They’re not really enemies. It would be unprofitable for both if one destroyed the other for good.

It’s a classic cartoonish exaggeration. Nobody has that nose shape either.

Unfortunately, copyright is purposefully designed so that most works going into the public domain are irrelevant by then and nobody’s willing to convert them.

A good portion of houses in my country never received a telephone line. Straight from arranging calls between phone booths to mobile.

Before 1989, the state monopoly had an installation backlog of several years (you could only get a line fast if you were high up in the party or had friends at the telco), high monthly fees and was woefully behind on tech: there was no digital voice equipment on the whole network, while the US’s Bell trunk network had all-digital audio by 1970. Even until like 1980, in regional towns of 30k-50k, they required you to speak to operators for out-of-town calls. After 1990, the company privatized but it was still prohibitively expensive to get a line set up, as so much money needed to be spent to belatedly bring the network into the digital era. The monopoly ended around 2000 and prices went down but by that point, people saw the dawn of mobile and didn’t want to pay for a new phone line anymore.

Me too but those are not really tech, they’re a classic carnival item

Not a genius. This thing is called a monogram, the most basic logo design. Used mostly by couples, law firms and couples’ law firms.

You’re right, at that size the AI is not very concerning either.

Do your and your partner’s names both start with L?

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)

In that way, yes, but the logos that feature small text (Groovy, Lua) didn’t turn out well at all.

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

What is the “LL” monogram in the second one? I crudely recreated it to reverse-image-search but got no results.

Did you look closely at Jellyfin? The things in the dark are OK, they add flavor, which was an artistic choice − the problem is unrealistic silhouettes of people & animals in one mosaic piece. Also, it’s rotated on the laptop, and so is Debian.

The hand and face (bottom right) on Gimp is way more awful.

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!

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.

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).

And leave threads lying in directions you touched them in. Yes, it’s a lot of RAM but who needs multitasking? Impression at the store is what drives sales.

Come on, at least cowsay or robotfindskitten. I once hacked into a Linux kiosk and found the former in a “games” directory.

I wonder if some rogue hardware designer could justify this port layout on some mass-produced commercial device, distributing the message to unsuspecting buyers.

Printers (the most common USB-B device nowadays) could use USB-C for power. They never need more than one USB-A, though (and in the rare use cases the user can supply a hub if supported in software; also that tends to be on the front).

It’s not a part of the title but yes, “app” is the official descriptor now.