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Nina Kalinina
@Nina Kalinina

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Or, as my "professional" email signature says, "IT expert and mixed media artificer".

A late millennial, yet I grew up with a ZX Spectrum and used an i486 as my main PC well into 00s.

I have a degree in electrical engineering, majored in industrial and microelectronics, but somehow ended up building massively distributed computer systems. SCADA with sensors scattered across hundreds of miles, L7 balancing for millions of users, corporate video call infrastructure, helping to delete ~petabyte of data a day, and until recently keeping the lights on for a major cloud provider. I learned a lot during my long-ish career, and this knowledge makes me sad and keeps me up at night sometimes.

I never post here in a "working adult" capacity, and wouldn't dare to speak for my current or past employers. Instead, I engage in playful shitpost and creative exploration of technologies that have no commercial applications.

Feel free to DM me, I'll try to reply to all!

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Nina Kalinina · 2w
On the topic of Ubunchu (it is a comic from 2009 about the joys of Ubuntu): I really empathise with Akane prez nowadays. I find it incredible that the comic is licensed under CC-BY-NC and at the same...
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I guess I should mention that there are quite a few chapters of the "Ubuntu!" manga, and some of them are very funny. It is, of course, just an edutaiment about FOSS for a specific group of readers.

If you're looking for more info, English Wikipedia has links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubunchu!

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@nprofile1q... ookahy, so, there's a Japanese comic about Ubuntu, which is a normal thing to have (there's manga about MS-DOS, there's probably manga about anything).

Japanese publishing industry is famous for its harsh treatment of authors and art; in most cases, the publisher owns the intellectual property rights for everything that they print. Most publishers I've heard about would not print something that was distributed in Japan by another publisher or published online, with a few notable exceptions. This comic, freely distributed online, is an example of such an exception.

Now, to the content of the comic itself: one of the comic's characters, the Computer Club's president Akane, is a hardcore sysadmin. She only uses command line in her Slackware Linux, and so she doesn't want any desktop environment. She doesn't want any YouTube, either - I suppose she's an mplayer kind of girl?
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On the topic of Ubunchu (it is a comic from 2009 about the joys of Ubuntu): I really empathise with Akane prez nowadays.

I find it incredible that the comic is licensed under CC-BY-NC and at the same time was actually published by a major publisher (ASCII). I imagine this is an exceptional event (sadly).

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Luis Villa · 2w
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Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: · 2w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqqn8gyfx0vsmaudkmlr37fhrrqj6mwyjh7f8z73gmx8akylu4lrrsddf2ay At the same time non-commercial creative commons (sometimes with Non-Derivative too) has also been the kind of thing that's accepted by other copyright-mafias like SACEM.
Nina Kalinina · 2w
I guess I should mention that there are quite a few chapters of the "Ubuntu!" manga, and some of them are very funny. It is, of course, just an edutaiment about FOSS for a specific group of readers. If you're looking for more info, English Wikipedia has links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubunchu!...
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I just want to learn how to draw manga, and all the guides I read say that the best way to learn how to draw manga is to draw manga, so I did.

It is kinda ugly because I don't know what I'm doing, and I was rushing, and I still can't control the dip pen well, and so on. I knew I'm going to mess up lots, but all and all, I think it is decent for the first "finished" comic. I hope I'll redraw it one day.
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aeva · 3w
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