Not to be triggery regarding the recent local unrest in England, but I must say that, as an outsider, I have been quite impressed by the directness and boldness of what the judges are saying to the defendants they're sentencing (based on what I'm hearing quoted in the news). "Putting em unequivocally in their place" is not standard operating procedure in US court rulings, as I recall; I think I might like it.

And now for a quick bit of UK topical comedy (which I've been trying to work on):

I haven't been watching the Olympics at all really; how has Ed Davey got on?

One tricky thing about Scribus scripting is shared with Inkscape, in that all individual elements on a page actually have an internal ID (whee XML!), but those IDs are well-hidden in the UI. And kinda fragile. Like if you rename something to a sensible, non-randomized ID ("form_field_1"), then copy & paste it, the pasted one gets a new totally random name, not a variation based on yor rename.

I get why Normal People shouldn't be confronted with the IDs in standard UX, but it has ripple effects.

I miss Libre Graphics Meeting existing.
#LGM @lgm

@praxeology Your numbers might be accurate, but I'm unconvinced that this isn't a wildly apples-to-oranges metric. Administering a server is, as your subsequent post notes, considerably more difficult than updating a GUI PC operating system.

I.e., however much time people who aren't trained programmers & sysadmins spend grappling with their consumer-level devices is de-facto going to be orders of magnitude less than they'd need to admin a server OS. Hence, they don't ever start.

Yikes. I'm watching a live-streamed play-through of the Dune RPG (from the "Glass Cannon" podcast people), and I absolutely just realized that they're using my old Della Respira font to mark things in their virtual game-map.

Which I realized because the spacing is so bad. You can learn a lot in 12 years.

@praxeology I feel like I've heard it is for some of them, but I don't remember which. The whole name thing is really a secret way to assign a "wake word". So maybe there are ways to set alternate/additional wake words if someone in your house is really named Alexa, etc.

Anyway, what I dimly recall seeing was naming it "HAL", for obvious reasons.

Super tired of hearing (mainland) Chinese acquaintances over here parrot Putin's fiction about Ukraine being a province of Russia because of the USSR, and of hearing them repeat Beijing's about Taiwan being a province of mainland China.

I've found that changing the subject to discuss the fact that China is a province of Mongolia usually brings that to a close. But not *always*.

This is what life is like when people refuse to let typeface design be the topic of conversation. When will we learn?

More @OpenSource updates —

Well, I still have not seen any replies from one candidate (JB). He claims he posted them days ago & they just haven't passed moderation yet. I think whoever's moderating the queue took this weekend off. Worst possible choice there

I also posted some redirects to another candidate's overly-vague-bordering-on-evasive answers. Those also have not been cleared.

Pretty hard to have a public debate this way; invisible unaccountable mods stopping everything. < 24hrs left

I posted a bunch of questions to the OSI "Individual Director" seat candidates.

Only one other person asked any (out-of-band, Twitter); one reply.

I didn't know it'd go into a site-moderation queue by @OpenSource ... so I don't even know if they'll ever go public.

Also it's pretty late in the process, so may not make a lick o' difference. But, if you voted for someone who is revealed by their responses to be a clown or a crook, you'll have a nice page to link back to in '23.

A brief update on my attempt to get questions answered by the folks running for the @OpenSource board of directors this week.

Of the 8 "individual seat" candidates posed Qs, there have been 5 replies. I was pessimistically expecting 2–3.

Unfortunately, out of the 3 candidates I had the most serious candidacy-concerns for, 2 of them have still not mustered any answers. The polls close on Monday.