Inkscape Programmer and Software Freedom Contractor. Graphics, art, computers, politics, ideas, science.
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Last Notes npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens My friend Kelly who is a copy editor says npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens Do you remember a couple of weeks ago when I complained that a very large #python contribution to #inkscape was poorly formatted and I felt embarrassed about pushing back and asking them to run a linter over it? npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens This week is an #inkscape request; I'd like to hear from #artists, #designers, #printers who want to use #cmyk and are able to particpate in a #UX desire-path study. Come watch the video here: npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub1mjj…h2pr npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens This week's update video is out npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens Wait, is #redhat just a hat on a hat that is #fedora? npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens Ignoring externalities is just industrial subsidy without legislation. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens Did I spend my afternoon being dressed up to play a Sam Becket / Star Trek cross over with my daughter? npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens A boost to my ego. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens I have some thoughts about AI and Inkscape, considering the whole Adobe T&C news. But just like the Affinity video, I wanted to talk more about the discussions we've had about the technology and it's readyness and the most important part: consent over training data. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub1mnp…k9zl npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens The worst kind of open source user is the ones that say "I donated to an open source project in the past" npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens Are there any videos for #PyConUS? I saw a bunch of comments about the keynote and other talks about they seemed really interesting, but I can't find anything after the fact. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens hehe #comic #cartoon #FreeFall npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens "Republicans for a King" is a hell of a reverse ferret when you think about it. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens I've finished rewatching #startrek #discovery seasons 1, 2 and 3. I never managed to watch 4 when it came out, so that's next. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub15cd…3mv2 npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub12f7…lkxh npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub1d76…897u npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens My life has changed today. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens I gotta say, the #eclipse totality was amazing. Nothing you take by camera can capture it. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens #inkscape Bug accelerator program starts today for me. That's where the Inkscape project pays some of the maintainers to focus time on fixing bugs for the next release. (Tav, me and Vaibhav this release) 🎉 npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub1hyk…3p33 npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens I've had a cold this week and there's something curious that happens when I take sleep aids. Things like Niquil. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens Are you an #Affinity Designer user? Are you an #inkscape user too? Do you want to help the community? npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub15cd…3mv2 npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens Very rare to cause this amount of upset in one of my videos 😅 npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens The need to download a google binary package in order to build #Gtk4 just blows my mind. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub1j46…3gm7 npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens I wrote an #inkscape feature for 1.4 which allows you to rescale a document without changing the actual sizes of objects. It's a lock button. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub1mjj…h2pr npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub1mjj…h2pr npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub16uk…pv7k npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens Estoy buscando el mejor libro de #python #programming en español. Conocí una señorita quien quiere aprenderlo y quiero ayudarla. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens My daughter finds it hard to watch #films and tv that involve a lot of deception. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens I'm not asleep right now because some arse mongrel decided to #DDOS the #inkscape website. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens I got to talk with the developer behind capypdf here at #fosdem and it was a great way to make a real human connection and get to know him. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens Not a good start to #fosdem it's crowded, I'm lost, lonely and feel way out of my depth. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub1sdk…0kgj npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens This should be the default in #git npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens Well that's #annoying npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens Substack advice needed. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens Managed to get a prototype of the group translucency feature @npub1zsk…jguf was asking about the other day. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens At Trinity in Boston for a Christmas mas. It's a beautiful Church and ceremony, even for us atheists. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens Hey #inkscapers it's time to lend me your wisdom and tell me how you think #inkscape should behave. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub1alm…yeul npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens If I'm reading this right https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-48200-7 it says that the way to greater #mastodon adoption for your old twitter network is to post about your mastodon migration in twitter and keep on posting about it every week. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens We could just deliver the first 20 bytes of a message to Threads. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub1dm5…5sqe npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub1kc8…j65c npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens There's this thesis in @npub1jeh…m322 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. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub1ury…m2jf @npub19fc…ay3c npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub1xl5…wsca npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub1dm5…5sqe npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub1dm5…5sqe npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub1dm5…5sqe npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens OK the release candidate for #inkscape 1.3.1 has dropped and If you can, please do me a solid and test the live path effects: npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens Note #inkscape's 20th Birthday is actually November 6th. You can see the calendar entry here https://inkscape.org/cals/event/55/ with a link to the inciting email from Bryce. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens Woo, 2 million downloads! npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub15cd…3mv2 @npub1jqc…3mpt npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub1xl5…wsca I had cause to buy a new Faberware FCP412 this week, it makes my favourite tasting chicory coffee¹ which I've made peace with myself about liking more than regular brews. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub12f7…lkxh @npub1xzm…eykm npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens Hey @npub1xzm…eykm I know scrollbars are so passé for people with mice and touch screens, but they are the WORST for people with a pen input. Constantly jumping around because of infinite scroll. npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens OK, I know it's a commercial conference bit, but the animation at the start of this video made me smile: https://www.duolingo.com/duocon npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens @npub1xvm…3vyy @npub19lt…qfjk npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens Is this a RedHat desktop in wild? npub14e2fa5l5vz03v9d02cef3apr2vaslswy5vcu7u9gj6yu9f2szhms6yr7ye Martin Owens Humans are inanely rebellious, I know this because the inkscape website sends a registration confirmation email which says "DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS EMAIL"
