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This is a project I've been planning on doing for a long time: a cross-platform and open source image editor that completely supersedes MS Paint and all it's cheap imitators (for digital images, so no printing features). I want to hear thoughts and ideas.

The objective is to take MS Paint and polish an even better version out of it: minimalistic, extremely light weight and fast, and very easy to use. Everything should take as few clicks as possible and to just work, the feature set is intentionally limited and designed to work well even without transparency or layers. For example the brushes should all be pixelated (reasons in the attached webms), I think it was a mistake on Microsoft's part to switch to the soft brush as a default. Maybe advanced brushes can be added as a side feature, but I feel like they just don't belong into MS Paint and nobody uses them for any real purpose.

Do you see any problems from the mockup? Have other ideas or things that should be added/changed? How would (You) improve MS Paint? Does some other image editor have a feature that you like?
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>>16080
So much for my dreams of rotoscoping pixel art. :-( That's where the original Prince of Persia games got their smooth animations from.
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>>16138
I think MS paint is the wrong tool for creating game assets to begin with, there's just a lot of features missing to make it practical for art creation. It's more for quick edits, cropping images, mockups, tests, simple fun drawings, a blackboard to scribble onto...

It's not like there aren't 800 other free art programs you can use to follow your rotoscoping dreams. All of them are kind of shitty in their own ways, but still.
I put the most recent version on my site just to have a more centralized page for it: https://sundee.neocities.org/tffpaint/
It's still far from competing with MS Paint, but you can kinda use it a bit.

>>16169 is a retard btw.
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>>16171
At least post the source
>>16171
Is it open source? Are you still working on it, OP?

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removing boomers from the internet would solve all its problems

on the turn of the century we all used the internet as teens. we all had msn and icq, maybe irc. we all knew how to browse and make websites. run emulators, download music. use forums. download pr0n. say niggerfaggot. play video games. maybe write code

we knew not to follow advice from the internet. not to run random .exes. we were 10-14.

then the boomers came, around 2010. before that they didnt even know what the internet let alone a computer is. they saw that teens are using the internet
>NOOOO my kidderinos gonna see the forbidden fruit!!
they saw that instant messaging exists
>NOOOO my kidderinos gonna talk to a stranger
they saw websites
>NOOO its about something i dont like MAKE IT ILLEGAL MAKE IT ILLEGAL MAKE IT ILLEGAL
they saw that their son could make a website
>NOOOOO you dont have a license
they saw their son emulate a game that has been out of sale for 40 years
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>>19276
>The average car is made under the assumption the average driver is functionally retarded...
That can't be true. The average car has heating and air conditioning, which the average yuropoor has not yet figured out the mystery of despite decades of dying from lack of both.
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>>19279 
A couple things to note about that. In comparison to the US, in the EU both road and rail are wholly overshadowed for share of cargo ton-miles by the inherent geography of deep seacoast penetration and crisscrossing inland waterways that the more  US lacks:
https://theicct.org/toward-a-greener-global-freight-transportation-system-oct25/
Also, while pickups/SUVs are less popular in Europe than the US, they are also less necessary. Cars (sedans, coupés, hatchbacks, stationwagons, etc.) overwhelmingly favoring manual trannies in the European market are rated comparably to a light truck or better in terms of towing capacity, whereas in the US this feature went extinct (due to regional differences of both mechanical and regulatory nature) in the 1980s, just in time for the burgerlard pickup/SUV conspiracy:
https://www.dieselarmy.com/features/why-is-it-diesels-can-tow-more-in-europe-than-in-the-us/

>>19289
Asked a chatbot about this out of bemused curiosity and:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_air_conditioning
>The innovation was adopted quickly and by 1960 about 20% of all cars in the U.S. had air-conditioning, with the percentage increasing to 80% in the warm areas of the Southwest.
>By 1969, 54% of domestic automobiles were equipped with air conditioning
https://carinterior.alibaba.com/question/when-ac-became-standard-in-cars
>By the late 1980s, over 70% of new cars sold in the United States included factory-installed air conditioning
https://www.wardsauto.com/news/archive-wards-europe-cools-off-ac-on-60-of-new-cars-a-big-jump/763116/
>Published Sept. 1, 1999
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>>19197 (OP) 
Millenials nowadays behave a lot like Boomers used to, especially the more Left leaning ones.
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>>19538
>Insulate themselves from problems with money
>Gaslight others into thinking the problems are solely the individual's for not being a good enough goy
Your theory seems correct.
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>>19548
<Millennials
<Money
Wut? If you're going to post generational bait, at least be coherent.

