I believe Lula and his government appreciates anything that reduces the influence of the US.

absolutely! I think Israel has one of the most welcoming LGBTQIA+ scenes. Doesn’t mean there aren’t a lot of homophobes in and around israel

It feels like this sort of leak could pose some real threat for a lot of people in that region… I hope they stay safe

Someone told me once they used ChatGPT as a tool to practice a language. I thought it was quite invovative

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I love Vital (Vitalium) and Zyn-Fusion. Surge and Odin are great too. all of them are open source and work great with bitwig.

oh wait that was episode 666 releasing on friday 13? 😱

I definetly think they should dump twitter. especially democratic institutions

fair point - noone on reddit buys awards so that they can contribute to reddit financially - people do that to draw more attention to the kind of content they like. So I thought you could use that to get more money to people who can make use of it. So to the donors it wouldn’t primarily be a donation. if lemmy.world is doing well for now - that’s great for them, but there are many groups who can make really use it.

well liberapay pretty much exists to give people a way to contribute to the FOSS they support. What I was thinking of is not much more than a way to do just that, just in a way that is more engaging than the typical donation system

I see your point, makes sense to me - it gets bloated and meaningless when there are so many of them

certainly not everything is about money. but servers do cost money, and if we want to keep lemmy servers independent they’ll need some source of income.

I haven’t found a FOSS Ableton/Bitwig replacement either, but the FOSS audio world has many wonderful synths a effects.

the post I quoted from is pretty much 10 years old - except for the license blender changed a lot since then. Both Corona and V-ray have some kind of ‘bridge’ implementation, but they are not nearly as well integrated into blender as cycles is, and therefore their userbase is quite small.

oh I use blender so much I have to put effort into associating the word with a literal blender

they give you stuff for free. Send them money if you want them to have more resources to manage all the contributions, or give money to someone who you think knows better than them. Calling them egomaniacs is absurd, wrong and rude, and will get you nothing but downvotes on Lemmy

yep! I laughed when I read that. GPL working precisely as intended.

I guess discourse in software development is very normal (and needed) and in the case of free software, it is generally held publicly. Well they still give away their code for free. Everyone is allowed to do the same thing the blender foundation does - aquire resources to fund blender’s development and sharing the product with everyone who wants to use it.

edit: reading the thread on blenderartists… that developer seems to be a bit of a drama queen… I can’t comment on the technical things as I know close to nothing about it, but him being rude like that is not good for any working environment.

I don’t really want to argue in detail as I don’t feel like your critizism is constructive or specific. You’re right though, the blender devs aren’t the good guys… they are the best!