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2026-08-27 23:43:38 CEST

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Correct; their metrics will emph the immediate but the dangers are all in the long grass. Bitkeeper didn't explode in Torvald's face until it'd been in use for years and that was amateur garden jersey potatoes compared AI.

2026-08-27 23:20:08 CEST

RE: https://aus.social/@Hyperlynx/117135873511146627
"I can't see how it could be any other way"
Let's jump to the answer without thinking:
Responsibility Labour. i.e. You fix this with human beings labouring for OTHER human beings
How do you get that? You can't FORCE other human beings to labour for you. Not even for Free Software; sorry.
Many do choose to serve their community through volunteer labour It's good. But it isn't enough.
Millions of users need commercial labour to contribute. We must bring in paying users
#PayForFreeSoftware
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2026-08-23 16:16:12 CEST

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James Randi haunts you for 14 minutes and 32 seconds.

2026-08-22 20:47:55 CEST

And we're done!
You can see the more American style dumplings I've gone for here. The goal is to share this speciality from home at a neighbours #cookout and I think this will work well as it's very similar to biscuits and gravy.
Ingredients: https://floss.social/@doctormo/117140300943424123
#food #cooking #hotpot #scouse
https://cdn.masto.host/floss/media_attachments/files/117/140/636/123/495/658/original/b5f948594b073d98.jpg

2026-08-22 19:19:02 CEST

Today's #cooking is a Lancish Scouse. A sort of fusion of those two great foreign powers of #Liverpool and #Lancashire.
The #recipe is mostly the flavours of a Lancashire #HotPot and the sensibilities and potatoes of a #Scouse. With #dumplings tops. We'll see how the self raising flour goes to make those.
https://cdn.masto.host/floss/media_attachments/files/117/140/283/472/273/125/original/0b2cf0e86a88130f.jpg

2026-08-22 17:42:37 CEST

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There is no "the left", just a set of people who have common cause to oppose oppression in this specific instance.
Free Software and Linux have always been and will always be, deeply political. The people who make up the projects choose what politics to stand by; and yet others choose to reject their politics where they see harm.
There is no such thing as an apolitical free software project.

2026-08-22 00:25:27 CEST

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The whole building is crammed with importer post-WWI "saved" from the ashes of war. French floors, busts, lights, wood panelling.
It has the feel of a building Sim game where you can theme and decorate; but the player decided to put one of every clashing style everywhere, randomly.
Also a bloody Ho-ho. In bloody 1928. Who even does that!

2026-08-22 00:22:04 CEST

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This one is a boongoggle of a thing up near Gloucester, MA. Built ten years after your Crane House. https://historicipswich.net/crane-estate/

2026-08-21 23:54:49 CEST

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Would this be a Crane House of the toilet Cranes? There's one of those up on the North Shore of MA.

2026-08-21 18:40:36 CEST

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Oh god i can see the LOTR tie in advertising campaign when i close my eyes. Damn youuuu!

2026-08-21 16:57:44 CEST

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That's so hideous my soul cries out for a content-warning, but I know it needs to be seen.

2026-08-18 21:14:25 CEST

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In this case it smells like regulatory capture.
Remember the tax on tea that so annoyed the founding fathers? It wasn't a tax that was so annoying, it was being forced to buy expensive tea from the British East India company as a state sponsored monopoly. Now they do the same state sponsored corruption, just with red tape instead of royal edicts.

2026-08-17 21:18:39 CEST

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Unlike proprietary software the value is not in the thing as written, but in the ongoing labour and the ability to organise labour for that thing
Free Software is a fundamentally different proposition and it hurts me when folks misunderstand and imagine Linux is something akin to Windows that you either bare the pain of or depart for elsewhere.
The kernel's Labour is driven by hardware vendors, not users. A friendly reminder that our broken economics opens terrible doors

2026-08-17 01:35:01 CEST

RE: https://mastodon.social/@GroupNebula563/117106585502714589
In Robert Peel's little know seminal work "Who died and made you a police officer", the surprising answer is; We are all police, well, at least that idealised Brownian motional negotiated social contract with watching of watchers citizen police... not the hired goons of the rich that operate as a city gang with a handcuff kink verity.
😜
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2026-08-17 01:06:01 CEST

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The great thing about #PayForFreeSoftware is that you can pay with things other than money. I did a talk about it ages ago but can't find it now.
You have reputation, or the promise of the charity's public good aims. Your own friendships, or old obligations.
Although it's always good to pay with money as it completes the obligation quickly and is cleaner than other models that require relationships to be deeper and longer than you might want at this stage.

