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Account age
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OK, how about a quick FOSS graphics tutorial? How to Draw Arrows in KolourPaint: https://www.friendlyskies.net/notebook/how-to-draw-arrows-in-kolourpaint
I hope this one is helpful to the screenshotters and diagrammers out there. Please boost to support the FOSS graphics community. Thanks!
#KolourPaint #FOSS #Linux #Graphics #Ubuntu #FOSSGraphics #Drawing #Tutorial #IndieWeb
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Have any #Linux users tried this? It's called Swiss File Knife, and is a #FOSS utility available via Sourceforge.
It contains 100 command line utilities of various types.
It downloads to Linux as a single binary and is pretty easy to run and use so far.
Kind of fascinating, too, that it's cross-platform...
I haven't used it much but I'm wondering if it might be simpler than some similar Linux ut
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I came across this Hoary bat today, at the end of my hike. It was flipped on its back, shivering on the cold & wet pavement.
I carefully flipped it over as it hissed at me like a cat and bared its cute little fangies.
Then it took a few steps and flew off like a little air force hedgehog. #hiking
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Some recent fractal concept art...
#conceptart #GIMP #fossdesign #mastoart
📊 Post engagement
3
Avg engagement / post
1.9%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2020
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Is there a #Linux app for cloning snap packages? Like apt-clone · 7 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.2 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 7 text · 5 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.4×
Follows 373 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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"Cleared Hot," concept sketch
#Inkscape #sketching #conceptart #mastoart #linuxgraphics
Some recent fractal concept art...
#conceptart #GIMP #fossdesign #mastoart
I came across this Hoary bat today, at the end of my hike. It was flipped on its back, shivering on the cold & wet pavement.
I carefully flipped it over as it hissed at me like a cat and bared its cute little fangies.
Then it took a few st…
Have any #Linux users tried this? It's called Swiss File Knife, and is a #FOSS utility available via Sourceforge.
It contains 100 command line utilities of various types.
It downloads to Linux as a single binary and is pretty easy to run …
Are there any movies featuring pets that use those little floor-buttons to talk?
That is such a fascinating world... I'm told there's a dog that used their buttons to express a wish to be human 🥺
#cinema #movies #film #kino #pets
Every once in a while I think "I should learn all the esoterica of Bash scripting in the same way I walked the fascinatingly detailed path of the Windows Batch File, as a kid!"
Then, I push a bit further down the Bash route, and the compar…
So, mobile devices now have: Crash detection, disaster alerts, satellite SOS, quick emergency dial. Now, we see AI & image detection, too. This makes me wonder:
How many years until your device will be able to end a physical altercation, o…
Reading Wikipedia lately...
Have you ever noticed how some Wikipedia articles seem to be in a hurry to label certain topics as 'pseudoscience'?
Like they're trying to give you a heads up, just in case you were thinking of taking things t…
I've been thinking about AI as inward-turning driver for social system turbulence: The accidental yin to the traditional social media yang?
The exposure of the threat of not-knowing at a broad scale. The identification of large-scale threa…
OK, how about a quick FOSS graphics tutorial? How to Draw Arrows in KolourPaint: https://www.friendlyskies.net/notebook/how-to-draw-arrows-in-kolourpaint
I hope this one is helpful to the screenshotters and diagrammers out there. Please bo…
Things I would happily accept the HARDEST captcha in the world for:
1/1) "You haven't sent this ACQUAINTANCE in your DMs anything for YEARS now. So...would you still like to send them this random photo of a (HOME GYM from your phone's Down…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
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✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
On Mastodon since
Apr 2020
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2020 — 6 years ago.
👁️Averages 3 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.2× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated89/100
Excellent
Credibility score
99%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~1.9% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (6+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Just a human. California, USA. Interests:
Tech: #Linux, #xfce, #kde, #hamradio, #swl, #FreePascal, #shell, #Emacs, #Geany
Media: #GIMP, #Blender, Art of Illusion, #POVRay, #LMMS, #fractalart
Retro: #MSDOS, #Amiga, #C64. Vintage CGI
Other: History, art, music, movies, books, #outdoors, #edc, #ttrpg.
Career: Web systems tech; applied personality theory in tech training and coaching contexts.
Father of five 😍
Follow/lurk no prob. You can use He/him pronouns.
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