Notices by Abandoned (doctormo@fosstodon.org)

Is there such as thing as an #FOSS neighbourhood website server software? I don't mean druple, wordpress, or any other CMS with retrofitted plugins. But an honest to dog feature focused installable piece of software that provides some of the things like galleries and newsletters needed by #neighbourhood communities?

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #django #python #node #etc

@alcinnz @lightweight @mako i was in the room for this talk. It was great.

Good talks stick with you. And the co opting was a wake up call about how to me open source isn't enough. But also free software isn't enough and we just can't stop evolving our philosophical underpinnings

This week's "cautionary tales" about bosses that try to dictate the design of their worker's office spaces is very interesting. People reject things went they don't have control over their environment, even if it's "good design". Even steve jobs capitulated to his workers at pixar.

"You know, life, is always right. It is the architect who is wrong" - Pessac

Hint, hint, @gnome :ablobcatwink:

I have concerns about #LLM chatbots.

But. I am enjoying the education in just how much I hallucinate the thoughts and feelings of other people and other social groups in order to construct a predictable social sense of my world. Rarely are lessons in humility detached enough from one's own pride to really think it over.

I think my social hallucinations can evolve only by listening more attentively to others.

#chatgpt #ai #philosophy #philosodon

I'm really unhappy with the #webdesign i did for the #Inkscape gallery on the website. Its... just not very good. Functional, barely, but not top of my proudest contributions. https://inkscape.org/gallery/ (the worst part is the voting y'all see next week :ac_fearful: )

Anyone here good with #css and #html and wants to contribute to a foss project? I got a gallery app that needs ground up reworking. :ac_flourish:

@TheEvilSkeleton @Samsai Thanks for the blog post. :blobfoxcofeowo:

To my mind, "keep politics out of..." (The project, the dinner table, the office, etc) are more about our understanding that not all of our behavioural standards can be synchronised in all groups. To reduce effort, some topics fall into "agree to disagree" by default. But some of these topics have become important to foss projects and so they have to move into "we must talk and agree about this now".

Dear lazy internet:

What's the correct way to combine two loops into a single progress double 0 to 1?

for (int a ...)
for (int b ...)
progress = something a and b

@alcinnz

An entire book of specifications retitled "things i stole from xerox park 1982” but just happens to have css4, emoji and svg packed inside it. haha

Hey linux user!

You have been recruited by a mad south african billionaire who's invented a time travel machine. There's just enough fuel to send himself with a pocket full of diskettes to the early 1980s and he wants you to select the linux and foss packages which will be used to beat Microsoft and Apple. You must select software is a) runnable on the hardware of the time, b) plausibly of the era while c) better than anything then available.

What do you choose?

This week's #inkscape video I talk about the contract to fix bugs for the 1.3 release, and getting paid by the Inkscape project vs. being sponsored privately. With both I should be able to work on Inkscape basically full time for the next couple of months. 🥳

https://youtu.be/pdmKnt3OeRg

@tinker @alcinnz

Wide words and deep words.

Woot! Just signed an agreement with the @conservancy to work on #Inkscape 1.3 bug fixing for the next couple of months! ❤️

This means I can focus on project priorities and the charitable mission on top of my normal commercial gig serving regular users directly via Patreon.

My plan is to update everyone in the update videos what's getting fixed. The other recruit for this work is Rafael 🥳

Big thanks to Jonathan and the Inkscape project for organising and pushing this important development.

@msw @lightweight @alcinnz @downey@floss.social @skyfaller

I disagree.

Firstly; It's important to separate out Free Software charity from non-corporate work. Assuming there's only corporate and charity works... is incorrect. The vast majority of FS work is individual and small business needs. Not charity.

Large organisations can damage an open source project through sheer presence, very easily. The thumbs on the scale are *very large* and *very clumsy*

Better the giants stay away then try and be helpful

@scottjenson @heysupratim

5. User experience research, design, outreach, documentation, moderation, administration and quality assurance are all real jobs, require labour and are deserving of professional respect and recognition. There's no place for coder pedestals even though programmers do have the most freedom, that doesn't make other contributions lesser.

6. Make spaces. Places dedicated to ux, with ux tools make a project inviting and give agency to non developers.

@scottjenson @heysupratim

When I've worked on ux centric or driven projects for inkscape (see objects dialog) there is a large amount of extra effort needed to push the technology to do things, to flow in new ways. All that effort has to have resources and that support comes from a project that has the ability to invite wider populations to participate constructively.

The consensus building you mentioned isn't as useful if respect for non-developer contribution is missing.

@scottjenson @heysupratim

MuseScore is interesting because it points to ux being incompatible with non hierarchical project organisation. I really hope this isnt the case, but it appears at least easier to force ux to be centered when you can direct people's work.

The best ux people are aggregate user avatars, the worst are opinionated bullies. Clear consensus building (sigh, politics) is what I've seen work well.

@Pol @kik1 @fosdem

Nope.

It's a community's responsibility to be safe and inviting to a breadth of speakers. An all male panel might be inevitable (i dont think it is) but it's still a social failure which we must reflect bitterly on until we figure out what correctives are required to reverse hyper narrow representation.

Your post lacked any lamentation, suggesting you don't see this as a failure.

@RL_Dane @colinsmatt11 @james

We have a consent problem on the world wide web.

@RL_Dane @james

Like crabs, all websites evolve into macromedia flash.

Repaired this @system76 desktop computer who's previous owner had ripped out a sata port, unseated the ram and dried out the cpu thermal paste.

Dead vga port and gap in sata connectors. But happy to get this working again.

#Reuse #Repair