• OrangeCorvus@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Adobe already killed almost all competition in the creative space and I hate that. I’m thankful for software like Davinci Resolve and the Affinity apps.

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      8 months ago

      Recently learned about Krita too, which is more for art but it’s nice

      There’s a plugin for AI generation now

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        8 months ago

        I didn’t know they had AI generation now, I need to use it again. I haven’t had a project that needed it for a bit.

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        8 months ago

        Oh, I used to like Krita. That’s disappointing that they’re yet another on the AI train

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          8 months ago

          Why though?

          The image generation algorithm is open source and it runs locally. Artists can use it instead of giving up their art to some company to abuse. We’ve had tools like this for years, this is just better and easier to use

  • Wet@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    For anyone using Figma, there’s a free open source alternative called PenPot that’s quite decent.

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    8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Updated The European Commission says Adobe’s proposed $20 billion purchase of web-first design collaboration startup Figma will harm competition in the region unless the pair devise remedies to resolve this.

    The transaction would represent the most expensive sale of a privately owned software company in history, and was flagged as a concern by 16 member states of the European Union in February, such is the lack of credible alternatives to Adobe on the market.

    The EC leaned in for an in-depth investigation of the merger in August, and late on Friday evening - in the Euro time zone - it delivered the damning preliminary verdict in a Statement of Objections.

    By erasing Figma as a competitive hurdle, Adobe would also tighten its grip on the supply of vector and raster editing tools, the EC added.

    The sale was first announced in September 2022, and served to unsettle some developer customers of Figma, ones that were worried Adobe would kill off the free version, or its own XD software, anxiety the clearly EC shares.

    The EU’s regulator isn’t the only one taking a keen interest in the $20 billion merger; the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority and the Department of Justice’s antitrust team are also inspecting the proposal.


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  • MiDaBa@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    American capitalism no longer innovates. It now only stifles competition through patent abuse, regulations that make market entry difficult to impossible and domination of market resources. If all of that fails then they buy the competition and increase prices before repeating the whole cycle all over again.

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    8 months ago

    Oh but they had no problem with Microsoft $68B buyout of Activision Blizzard as long as…

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    they allowed cloud streaming of their games.

    Fucking hypocrites.

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      An UX (user experience) design app. Adobe has his own app for this: Adobe XD (Yes, that’s its actual name) but since nobody wanted it, they decided to buy the competition, that is, Figma.