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• Post #4472496

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@elementary/116935879957436125 We fight injustice and we friend society; thus I believe Inkscape is also a social warrior project. I mean why even bother turning up to do this much free labour if it wasn't *for* something important? Why want for change if that change isn't any better for the people in your society? Or the world? Or yourself even? Libertarians give me gas.

• Post #4148937

  All free software maintainers will be randomly assigned a local user. You must go to their house and watch them install your rust crate, python wheel, flatpak and you must watch them use it all the way through. If they like it you will be given a cup of tea. Library maintainers will be assigned a nearby junior developer and script writers will be assigned a fresh faced junior admin. I don't make the rules, this is just the law now. #foss #oss #code #design #ux

• Post #3942385

  #wordCup It's always about politics. You can have trump lifting the trophy with Argentina; a friendly corrupt country that loves them some orange politics. Or Spain, who told trump to go fuck himself over his boondoggle Iran War faster than any other EU country. I know what I'd prefer.

• Post #3850722

  "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/15/linus-torvalds-tells-ai-haters-to-fork-off/5271894 What is it with privileged white men who feel their position in society as a coddled person makes the concerns of every other living being a nuance to be fought until we all just accept the bright end-of-history where there is nothing wrong because there is no politics. There are...

• Post #3840181

  World cup idea: In the knockout stages you're allowed to steal one of the players from the defeated team as a spoil of battle. They have to play for you for the rest of the world cup. #worldCup

• Post #3789376

  RE: https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/116692226383767669 #PayForFreeSoftware The reason we want normal people to pay for their Free Software is because we want normal people to direct the priorities and direction of projects. Not programmers, not business gurus and certainly not hedge funds and billionaire monsters. Who pays chooses. If we want this Free Software economics problem to find a solution then we must be willing to take an extremely sobering look in the mirror to see the people caus...

• Post #3770536

  Finally got the energy to do a new #inkscape update video. Come check out the round up of news: https://youtu.be/A0kTxm-JNjQ Overall, I don't mind saying that the money is drying up. I know you folks will appreciate that, a lot of people are in the same boat; folks getting fired and the economy just not healthy. So if you're in a position to help my Inkscape funding project, now would be a great time to join over on liberapay or patreon.

• Post #3755482

  I bought this because of #Mosstodon

• Post #3741688

  Your health insurance premium is tax Your car repayments is tax Your data center electricity surcharge is tax You voted for them to reduce your taxes but all they did was privatise taxes and call them by other names. You pay more now then you ever would under any public system. A vote for tax reduction is a vote for hidden taxes.

• Post #3698696

  Olives can be pitted or pittiful.

• Post #3698695

  RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116890406198614167 This is an unreasonably good article about color, seeing in the real world with examples and a story to tell about the hunt for colors. If you have a few minutes to spare, maybe a cozy nook; go fill your head will colors. @CmykStudent

• Post #3698694

  Just had a delightful meeting with @rolandixor and you know that saying "This meeting could have been an email" Well this meeting should have been a podcast. 🥰 #opensource #foss

• Post #3673379

  I have no idea what #inkscape 1.5 is going to look like when it's done, except for a massive pile of features and changes. It's going to be quite something. Anyway, here's a tiny tiny useful Node editing feature. Holding Alt to constrain the node to the path itself.

• Post #3441802

  I'm going to sleep. If anyone is wondering why the #inkscape website is down, it's because it's being crushed by AI bots again, so I've taken it offline. I tried to put in more ip-blocks, and then tried to install Anubis. But I'm not a sysadmin and so this is just taking time to do. Can't do much of it tonight (this morning) so I'm afraid it's staying offline.

• Post #3005288

  It's raining One man has a million umbrellas, the people have none. It's raining The man commands the media to say how people are too lazy to will themselves dry these days. It's raining The government operates a sophisticated office of umbrella protection to reduce all the umbrella crime. They only patrol a large pile of umbrellas. It's raining Politicians promise umbrella manufacturing and all umbrellas will double! They keep their promise and the pile is doubled. It&#3...

