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2026-09-11 18:40:21 UTC

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Weirdly not that many people die in The North.
Apparently. 😉

2026-09-11 16:32:19 UTC

RE: https://c.im/@matdevdug/117252547192545371
"I love technology" does not mean "obsessed with OSS and how it’s going to save the world".
This is a problematic conflation of the politics of Free Software, with the brand of the technocratic Open Source with a VERY different mindset of people who enjoy technology for its own sake.
For those of you in the back: I don't like technology, I like helping people. I don't care if it's computers, or handing out vegetables, I'm just good at computers so this is where I help move the needle.
#note13sl…mrgf

2026-09-10 19:55:23 UTC

My #Inkscape color refactoring work ranges from project theseus to project sisyphus depending on my mood.

2026-09-10 19:01:18 UTC

Te "" key on my keyboard as stopped working. ow important is it for me to fix it?

2026-09-10 18:28:48 UTC

RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@JacobPhD/117156835383494837
I never thought I'd see a Small Gods situation within the sciences; but I guess it makes sense. You take the aesthetics of science and take away the whole epistemology philosophical underpinnings and you end up with pseudoscience welcomed into journals, dressed up to look like legitimate science.
#Pratchett #science

2026-09-10 02:24:48 UTC

Lysenkoism is (now) the word we use to describe the process by which science is corrupted by a government which does not want the truth to be discovered, but only wants its prescribed truth to be validated
It's named after the Soviet pseudoscientific political misadventure that said western Darwinism was too individualistic for Marx, famines from collectivism could not be soothed by this fake science.
Now see the new Lysenkosim from RFK, and to an extent Republicans in general. It's Dangerous.

2026-09-08 23:56:57 UTC

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You are right. Though note most of the places that are the most fragile to starvation currently don't use the high intensity fertilizers and gas power machinery. Though I fear for India and south east Asia where dependence is much higher, as well as nations with large import deficits if global trade wanes. Places like England could suffer enormously. China and south america I've seen more resiliency.
But you are still right.

2026-09-08 21:25:25 UTC

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I'm not convinced that this isn't a good thing. Or that alternately it's not obvious if it is a bad thing.
Because induced demand is real, scheduling out resource use is real and people thinking the spice is a free infinite resource glitch is worth putting an end to.
I'm unhappy about the risks of famine. But I also know we're incredibly adaptable too. Two minds.

2026-09-08 15:45:16 UTC

The only vegetarian option is a broccoli sandwhich.

2026-09-08 05:36:51 UTC

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There's something about people from the north and gravy.

2026-09-08 01:29:23 UTC

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There's a ton of shows that have been cut short, a lot of cartoons take time to find their audience but the investors seem so impatient.
Not letting Owl House finish gracefully was a shame. Inside Job was fantastic, and now gone. All the producing companies seem equally ignorant.

2026-09-08 00:35:26 UTC

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Weird. Fun cartoon, shame there won''t be more.

2026-09-07 17:57:09 UTC

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Me too! So annoying.

2026-09-07 17:31:15 UTC

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KeePassXC got forked because of AI. Folk were sceptical AI could keep their passwords safe.
https://social.treehouse.systems/@whitequark/116403780270138314 [@whitequark](https://social.treehouse.systems/@whitequark )

2026-09-07 01:07:52 UTC

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@Inkscape and @inkstich could make merit badges, no problem. What do you want? Goat? Better than goat?

2026-09-06 20:02:48 UTC

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I don't agree with their framing, their assertion that granting one set of powerful organisations rights is wrong is grand; but while not at all mentioning that they are championing granting a different set of powerful organisations a set of rights.
The lack of nuance in how they approached this, and the utter lack of PR tactics is barely worth forgiving in and of itself. They treat the fash as if they're a normal government, doing normal things. Utterly privileged.
@npub1ded…kves

2026-09-06 14:41:17 UTC

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Oh interesting, I stopped listening a very long time ago because it crossed the threshold of amount of advertising vs actual content and I switched over to other things like Rumble Strip, Well There's your problem and similar.
There's only so much advertising I can stand before I need to set down.

2026-09-06 01:01:20 UTC

Avenue 5 is like Red Dwarf turned into Brittas Empire after binging House.
Also it has Ethan Philips in it, heh.
#comedy #scifi #tvshow

2026-09-05 04:31:12 UTC

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3/x
Maybe it will.
But the current logic doesn't make much sense. And the rule of thumb is generally to go to bat for the underdog. Having a principled take is all fine and dandy but when you realise the evil little shits with all the power really like your take... maybe dig deeper and give i ta real deep think through.
And then if you do file amicus briefs with the court supporting the fash. Please just keep it to yourself. I'd rather not know.

