Category: allgemein

How to work with Clip-Groups in Inkscape

It’s another „Write it down so I don’t have to search for it on the internet all the time“-post!

– Rightclick on the object that should be the outer form of the Clip-Group and select „Set Clip Group“ (located near the bottom of the list). In the Layers and Object panel (Ctrl-Shift-L) the object will have been put in a group (that has a tiny scissor icon on its lower right) that contains another group called „Clip“ that contains the object.
– Now either click the „Clip“ group icon in Layers and Objects or double-click the original object on the canvas to get into the same state and draw a new object inside the Clip Group.
– You can also paste / move objects in Layers & Objects into the group, they have to be above the „Clip“ group that contains the original object
– With the original object in the Clip group selected you can change it’s shape (n), size (s) etc.

Screenshot of Inkscape showing a roughly circular red object on the left with an orange circle inside it that is only party visible. The orange object is selected and the right image of the screenshot shows the object in the Objects & Layers panel being inside a clip group (of the red object) above a group called Clip that has the original red shape inside it.

Thanks to this video by yjarz on Youtube linked by Polygon in this (German) thread I made about this very topic in the Inkscape forums.

Newsletter (2nd try) ✨

Envelope character with a long letter coming out of it that is also a character on a pink background with more envelope characters, some of whom are cat envelopes?

Hello dear Fediverse! 💖

May I interest you in my new and sparkly newsletter?

I’m planning to send the first one out soon™️ , so sign up here:

https://jfml.eu/newsletter/

There will probably only be two a year or so, so not too spammy ^__^

#JfmlArt #art #illustration #creative #DigitalArt #FediArt #MastoArt #CreativeToots #ArtWithOpenSource #ArtistsOnMastodon #newsletter #Inkscape #cute #CharacterDesign #pink #cats #mail #letter

Colobee 2024

My POV at the Colony of Artists: a table in the foreground with postcards and stickers on them looking out into a room with prints in frames on an easel and on a sofa, there's two small tables with prints and comic / children's books as well.
A front view of my stall with lots of stickers and post and greeting cards.
Close-up of the table with the comic (The Shadow, two people standing by a lake in front of a ruined city on a mountainside) and children's book (Fox of Friendship, a girl and a fox flying above a nightly city) from the last picture.

I had so much fun at #Colobee last weekend! 🎉

Just like the last years it was so good and heart-warming talking to people and seeing them react to my and my friend Monika’s work.

Thanks so much to everybody who came round and to Kat and the other organisers for the huge amount of work needed to pull off an event as this! 💖

#JfmlArt #art #illustration #creative #DigitalArt #FediArt #MastoArt #CreativeToots #ArtWithOpenSource #ArtistsOnMastodon #edinburgh #scotland #artmarket #shoplocal

„Fixing“(?) Duplicati MissingRemoteHash error

I recently got a few errors like this:

2023-11-30 23:46:34 +00 - [Warning-Duplicati.Library.Main.Operation.FilelistProcessor-MissingRemoteHash]: remote file duplicati-[stringofnumbersandletters].dblock.zip is listed as Verified with size 0 but should be 52383505, please verify the sha256 hash "[anotherstringofnumbersandletters]"

rebuild-missing-dblock-files and no-local-blocks (saw that on the Duplicati forum) didn’t work, so I copied the files Duplicati was complaining about somewhere else and deleted the originals.

I then deleted and recreated the database via the Web-GUI (got errors that said files where missing and registered as such 😱), ran backup again, no warnings or errors, anymore. Profit?

There’s a lingering doubt that the files are just gone and not recreated but at least there are no more errors +__+

Nager IT: (Teilweise) Faire Computer Maus

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Auf dem 29c3 hat Sebastian Jekutsch einen sehr informativen Vortrag mit dem Titel „Sind faire Computer möglich?“ (Video) gehalten. Für mich war hier vor allen Dingen interessant: Der Unterschied zwischen fairem Kaffee (ein Rohstoff, leicht zu kontrollieren) und Elektronik (viele Bauteile, die aus diversen Rohstoffen Hergestellt werden, eine Kontrolle ist hier also sehr, sehr aufwendig).

Es ist also ein Vorhaben ganz anderen Ausmaßes faire Elektronik herzustellen als z. B. Fairtade-Zucker. Ein Unternehmen (neben den Fairphone-Leuten und Wipro), dass sich dies aber trotzdem zur Aufgabe gemacht hat, um den großen Herstellern das „Es ist unmöglich“-Argument zu nehmen und um eine Nachfrage anzukurbeln, ist Nager IT, die versuchen eine möglichst faire Mouse anzubieten.

Die Website ist sehr aufschlußreich und wirkt sehr transparent, die Maus wird in Deutschland in einer Integrations-Werkstatt montiert. Zur Zeit ist es aber, wenn ich das richtig sehe, nur möglich deutschen Stahldraht und Stahl, der unter „guten Arbeitsbedingungen“ hergestellt wird, zu beziehen, alle anderen Rohstoffe (mindestens elf) werden ohne Kontrolle gefördert. Fair hergestellt wird zur Zeit: das Gehäuse, Kondensatoren, die Leiterplatte, Schrauben, Etiketten und der Karton (wobei, soweit ich mich recht entsinne, sich als nächste Schritte um faire Kabel und ein faires Scrollrad bemüht wird).

Insgesamt ein ungemein spannendes und wichtiges Projekt.

Prevent Mac OSX Media Keys from opening iTunes

UPDATE 2015: The link bewlow doesn’t work anymore but here’s an you can still download MMFix via archive.org. Note that this does not work for 10.9 (readme says it only works for Snow Leopard). There’s an alternative but it doesn’t work for me on Mavericks. (Via)

Here’s a fix by NoMitso to disable the annoying „function“ of OSX to open and play iTunes everytime you use Media Keys on a Mac, rendering them useless for every other audio or video player.

There are articles on Lifehacker and Superuser for this but they have outdated links to NoMitsu’s MMFix.app that fixes this problem, so I thought I’d link to NoMitsus new domain. If this becomes unavailable contact me and I’ll send you the fix. Btw, the readme says it works only on Snow Leopard and was tested with 1.6.2-4, I’m running it on 1.6.8 and it works fine.

Download MMFix from NoMitsu.com