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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary:

@doctormo@floss.social
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Inkscape Programmer and Software Freedom Contractor. Graphics, art, computers, politics, ideas, science.

Pronouns: they/them
Politics: A socialist... well, a federated pro-social consensualist... er, or something like that.
Meme Immunity: Innate rebel, adaptive skeptic, and pro-humility
Culture: British, Northern, Industrialist, Riverfolk, Pro-Sustainability, Pie.

My avatar image is a cartoon cat in a bowler hat with a spanner and overalls working on a machine.

3368 Followers
740 Following
50 Posts
Joined September 13, 2023
Alignment:
Chaotic Good
Inkscape:
https://inkscape.org/~doctormo
Support Me:
https://en.liberapay.com/doctormo/
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPxxdsRV92DZGE-RcRsw_gw
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 3mo ago
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.
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 2mo ago
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.
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 2mo ago
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
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 3w ago
Accidental cool. Fixing the color sliders in the new CMYK rendering branch. I'm not saying we should keep the 3d effect, but heh, it's got that 1998 type plastic PC style to it. #inkscape #ui
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 1mo ago
Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
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
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 2mo ago
"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.
Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off
theregister

Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off

Linux supremo says contributors opposed to AI use can

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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 1mo ago
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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This is some sort of social warrior project. Always has been. Always will be.
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 4mo ago
Boosted by @hypebot@goingdark.social
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's raining
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 2mo ago
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.

Inkscape 1.5 Catch Up Spectacular!

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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 3mo ago
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.
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 2w ago
Horror films are a curry for the mind.
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 2mo ago
#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.
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@RickiTarr@beige.party 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?
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 2mo ago
Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
I bought this because of #Mosstodon
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@MaddieM4@raphus.social Armin's got what we in the ideas business call "unspecified major premisitis". A deep well of unexplored premature conclusions papered over with post-hocs. Armin wants Codeberg to compete with GitHub on GitHub's terms. And concludes GitHub's permissive abuse culture is a net good because letting people do whatever they want is popular. Also LLMs are good, can be good, missing out, its the future. All the unstated major premises are in that short article.
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 4mo ago
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 causing it.... 1/2
mas.to

Gabriele Svelto: "So don't get too worked up about an individual us…" - mas.to

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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 4mo ago

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

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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 3mo ago
Replying to
Yeah. The most generous reading would be that they mean "don't bully people or act like a jerk, just gently close their contribution and invite them to contribute in other ways" Though I did also read it the other way too. As for "are not currently fully understood" this is code for "we can't say what they are without offending some of our projects" a diplomatic retreat from having a position or making a conclusion. @rotnroll666@mastodon.social @dalias@hachyderm.io @conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 1mo ago
Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
Replying to
@kirakira@furry.engineer Dunno, the mascot is Basil Brush though.
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 2mo ago
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@stuartb@social.teamb.space @SeanPLynch@mastodon.social @nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social 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. 😉
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 3mo ago

RE: @stefan@stefanbohacek.online

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@fosstodon.org

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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 2mo ago
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
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 4mo ago
Replying to

@danielbierstedt@norden.social

out of your comfort zone

It is very good at increasing confidence. Not so good at that translating into competence though. 😉

@ben@bluetoot.hardill.me.uk @nixCraft@mastodon.social

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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social OK so we need: 1) A manager (are you available?) 2) Some money would be nice to prime the pump honestly 3) A LOT of very careful negotiation with existing forks 4) And a commitment from users to invest in this as a thing they not just want, but are willing to put some actual resources into getting. I believe this is possible. But I'm already turning the ship at Inkscape, so finding a manager for this more serious and responsive firefox browser would be someone else.
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 2mo ago
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@jzb@hachyderm.io@CJPaloma@mstdn.social Stories. Firstly facts don't matter, only stories do. Secondly fear. This type of person is riven by insecurities and fear, it's what drives their darker policies. Thirdly I think I disagree is the nuance for a lot of conservatives. Forget the knobs you see in highlights, those folks are the worst. Your average conservative doesn't lack empathy, their empathy is foreshortened. It is highly focused around their family and friends and much less on anything outside. @RickiTarr@beige.party
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 4mo ago

