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by sho_hn 2y ago
Yup, but you'll also find e.g. Fedora on lists like https://akademy.kde.org/2022/sponsors/ (and Red Hat was on there not so long ago too, iirc) so it's not completely out of the blue that the communities
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by sho_hn 2y ago
Both Red Hat and Fedora have sponsored KDE also in recent years, FWIW, e.g. the Akademy flagship conference. But what I really want to say is that Red Hat's contributions to Gnome are not that large recently. I often see comments along
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by sho_hn 2y ago
It was the other way around. It was GTK/Gnome with the LGPL licensing, while Qt's open source edition was initially GPL-only, before LGPL was added later on. LGPL means you can write closed source software against the open source
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by sho_hn 2y ago
No, these things go back much further than the KDE 4 or Gnome 3 product cycles. The distro/commercial ecosystem preference for Gnome dates back to earlier times, and comes down mostly to geography and licensing. Wrt/ licensing, th
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by sho_hn 3y ago
ESC to go to the menu and see (and change) the controls mapping actually works!
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by sho_hn 3y ago
WebGL for games is so awesome for low-friction deployment. As a rainy weekend hack I did a quick and dirty port of a fan decompile of the original Tomb Raider to WASM/WebGL a few weeks ago: https://eikehein.com/stuff&#x
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by sho_hn 3y ago
My goals to release source and docs a la https://github.com/eikehein/hyelicht got waylaid by the ultimate DIY project of having a baby in November, but I will try to get it done this year!
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by sho_hn 3y ago
Not the OP, but I really like the SCD30 by Sensirion. It's the sensor used in the widely popular Aranet4, but the combo of sensor+MCU when you DIY it costs about a third of the commercially integrated product, so the feeling of thrifty
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by sho_hn 3y ago
I love that! Now I am seriously tempted to hack up the control unit of my Fully and get it into Home Assistant so I can adjust the desk with a slider on the laptop for ... reasons.
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by sho_hn 3y ago
My GPT-powered e-Ink newspaper uses an esp32: https://imgur.com/a/NoTr8XX
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by sho_hn 3y ago
This one contained information I didn't encounter in the earlier ones linked from HN. The earlier ones mostly focused on the multi-step build and extraction process, this one has some detail on the inner workings of the library that ge
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by sho_hn 3y ago
If you haven't revisited it since those days, Plasma 5 eventually achieved a reputation for being relatively light-weight - a default session was, at some points (maybe still is), lighter than XFce, getting it design wins on lower-powe
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by sho_hn 3y ago
I assume they are advocating for package managers to preferably grab signed git tags from repositories rather than download tarballs. The backdoor relied on the source in the tarballs being different from the git tag, adding additional scri
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by sho_hn 3y ago
This refers to the fact that systemd was planning to drop the dependency on liblzma (the conpression library installed by xz), and instead dlopen it at runtime when needed. Not for security reasons, but to avoid pulling the libs into initra
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by sho_hn 3y ago
https://www.eikehein.com/kde/plasma6.mp3 Ok, this is pretty fun.
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by sho_hn 3y ago
> I'd give Theo de Raadt a thumb up and Poettering a thumb down here, again. Poettering didn't talk distros into patching openssh to call libsystemd's sd_notify(), and if you look at the PR for dropping libsystemd's
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by sho_hn 3y ago
Indeed. I'm very frustrated by all of the "this has shown how fragile FOSS is" hot takes I see appearing. I think it has shown us how awesome FOSS is: If this were all closed source software, chances are we'd never have
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by sho_hn 3y ago
I've done some experiments with a little camera-equipped robot navigating by prompting a LMM with stills and producing captions that include military-style o'clock directions. Some promising results with a weekend of tinkering. I&
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by sho_hn 3y ago
I think Slint is quite interesting, but it's licensing model is very similar to Qt, albeit somewhat more restrictive: The open source option is GPL v3 (not LGPL), and then there's commercial licenses, which yes, are cheaper - for
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by sho_hn 3y ago
I hope you don't mind me pointing out the delicious irony of recommending an audiobook (requiring a mass communication network and electronic playback device) to sample a tome apparently on the subject of electricity invisibly killing
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by sho_hn 3y ago
I watched that a couple of months ago and loved it. It does a lot to humanize that team, I've been thinking of them during the recent news cycle.
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by sho_hn 3y ago
> I do medical devices. Therac-25 happened in 1982 and changed that industry (and safety engineering in general) quite a bit, no?
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by sho_hn 3y ago
macOS is quite locked down. It's not possible to easily distribute software to macOS users that isn't code-signed and notarized, both of which require a paid Apple Developer account and Apple's participation. This is also tru
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by sho_hn 3y ago
Thanks for the donation, it really helps :-)
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by sho_hn 3y ago
There's a large amount of robustness improvements, particularly around multi-monitor and docking scenarios with dynamic and fractional DPI. We've also introduced technology to allow client apps to stay running should the composito
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by sho_hn 3y ago
> KDE should probably invest in better defaults if these need tweaking. We've done that a lot the last couple of years! We've changed many defaults to values that reflect better what the users actually use, based on reviewing w
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by sho_hn 3y ago
You could say that. We learned a lot from 4.0! For me one of the biggest accomplishments of our community is that people really do stick around. It's very multi-generational. Therefore the memory is there and the lessons do get learned
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by sho_hn 3y ago
FWIW, we've also had professional usability experts involved with KDE many times over the years. E.g. the OpenUsability initiative, which KDE helped set up, was run by HCI professionals and conducted a fair number of user studies, prod
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by sho_hn 3y ago
As a KDE developer, I think Gimp is pretty great and has made massive progress in the upcoming 3.0 release (also on things only Krita could do so far, like reasonable colorspace-independence, also UI-wise). Obviously we're very proud o
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by sho_hn 3y ago
Qt has fully supported Python bindings as well, and there's increasingly capable Rust bindings from the community, too.

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