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>invest in an expensive mechanical keyboard because if I'm typing on it all day anyway then it might as well be the best I can get
>find a keyboard with "speed silver" switches because supposed to be quiet and I hate pressing the keys very deep down
>turns out the fucking brick is thicker than your mom and I have to bend my hands up in an awkward way
>keys activate at like 20% the way down, which means you have literally no physical feedback whatsoever for when it activates
>need to press the keys almost a whole centimeter before it's at the bottom
>loud as fuck "clack" sound if the key hits the bottom
>the fucking keys are laid in a niggerlicious concave curve where I need to lift my fingers higher to press the key above the current one
I've literally never touched a keyboard that felt worse to use, this thing cost like $200 or something. I could have gotten one for cheaper but this was the only one of it's type that didn't have disco lights all over it. Speaking of which, it's almost impossible to find a mechanical keyboard that doesn't bleed rainbow lights out of it's ass, some of them even advertise themselves as having "blinding lights".

Are mechanical keyboards the biggest meme in computers? I've used a flat chiclet keyboard (
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>>3104
I like this guy, but I'm going to use a mechanical regardless of  meme health issues that only happen if you type for 4+hours a day for years. Just use short distance switches like reds and take breaks and if you can use a cherry or XDA keycaps.
just don't type like a retard all day everyday and don't use keyboards for playing games unless  it's an actual pc game and not console shit.

>>16119
Like boingoingoing
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>>16123
I bought a Kinesis mechnical ergo keyboard 25 years ago precisely because the cheapass keyboard I got with my PC started causing problems for me. I worked on the computer, so I was typing a whole lot... The nice thing is they had it on sale at the time for $200. That model isn't sold anymore, I guess the closest thing is Advantage2 which they're selling now for $350. I think they both have the same Cherry brown switches. One of my keys finally stopped working after all these years, so I'm gonna have to replace it (the switch). Otherwise the only other keyboards I found comfortable were those on the old IBM Thinkpads.
>>2993
Ergodox should actually sell trackballs that shape
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So i recently got myself a new keyboard. A keychron q6 wired version. Now i also got 2 sets of silent keycaps from it. These are said to be the most recommended silent keycaps. I ordered TTC Frozen Silent keycaps and Outemu Silent Lemon/Lime keycaps.
Here are my thoughts first on the keyboard and the original caps that came with. Its fine. I've only ever had 1 other keyboard so cant say much about it. Very loud to use but less louder than my previous keyboard. 
Now to the switch impressions.
First Outemu Lime/Lemon:
I was very disappointed to say the least. Sure its silent when you press down on the key but when you let go and it goes back up there is a noisy rebound/reverberation noise. Basically its fine when you press but noisy when key goes back up.
The TTC Silent Frozen on the other hand is good except the spacebar. This might simply be a keyboard problem in itself but the spacebar and backspace key does have loud reverberation when it comes back up. Everything else is dead silent. Im happy with it. Not happy with the outemu switches.
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>>1043 (OP) 
>have to save money
>my keyboard stopped working
>steal my wife's old keyboard she wasn't using
>it's pink and has stickers on it
>it works so I use it
>it breaks
>have to buy a keyboard
>still want to save money regardless
>start looking into buying a new one for cheap
>find a good deal and it's a few bucks cheaper if I take a gamble on the color
>risk getting another gay pink keyboard but I have to save
>"fuck it" buys the random option and pray
>it's all black
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After using the same handful of wallpaper images for the last three and a half years, I have come to the realization that I should get some new wallpapers.

Post your favourite wallpapers and wallpaper sources.  Pics related are a few of what I've been using; screenshots from a dead game called Blacklight: Retribution.  I never played it myself but it had some neat visuals.
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>>2302 (OP) 
blacklight tango down and blacklight retribution were the most kino gaming experiences ive ever had back in the day. too bad they're gone like tears in rain.
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>>16418
The movement felt clunky to me and lag was a perpetual issue, but the atmosphere was good.
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Here's a wallpaper I "made" and really like using. I took an existing wallpaper/photo of a forest and just reversed the colors, the aesthetic I got was really pleasing, at least in my eyes, quite surreal and supernatural like, but not in a spooky way, more of a beautiful one, I like it.
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>>2302 (OP) 
It's AI... but it's also my favorite wallpaper at the moment, so excuse me whoever's against it.

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Lately I've been interested in looking for a final solution to the imageboard problem, deplatforming and relying on centralized authorities for hosting. P2P through TOR seems like the most logical path forward. But the software would also need to be accessible, easily installed and understood by just about anyone, and easily secure/private by default.