2026-08-16 19:29:35 CEST

RE: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/117106278177393786
"I know you're not supposed to talk about how much you make"
This anti-labour propaganda creates "information asymmetry" where your boss knows how much everyone is making and you do not.
ALWAYS talk about how much you are earning. How many days off you get. How many millions of views you need to make a living. Every single coffee break, every single video. Never stop sharing information with your peers.
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2026-08-16 19:17:46 CEST

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a script is just a series of tubes.

2026-08-16 17:54:02 CEST

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The banana guy is called Macintosh?
Universe; you're doing it again. 🤨

2026-08-16 16:05:57 CEST

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Hence the word "Naughty".
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2026-08-16 15:53:12 CEST

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A really good show I caught on Netflix. Shame it didn't get a second season, this sort of high-concept sci-fi type of thing never does as you need stamina to make great things and these corpos are all artistic couch potatoes.

2026-08-16 00:58:45 CEST

RE: https://mastodon.social/@robinince/117101834361863400
I certainly understood why you didn't want to name names Robin. But I'm glad you did. I feel a lot of people are getting away with a lot of bad because of their victims protect them.
I don't like the idea that people turn bad. But I've seen it in the skeptics community, people who ort to know better, who have some defence against memetic hate, turn themselves into monsters. Not because they wanted to to be bad, but because they are wound up so much they break.
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2026-08-15 22:56:30 CEST

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The trust network is real, the trust network knows all 😉
@npub105p…s59j @npub1vl7…f6g0

2026-08-15 16:31:55 CEST

This week's #inkscape update video is out. I'm mostly recovered but I can see when I was editing that I don't look or sound full strength. Who knew recovery time was real 😅
https://youtu.be/lpNa3_pdpjI

2026-08-15 06:40:14 CEST

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I wouldn't know if it were best, I'm allergic.

2026-08-15 06:09:21 CEST

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Absolutely is. O e that was made worse by doctors recommending pregnant people not eat peanuts.
But someone can be allergic to peanuts, tree nuts, coconut, and it is extremely rare to be allergic to more than one at the same time.
Though many people get psycosematic reactions to all of them if they don't know the difference.

2026-08-15 05:54:23 CEST

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Not a nut¹
¹ for the purpose of allergies

2026-08-14 19:22:11 CEST

Faken Lettuce and Tomatoe sandwich?

2026-08-14 18:03:59 CEST

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in my many update videos.
Or the code. Or asking me directly.
What are you interested in?

2026-08-14 18:03:04 CEST

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Inheritance means once you start cutting off heads, you may find it difficult to stop.
In fact inheritance tax is used as an excuse for why wealth taxes aren't needed. Though this makes no mathematical sense as balance must be possible before mortal decoiling.

2026-08-14 17:22:52 CEST

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yes, no option but to re engine the whole thing away from being but under by Cairo and rgb integer channels.

2026-08-14 16:02:45 CEST

First time I've gotten Inkscape to load with the new #inkscape rendering engine.
Sure, the checkerboard colors are poxed, the page shadow has a fringe, none of the preview images load in practically any of the interface and it crashes super easily. Oh and it's noticeably slow.
But, hurray! Progress.
https://cdn.masto.host/floss/media_attachments/files/117/094/220/723/434/332/original/07c43f2e19b092b8.png

2026-08-14 04:17:50 CEST

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Never fall for the seductive idea that wealth tax is just about raising money. It would still help the economy if you taxed them and then set fire to the money.
Reason being that excessive money is used to out compete you for all your real resources, from housing, to medicine, to food. The price goes up because they can always pay more.
What we really need is rebalancing of power.

2026-08-14 00:53:51 CEST

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If you're now local to Boston, consider coming to https://bostonopen.dev/ if you're into foss.

