Notices by Martin Owens :inkscape: (doctormo@floss.social), page 4

@me

A bit out there: but you could create an account with permission, for someone you think would particularly enjoy being here. Do a bunch of set up work, following things, people etc and then hand them the keys.

@clacke

Team Infradestructor!

Substack advice needed.

I got a request from my inlaw about my thoughts on substack. I've heard all sorts and generally respect @molly0xfff's option on villainy. So the question is, what should i recommend?

The brief is: wants to sell pdf versions of sheet music and other similar creative works, wants to promote and link to podcasts. So doesn't look like a blog to me. Any good platforms for that sort of thing?

Managed to get a prototype of the group translucency feature @jfml was asking about the other day.

When you enter a group in #inkscape today, the status bar changes but that's about it. With this change, all other objects not in the group become 80% translucent allowing you to see that you are inside a group and which one on canvas.

Thoughts?

@clacke breaking that container of food coloring.

Love me some clowning.

@clacke

I wanted to show you my festivized hat in turn, but it turns out my phone is a better bicycle then it is a camera. Yikes!

@LiberalArtist @fluepke @eloquence

Like all standards bodies... it's not a body at all, it's a place.

AcivityPub is group of nerds over there by the stack of empty pizza boxes. EME by that group of scary looking corporate dudes standing around that water cooler.

SVG is this play pen of lego bricks that someone has thoughtfully glued together. This is where we play. 🤭

@beeftacos @petergleick

Ignoring the divisor.

This is the same nonsense that says "soon we'll have a computer so super it will be able to think like a human" without dividing by energy consumption. My 100 watt fat sponge beats the pants off of the next few centuries of computers in adjusted power.

So the real unit here is "Mr Rogers per million people" or MrRMP. How efficient are we at creating kindness this year?

2/2

The behaviour in OpenSource actually looks a lot like plagiarism. Claiming you made a program, posting it to the Microsoft store as your own work. Sometimes lazy re-brands while legal (to some nuanced degrees) are quite cringe.

It's thankfully very rare. But we sometimes have to ask stores to shut down inkscape sales if it looks contemptible.

And I think I have better words to express what's different. Does the redistribution respect the project?

There's this thesis in @Hbomberguy latest video about plagiarism¹ that talks about the way plagiarists *think* about the people they copy from as being *beneath* them. Socially acceptable to take advantage of.

It's a fascinating behaviour.

Does #OpenSource have users who think of the creators as contemptible? Probably not, most of the users I talk to aren't like that at all.

Most. One or two have rung this bell for me over the years though

¹ 4 hours long! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ go watch it!

@royalquack @RustyBertrand

I disagree.

The implementation roadblock is in people heads. Art is an interface into people's heads.

It is thus an apt implementation.

I'm thinking I might stop using the term #fediverse #fedi or #activitypub when I want to talk about this community of federated social media services.

It's confusing and to be honest sounds way too much like a corporate brand trying to sell something.

I'm thinking I might start using something like "open internet" in general and "open social media" in particular to make the point that fedi isn't some specific thing; it's the default social media for the open internet.

Am I wrong?

@log @Adam_Cadmon1

Oh it's so much worse than that.

Go have a look at the windrush scandals. Folk *invited* from the colonies to work in post war britain sent "home" to die on the streets of some nation they don't know any more because of a lack of paperwork.

@RandomDamage @barubary @babe

Yes. See reference book https://floss.social/@doctormo/111420632054631594

@babe

If PNG is ping

Then SVG is savage

I have a story from #NotACon

I rode my bike to the event; nine miles through an autumnal New York state.

The hotel didn't have any bike parking when I arrived. My poor bike was left in massive car parking structure.

But...

1/4

2/4

I took pity on my bike; she's not used to being in such a cold and desolate place by herself.

So I brought her into my hotel room. Much more like how she lives at home.

I told her to be good and I went to attend #NotACon ...

@clacke

Yeah, pretty much.

But both are misaligned economics.

Proprietary is far to easy to extort money and ignore user's actual needs.

And Free Software is far too hard to earn money so most work is volunteer and doesn't have any duty to pay attention to user's needs.

We need to fix this by inviting users into contributing to projects. Making that possible to do at all is very new.

@corbet @adamw @bars @marcan

Compiling without assistance from bug wranglers, doc writers and designers is like trying to do a DnD campaign called "woops all rouges"

The impact of Nathan Lee, Suv and now Krlr on inkscape's development has been monumental. None are developers, all kept the issues tracker producing actionable and detailed reports. But all were volunteers.

The ecological failure in foss can be solved, but not with dichotomised economics. Who pays matters. Who says matters.

This is kind of what #journalists and other #celebrities kind of look like when exiting #twitter/#xitter without understanding what went wrong with the billionaire funded social media nonsense.

heh.

Edited in #inkscape and #kdenlive on #popos

#simpsons #meme #rake #sideShowBob #post #bluesky #threads #linkedin