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

@mattl

I'm in my middle-evil phase at the moment. Using a metal tea "bag".

Though most places will give you a discount if you bring your own cup. Fool to thyself if yuh don't.

@mattl

Not desolate enough. 😂

Oh @ZachWeinersmith please tell me that the guy in this comic https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/hole is called "Chad"

The hole punch holes of memes.

I don't want to make an "#Inkscape Pro", it's divisive language.

But I am interested in the idea of an "Inkscape Community Edition" which unlike pseudo-oss doesn't mean "the free one", it means "the paid one". You HAVE to pay for the community edition. Or you can contribute your time to the project, you also get it then.

But this is because I'd like my users to understand their role and responsibility in maintaining the software they depend on. Without creating some judging people's art.

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I'd also be interested in a network of tools. So if you pay for #Gimp or #Krita or #Blender but not Inkscape. Perhaps you can also have the community edition.

This edition does exactly the same thing by the way. There's never a difference in functionality. Just a marker that says you're doing the right thing.

Maybe a different splash screen. For fun.

The point is getting people into a relationship with the project so things can be maintained without suffering in silence.

@mattl you're on macOS these days. Do you know?

@caio

This large ant is exploring my hotel room on the 12th floor in NY state, she's not shy. Slightly red, quite large.

Any idea why species?

@futurebird

@futurebird thanks!

She seems lethargic and not so much foraging, as sticking around in one place.

The second photo shoot went better:

I realised this morning that people outside this thread can't see any of the replies after this one.

The good news is that she was carefully put into a cup and delivered to a small wood last night. The wood was damp and smelled of rotting wood so hopefully a fitting home. Big thanks to @futurebird for advice on what to do and identifying this ant queen. ❤️

A funny thought happened: How old is rock paper scissors? Then i thought, what would this same game look like to a Paleolithic hunter? Or if I time traveled and wanted to play a game with one could I teach it so it made sense?

I think rock. Rock is easy, rocks are rocks. Hand is next, replaces paper. Hand controls rock. Next is flint for scissors. Rock knaps flint, but flint cuts hand and hand controls rock.

Rock, hand, flint.

#wordplay #Paleolithic #game

@jk

Good thread.

#foss often feels like the software of Theseus, except the onboard shipwrite is a kid who has to do all the carpentry because no one else will help, so things keep falling off as we sail.

And I say that as someone constantly glueing bits of #inkscape back together after every release. The complexity begs for a hundred times the paid labour, but our economic proposition doesn't provide enough resource to staff things properly.

#PayForFreeSoftware

@futurebird

We have a fun Spirograph extension in Inkscape, written in python.

Can be really pretty. I should test the output with the shape builder....

#privateEye #comic #cartoon #AiArt #ai #robots #radiology #medicine #art

@mattl

The mattyiest leeiest thing ever seen.

I think I'm Lister, but I'm probably actually Rimmer.

#Scouse

@McCullohMD @georgetakei

Tea can also be a reason things get strained in a relationship.

#babyNames #dns #domains #domainname #comic #cartoon #ThePrivateEye

I've made many videos. But this is one that is making me laugh out loud for a couple of days now.

Just, so, silly.

Kinda funny, but kinda interesting to see more people move to Linux based on the politics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm51xZHZI6g

#linux #mint #opensource #FreeSoftware #floss

@raphael @thecupid

That isn't clear at all!

And does it delete the data if I unfollow them?