Does anyone else proudly display the what they self host on their laptop? The hardest part is removing old stickers when you port from one project to another (Trilium and Obsidian for example). People ask me all the time what’s this or that sticker. I’m impressed when they can pick one out on their own.

FOSS source is here.

  • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    3 days ago

    I don’t get how you “self-host” some of these things like Linux, Ubuntu, Android, and Raspberry Pi. Are you saying you installed them on your computer or am I missing something?

    • johnnixon@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      I only have one laptop, so not every sticker is a self hosted software. Others are things I use and enjoy.

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
    61·
    2 days ago

    FOSS source is here.

    The second “S” in “FOSS” is “software”. You did not publish software, just its output: bitmap assets needed to print the stickers. Thanks for CC-licensing your creative work but source would mean showing what’s under the hood. We don’t know how you sourced the images used in each triangular tile: generated to best correspond with AI? Matching pieces from Wikimedia Commons photos?

    Edit: Look closely at Arch for example. It’s clearly just the logo placed in a hexagon, approximated by a mosaic of 24 triangles with AI images of differing quality. Is that snow or whipped cream? How can PCB traces be as blurry as watercolor and go nowhere? At least they’re topical: for Arch the prompt was probably “mountain OR architecture OR arch OR technology”.

    Presumably, the process for each tile is this:

    1. you make some direct artistic choices to create the base image (place the logo in a hexagon, choose a background color, add a border)
    2. you make some indirect artistic choices: pick keywords/themes for the AI to use
    3. you use a script to divide the hexagon into 24 triangles (presumably with “overscan”)
    4. you use generative AI to stylize the triangles’ bitmaps according to thw keywords, perhaps regenerating bad output
    5. you use a script to reassemble the image

    To consider this open source, I’d expect you to at least post the scripts you used in steps 3 and 5. To consider this good open source, it should contain a guide detailing this process, best with examples. I’d expect the AI part will be “bring your own model” but you could tell which one you used and its settings.

    The idea is creative and “human” enough for me not to condemn it. “FOSS” or not though, you should disclose use of AI, especially since you’re selling the printed stickers.

    • johnnixon@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      23 hours ago

      I’m fascinated by the process you’ve described and it’s not far off. I knew that once I put these online, especially here with you people, someone would piece the steps together in no time. I’ve been doing pixel art for decades which has always been a mix of algorithms and manual labor. This mosaic process has been a few years coming between scripts, models, scales, pre/post processing, and output medium. The FOSS part was that I was including the print files for any FOSS project but not proprietary stuff. I’m still looking for a way to monetize the image process so I can spend more time making things I think are beautiful and less time grinding for the boss. One can dream.

  • bonn2@lemmy.zipEnglish
    32·
    4 days ago

    Out of interest by “selfhosting” steam are you running a steam cache or just using it? Or is there something else I’m missing lol

    • johnnixon@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      303·
      4 days ago

      I did self host a steamcache years back but no, its one of the few “normie” stickers but few people I know that would even recognize that. I also don’t self host the Zigbee protocol, and I gave up OPNsense for Ubitquiti 2 years ago so no, that’s not self hosted either. I only have one laptop so my hobbies have to coexist on it.

  • mholiv@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    3 days ago

    Why post this ai generated content? Since when does the docker logo have the Cassandra eye in it?

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
      31·
      3 days ago

      Edit: yup, it’s made of AI images

      This is not an AI-generated pic, it’s a photo taken with a real camera. The logos, however, are hexagons divided into 24 triangles each, and these triangles contain often thematically related (e. g. lions for Brave) photos or photorealistic AI images (the info I found online does not state either way) cropped to best correspond to what the triangle would contain if it just had the original logo. Basically, that corner of the whale surrounded by white was taken from a face photo (or AI pic).

        • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          Looking closely at Perl, it seems there are photorealistic (hard to tell if AI) photos toned blue, abstract shapes that might be edited/vectorized photos, and in the bottom right there’s a bead necklace that’s so unshapely it’s an AI giveaway. Well spotted, it was indeed made using AI-generated images!

          • mholiv@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            Look at the Jellyfin one. Why is there something breaking the logo from the right? Lots of little things.

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    Here’s the list of logos row by row so you don’t have to awkwardly ask what they are

    Steam (not FOSS)*
    “LL” (likely OP’s own design, not a FOSS project)*
    Zigbee
    Obsidian (not FOSS)*
    Brave
    Protonpass

    Tailscale*
    Home Assistant
    Raspberry Pi (not open HW)*
    Ubiquiti (not open HW)*
    Android (not really FOSS)*
    Signal

    DigitalOcean (service)*
    Ubuntu
    Linux
    Claude (not FOSS)*
    Proxmox
    Nextcloud
    Jellyfin (rotated)

    Trilium
    Nginx
    Tabby
    Bash
    Debian (rotated)
    Docker

    NodeJS
    Python
    HomeBox
    XPipe
    PiHole
    Prometheus
    Grafana

    * not in gallery of printable sticker images

    • johnnixon@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      I didn’t feel that Tailscale was FOSS but I’ll add that one to the gallery. I swore I checked Debian when I stuck it so I must have rotated the swirl in production pre-hexing. AOSP could replace Android but a) I’m not running an AOSP device and 2) their current logo isn’t that shape friendly. But I might try anyway.

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    Thanks, those give me ideas for making more operator logos like these (No AI but mostly CC0 (public domain) because my creative input is questionable, some are just tracing of scaled-down images with a few touch-ups; I’m not too concerned about sharing non-FOSS trademarks under a permissive licence at such low res)

  • Godnroc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    4 days ago

    I like the idea of this. Perhaps not on a laptop, but small hexagon badges that show some sort is relation to something. Favorite media, projects, software you’re good with, coding languages you a comfortable with, etc. A simple snapshot into someone that can be identified easily, what a great conversation starter.

    • johnnixon@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      126·
      4 days ago

      I got them from Etsy. They all came with borders so I had to 3D print a jig to get the cuts right with a razor knife. They’re still a little wobbly but they’re good enough.

      • PieMePlenty@lemmy.worldEnglish
        121·
        4 days ago

        I got them from Etsy

        Ugh… just say you made them if is your shop… this is leaving a bad taste in my mouth, even if the product looks nice…

        • lemonySplit@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          Ya, mods! This is clearly thinly veiled self-promotion. Can we atleast remove the store links? I bet they posted them using a dummy account too

          • PieMePlenty@lemmy.worldEnglish
            141·
            4 days ago

            It reeks of “manufactured organic content” if that makes sense. This may not have been OPs intention, but it kinda checks those marks:

            • post content, praise it, don’t mention you make and sell it
            • another user finds out you make and sell it, posts store link
            • post disguised as advert, manufactured organic conversation around the product creates an effective advertisment

            It leaves a bad taste in my mouth because this is what modern advertising is and I prefer to have full transparency. A disclosure in the post would have been nice. Again, I’m not saying this was OP’s intention, it just hits the same points.

            • johnnixon@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              110·
              4 days ago

              You’re not wrong that modern advertising works like that. In my case I haven’t shown these anywhere and just got my first batch in yesterday and was so happy with them I wanted people who would actually appreciate the comment to see. No links. No cart. Just “I’m proud of this”. If someone went and bought some hex stickers from RedBubble after seeing this, good. If they found mine, good on them for tracking them down. On the FOSS chain of thought, I think, at least for the FOSS stickers, these should be on GitHub or a self hosted web server as whatever creative commons means don’t sell my files/prints. That would take a day to spin up and might let people print them themselves if they’re so inclined.

              • B0rax@feddit.orgEnglish
                11·
                4 days ago

                Why did you lie then? A user asked if you made them. You could have just said „yes, I made them, and if someone wants them, I also sell them“

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        4 days ago

        They’re still a little wobbly but they’re good enough.

        This is what drunk dads say about their 1 year old son who’s just learning to walk.

        • B0rax@feddit.orgEnglish
          3·
          4 days ago

          They do look really nice. Don’t get me wrong, these are lovely stickers. But say I want 10 of these, it would be $50, which I am not going to pay for stickers, no matter how nice they are.

          Maybe put them in packs? 10 for $20 for example? Something like that.

          • johnnixon@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            4·
            4 days ago

            I appreciate the feedback. I figured out how to fit 5 on a 6x6 sticker. So that’s five stickers for $12. I can also fit 4x that on a big sheet, so it’ll be 20 stickers for $25. I just need to find a group of 20. The downside is that Etsy doesn’t do volume discounts, I have to build the multipack myself. I’m also trying to figure out how free shipping works to take that off larger orders.

          • johnnixon@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            3·
            4 days ago

            Fixed. I don’t know why the node went down but I forgot to put it on the HA list. It’ll be more resilient now.