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Christian Alder
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Building websites, playing board games, editing videos. Will fika ☕️ My Projects and Stuff: https://www.aldr.works /_src 🇸🇪 /_draft 🇬🇧 /_live 🇵🇹 He / Him, Powered by 🌱
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We're just getting towards the end of Season 2, it's just been getting better 👌
Gross, someone I've never heard of before signed me up for their substack. In the bin it goes 🗑️
A free font bundle apparently 🤷 (waiting in the email myself so I’m not 100%)
I truly hope so🤞

I quite like the new unified app approach, and I think I’ll be able to make use of the new image tracing feature.

I’ve not watched the keynote myself but apparently folks who purchased v2 will get a free front package?
Yep; got that to look forward to I guess 😔
I can't remember what the opt-out was for specifically, I think it was more usage analytics than AI training. I had to turn off a few more things through the privacy page on Canva.

For good measure I blocked the app on my firewall too. It seems to work offline no problem after initial install/open.
I think that's the gist of it.

I'm a bit skeptical of this in their privacy policy: www.canva.com/policies/pri...

Though they do allow you to opt-out upon install, and they stated a few times they don't have access to anything local on your machine.
Privacy Policy
This page explains how Canva collects and uses the information that we collect about you when you use the Service. This policy also explains the choices that you can make about the way that we use you...
www.canva.com
😅 My reaction too. I

I've already popped the application behind the firewall app Radio Silence just in case.
Ok, here's why it's "Free"

www.canva.com/policies/pri...

"We may analyze your activity, content, media uploads and related data in your account to provide and customize the Service, and to train our algorithms, models and AI products ..."

You can turn it off in settings, supposedly. 😒
I gave the image tracing a go with a quick sketch - seems good enough, though I don't really have anything to compare it to.

It broke up a few paths but I could easily fix that by merging (vector add) them together.
The new Affinity app is a unified experience (Basically what Affinity Publisher was doing), letting us switch between vector, pixel, and publishing modes, along with a few others.

The UI feels very familiar and I've got no complaints there. Seems easy to customize tools, adding more columns etc.
I'm not here at all for the AI stuff, but I'm keen to see some improvements in the vector design side of things.
The new Affinity thing dropped:
www.affinity.studio

I'm giving it a download to see - At a quick glance it looks like image tracing finally arrived 🥳

They're calling it "free", with the AI features being what's behind a paywall, such as upscaling, image/vector gen, and generative expand tools.
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www.affinity.studio
Just the words "You're absolutely right!"
What terrifying thing are you dressing as this Halloween I'm dressing up as acid reflux
To the folks I've seen mentioning the TV show Slow Horses, thank you 🙏 Just started and we're liking it a lot.
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Nice, they’ll be good talks ☺️
The official replacement we got kinda sucked after a while using it too. Play/Pause button seems to get stuck, and there’s a weird click on the central button 😭

Next time I’m going 3rd party.
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WHO NEEDS FREE CURSORS? FREE CURSORS COME GET YOUR CURSORS PIXEL AND VECTOR ALL FREE COME GET YOUR CURSORS BEFORE THEY RUN OUT

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Self-hosting no, but dealing with Google, slightly 😅
But yeah, glad it's sorted too :)
Final Update:

"Google has received and processed your security review request. Google systems indicate that hejchristian .com no longer contains links to harmful sites or downloads. "

It never did, but thanks I guess. At least it wasn't something I'd done.

Back to tinkering I go!
Clocks went back and I'm here for it.
I'll keep an eye out for it 🥳