This series is about creating digital art in free software. For those who don’t know what free software is please read this. This is the 6th episode in the series of tutorials for beginners in digital painting as well as Krita.
In this lesson we explore various masks in Krita and also learn more about Selection Masks and how to use them in digital painting.
Status update August 2021. Let's Go!
People who know me know that I like programming languages and operating systems. This month I really pulled up my sleeves and got into Ruby. I learned the syntax while contributing to ruby packages in Debian and learned more advanced stuff this month for work. I played out with a couple of simple algorithms at the beginning and then started building simple stuff with it. The language is a far departure from C - on of my favorite language of all time. C demands more from me as a developer and in return it let's me write some very performant and sometimes not so safe programs. It sort of communicates well with the minimalist in me and for me at least there is almost never any ambiguity with things when it comes to C. It also has a spec which means there are multiple competing compilers which creates good competition which is gets everyone better compilers year after year. But Ruby on the other hand is not that at all. For instance, when using Ruby I feel like the conductor of an orchestra with every single musical instrument under the sun ready to go off at flick of my hand. I'm not going to lie, I was one of those people who failed to see Ruby for what is was the first time I encountered it. At first glance it looks and feels like Python. It was only when I started seriously looking into the language that I sort of started seeing the uniqueness of Ruby. Ruby is built for humans. Ruby's syntax does not try to be 'clever' or pretentious, the language is well thought out and simple taking into consideration that it is to be used by a human being while packing some handy features that one can use to build some very complex systems. Python is a language that people agree to be simple enough that even someone who has never been exposed to programming can make some sense of it. Well let me tell you Ruby is better than python in that regard and I feel that Ruby would make a great first programming language for people who are looking to learn programming. Also sometimes when I write code I reach a point where I need to perform a function that's so basic that I start to question why the specific functionality wasn't part of the language's standard library. While learning Ruby I ported some of my old scripts and fun projects I had written in other languages to Ruby. Apart from cringing at the code quality of the old code, on multiple occasions I found that those functions/methods that I wished were part of the standard libraries of the respective languages was already here in Ruby. Quality of life!
It makes sense why it is so easy to make things in Ruby. Ruby is one of the most readable programming language out there and the developers of the programming language care about adding features and functionalities to the language that definitely reduces the number of 'smashed keyboard' and 'hair pulling' incidents among developers while using the language. It isn't perfect but it's definitely nice. I feel like I might really enjoy my time with Ruby.
Moving on, Debian Bullseye was released this month! I helped organize Debian India's release party during which I gave a technical overview of the new release. All of you should give it a go. Yes, even those of you who use something like Ubuntu which is built on top of Debian. This month we had Debconf 2021, it was from the 24th to the 28th. On 25th I was part of a BoF about "Growing the Debian Community in India", which was a very interesting conversation. Those of us in the Debian India community is currently focusing on making Debian India more accessible to the wider developer community. As a part of this initiative I started working on the Debian India website recently. Right now it is very basic but I hope to be able to add features to it and build and maintain other infrastructure that we may need. I do tend to put my hands in a lot of pies and get burned out which is something I'm worried about but hopefully I won't. If anyone reading this interested in contributing feel free to ping me.
Other than that I've been looking into Rails and React. Both are fun to be honest, at least for now. I followed some tutorials and build the stuff that they built in those tutorials but my knowledge honestly feels incomplete. I want to try and build something serious to properly use both frameworks but I have no idea what. I mean there are tons of generic projects out there but they don't excite me. For me to write code either it has to be useful or it has to exciting. I don't like building stuff for the sake of building stuff. If anyone here has any suggestions regarding that feel free to know let me know.
And that's it for now. See ya next month.
TL;DR: Google’s free-of-cost offer of G-Suite to Kerala schools is a scheme to make more customers for G-Suite, retain their monopoly power in the ad business and search engines. Dependence on Google can lead to massive surveillance (and its chilling effects), losing our political agency to Google, and many others. We urge educational institutes to reject this offer and switch to free software (freedom-respecting software or swatantra software) for all the activities. For network-based services, we urge institutes to self-host free software powered services. With self-hosting and using free software, the software and the data will be under the institute’s control.