Retroshare seemed like a decent choice, but unfortunately its forum function is significantly lacking in features. I haven't investigate too much into zeronet either but from what I recall that was a very bloated piece of software and I'm looking for something that's light and simple. Then there's BitChan (>>507) which fits most of the bill but contrasted with Retroshare is not simple to setup.

I know there is essentially nothing else out there so this thread isn't necessarily asking to be spoonfed some unknown piece of software that went under the radar of anons. But I think the concept of P2P imageboards should be further explored even though the failure of zeronet soured a lot of peoples perspective on the concept. Imageboards are so simple by nature I feel this shouldn't be as difficult as it is. Retroshare comes close but as I understand it you can't really moderate the forums that you create. Plus the media integration is basically non-existent, though media is a lesser concern. But having everything routed through tor and being able to mail, message, and ha
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thats right
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I keep seeing people talking about requiring identities as a way to deal with spam. Could a variant of the blind signature stuff L+JS is experimenting with work as a substitute? It seems to be helping them recover from a long-running spam attack that nearly killed the site.
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>>16993
ljs died when karenfag left
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>>18002
What in the everloving fuck are you retards saying?
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>>16052
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>>14494
Isn't this just centralization? In a decentralization thread?

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How do i build ratio on private trackers in a  good way? For example torrentleech. I tried seeding new torrents but lets say something just got uploaded then theres like 50 people with seedboxes that autosnatch the torrent and i cant compete with seedbox speeds. Lets say i dl a 20gb file. Then i'll at most get a few gb upload but then its done. Next to no one seems to leech on there so you have to seed the file for 10 days which is something i cant do at the time.
That brings me to my second question.
I want to get more storage. Im pretty computer illiterate but would getting a nas and putting some ssds in it be better than putting some ssds in my pc? For seeding ofcourse. And what about raid. Should i even bother with setting that up? When i think about nas i think about vulnerabilities because its connected to the internet but with a nas i wouldnt have to keep my computer on at all times. I have port forwarding on the vpn i use so seeding should work fine in the first place. It's just that i don't seem to have the storage or time to do it in the first place but thats something i want to change. In the first place i think 10 days is very strict. A 1080p remux can be between 20-40gb and mind you thats only ONE movie. I watch alot of movies so my drive would be filled to the brim before 10 days to even get the first movie to be watched.
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>>17630
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>>17634
are you retards? why would you do it on torrent? i just use ipsets natively in iptables to -j DROP them
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>>17687
I bet you don't even have indoshitters and israel rangebanned
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>>17688
no, only my own country because it has closest danger
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>>17176 (OP) 
Has anoyne in here tried torrenting on a smartphone or tablet before? How is it?

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How does /tech/ feel about tablets in general? I find that they failed to become the laptop replacements many thought they'd become back then, mainly due to their OS, which is funny looking back as Windows 8 ruined a lot of Microsoft's reputation because they were certain that iPads would be the end of them... however they're still good at being what Steve Jobs introduced them as, something between the computer and smartphone, that's worse than both in general, but better than all other devices in a few specific things, justifying their purpose to be.

I personally love mine as its replaced my laptop for most things, due to my usecase allowing for it, but it's also the best device I have for a lot of things, like digital art, reading comic books and manga, books and document reading in general, and media consumption, it's great.
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>>17696
I never knew how to root a phone. Once I tried to root a xiaomi phone I had and they make you create an account and wait like a week or two just so you can root it. It's so annoying.
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>>17697
>having to file an application to take control of your device
10/10 botnet goyims
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>>17698
The good part about Android is anything will let you root it with enough fussing and it's always designed to allow that. The bad part about Android is the ease with which rooting can be done varies ENORMOUSLY, so if you're the one picking it's a very good idea to shop ahead and pick the most cooperative device.

Same for other stuff like long term OS updates, and 3rd-party distro/driver support.
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>>16332 (OP) 
I had a nightmare today where my tablet broke... posting on zzzChan from it now and I'm full of relief, I love this thing.
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>>16332 (OP) 
>S10 Lite costs as much as the superior S9 FE did back when it was out.
I like AI and all, use it regularly for many tasks and it improved my life in many ways... but the hike on prices pisses me off.

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If you decided to remake the internet from scratch, how would you avoid the centralization of authority, SEO and everything bad that plagues the modern internet?
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>>18923
>the web has no practical purpose to begin with
To be fair, back in the early 90s it must have seemed like a great idea to give the writer of the document the power to specify the colour of the background and the ability to embed some pictures into the text. But as those horrible late 90s webpages showed, it only really gave people the power to waste bandwidth with unnecessary clutter. And by the 2000s it became obvious that you could also use it to track people and to build ever more centralized systems.