Aw poor @GIMP@floss.social; 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@fosstodon.org

My Linux Curse is NOT Over... But It's Getting BETTER - Pt.2 Linux 30 Day Challenge 2026

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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 3mo ago

Just had a delightful meeting with @rolandixor@mastodon.social and you know that saying "This meeting could have been an email"

Well this meeting should have been a podcast. 🥰

#opensource #foss

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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 4mo ago
Replying to
@ecosdelfuturo@mstdn.social I love the idea that they keep their hoard¹ in a sunny tropical island umbrella company. ¹ Obviously not the hoard itself, but the piece of paper that documents who owns the hoard. The hoard is actually not very movable and besides the tropical island government doesn't have the tax resources to protect actual things.
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 4mo ago
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@jacqueline@chaos.social Getting rid of git is amusing. Too much tracking, too many humans poking their nose in at what the agentic oroborus is doing.
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 3mo ago

Olives can be pitted or pittiful.

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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@inthehands@hachyderm.io Down the dark dark rabbit hole... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZYsUOZmRwM

Funnybones Intro

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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 4mo ago
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@bmaxv@noc.social code, code code (lots of code!), issues, trackers, wikis, docs, things pointing at things, integrations into chat, CI there here and everywhere. Private repos, governance pieces, media for outreach; milestones, planning templates, and so on and so on. Inkscape is *very* large as projects go. It is not just a single code repository, or even a handful of them.
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 3mo ago
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@mxjaygrant@triangletoot.party @alice@lgbtqia.space Perhaps just watch his dns registrations and block the list automatically? 😉
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 3mo ago
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@girlonthenet@mastodon.social Heat pump! Heat pump! Heat pump!
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 3mo ago
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@EllenB@mastodon.social TV? @thevhswizard@retro.pizza
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 3mo ago
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@markarayner@mas.to Duck!
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 3mo ago
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@Houl@wetdry.world Kitty City! @ami_angelwings@urusai.social
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 4mo ago
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt He was a strait laced knower of things, but when the world fell apart around him, he had to act.... Coming this fall to a video stream near you: Vibe Detective! 😉 @coriander@elekk.xyz @sashag@anarres.family @h5e@tech.lgbt
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 4mo ago
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@thermia@sk.girlthi.ng too many arguments
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 3mo ago
Replying to
@conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org There is less said on the BitKeepering of project tooling wrt process; the difference between toleration, blessing (i.e. tutorials) and requiring; the use of these tools to do reviews themselves; and the nature of using them for social interactions in exchanges, and a special treatment for english-washing for people embarrassed by their English proficiency. And obviously reputational harms. But it's a step in clarity on the SFC's position. If a touch narrow for me personally.
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 3mo ago
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@kauer@aus.social @Extelec@mstdn.social Yes! https://floss.social/@doctormo/116670899327283590
floss.social

Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary:: "It's raining One man has a million umbrellas, th…" - FLOSS.social

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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 3mo ago
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@agturcz@circumstances.run @quinze@corteximplant.com @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org See also gimp, and many many other libraries who's names are weirdly exclusionary. My personal annoyance is livarot which is just awful, adwaita which is unpronounceable, camandblanch which is unspellable and gvfs which should never have been gnome specific but was because of its name.
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 1mo ago
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@glaskows@mastodon.gamedev.place @alice@lgbtqia.space Yes, link! (if you can)
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 4mo ago
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@tantramar@zeroes.ca @cmconseils@mastodon.social So...pull back on the yoke?
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 4mo ago
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@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social Toblercone
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 4mo ago
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@teruterubozu@toot.wales *ground
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 4mo ago
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@Tom_ofB@23.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social We might need the smilie face drawn on with marker. Narativium
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 4mo ago
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@teruterubozu@toot.wales Round trip for your square foot.
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 4mo ago
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@ThePiGuy24@meemu.org Eager all in PoE™
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: @doctormo@floss.social
· 4mo ago
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@womp@mstdn.ca @tod@hci.social What a mastodon we would have if my proposal for "community suggested edit" were adopted. (only mutuals would be allowed, obviously)
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