This is a follow-up of my previous toot about the mil vs. thou unit which someone is asking us to add in the default units list of @npub1jxdd...txs3. To be fair, at this point, when I see how people disagree even with the name (and the fact that as a software engineer working animation film industry, nobody here knows this unit, engineers and artists alike!), I just wonder if we should add this unit at all. I would add a fifth choice "Add both" but Mastodon only accepts up to 4-choice in polls.

Question to people doing electronics and other fields using very small units: do you use the name "thou" or "mil" for the unit representing 1⁄1000 inch? Considering adding this in unit list in @npub1jxdd...txs3. Wikipedia seems to say that Thou is more common globally (but North America) and it looks like @npub1cf7c...39az (a good reference!) uses "Thou" too. Yet a reporter insists that "mil" is more common and that "thou" wouldn't be understood by engineers. So which is it? 😄

Thousandth of an inch - Wikipedia

98%… of what? The mystery deepens!

@npub1avte...pehd 3.24.49 has just been released! This is a next step towards an awesome @npub1jxdd...txs3 3 release and we encourage all packagers of all FLOSS distributions to update their GTK package soon as it fixes some annoying bugs. Thank you very much to @npub1zftn...w4zw and all GTK developers for their awesome work, as always! 💌

Working on tutorials for creating third-party plug-ins and filters for GIMP… https://www.patreon.com/posts/working-on-for-123572848

93% complete? 8 opened issues? Of what? Mystery! 🎭 dum-dum-dum-dum… 🥁

We uploaded for our patrons the video in the state of #ZeMarmot short as of the day of our #keynote at #FOSDEM. This is the exact same video we screened, except that sound-wise, we only had sound effect, and 3 musicians were on stage for live music! https://www.patreon.com/posts/121966648

ZeMarmot's music band from AMMD ([@ORL_AMMD](

Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net

ORL - AMMD [Freak & Free Arts] (@ORL_AMMD@mamot.fr)

198 Posts, 44 Following, 88 Followers · Musician Member of french Freak 'n' Free Art Coo[r]p : AMMD baking free arts with free softwares (and r...

)) has been hard at work for our keynote on Sunday morning at @npub1yauc...atjv. This small video is from a rehearsal, with the 2 musicians and the film director, on Friday evening on the actual stage where the film's screening will happen at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

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Rehearsing and preparing film screening with live music as a FOSDEM 2025 keynote

Friday evening (January, 31, 2025), the day before FOSDEM 25 starts, ZeMarmot team is hard at work preparing its keynote on Sunday! On stage: music...

#FOSDEM #LibreArt #FOSDEM2025 #ZeMarmot #GIMP

Cool, AMMD (the non-profit cooperative producing Libre Art music with which we mostly work) opened their @npub1d8eg...x6ug account! If you want to support Libre Art music experiments by people who actually care about the idea (not just as a "let's get known then close later" logic) and develop their own Free Software and hardware, they are it!

Liberapay

ammd's profile - Liberapay

AMMD is a collective of artists producing libre art (Copyleft) by the mean of free softwares and hardwares, some of them begin fully or partly deve...

#GIMP 3.0.0 RC3 is now at 83% with only 10 issues to fix! You'll notice how we are now at 49 already closed reports now, while we were at 14 to close with 38 closed reports a few days ago! 😉 Things are getting exciting again!