Please sign this letter if you support free software in education.
We are deeply saddened to learn that The Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE) has rolled out the G-Suite platform for all the online classroom activities in schools in Kerala. G-Suite platform is a collection of Google services like, Google Meet, Google Drive, Gmail, Google Docs etc. Read the official announcement here.
KITE also announced, “No sensitive individual details of students or teachers will be shared. KITE will have the master control of data uploaded in the platform.” Providing Google accounts with a randomized student and teacher ID won’t protect their privacy from Google because Google collects a lot of data on each user, and it can easily combine all this data to deanonymize students and teachers.
Google uses cross-site tracking: When you browse from site to site, you’re often followed by trackers that collect data on where you’ve been and what you’ve done, using scripts, widgets or even tiny, invisible images embedded on the sites you visit. Take, for example, those social share buttons embedded on many websites. Sites may choose to include those buttons to gain useful analytics about their content, but the buttons also send data back to the social platforms. Sometimes, that makes sense, allowing you to share content on other social platforms. But often, that data also ends up being used behind the scenes to target advertising or create user profiles.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports users visiting on a website. In order to block Google Analytics, users are required to use extra protection in their browser, for example, by using ublock-origin add-on. This leads us to ask KITE if they can turn off Google Analytics in the G-Suite.
The way Google shows ads is fundamentally different to the way cable TV or radio shows ads. Google uses user’s personal data to target ads while the TV, radio or newspaper ads are not based on user’s personal data as the same ad is being watched by everyone reading the newspaper or watching the same channel on TV. Since, the ads that Google provides are based on user’s behavior, search history, webpages they visited, their emails, their purchases, articles they read etc. and therefore have a lot more power to influence the users.
This offer by Google is just a scheme to gain more users (captive audience to whom they can target ads) which will give Google a lot of data on students. This will reinforce the dominance of Google in the ad-business. They already use their dominance to eliminate the competition. Google uses this data to manipulate their users with ads. A company with so much data as Google can even influence elections. For example, Facebook is a company with a lot of data on its users, which was used by Cambridge Analytica to influence elections a few years ago.
As an example, Google’s search can amplify the voices of people it agrees with and dampen those of people it disagrees with, effectively manipulating the public opinion.
Google’s free of cost offer is similar to Jio’s free-of-cost offer of internet connection, which later started charging money. As a result of Jio’s offer, Vodafone and Idea had to merge because they couldn’t compete, and we are left with a lesser number of mobile service providers. There is no guarantee that Google’s services will remain free-of-cost forever. They can use their position in the educational suite provider or videoconferencing to eliminate competition and then raise prices at a later stage. Google Meet might become a dominant platform for video calls, eliminating all the competition like Zoom. (Note that Zoom is a nonfree software which we don’t endorse in any way, it was mentioned just as an example).
Massive surveillance has pretty adverse effects on the society and individuals. What’s at stake is our political liberty, freedom of speech, privacy, security, social equity,
Statistics show that lack of privacy leads to a population who is afraid to ask questions or educate themselves, even if the issues are important and the motives are pure.
Massive surveillance has adverse effects on mental health. These include insomnia, social anxiety, depression, hypervigilance, specific situational type phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and many other issues.
Surveillance puts us at risk of abuses by those in power, even if we’re doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.
We’d like to quote some points from this excellent resource about effects of massive surveillance at Social Cooling.
“If you feel you are being watched, you change your behavior.” This could limit your desire to take risks or exercise free speech. Over the long term, these ‘chilling effects’ could ‘cool down’ society. Rating systems can create unwanted incentives, and increase pressure to conform to a bureaucratic average. When doctors in New York were given scores, this had unexpected results. Doctors that tried to help advanced cancer patients had a higher mortality rate, which translated into a lower score. Doctors that didn’t try to help were rewarded with high scores, even though their patients died prematurely.
People are starting to realize that this ‘digital reputation’ could limit their opportunities:
You may not get that dream job if your data suggests you’re not a very positive person.
