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

This week's #inkscape update video is out. And it's loooonnng, and me reading you a spreadsheet.

Artists love spreadsheets right? 🤪

I've digested 500 youtube comments to distil just what is wrong with Inkscape (according to #affinity users) and it's kinda interesting: https://tilvids.com/w/9jZ87HCLTUBZyCZtsRj3Z3

It's interesting that with #affinity being acquired by #canva users respond with their hope that it doesn't now enshitify.

And I kind of feel: People know. They *know* that these companies are unsafe stewards of their work tools. But invest in that system regardless.

Not sure how to convince people to invest in open source instead so this kind of thing *can't* happen. Not just hope won't, but structurally can't happen.

I'm looking for a more up to date distro than @system76's popos and linux mint which are both based on Ubuntu 22.04 and are now too old for #inkscape development (gtk4 issues).

I've tried Fedora and it's just not very good. I could use it just as a building OS, but having to reboot to get into a nice desktop isn't a great setup.

And I'm *really* lazy, so no arch, gentoo, etc.

And no Ubuntu. I don't do enshitified linux.

Any thoughts?

@yoavzack @thelinuxEXP

I think I'll be forced to use Fedora.

Between being forced to use Ubuntu and being forced to use Fedora. I think I'm bleeding from the edginess of Gtk4 development. Kinda wish jhbuild had worked, but no dice.

I can't see any of the other distros being stable enough really. I watched the linked video a few times, but not much in it as not all distros are up to date.

@ocdtrekkie @ariadne @scott @msw

"Philosophy rooted in libertarianism doesn't understand or care about economics. More dog bites man after the next commercial break."

The problem with the reactionary philosophies from Redis et al is their baby with bathwatering of the assurance framework of multi stakeholder and non profit leadership.

Trust and money must be possible together in any successful Foss system.

@Capheind @MnemosyneSinger @Hunterrules0_o

The linking of buses to poor people is one of the more corrosive propaganda successes of the car industry.

Being alone isn't strength.

In the neighbourhood association business; people who walk and bus are involved in their communities more, even if they also drive. It's car *dependence*, not car ownership that breaks community bonds and feeds a lonely and unsustainable lifestyle.

"The car, but not only the car."

@Ross_Greensill @lostgen @Jennifer @Jyoti

Rebrand,

it's the American way!

Let's just call everything cops. Book cops are librarians, fire cops obvs, transit cops (but for actually driving the bus), kid cops (teachers) and kidney cops (surgeons)

We can even keep the whole "marginalised-groups-get-more" thing, but you know, just more teaching/health/etc instead of violence.

@cstanhope @theruran

Requim, Free Software has never been a socialist project. The convergences are coincidental. And if you ask the old guard, a lot of them are libertarians who to be honest seem to think software development budgets come from universities or parents.

There is a lot more about the economics of Software Freedom, and also the economics of cohesion, control, convenience and community.

@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?