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

This took a *long* time to get to me. It was hanging out at MIT during Covid and finally someone mailed it to me this year as the lab was being closed up.

It was a fun project to work on, though I wasn't critical. Best I can say is; "I hope I helped" 😅 But I'm also chuffed to bits to have it.

#TESS #NASA #Space #exoplanets #research #satellite

@fnordius @georgetakei

Got off Scott free.

@dalias @hipsterelectron @zwol @ireneista

You would need a functioning government to do that.

I've long considered the GPL to be makeshift law for a space ceded by traditional governments and volunteers to be make shift government infrastructure provision.

In the ideal, we'd have done all of this through a well functioning Democratic process; alas that is not the age we live in.

#foss doesn't just show you how the sausage is made, it recruits you into making them.

Everyone gets to work in the sausage factory, this is not a guided tour, this is participatory community and your help is critical to making thing happen. If you've ever stood around wondering why feature or bug didn't change in a decade, this is why.

(You might think that's unfair or too demanding, but better making sausages than *being* a proprietary sausage 😉)

One day @samuelpepys will post about the version of Linux his wife installed and the flaming row they had afterwards over supper.

#FediFeeling

The company's "HR department" is for the company.

Your HR department is called a Union.

@haui @rasterweb

They break the rule: those that pay, choose.

They are laundering intent, washing away the wishes of users and spending money while disconnecting and disempowering the people who should be at the heart of free software. People.

i.e A callous silly-con valley bs factory.

There's this idea for #inkscape UX that I can't stop thinking about. The suggestion is... using the caps lock.

So the suggestion was that some of the difficulty we have we sharing modifier keys could be alleviated if *some* of the functionality was a mode of the caps lock that when on would change the behaviour of some transformation and moving processes.

It sounds like both a terrible idea and a really interesting idea at the same time and I'm torn.

Imagine the CL fixed the ratio?

@futurebird @VaylLarkinPoet

I have the same feelings about the Free Software cultures I hang out it. As one of the few working class, not university educated programmers it's very clear that there is a pre-thought consensus about simple things like labour, and getting people to do work. A contribution that is easy for a well heeled college grad is a cruel request on a single parent living day to day.

Yet we need diversity, the lack of it eats at our creativity.

Meta tip, do you tip in order to express your tip dislike?

#BitsOnTips

@HauntedOwlbear

I added those in Inkscape 1.4, you can select it from the "New from Template" or the start screen.

No one 😢

#Christmas #Xmas #memes #liverpool #uk #England #Cymru #Scotland

New word alert!

Echosystem - An ecosystem which only has internal inputs and not outside ones. Imagine a cave system.

But for #FreeSoftware projects, what we want is a wide #ecosystem and maybe not so much a closed #echosystem

@Algot

Had to explain to another user why asking a volunteer project to fix an issue is inappropriate.

And I get that's it's a really subtle point here between saying "I also have this problem" (fine) and "Please fix this issue" (not ok)

i.e. You can only ask people you have a relationship with to do work for you. You can NOT ask strangers to labour for you for free, even if you think it's important, or appropriate.

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #PayForFreeSoftware

This is how we normalize Linux use:

https://toot.wales/@teruterubozu/113516885049058009

No pushiness, or advice, just existing positively in non #Foss spaces.

#FreeSoftware #opensource #Linux #PopOS

I asked for a review of the memory management for my new #inkscape PDF exporter. And the reviewer actually tested the results!

It's not ready yet! It's missing so much! DRAFT! DRAFT!

... wait, that's actually really good ... I guess my code is working better than I thought... minus gradients. 😅

@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