2026-08-14 00:40:53 CEST

I tend not to tell my server about my egg allergy; it produces a most extreme reaction.
A sort of egg-alergy-alergy.

2026-08-13 19:08:40 CEST

RE: https://mastodon.social/@theodoraward/117088177307121957
Chronically underfunded by the large majority who depend on the labour and donations of a tiny, tiny portion of their network pulling the entire massive structure forwards?
I wish it weren't so, but the lack of attention to economic fairness is equal between mastodon and linux (by which I mean Free Software 😉) so it has that "community center that can't get a government grant" vibe to it all.
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2026-08-13 17:27:48 CEST

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Ott socks

2026-08-13 03:12:11 CEST

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Mired: updating the linters and *not* fixing anything.

2026-08-13 03:00:00 CEST

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Heh #mossdinspace was more true than it thinks.

2026-08-13 02:57:41 CEST

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I try to focus on the output. Formatting, design, comic typesetting that sort of thing. But as others have said, I gotta know folks first because they take a chance

2026-08-13 00:04:18 CEST

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Damn near flawless? In this economy?

2026-08-12 19:47:04 CEST

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fight! fight! fight!

2026-08-12 15:50:14 CEST

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Don't they make a cameo in Star Trek Picard? Same actor, many years later.
[@argv_minus_one](https://mastodon.sdf.org/@argv_minus_one ) @npub1d58…wmvf

2026-08-12 15:19:33 CEST

RE: https://mastodon.africa/@roblaing/117082344146761585
"Fifty percent left and fifty percent right describes a country split into two furious camps and a country full of mild centrists equally well."
A great article, worth reading.
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2026-08-12 14:28:59 CEST

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The commitment to Gnome is astonishing. To come back as a force ghost to give a talk is unheard of in the software industry.

2026-08-12 06:15:12 CEST

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Not had much chance to get all the way up there. It's really out of the way.
I suppose this is where car driving in a car centric city is one's friend 😉

2026-08-12 00:29:47 CEST

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Some sort of min-max mad-max?

2026-08-12 00:08:53 CEST

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I think networking might be the only zeroth level action available. Trying to interface with any public calls seems to produce some sort of compatibility error exception. 😅
Who are Boston Tech Poetics to a vector graphics tool maker? I'd have thought they'd do words rather than graphics, but maybe it's more?

2026-08-11 21:27:27 CEST

Another rejection from a local artist event to run a workshop. Not a single art collective, zine fest, comic artist palooza is interested in having an expert come and give instruction on tools like Inkscape. For Free.
I despair, I really do, as a volunteer I feel utterly disrespected. All I seem to get is people assuming I'm some corpo bastard as they have no clue what Free Software is and why people volunteer to try and help their fellow humans.
Coffee, black.

2026-08-11 21:20:39 CEST

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Hmmmmm on second though, that last image is suspiciously lighter. The seas aren't the same color.
I suspect the other two are True Color and the last one is the Enhanced Color filter.

2026-08-11 21:18:47 CEST

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Oh I just did a deep dive on Sentinal-3 images for another post.
It's bad out there, but I believe these are filtered images so are more dramatic than the true color ones.
Though in this case what I really appreciate is that its a delta not just stand alone so you can see the change using the same filter. More thumbs up for data presentation.

2026-08-11 12:37:16 CEST

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The colors on this map made my skeptisism senses tingle. I traced the data back to where it comes from, through an articles that does explain that yes some parts of England become very yellow because of all the wheat and into the original data from the Sentinel browser.
This one is interesting because I believe that must be the Sentinel-3 data set with the "Enhanced Natural Color" filter. The True color looks much darker and muddier. Though not significantly more green.
https://cdn.masto.host/floss/media_attachments/files/117/076/424/983/629/556/original/ad9023be5f101136.png

2026-08-11 06:09:19 CEST

gut checkout master

2026-08-11 05:00:13 CEST

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Bone in?

