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Does anyone else proudly display the what they self host on their laptop? The hardest part is removing old stickers when you port from one project to another (Trilium and Obsidian for example). People ask me all the time what's this or that sticker. I'm impressed when they can pick one out on their own.
FOSS source is here.
I don't get how you "self-host" some of these things like Linux, Ubuntu, Android, and Raspberry Pi. Are you saying you installed them on your computer or am I missing something?
I only have one laptop, so not every sticker is a self hosted software. Others are things I use and enjoy.
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
I didn't feel that Tailscale was FOSS but I'll add that one to the gallery. I swore I checked Debian when I stuck it so I must have rotated the swirl in production pre-hexing. AOSP could replace Android but a) I'm not running an AOSP device and 2) their current logo isn't that shape friendly. But I might try anyway.
What is the "LL" monogram in the second one? I crudely recreated it to reverse-image-search but got no results.
Something entirely not tech related but I love the investigative spirit
Do your and your partner's names both start with L?
It isn't but that's a great idea. Mosaic of photos of us to make our initials. You're a genius.
Not a genius. This thing is called a monogram, the most basic logo design. Used mostly by couples, law firms and couples' law firms.
Since I see both on here,
Trilium > Obsidian
I've used both but really like jotty...
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:
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.
Why post this ai generated content? Since when does the docker logo have the Cassandra eye in it?
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).
Fair. It’s not just that one though. I notice a lot of weird things there.
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!
Look at the Jellyfin one. Why is there something breaking the logo from the right? Lots of little things.
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.
The GIMP one is the worst
In that way, yes, but the logos that feature small text (Groovy, Lua) didn't turn out well at all.
Groovy straight up looks like shit. I thought Lua looked okay if you stood 10 feet from the screen and squinted. Even the moon, in recognition of its Brazilian Portuguese roots was included. Understand the intended use is a 2 inch tall sticker so fine details should be lost. It's the forest, not the trees.
You're right, at that size the AI is not very concerning either.
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)
It must be a lot of work to self-host DigitalOcean.
Also Steam... i mean it's a LOT of games!
I'm proud that I got enough users to justify moving that server out of my closet. You think I should replace it with ceph?
Out of interest by "selfhosting" steam are you running a steam cache or just using it? Or is there something else I'm missing lol
I did self host a steamcache years back but no, its one of the few "normie" stickers but few people I know that would even recognize that. I also don't self host the Zigbee protocol, and I gave up OPNsense for Ubitquiti 2 years ago so no, that's not self hosted either. I only have one laptop so my hobbies have to coexist on it.
I only have one laptop so my hobbies have to coexist on it.
And yet I see no pornhub sticker....
you self host your own claude llm? damn and here i thought a 14B deepseek ollama instance was good shit - how did you get access to their proprietary weights?
Hehe, why do you have a butthole next to Tux?
I think it's Claude, the LLM from Anthropic.
Yeah, that's what I said :)
I see Trilium!
I like the idea of this. Perhaps not on a laptop, but small hexagon badges that show some sort is relation to something. Favorite media, projects, software you're good with, coding languages you a comfortable with, etc. A simple snapshot into someone that can be identified easily, what a great conversation starter.
