Nostr notes by Martin Owens :inkscape:

I'm not an american 🙃 Unintended consequences are where ...

2026-01-27T15:56:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…gmn0
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I'm not an american 🙃

Unintended consequences are where these things have traditionally fallen down. You start demanding papers to access porn, and you end demanding papers so you can deny access to food.

There are tons of things that are possible to do that don't require invasive identity checking. We haven't done them. Instead we're reaching for the biggest ugliest stick to beat this problem. It's a bad first resort.

Identification of this nature demands identity collapse, that is, ...

2026-01-27T13:27:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…mdsu
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Identification of this nature demands identity collapse, that is, all of the many ways you might choose to present yourself to different friend groups, professional groups, family and governmental agencies must be one single identity where reputation in one bleeds over into the others.

The problem online isn't accounts using fake names. It's systems of reputation that give equal privileges to new accounts as they do to 10yo annons. Discarding reputation as too hard to assess.

Is there an Inkscape user who has and uses a drawing tablet ...

2025-09-13T15:39:36Z

Is there an Inkscape user who has and uses a drawing tablet device available to test some fixes for 1.5?

What we need is some testing on the smoothness of the drawing, it *should* be better than 1.4 and hopefully not break.

Downloads are here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7427 to get them you click on the green checkmark and click your OS, and download the AppImage, 7z (windows) or dmg.

Comment on the linked page if you can. Here is ok too.

Thanks!

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