2026-08-10 16:16:47 CEST

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I've followed the Green brothers for a long time. Some genuinely interesting things from John over the years.
I tuned Hank out tbh. Writing books about social media while being so ridiculously out of touch with it, and maintaining an arrogance above and beyond just rankled me.
The EA stuff, and the AI stuff isn't actually surprising. Netfighteria has never been strong on skeptisism, although better on human centering at least.
#DFTBA

2026-08-10 15:50:54 CEST

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Oh I intend to make you discuss the format 😝 I need brains for the consensus.
We deliberately keep older versions of Inkscape available and easy to find. It is no insult to us to use an older version, and we find some interesting user experience rationale when we investigate the reasons people do.
Mostly though it's Gtk2 to Gtk3 creating slowness. Which we've been fighting ever since.

2026-08-10 04:26:58 CEST

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Requirements for Inkscape:
- Add all the core maths to lib2geom
- Make converters to cubic beziers (because svg, pdf and many other things only support beziers)
- Add to pen and pencil tool next to spiro et al.

2026-08-10 03:25:13 CEST

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.
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2026-08-09 18:42:21 CEST

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Ah the Star Trek Vulcan teen for classics nerds. There were plenty of ND nerds who dove deeply into that. At least you didn't go toxmasc laconic and watching 300 like it was an instruction manual.
I praise my mum who was capable of describing emotional intelligence in a way that made it seem like something worth having. So few people got to grow up with that.

2026-08-09 18:13:19 CEST

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DEF CAN DEF CON CAN

2026-08-09 17:40:41 CEST

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pictures or the cake is a lie.

2026-08-09 06:22:00 CEST

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I watched it last week. I commend the film for being a very well put together media. It is competently done and tells a story with a message.
It's just a shame that I utterly hated the message it wanted to tell.
So deeply cynical, so flippantly uncaring, so very insincere. And yes I was annoyed it left three plot threads flapping around; I assume left on the cutting room floor but if included would be been equally smug and self-satisfied.
Yes, I don't think I liked it.

2026-08-09 04:11:39 CEST

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Use flowed text and remove the tspans. The lines are only there for compatibility.

2026-08-09 03:41:45 CEST

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I smell something else in that second newsicle. A judge that housed a man for 15 years in an extremely expensive state run housing program. 😉

2026-08-09 03:36:34 CEST

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I would consider iOS not a Free Software community.
We are not Apple in some extremely important and human level aspects.

2026-08-09 02:29:02 CEST

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I think there's a deeper critique. Which is that the Gnome design philosophy conflicts with the necessity of community building and the core concept of play.
It is right that Gnome be allowed to decide what it is that they ship. To design things which are professional, and ux tested.
But its also true that without the flexibility to create sandboxes where people can play *safely*; we limit community growth, skills growth as well as future design possibilities.

2026-08-09 00:11:00 CEST

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It was shown on CITV in the 90s in the UK.
I'll never really forget that mermaid episode. Creepy!

2026-08-09 00:01:38 CEST

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when strange things happen, are you going round the twist?
I guess from context.

2026-08-08 17:10:30 CEST

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Ugh, before we've refactored them into eSVG. I'm just so busy! 😅
OK so note that some past contributor accidentally put guides in Y axis up instead of down, it's using the wrong coordinate system.
Previous versions of Inkscape only used integer RGB32 notation for colors. I fixed this in 1.3 to allow for any css color format. So at least that won't be bloody weird.
You're invited to eSVG discussions if you do this, be warned 😝

2026-08-07 21:22:40 CEST

Currently having a problem with Harvard University requiring AuthN (w3c corp spec) without any OTP fallback. Which leaves me as a linux user and non-Google/Apple phone user completely fucked.
I see there's projects that create AuthN systems on linux using TPM. But none of them are available as packages, or seemingly tested well and who knows if they are just AI slop or scams or what.
And I'd be gauled to have to bug some hardware key.
Any advice?

2026-08-06 16:50:29 CEST

My emergency appendix surgery, CT scans and hospital stay cost me $360. This is extremely cheap for the USA. As a brit I'm both annoyed at having to pay anything at all and appalled by the thought that anyone else would have to pay (looks at insurance cover) 🤯 $6,320.... that I presume is a negotiated price too.
All's well that ends well I suppose.
Remember to support my work on Inkscape 😝
#healthCare

2026-08-01 15:22:43 CEST

We're having a tiny #inkscape meet up today in #Cambridge
Three developers counts!
Also need to find more designers or ux folks, it's a bottleneck atm and I don't like having to merge ui changes and ux changes with no specialist review.