2026-09-05 04:28:14 UTC

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2/x
Typically for libertarians though; she mistakes legally permissible for economically possible.
Normal people will not be able to build their own data centers and train on massive amounts of this new feeding frenzy freedom. But instead will be economically renting from their master's capital.
People are angry because our rights as individuals are rapidly running out. Protections from abuse are evaporating. You want our faith that removing another protection would result is fair dealing?

2026-09-05 04:26:31 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/117215319335459732
Apart from rolling a critical fail in PR, the position Tori Noble takes is a gamble that expanded rights for fair use would be generally useful to everyone constructing and using AI tools.
Framing the issue as an expansion of copyright restrictions denies the contrary expansion of rights to AI model creators. This is new territory and this whole time period is clearly an unregulated land grab by everyone.
Typically for libertarians though; she mistakes...
1/x

2026-09-05 04:02:07 UTC

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God, Audre Lorde has to be one of the most misunderstood people.
The speech talks about white feminists using the same systems of oppression as their "masters" (white men). It's clearly not talking about physical tools, but systems and communities. Building things outside of the normal, and failing, makes for better possibility for real change then trying to use the same systems of oppression for "good".

2026-09-05 03:49:20 UTC

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Ah, gasping in mirth so hard you couldn't get any out. I understand.

2026-09-05 03:48:21 UTC

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Ah you laughed so hard your sides split.

2026-09-04 15:37:56 UTC

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See also Vimes' boots theory of socio-economic unfairness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
This is actually a good addition to that as it talks about boots as capital.

2026-09-03 19:31:33 UTC

RE: https://beige.party/@FeloniousPunk/117049139325177648
Follow up!
No I had not gotten all the bills yet! Now I know how much the whole hospital stay and surgery cost for a burst apendixx in Boston. $35,983 on top of the $9k from last time. So $45,000.
That's not onions, your eyes are watering because of the numbers.
Cost to me though, $450 on top of the $360 I paid last time. 😬 still not bankrupted by that biological misadventure.
#hospital #ushealth #healthInsurance
#note1gtw…fm7s

2026-09-02 08:16:42 UTC

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My best advice is: play.
Do no serious work, babble right at the start (press random buttons), work up to messing around, then up to figuring it out once you're having fun.
Obv. I'd prefer if you took my advice and used it on inkscape 😅 but it works for lots of tools.

2026-09-02 08:07:50 UTC

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There isn't a polygon tool yet, no one's written one.
Same for line

2026-09-02 05:26:06 UTC

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I tale a different tact, I focus on labour rights, user rights and ultimately the organization of cooperation
I post these thoughts under the tag #PayForFreeSoftware if you want to have a look.

2026-09-01 15:21:49 UTC

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And Steven!

2026-09-01 05:03:21 UTC

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The family started Maxwell house coffee and Dunkin, having been humiliated, founded Dunkins where the café was so strict the wall listed a bunch of Do's and Do Nots, leading to its nickname "Dunkins Do Nots". A later descendent was responsible for using the nickname is a ringed pastry as a pun on this long forgotten history.
😏

2026-09-01 03:55:18 UTC

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Strategically sound, according to the research, to use networks to undermine those networks.
Imagine our J.P.Wing here is a Meta virus, slowly causing good trouble within the bonds that make those networks so hard to leave.

2026-08-31 15:53:16 UTC

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https://cdn.masto.host/floss/media_attachments/files/117/190/918/219/998/058/original/f4ed1ff9f0d29192.png

2026-08-31 13:50:36 UTC

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That seems extremely serious, is it reported somewhere and were you able to get a crash report?

2026-08-29 22:29:17 UTC

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I am a member of developer team, and the project leadership committee. Two teams within the project.
The discussion was open to all members and non-members, and ultimately the plc were and still are open to holding either a full project membership vote, or a plc only vote on adopting a policy.
The dev team are still free to adopt their own technical policy, but that wouldn't over-ride a project policy that banned it for example.

2026-08-29 22:16:08 UTC

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Your reply doesn't make sense with what I posted. It's unclear if you misunderstood what I wrote, or that I can't understand what you wrote.

2026-08-29 22:09:26 UTC

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The Dev team is a fixed set of people with a team charter. These decisions are outside of that charter.
The people weren't excluded BTW. Everyone could participate is disvussions.

2026-08-29 21:28:10 UTC

There was a sense in the Inkscape project that it should be the developer team that decided what the AI policy should be.
I flatty rejected this.
Because most of the consequences for the project, for our users and for the world have absolutely nothing to do with developing software. It's reputation, risk, relationships and community standards and morality.
The last thing I wanted was important decisions to be pre-narrowed to questions of technical usefulness.
#linux #debian #foss #ai

2026-08-29 17:59:49 UTC

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Everything in Inkscape is cairo rendered. The only question for the openGL mode is what happens to that cairo render once it gets sent to the screen.