If you are a woman, you may see fewer ads for high paying jobs.
If you have “bad friends” on social media, you might pay more for your loan.
Tinder’s algorithms might not show you attractive people if you are not desirable yourself.
If you return goods to the store often, this will be used against you.
What you post on social media may influence your odds of getting a tax audit.
Your health insurer may collect intimate data about your lifestyle, race and more.
We need to control the software that we use. Freedom-respecting software means users have freedom to run, study, modify, share the software. If a software respects all these freedoms, we call it free software. Free Software is a matter of liberty, not price. To emphasize that point, we also call it swatantra software. Example of free software are Firefox, VLC, Thunderbird, Ubuntu etc. If any of the above-mentioned freedoms is lacking, we call it nonfree/proprietary software. Examples of nonfree software are- WhatsApp, Microsoft Windows, Google Meet, Adobe Reader etc. For internet-based services like videoconferencing, online file storage, emails etc., the users (in this case, KITE or Kerala Government) must have the freedom to offer the same services on their own servers. This practice is known as self-hosting. These freedoms ensure that the users control the software and data. With proprietary software, we are at the mercy of the developer of the software, for example, in G-Suite, we are at the mercy of Google.
As an example, The British East India company created railway tracks, roads and bridges free-of-cost, and it needs no mention of what happened after that. So dependence usually results in enslavement or exploitation.
People might think that they are not programmers, and they don’t need the freedom to study and modify the program. But we exercise the freedom to inspect and modify all the time, for example, we call plumber to fix our water taps, electrician for electricity-related problems, mechanics for repairing our bikes, cars etc. Similarly, individually or collectively (for example, KITE or Kerala Government), we must be able to fix or adapt software with help of companies like Infosys, Wipro etc.
G-Suite software is nonfree software and so users don’t control it, and educational institutes should use only free software.
A free software named Tux Paint used at VHSS Irimpanam school, Kerala, where 11 and 12 years old students completely translated the program’s interface to Malayalam, and added pictures of local flowers along with recordings of Malayalam pronunciations of their name to the program’s library. While doing this, they exercised their freedom to learn how the program works and modify the program, which demonstrates that even non programmers or children, can actually directly improve software when software freedom is granted.
Scribus is a cross-platform (works on GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS, etc) Free Software for Desktop Publishing (replacement for software like Adobe PageMaker and InDesign) which initially only had support for Latin languages. It’s the developers of a community project funded by the Oman Government, called HOST-Oman (House of Open Source Technologies - Oman), who introduced support for Non-Latin languages with Complex Text Layout in Scribus. And as a part of this development, Malayalam also got supported in Scribus. So we can see anyone improving a software is beneficial to all the users even if they don’t improve it directly. This enabled Janayugom and Deshabhimani newspapers to shift to 100% Free Software for their publishing.
Following are the free software that can be used in classrooms and should replace their proprietary counterparts:
Operating system: GNU/Linux distros like Debian, Ubuntu.
Online Classes: Jitsi, BigBlueButton.
Instant Messenger: Element, Quicksy, Conversations.
Uploading videos: PeerTube
E-learning platform: Moodle, BBB
Recording Lectures: OBS
Sharing notes, lecture videos etc. : Nextcloud, Lufi
Digital writing pad: Xournal
Document editor: LibreOffice, Cryptpad, Etherpad, EtherCalc, OnlyOffice
Form filling: KoBoToolbox, NextCloud Forms — Disroot provides NextCloud Forms.
We would like to remind the teachers from Kerala how you stood for Software Freedom and became a model for the entire world. You resisted offers of free of cost training by Microsoft and Intel. You created a custom GNU/Linux distribution with software you needed in schools, and provided technical support and training to teachers across Kerala. You can do that again and lead the world in this changed scenario as well. We urge teachers from Kerala to join us in this campaign to talk to KITE and push for adoption of free software based learning platforms for online classes.
Please sign the letter below if you support the campaign.
Last Updated on September 13, 2021
Teachers from Kerala
കേരളം ഒന്ന് മാറി ചിന്തിക്കട്ടെ!