2026-07-31 16:36:42 CEST

The Rich seem Eldritch but they are defeated by sufficient "No."

2026-07-30 15:27:29 CEST

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Negative Whys are always important.
I think you got a pretty good answer already. There should probably be some bounds checking in gcodetools though.

2026-07-27 18:27:37 CEST

"Ethics is too variable"
This was a reply I got from an ai apologist. And it just about sums up the contemptible conclusion.
They mean "people have different ethics", but of course people don't have different ethics. Human ethics are quite consistent. Information might not be viz ignorance and post hoc rationalisations are quite varied of course.
Ergo calling out to the subjective nature of moral conclusion is such an amoral bullshit argument. Morals are inconvenient, but not varied.

2026-07-26 22:55:53 CEST

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

2026-07-22 22:38:42 CEST

RE: https://masto.ai/@mattgriffin/116965283268547558
OK fedi, go look at the comments in these youtube videos. People are great. They are funny, they get the joke and have a go at adding to it as a big swelling of human giggling.
Love you humanity!
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2026-07-22 12:57:31 CEST

Just got blocked by an code jerk who uses LLMs to remove double semi colons from their code.
A great loss to my soul 🤣
The advice to use static tools to help format static code is not unwarranted harassment. The original dude worded a post kindly, got a block-bye-bye and my crime was suggesting going nuclear on him was unkind.

2026-07-21 20:53:59 CEST

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/116958382115564493
Oooh, this moves Mozilla from captured controlled opposition to outright Nazis. Cool.
I will now do everything and anything to undermine Mozilla. It is the job of a any right minded person to oppose Nazis everywhere.
Viz. Do you think I've EVER going to give too shits about how much an Inkscape SVG renders in Firefox? Absolutely fucking not.
@npub16pr…crsg
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2026-07-21 16:18:22 CEST

Does anyone know of a small crayon bot. Some small 20-30cm rig cnc that can hold crayons and draw pre-planned drawings? Like a pen plotter that you could plonk down on paper in the wild and press a button and have it quickly draw out something?
Pastels also.
#cnc #penplotter #bot
@npub1r68…q3rz

2026-07-20 14:59:57 CEST

RE: https://floss.social/@doctormo/116948525818396685
I think this format works better for @npub1fdr…lvhs than for me lol.
It was good to give the format an trial and I think some people enjoyed the multi-post but the response was kinda meh. I might also be just boring, so attempting to write fun prose might have failed too 😅 no glory here.
Big thanks to the folks who tool the time to go through all 7 toots.
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2026-07-20 07:48:58 CEST

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Isn't it laconic, don't'ch think?

2026-07-20 00:17:22 CEST

Hey wait didn't they also lose the golden boot thing?
#WorldCup

2026-07-19 23:55:09 CEST

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There are alternatives. From villages where everyone is into each other's business but freely sharing produce, to borg collectives that just move resources around as non-entities and so don't care if they are sacrificed for the whole.
Our problem is that our breeding group is way-way lower than our social group aspirations. Family of 12, tribe of 120, society of 9 billions... oops.

2026-07-19 23:48:19 CEST

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Well... it is make-believe, but so is justice and mercy.
But what it is is a system of remembering trust atomically across millions of people. I'd love it if people's well wishes on my youtube comments could barter me some bread at the shop, but the chain of supply doesn't have a functional route back to those well wishes and their trust and need of my service to them (making inkscape).
So money is... useful. But because it moves trust, it also launders it, and that IS POWER.

2026-07-19 23:41:44 CEST

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"How comfortable do you like your desk manacles" sort of thing. lol yeah.
Sargents (middle managers to desk folk) want to get stuff done with outside implications we, that as lower decks are deliberately insulated from. You can either be in sales and privy to the client's whims or in production and protected from it!
Your actual top brass don't care as long as the army of workers is marching into office, gleaming with fake smile. You are a social status coin for the golf course.