2026-08-29 15:57:10 UTC

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It's not as hard as it first seems. The font has to be rendered down to a vector at some point anyway; so what you have a is a very complex shape. the problem is how the LivePathEffect system itself was designed and then on top you'd like for edits to be positioned correctly and that is more interesting too as you have to feedback the positions to the text selection too.

2026-08-29 05:40:14 UTC

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It is on my to do list.

2026-08-29 05:36:44 UTC

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Inkscape is popular for this kind of thing. You need to get good at transforms and clipping. But that's pretty much it to have a fair tool for it.

2026-08-28 18:35:53 UTC

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Bill Gates has always been an exceptional monster by any measure. No amount of charity washing changes the harm done to society through his predatory monopolies and the tone set in his 1980s Halloween letter.
Not worth listening to.

2026-08-28 17:38:02 UTC

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There's not a whole lot you can do, except make sure it's high resolution and play with the settings.
Is the second image the result from inkscape? It looks fairly accurate if so.

2026-08-28 14:54:14 UTC

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"Tie-ns" round our way.
Though prongs was used just 20 toots ago, finger nails too. Arms is a little odd as arms don't look like that. 😅

2026-08-28 01:10:27 UTC

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No this can not work. There is a significant asymmetry of information which prohibits bug bounties from functioning as mechanisms.
Instead we need people to *invest* in *trust*. A developer, maintainer or project contributor must be able to develop an easily (and cheaply) assessable trust intheir name which can be aggregated correctly by (unfortunately) a bureaucracy which can serve this assessment to users directly within the operating system desktop directly and by default.

2026-08-27 21:43:38 UTC

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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 21:20:08 UTC

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
#note1aru…224x

2026-08-27 19:05:43 UTC

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Our old raster file support is just nasty pie. But it is using GdkPixbuf, it just might be that we're being passed data we don't know how to handle in that version of the code.
Know that it has been rewritten, so should be working.... or I guess broken in a new and exciting way.

2026-08-27 18:51:16 UTC

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Yes https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-dev/?latest=1
Though I think you have to follow instructions to get past the macOS security so read the download and install instructions carefully.
These builds DO NOT have glycin support in inkscape. Probably being used by GdkPixbuf in the backend though.

2026-08-27 18:47:33 UTC

Sometimes you just have to do a massive, public experiment and see what happens.... I guess.
I'm not actually too worried about the results. I remain concerned with the systemic issues that always surround using proprietary tools and how those narrow our abilities as creators in the future.
https://lwn.net/Articles/1088776/#:~:text=But there is currently a massive experiment being run on the kernel's development processes and community.
#linux #lwn #kernel #development #llm

2026-08-27 15:34:26 UTC

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A dorable but not a doored.

2026-08-27 15:21:25 UTC

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We have moved to Gtk4 for Inkscape 1.5 which fixes a fair few things. But I've also just added Glycin support into the CMYK/Color refactoring branch so if that helps un pick tiff support as well I will be most happy about that.
I do know that we are unaware of any copy paste problem in Inkscape on macOS. Usually these kinds of bugs end up being criticals and the project hires people to fix them.
We're also keen to help Gtk with its multi-platform support, where possible

2026-08-26 21:32:43 UTC

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It is still ultimately a reference to Richard, Pratchett wrote Going Postal with an explicit reference to the corporate take over of Unix, and how Linux (the new company) was being crushed by Reacher Guilt and bank cronies producing the hacktivists in the Smoking Gnu. The use of the GNU semaphore signal for over-head, not-logged, u-turn at EOL was clearly a backranym for the Stallman's Gnu project.
It's a book about the Free Software community.

2026-08-26 15:51:19 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys/117162571033127031
I never thought I'd have such understanding with Pepys, but I feel deeply that sense of ones home not being at order during renovations and the relief afterwards.
#note1vmd…te4w

2026-08-26 14:47:52 UTC

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Just next to the bike park n ride for Ashmont T station and oposite the new location for Ceder Grove flowers. It used to be "The feenie lot" before it was built into condos and the empty shop was promised to be a pharmacy, but has remained empty for years now.
This will be the first business to be in that space and it will compete with nearby Tavalo a little but honestly this option is good for the mix with Flames and Jonnie's Pizza being the only existing food options.

2026-08-26 03:05:53 UTC

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618 Galactic Imperial Tons, obvs.
there are already tons of tons, why not one more.