Teachers from Outside Kerala
The educational entities need to realize that the convenience they seem to be getting through the use of proprietary software like g-suite comes at a huge cost. We have a collective responsibility to stand for our digital freedom. Use only freedom respecting software when you teach students.
Others
സൗജന്യവും സ്വതന്ത്രവുമായ സോഫ്റ്റ്വെയറുകൾ തന്നെ കഴിവതും ഉപയോഗിക്കുക.
kerala schools already using foss. dont go back to proprietary solutions. i can help with any kind of training
“Free software and its philosophy should taught to every students regardless of their subjects. Philosophy of FLOSS is such a great one and learning it not only help them to create better software which respects the user but also hopefully enables them to create a better society which respects evryone and shares everything, participate in activities etc. But using proprietary closed source software which doesn’t care about users and only treat them as product shouldn’t be the main mode communication they should have”
“KITE has all the capability to implement a free at the same time efficient e-learning platform using existing technologies. If they do so, it will be a revolution. Please dont rely on freebies from big internet companies.”
There are lot of free and open source alternatives that can be used by the teachers and students for their privacy and security.
“great job guys , this is a great step you guys have taken . also consider teaching them kids about free softwares a bit”
I support FOSS. FOSS FTW
Google doesn’t have our best interest at heart. When they provide their suite for free, it only serves to train people in how to use Google software and become a slave to their data collection practice. We can do better. Please reconsider your decision.
Going into the arms of google is easy, getting out of there would be much more difficult. Better not get entrapped.
A decision shouldn’t be rushed in to just because it is an easy option. Its drawbacks and the alternates should always be considered.
Education liberates people hence it only makes sense that educational institutions should not use use tools that are designed to implant dependence. Just as schools say no to substance abuse they should say no to proprietary software.
I've never really been an amateur astronomer but I've always loved looking at the night sky. I've always struggled with the idea that we may be alone here. Like the universe is huge, about ninety billion light years wide 1 and the earth is about 12 thousand kilometers wide. To put that in perspective consider the following:
A photon takes about 8 minutes or about 0.00002 years to reach the earth from the sun.
A bullet on the other hand would take 17 years to complete the same journey.
It will take the Voyager about 80,000-90,000 years to reach the closest star cluster.
A photon would take more than 90,000,000,000 years to travel from one end of the universe to the other. 2
Now in the age of Jeff Bezoz and Bill Gates a thousand, a million and a billion may not seem that far apart. But if you started counting now one second at a time, a thousand seconds would not even make an hour, but a million seconds is about 12 days and get ready for this, a billion seconds is 32… years. Now read the four statements above again and just let all that sink in. Ladies and Gentlemen we are nothing but a spec of dust in the entire universe and by us I mean our planet that holds all of us. The idea that in this entire universe this little spec of dust is the only one to hold any form of thought or intelligence is unsettling to say the least.
What I feel is the opposite of claustrophobia and a weird sense of loneliness when I think of myself as a member of, probably the only group of living sentient beings. It is true that you and I or our actions or our joys and sorrows will not matter in the grand picture. We may not even be the first or the last sentient beings in the universe. I do not think that we were accidents though and you shouldn't either regardless of whether you believe in God or not. If you believe in God you already believe in the inherent superiorly of human race which is in all honesty a dumb idea. If you don't believe in God it means that everything in the world came into existence as reaction which in itself doesn't have anything accidental about it, you mix A and B you get C that's just the way universe is, we are a state in an on-going reaction at the scale of the universe. Either way we're not accidents. We're a possibility that came into existence which makes me think of all the different possibilities that had to be eliminated for me to exist. Every second in our lives is a unique link created at that exact moment from the sea of possibilities that could have been.
You can't help but feel a little special. Not because of any inherent merit of who you are but simply because you are here. We are here and alive, watching yet another night sky as the stars burn bright and black holes consume gluttonously , witnessing this single moment in time as a sentient being able to witness, perceive and feel it's beauty.