2026-07-19 22:30:51 CEST

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Footnotes:
¹ This is also why it's bad as you can be an absolute evil bastard and money will wash all your sins.
² Don't let anyone tell you a market is maximally efficient, it's an ABSTRACTION, of course it's lossy.
³ This is where labour subjugation helps to lower wages. We'll park that over here with the other fire.
⁴ Sarcasm obviously. But the thing it's trying to achieve is pretty much the same.
⁵ Viz. Not developed in the open, collaboratively.

2026-07-19 22:30:37 CEST

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7/7
So we can see that humans really really need structures, and those structures are not always *merely* hierarchies. But membranes that serve to move trust around to create the mechanisms that move labour, expectation and needs. We could design these, standardise them to be more humanist, easier to operate and better to detect abuse.
IF we understood they existed and knew how they worked. We could make companies utopias-on-the-inside.
Fin.

2026-07-19 22:28:53 CEST

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3/7
You have possibly felt this weird shift from hiring candidate, to employee. And the way loyalty and care changes significantly. It's why bursting the membrane by leaking, whistleblowing or just saying things that make the company look bad is punished in the extreme. You are not being punished an an capitalist employee from the outside but as a disloyal communist subject on the inside.
There are of course organisations which don't have this kind of membrane structure...

2026-07-19 22:28:29 CEST

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2/7
But for a company; you don't trust them, they don't really trust your labour; money's great. You can set the terms³ of the value you expect to transact with the HR membrane who serve to separate the function of the business on the inside from the mess of negotiating labour on the outside.
The inside can be many things from a pre-planned utopia⁴ with a 5 year plan, a socialist technocratic theme park for pencil fanciers to a military junta with cut throat humiliation rituals...

2026-07-19 22:28:06 CEST

RE: https://mas.to/@adalbertsen/116948281620327263
Blog 1/7
I have a theory called "the corporate political universe" also called "communism on the inside"
It works like this: Money is cool because it anonymises trust¹ into something else. It's bad because it's inefficient² compared to just, yah know; doing things for people you already trust. This is why your kid talking the trash out doesn't come with a tap to pay transaction and 10% tip and your neighbour helping borrowing you some sheers doesn't end up with a payment scheme negotiation...
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2026-07-19 20:35:41 CEST

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If I jumped over this and just pushed usb 5v directly to the middle board. What would the overall effect be?

2026-07-19 19:34:31 CEST

USB wiring question:
this small usb-micro pcb has four surface mounted components. C1 C2 and L1 and L2. There's also a empty slot for a component labeled ESD1. The only output for this pcb is 5v to feed into a lighting strip.
What does this pcb do?

2026-07-18 12:00:18 CEST

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I'm thinking no, because the calculation for bbox is done on the layer contents.
Though since layers do not provide actual size (like pages do) the argument for layer x page makes sense.

2026-07-16 06:21:50 CEST

"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 problems. Your hand waving isn't actually magic and doesn't make them disappear.

2026-07-14 14:47:47 CEST

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To frame it in a way even a conservative can understand:
Would you rather they were here out bidding your child on buying their first home? Buying up all the healthcare to make themselves liver forever so you get none? Do you really want to live next to a 800 pound economic gorilla that can come round and take whatever they want, whenever they want it?
Or can we tell them to fuck off?

2026-07-11 14:40:39 CEST

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.

2026-07-08 06:16:39 CEST

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.
https://cdn.masto.host/floss/media_attachments/files/116/882/416/243/299/357/original/c6c6484feb4af142.mp4

2026-07-06 23:28:28 CEST

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Is that on the gnome side?

2026-07-06 22:58:50 CEST

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Money.
Flatpak folk need to get serious about inviting contributions from users with money. It's just so silly not to get users to pay for their free software.

2026-07-06 22:42:23 CEST

My nephew changed the root password in his #fedora because... the app store wouldn't work and the vlc/fedora install instructions from their website uses the command `su -` to get root access. To which he then sought instructions to set the root password
We want users to solve #linux problems. Yes. But this is just a string of UX problems, starting with the very poor performance of every single linux app store (fedora, pop os, ubuntu) causing users to work around the damage and bad project docs