2026-08-25 21:45:26 UTC

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Stressed wheat ingredient?

2026-08-25 20:00:36 UTC

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Ah, that would be me.
@npub139c…w37s

2026-08-25 14:29:18 UTC

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RE: https://toot.wales/@teruterubozu/117156597366742280
OK fedi, question for today:
"What do you love most about people?"
#GetToKnowYou #Fedi #mastodon
#note1unv…fc88

2026-08-24 22:15:14 UTC

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The price of spae beef however is still up in the air.

2026-08-24 16:56:22 UTC

The creativity in film making and model making: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGoeLCQ4rVY

2026-08-23 14:17:11 UTC

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[citation needed]
😉

2026-08-23 14:16:12 UTC

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James Randi haunts you for 14 minutes and 32 seconds.

2026-08-23 14:09:33 UTC

I wonder if there is a crossword etymology crossword puzzle that doesn't require celeb gos or cryptid rebus but is just a bunch of fun "did you know this word originally meant this" style puzzles.

2026-08-23 05:35:24 UTC

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That Time Team episode is going to be epic.

2026-08-22 18:52:04 UTC

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way ahead of you! I made these two weeks ago and they are ripe for the eating!
https://cdn.masto.host/floss/media_attachments/files/117/140/661/210/556/680/original/843312c0c881885e.jpg

2026-08-22 18:47:55 UTC

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 17:19:02 UTC

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 17:08:45 UTC

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That is a legitimate reason; we have mute and block here in fedi for good reasons. Sometimes I mute my friends for a few days, for peace of mind or I'm in a bad space.
Well wishes for your BSD sabbatical!

2026-08-22 15:42:37 UTC

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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 04:25:22 UTC

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Dunno, the mascot is Basil Brush though.

2026-08-21 22:25:27 UTC

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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!

2026-08-21 22:22:04 UTC

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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 22:08:31 UTC

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Working... on... it.... 🪦
Oh well, I tried 😜

2026-08-21 21:54:49 UTC

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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 16:40:36 UTC

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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 15:05:09 UTC

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The relationship between the user and the developer/maintainer/contributor is not created through the use of the software, but by the creation of an actual relationship outside of that download. It may be the relationship of a commercial transaction where you #PayForFreeSoftware, but it could equally be a relationship of friends, of fellow foss contributors, of activism brothers, of barterers.
Ask the question: What are we to each other?

2026-08-21 15:00:12 UTC

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"Venus-sized planet discovered...." 😝

2026-08-21 14:57:44 UTC

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

2026-08-21 14:16:12 UTC

Did you know that "piss taker" is short for "epistemology remover"?

2026-08-20 12:52:47 UTC

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Ozzie lad, this is a sophisticated version of victim blaming. Don't want to be run over? Don't ask for safer streets, just look both ways when crossing! Don't want to eat toxic food? Don't look to regulation, just smell it and then test it in your home lab! Don't want to experience racism? Don't look for a stronger social moderation structure. Just block all the racists.
IT DOES NOT WORK.
We do not have time to work on every social failure as a personal project.

2026-08-20 02:40:26 UTC

Can you tell I'm kinda bored?
https://cdn.masto.host/floss/media_attachments/files/117/125/511/150/573/093/original/a3dc30688681b42d.png

2026-08-19 18:15:17 UTC

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This reminds me so much of the transition that painting went through after the invention of photography. It went... wild. Mostly moving away from representation. Pre-Raphaelite notwithstanding.
I already see street art and creativity from teens becoming less refined in response to AI art.
Interesting times.

2026-08-19 03:25:46 UTC

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At Inkscape, we do all of our blurs on the CPU! And always have....
It sucks.

2026-08-18 21:46:12 UTC

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How much food have we fed to that restaurant over the years.

2026-08-18 19:42:57 UTC

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill/117117683439183467
I'm a thought ladder.
#note1jpn…rs09

2026-08-18 19:14:25 UTC

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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 19:18:39 UTC

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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

2026-08-16 23:35:01 UTC

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.
😜
#note1wjv…exds

2026-08-16 23:06:01 UTC

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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 17:29:35 UTC

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.
#note1a7n…mwj5

2026-08-16 17:17:46 UTC

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a script is just a series of tubes.

2026-08-16 15:54:02 UTC

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

2026-08-16 14:05:57 UTC

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Hence the word "Naughty".
@npub16kg…afn8

2026-08-16 13:53:12 UTC

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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.

2026-08-15 22:58:45 UTC

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.
#note1ax8…exaj

2026-08-15 20:56:30 UTC

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

2026-08-15 14:31:55 UTC

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 04:40:14 UTC

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