Notices by Martin Owens :inkscape: (doctormo@floss.social)

@jwildeboer

I've never felt that FS folks were deliberately privileged. Only that the movement is born out of that population who are often forgetful of economic realities

I part quoted because I don't disagree with anything else. I guess I should have stated more clearly that since freedom is dependant on economic viability for most users, it is a core, non-optional part of the business and politics of Free Software

I particularly keenly agree with keeping space for people who are hobbiests

@jwildeboer

I agree with everything!

Except this: "not about money or not"

The FS world is built from such libertarian privilege that the idea of economic competence being a necessary component is maligned and actively sidelined. Not important they said.

Prey tell how a non programmer is to exercise her freedoms properly when there's no one organized enough to be hired to do the work b/c we pat ourselves on the back for our freedoms we forget about accessiblty.

Would any #inkscape #flatpak users like to make some screenshots for 1.4? I can't make them myself because my operating system (popOS) doesn't have window shadows so it'll fail the checks.

They have some pretty tight requirements: https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/metainfo-guidelines/quality-guidelines/#screenshots

We're currently using just one screenshot, but I think inkscape should have four showing some different things you can do with the program.

@FlatpakApps

Hey media, yes you. You know the word "impartial"? Delete it from your dictionary right now. You don't need it.

Your job is not to have "no side", your job has side. It is to be firmly and unwaveringly on the side of truth and the interests of the people, especially the disadvantaged, against the powers that would own them.

If you keep on with this pseudo-scientific "outside observer" bullshit we shall have to think that you have a side and just don't want to say what it is. 🤨

#media

@rgulick @mekkaokereke

People are not collations of logic; they are a run on sentence of the fanfic stories of the things they've heard that flow into what they already know.

Resisting going with your own mental flow takes work. You've got to rewind, rewrite whole chapters of the story, make it all make sense.

Yes, a lot of it is protecting one's own ego, especially if it's become a life totem, but it's a lot of self-introspection-aversion too.

Sometimes I want the #mastodon star button to be replaced by a hug button.

We've had another #school ask for a certified #inkscape from the project. Various laws have required #software vendors to tick boxes, but we're not a company as a project.

But I am a company as a person.

Would is be silly to sell an Inkscape for Schools and do all the certification work? Put in some custom graphics and maybe strip out the extensions manager and limit the clipart library importer (two inet access tools)

The code would still be foss, but the cert dist would be paid. Thoughts?

@vkc

There seems to be an inflection point where if you are famous enough, mastodon is terrible.

Ask Will Wheaton or @TechConnectify or any of the other people I've seen face this same bullshit.

If it wasn't an issue, it wouldn't keep happening. Question is; what to do about it. And ironically, talking about fixing it on Mastodon is terrible too. It's almost as if talking about the thing on the thing is like crossing the streams and blowing apart the social contract.

This evening myself, @teruterubozu and @Luna_vio went to the "Local Hand" arts and crafts shop to do a "Painting Pet Bowl" event. Just a bit of fun.

I was put on the spot a bit though when it came to the design; The cat I'm making a bowl for is "Pratchett" and I put together this artwork (unvarnished in the photo):

#discworld #GrimSqueaker #Death #Pet #CatsOfMastodon #Rats

Do you use #CAD software and #Inkscape?

The video below shows a feature I've added which was requested from cad users, but the Inkscape designers don't really like it, so I want to know from you if you think this optional functionality is important to you, or if you have never seen it but it would get in the way for you. (it's not enabled by default)

Right to left selection boxes are a touch rectangle, left to right boxes are containment rectangles:

Do you remember a couple of weeks ago when I complained that a very large #python contribution to #inkscape was poorly formatted and I felt embarrassed about pushing back and asking them to run a linter over it?

Yeah I'm not fucking embarrassed now, I'm furious. 🤬

Update: Apparently they meant a small section of it was, not the whole MR. I'm annoyed, but I'll have to take them at their word.

#llm #oss #foss #mergerequest

@mike805 @jenzi @kaye

So the planet Magrathea then?

It also sounds a bit like Frogstar World B. Aliens discover we've all evolved into birds.

#h2g2 #hhgttg

@eshep

Why would you even advertise Linux at all?

Surely the brand you want to build is the one you have control over already.

Shared resources are an ideal, but cooperation also has it's costs I think. Though I favour it.

Do I want people to use #Linux? Yes.

But I'm also very aware of how much of a support network is needed if you are going to be using any particular software. Even companies with $$ to spend fail frequently by focusing on their software and not enough on their socialware.

#Windows problems: Like a friend who eats a terrible truck stop sandwich, the problem isn't my friend, it's the regulations that allow poisonous food to exist in the first place. For now: #sympathy.

https://linuxmom.net/@vkc/112640037474320201

"we are possessed by our societies ... I find it too unpleasant to deviate from what my culture tells me is normal ... vegans will tell you the harder part of their diet isn't the diet is dealing with other people's responses to it."
- Hank Green

This is insightful to us in the #openSource community. The struggle is usually not the software, it's dealing with other people's responses to our decision to deviate from their cultural norms.

https://youtu.be/P29gknBaUqc

#OSS #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware

@mekkaokereke

I usually agree with everything you write. But I'm going to say it:

Twitter isn't a public space.

Comparing two cities which are both public spaces, to one public space (mastodon) and one private space (twitter) is difficult.

Why people choose the private party is a serious point worth acting on. No problem with that argument.

The research suggests people left twitter too quickly anyway. A more protracted campaign of inviting folks over would have worked better.

@Moondancer @mekkaokereke

I agree entirely with the core of the argument.

The nuance I wish to add is about how communities can own what they occupy.

Being together in one space is the whole game in community; owning together is next level.

@BeAware @youronlyone

You may have articulated a key point about migrations.

They only work if people stay on the old platforms and use them to promote their authentic self on new platforms.

The boycott method doesn't work for these systems.

hehe #comic #cartoon #FreeFall

http://freefall.purrsia.com/default.htm

"Republicans for a King" is a hell of a reverse ferret when you think about it.