I am grateful for being alive and to be alive with others that I can love and have a sense of belonging with, to whom my life and decisions I take matter without whom even the most beautiful of the symphonies, the most awe inspiring painting and every ground breaking discovery I make would go unnoticed and unappreciated. I am worried about the how lonely we humans may be as a species of intelligent beings but at the same time I am also grateful for having other humans that add meaning to my life.
We may in fact be alone in the universe at least for now but that doesn't mean we don't have visitors. Halley's Comet is one such visitor. Halley's Comet looks like what you might call a shooting star and comes to visit us once every 75–76 years. Which means if someone gets lucky enough it's possible to see Halley's Comet twice in a single lifetime. In fact Halley's comet is the only comet with this property. Unfortunately I won't be able to witness the Halley's Comet twice. I am jealous of the generation that gets to. Imagine comparing life and humanty between Halley's one visit and the other. That must be an experience. There's also a possibility I won't ever watch it pass by which would totally suck all things considered. I do hope I get to witness the next visit though, 62 years old, still being quirky, being even more annoying about software freedom now that I am an old geezer and more importantly hopefully still surrounded by people I love.
Actually the Observable Universe is about 90 Billion light years wide. It is possible that the Universe is much bigger than that.
Even if we travel at the speed of light we probably won't be able reach the end of the universe as the universe is ever expanding and by the time we've reached the point that we thought was the 'end' of the universe, the universe would've expanded and the end will just seem further away. The only possible way to accomplish this feat would be to travel at a speed faster than the speed at which the universe is expanding which is faster than the speed of light. I am of course not going to get into general relativity and space-time simply because I don't know enough on the matter and this blog post isn't the right place for it.
Here’s my (twenty-second) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world.
This was my 31st month of actively contributing to Debian. I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/
I spent most of my free time on Clubhouse but still did everything I usually do (but did not go much beyond that, really).
Anyway, I did the following stuff in Debian:
This was my 6th month of actively contributing to Ubuntu. Now that I’ve joined Canonical to work on Ubuntu full-time, there’s a bunch of things I do! \o/
I mostly worked on different things, I guess. But mostly on packaging keylime and some Google Agents upload(s) and SRU(s). Also did a lot of reviewing, et al.
I was too lazy to maintain a list of things I worked on so there’s no concrete list atm. Maybe I’ll get back to this section later or will start to list stuff from next month onward, as I’ve been doing before. :D
Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years. Debian LTS is not handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success.
And Debian Extended LTS (ELTS) is its sister project, extending support to the Jessie release (+2 years after LTS support).
This was my twenty-second month as a Debian LTS and eleventh month as a Debian ELTS paid contributor.
I was assigned 39.75 hours for LTS and 40.00 hours for ELTS and worked on the following things:
Until next time.
:wq for today.
Software Freedom Camp (Diversity Edition) 2021 is an online mentorship programme focusing on diversity organized by Free Software Community of India and inspired by Free Software Camp 2020 and Outreachy. You can learn more about the camp by visiting the camp website.
We have now opened our mailing list for announcements, Matrix/XMPP/IRC powered chat room and Mastodon/Pleroma/Fediverse accounts to receive updates about this year’s Software Freedom Camp Diversity edition. Feel free to join/follow us on any of these mediums for announcement regarding opening of registration and other updates regarding the camp.
If you want to join as a learner or a mentor, please check this link.
We are also looking for more people to join our organizing team. If you are interested, write an email to camp at fsci.in with a short introduction about yourself.
Looking forward to your participation in the camp.
Codema Link: https://codema.in/d/rkfOi48N/a-blog-post-on-announcing-software-freedom-camp-2021-diversity-edition-
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This month was fun. I officially joined my new company and currently going through the technical on-boarding process. So far so good. The Macbook Pro is still not something I'd use as my primary machine but it is what it is. I have no choice but to use it at work. My laptop's screen was damaged for about a year now and I finally repaired it last week. During that time I used my Macbook Pro exclusively and it wasn't bad. I sort of found work-arounds to emulate my usual workflows and after a few days I got used to it. But then I got my machine back and used my window manager again and honestly at that point I knew I never could never be satisfied with anything else. I needed a free (as in freedom) operating system. I needed it to be hackable. I needed my window managers. It was not just a question of productivity but also comfort. I've been spoiled.