• Post #2547062

  Aw poor @GIMP; Linus and co were so careful not to turn up the heat on any open source projects trying their best. But Gimp still got both barrels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK02VOGWEv0 Thing is, I think we all know the problems in our own projects. And with the resources we'd figure out these problems. @CmykStudent

• Post #2482020

  Did you know that #Inkscape is the biggest project on #GitLab after the gitlab codebase itself? After moving from #launchpad and #bzr, we don't have the energy to move the project again. So it looks like we'll be putting up with whatever GitLab decides to do to us. A large complicated and, ingrown project like ours would need some very special attention to move. Unfortunately. #foss #Freesoftware #opensource

• Post #2393021

  RE: https://mastodon.green/@christineburns/116545541460776197 If you have a heat pump, I think we end up giving our neighbours a tour. I've given four of them so far to various people. Nothing like a living, breathing example to get people thinking!

• Post #2393019

  Why are they always a wolf in boogle clothing?

• Post #2393018

  #Swapped got mediocre reviews compared to #Hoppers; I dissent. The basic story is pedestrian, yes; but it gets significant points for being visually inventive, discusses in-group/out-group, immigration (stop the boats!), the pain we inflict on each other and how to achieve forgiveness for being a part of a structural problem, not just an individual wrong. I also enjoyed some smaller writing components that bucked tropes, but could easily be overlooked in a rush to dismiss the #film #cartoon

• Post #2392526

  Dear real internet. Because search is so terrible and failing me: do you know of any LibreOffice Calc ChartType Add-ins? Basically the selection of chart types is pretty rotten and I'd like to be able to generate other things. But I can't find anything. And it would surprise me greatly if such a customisation had never been achieved before. Especially since the in built options are so basic. #help #libreoffice #chart #graphics #data

• Post #2109710

  "Can you come show us how to make pies" they asked me. A local American café run by a friend that struggles to find decent pies in Boston Then what kind of pie to do? It needed to be very easy to make; while being quintessentially British and not something Americans have seen before Butter Pie! A N. British pie with potato, onion, butter and pepper. That's it! So I spent today with a hair net on making and teaching pie making in a commercial kitchen. #food #pie #englishfood #...

• Post #1933096

  I opened my front door and a gray squirrel was right there, centre of the porch not a meter away. It looked right at me; then without reason put one little paw on its heart like it was pledging fealty. We stood there staring at each other for half a minute before without anxiety, it scampered towards the hedge. Q: Am I required now to buy it a Tippy bow? And while I have the proportional programming strength of a programmer is that enough for squirrel shenanigans?

• Post #1869486

  RE: https://mstdn.social/@fsiddi/116489467846028089 I feel like the response really hit them like a Roosendaal of Cuboid Primitives. I actually don't doubt Blender's people's commitment to doing the right thing. What I'm interested in is: Are they weak when there's sufficient money on the table? or credulous to to how money shapes decision making? I think I would have just spun the money out into a third party who hired their own contractors who would b...

• Post #1820161

  For @teruterubozu@toot.wales who always pronounces SQL as "Squirrel". #SQL #OReillyMedia #Marvel #squirrelGirl #Parody

• Post #1751891

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Blender/116482997785333001 Reputation is one of the most valuable things any social project has. It can inspire people to do great things together. Money is, *waves hand*, helpful; but just a thing. It's not valuable in itself, only in what things it can be transacted to get people to do for you. If you trade inspiration for transactional power, then you no longer need to lead people, just money. And money just isn't as valuable as people. #Blender #PayF...

• Post #1731806

  #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #cartoon #comic #privateEye

• Post #1728614

  MBTA train announcement, cute little kid says over the load speaker: "hello my name is neeko and the mbta is making me say: please stand back from the edge of the platform" Making you? Who do we need to call to save neeko from the mbta announcement bunker? 😆 #Massachusetts #boston #mbta #transit

• Post #1498736

  Advice please. There's a criticism that a prohibition on AI use in Inkscape would inhibit a new contributor's understanding of such a large codebase. There is no moral model I know of. But I am sympathetic to anyone to wants to understand a codebase as large and byzantine as ours and uses tools they feel help them overcome what would otherwise be an insurmountable amount of complexity. Is there a policy which would accommodate assistive, investigative modes without permitting authori...

• Post #1186022

  I find it interesting that the non-technical people have been replying to their rejection emails with "thanks for the opportunity" etc. But very few of the programmers are. I wonder if there's an etiquette difference, or age perhaps?