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).

it undermines decades of Unix experience

Which I don’t have. So my interest got piqued.

package everything you want to run

Sounds like a way to finally make my attempts at using Linux organized

bulletproof rollbacks

Horses never look like this when running, indicating this was drawn before the invention of photography.

Maybe Earth is the gravitationally strongest planet they’ve landed on… It’s the biggest rocky one around.

I submitted the mysterious extra n situation on military keyboards as a question for Lateral and they featured it in today’s episode!

Spotify video • Spotify CDN raw file (34:18) • catbox.moe • Podverse.fm clip • Website with transcript

They reserve the right to edit questions and omitted the important n-lock key. A keyboard with a permanently missing 3 would be ridiculous.

Edit: Now it’s also a highlight on YouTube, their second-most-viewed last year, but they didn’t attribute the question to me there, not even in text

That’s insane… Can’t a website owner require bots (at least those who are identifying themselves as such) to prove at least they’re affiliated with a certain domain?

I don’t know what “12,181+181” means (edit: thanks @Thunraz@feddit.org, see Edit 1) but absolutely not 1.2181 × 10¹⁸⁵. That many requests can’t be made within the 39 × 10⁹ bytes of bandwidth − in fact, they exceed the number of atoms on Earth times its age in microseconds (that’s close to 10⁷⁰). Also, “0+57” in another row would be dubious exponential notation, the exponent should be 0 (or omitted) if the mantissa (and thus the value represented) is 0.

Why is the post called 2025-11-17 and not 1992-xx-xx then? The repost date is not really relevant. It had me wondering what newspaper was still printing in black only.

Oh, I thought it was an xkcd reference… the comics just reference the same song.

Siege weapons, anyone?