Moving on, most of my free time these days was spent around Student Developers Society's fourth anniversary which happens to be today, 29th July. Considering the pandemic everything should obviously be online, otherwise we would've organized a meetup but there's not much point in dwelling too much on what could've been. We had invited three speakers to talk on the occasion. The theme was Entrepreneurship and we invited people we felt were doing something different from what is the norm today in terms of running a for profit entity. The sessions so were great and we are happy with our choices in terms of speakers. Tommorrow we're holding a sort of hacker's meetup that we intend to do every month and will be open for the community to join. We're trying to be more active now. We were sort of in the process of finding ourselves since our founder left us a year ago. I think we're getting there but it is a working progress.
We've also been working on getting a minimal blog setup and getting all our infrastructure in order. We have a working website already but it's an overkill for what we want. We've already decided on moving the blog part to Hugo and that's pretty much done. The main website really needs a cleanup. I will either rewrite the thing to minimal version of what it is right now or move it to a minimal framework such a flask. If you're interested in stuff like this and want to volunteer do let me know. We're also looking for a email service provider that respects their users' privacy. We also want the service provider to be running FOSS systems throughout. Oh and yeah, support for custom domains. It is weird that we don't have many options in this regard because email is something so basic. Anyways that is a working progress.
Among other things I've been looking again at programming languages. I may have found 2 somewhat known yet very interesting languages. Will probably make a post both of them once I've played around with them enough. I'm also learning more ruby so that's there too.
I am also switching to wayland full time. I wish there was a better selection of window managers on wayland but right now Sway seems to be the only option. I miss a lot of things I had with bspwm but the change is inevitable. Wayland is the future.
Overall a fun month. I have been taking a break from writting any serious code for a while now and I think it's time to get back to it. Hopefully during August I will.
It gets better, however life is now, it gets better. Whatever situation, hardship, existential thoughts/crisis one is facing now, things work out in the end. I highly encourage you to see ‘Episode 17 - The Watchman - चौकीदार’ of Doordarshan’s Malgudi Days on YouTube (on Invidious or Piped) to see what I meant here.
On a personal level, my ‘College Over’ post two months back wasn’t an optimistic one. Things seem not so good with the ending of college and no particular path in mind. Now, as I’m writing this, I’m working with MakeMyTrip as Quality Assurance engineer (or SDET ;)) and will complete two months with them on the coming 10th. It happened all of a sudden. Everything seems fine, colleagues are great and helpful, the package is great (more than I even thought of). I look back and see how things change, and mostly for the better. Looking further back, 11th-12th were grueling times, so much so that I didn’t visit my native place for two years. Stressful times those were, but it turned out fine in the end.
In yester-month when Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) was launched, and I got it on my new phone, I was discussing it with Abhay in-game. Two-three years back, when PUBG Mobile was a thing, me and Abhay had multiple issues playing it. My mobile would sweat and heat up while running it. I would sit outside in veranda to even get reasonable internet connection. Now both, me and Abhay have relatively capable mobile devices with fiber internet connections at home (and both have entered professional life) so playing it is easier and more fun now. Things are better now.
In the end, I would like to conclude with Shahrukh Khan’s dialogue -
[…] अगर सब ठीक ना हो, तो दी एनड़ नहीं है दोस्तों; पीचर अभी बाकी हैं।
Translation and actual video (on Invidious or Piped) of complete dialogue.
It’s been a year since I started fiddling with servers (expiration of AWS 12 months free tier on 30th June told me that). Most of the stuff just manages fine (or that’s what I believe).
Presently, following are all the virtual rigs I manage for personal stuff:
These rigs power the following, ever evolving list of software packages:
I’m working to setup the following service:
PS: This post was inspired from this thread on Mastodon (archive link here. Also, it seems most folks have reply set to some non-public setting, login through your fedi account to see the complete thread). People self host crazy amount of stuff and email ;)
via these fine people and organizations:
