packages do not use CVEs and just fix bugs on the go. "Stable" for non-rolling distributions simply means "horribly broken and outdated".
It’s not horribly broken any more than your toaster is for not needing constant updates. Though I do have such a longstanding love/hate relationship with Ubuntu because of this. It is why it runs everywhere and just works (even powers the WSL2 defaults), but everything it provides also always so very far behind I end up recompiling so much important stuff by hand.
> It’s not horribly broken any more than your toaster is for not needing constant updates.
I don't know where this sense of "stable" in the community comes from. Software isn't perfect and gets fixed all the time. Yes, there are packages with different maintained stable branches that you can pin for your LTS distribution but this is by far the minority. For the other stuff you constantly have to work around missing features or existing bugs. E.g., why do I have to compile "jq" by myself just because the outdated package crashes on certain inputs?!
The "outdated" package, probably has all these security fixes [0]. That's why it exists - to maintain something safely. You step back from latest and greatest, to not get a compromised system the next time something goes wrong.
What's so hard? A developer finds a bug, fixes it, publishes a new release at some point, done. Versus someone else finds a bug, maybe opens a CVE, bug gets fixed, maintainer might notice it, backports patch and fixes (or breaks) the package. The latter CVE case is the rare case, hence all the crashes. E.g. Busybox is famous for that. They have a plethora of security issues documented in their bug tracker. Sometimes they even get fixed but most of them never get a CVE, issues stay open and you can guess if it's vulnerable or not (usually it is, don't use it).
* Replacement controller for my UFO Catcher - It has WiFi, easy to update, and I can operate the machine remotely with it. It's bolted to the back of small touchscreen that lets me change the machine settings as well.
* Remote printer access - I can monitor from the USB cameras and gather statistics about the prints.(I suspect a lot of 3D printing enthusiasts use them for this purpose.)
Having a small low power computer has been useful for me in those instances.
I have four Prusa printers for my business with thousands of hours of print time. The worst issue that I have had is a finicky filament sensor that I temporarily disabled until I could fix it.
I see it as buying printers design for industrial usage versus printers for hobby. Prusa is selling me a tool that just works every time.
I'm not sure if he still does it, but last time I checked he maintains a giant warehouse of these things in Prague that assemble themselves. That's the biggest advertisement for their industrialness that you can make - the printer literally manufactures itself in an industrial setting.
> Not necessarily? There was a post just a year ago on how somebody jailbroke the kindle books from the web UI.
I used that research to build something similar. It only works for manga and comics right now, but I have been tinkering with implementing glyph support as well to be able to handle full books.
Probably not the best place to ping for technical support, but, since you claim to be the author, and I don't see any "Issues" on your GH...
Any idea why your script does not seem to flag as a valid greasemonkey script when I try to use it in the Falkon (KDE) browser? Even if I attempt to add it manually, the script then disappears from my gm scripts.
Although they does have proper abuse policies and do take action against spammers. I don't get any spam from them (except perhaps the very occasional one), and I know businesses that use mailchimp and similar services for valid marketing (to previous customers). Just looking through my received mailbox, I see many legitimate emails from mailchimp.
I'm not denying that they are sometimes used by spammers, but they are definitely a legitimate operation that takes action against spammers if you report them.
Live2D is the company that makes the editor and runtime for many game and vtuber(virtual YouTuber) applications. They have a monopoly on the market and I want to change that. Their application is slow, buggy, and a monthly paid subscription to keep using it along with perpetual licensing costs to use the runtime.
Umamo is in the early alpha stage right now, but I'm planning for a Christmas release of an end user workable experience.
I'm preparing the v0.3.0 release today. It's a big release that adds the full pipeline for ingesting layered artwork, texture atlas packing and editing, and more.
https://github.com/umamoorg/umamo
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