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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.

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 52 minutes ago)

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? 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.