And in hindsight, the very idea that someone else should decide for you the exact appearance of a hypertext document is flawed. How could some random faggot know better my preferred colour scheme and font than I do? Not to mention that I like it when I can both read text and stare at fat 2D tits at the same time, which is not a feature supported by the average website. At least by now many websites have both a light and a dark colour scheme, but it's not standard, and many of those themes are quite horrible. Not to mention that websites have to support a practically infinite variety of resolution and aspect ratios, so the more elaborate and specific a website's design the less likely that it'll work as intended.
>>18861 (OP) 
Every PC shall have an integrated web server with a default template website, and a detailed HTML+CSS documentation.
>>18867
I think I agree with this. The problem is that 80% of the population is simply not fit for the internet.
>>18917
Great question, and who knows. Some people are just not fit to govern. They just operate under different assumptions other than how the world actually works.
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>>18861 (OP) 
I think it was inevitable that things would get to this point... all we can do individually, since the collective isn't enough to stop what's happening, is to cherish smaller forums and imageboards that still have the SOVL from the old internet, I genuinely love posting here even if it's slow, I'd say that's part of why I like it. I also love old dedicated forums.

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How can I create and host my own image board like zzzchan or 4chan ?
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>>19514
But after you save the video there is no reason to run a tube site when you can just search your filesystem like a normal person for whatever video you saved. Having a fake imageboard, or talking to bots in general, in contrast is having a fake social life.
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>>19094
>promoting blacked.gov
>on the WR of all places
You have to go back.
>>19515
>But after you save the video there is no reason to run a tube site when you can just search your filesystem like a normal person for whatever video you saved. 
Fair. Helps save on overhead there. Might just make a wrapper html site for the illusion, at least.
>Having a fake imageboard, or talking to bots in general, in contrast is having a fake social life.
Let's be fair, posting to sleepy or tourist chan is already a fake social life. Arguably, it's worse than that. "Pissing in an ocean of piss".
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>>19517
The conversations I've had on imageboards are far more real and of value than anything I've gotten from real people. Also, as this is not a giant website like halfcuck, it's more of a pond. Pissing into a koi pond would kill the fish/userbase. This makes us koi rather than sharks. Fake plastic robot fish would be better than real koi as you'd not have to worry about harming the fish. Real or fake I do not want a pet  shark. I keep waiting for people to make realistic fake pets and they won't do it on a serious level to the point like you see in the original Battlestar Gallactica and such, though that thing was smarter than it needed to be for a pet. I was expecting it to go bad that entire time, but never mind. 

Yes, this was a lame excuse to post the gif. I post it unrepentant though.
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>>19517
NTA but it's the only social life where I can talk about a lot of the things I like without feeling judged and/or actually having someone of similar interests talk back to me about them with different takes from my own. It's nice, even if it's "fake"... and honestly, I prefer it "fake" sometimes, this has no repercussions on "real life" and important things like work, it's so chill.

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Firefox 152 ships JpegXL for the first time ever in regular builds.
It's still behind a flag but that will probably change soon. (about:config image.jxl.enabled)
In Chrome too: chrome://flags/#enable-jxl-image-format

We won in the end and Google and their cocksuckers at Mozilla bent over when the PDF Association made JXL their standard.

How do we get imageboards to finally allow uploading .jxl?
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>>19384
AIUI that issue about letting the user specify a color palette. JXL still uses color palettes internally for compression.
>In JPEG XL, there is a concept of palette but it is seen as an internal coding tool (to get better compression for images with relatively few colors)
In any case, I decided to try -e 10, which is way slower but is successful in reducing overall size:
$ du -h /tmp/gif*
647M	/tmp/gif
729M	/tmp/gif-jxl
607M	/tmp/gif-jxl-e10
(also cleaned up some GIFs that cjxl failed to load, which is why the gif/ folder is smaller now).

There are still some that are substantially larger, over 2x. Looking at them it seems to be caused by random dither every frame (picrel in order from largest JXL to smallest). That's going to be really hard to recompress efficiently without loss of detail, so >>19385 >>19386 is right.
>>19366
Thanks.
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i just realized something
even browsers that block canvas access by default (torbrowser, librewolf) still allow data to be written to them
so you can display arbitrary image data using javascript with no permissions
QOI is a fairly simple format, the decoder can be implemented in JS (someone has prolly done that already)
so your site can serve qoi images and have the client display it with your custom decoder
real schizos already browse with images disabled so they dont care either way
nojs larpers will whine, but larpers gonna larp
Breaking News
Firefox will ship Jpeg XL enabled by default in version 157. Release is targeted 29 September 2026 (this month)

Sadly no support for HDR at day 1. (Neither do any other formats yet in Firefox)

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/3YMV4MS34KA
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/157
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