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So the scope of this investment from STA is mostly focused on area which are underfunded in KDE, useful in a bit more corporate context while also being core components used by the rest of KDE and some third parties.

Wayland protocol development is fortunately already funded by Valve. And for the kernel work, this is something where KDE developers are very rarely involved with.

I'm one of the board member of the KDE e.V. I'm super pleased to see this news finally out in the public and that the German government decided to strategically invest in KDE and open source in general. If anyone has a question about this, shoot away.

Source: I worked two years on GnuPG, which is certified VS-NfD: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geheimhaltungsgrad

And nowadays, PGP technology is mostly used by the government and military. I wouldn't be surprised if this was also the case when Bitcoins was originally developed

To be fair. Plasma BiScreen is now lead by Devin Lin which has done a amazing job moving Plasma Mobile once the initial sponsor of it turned its interest somewhere else. So i am quite happy to see the progress there :)

We do that in KDE too, where the decision to update to a possible gpl4 is decided by a vote of the KDE e.v. (the legal non profit organization behind the project) membership.

https://invent.kde.org/office/marknote/-/blob/master/LICENSE...

History/Motivations This project started as an exploration of using AI agents for software development. Based on experience tuning systems using Abseil's B+tree, I was curious if performance could be improved through SIMD instructions, a customized allocator, and tunable node sizes. Claude proved surprisingly adept at helping implement this quickly, and the resulting B+tree showed compelling performance improvements, so I'm making it available here.

It seems the code was written with AI, I hope the author knows what he is doing. Last time I tried to use AI to optimize CPU-heavy C++ code (StackBlur) with SIMD, this failed :/

There is a nice overview of this sort of events on the End Of 10 website: https://endof10.org/places/

I knew about gpgme-json, but I didn't knew, you could do web auth with that. I though the usecase was mainly mailvelope. How does that work?

Thanks for the link to the screenshots page, I completely forgot we had one

That screenshot is very old, for an actual screenshot. For an actual screenshot, you can find one on today's announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.5.0/

Btw as one the web developer behind KDE's website, do you mind telling me where you found that screenshot?

On linux, you are likely missing the db drivers for Qt for other database types.

Honestly I think it's fair. Really the only people affected by this change are people creating proprietary forks, everyone else benefits from this change.

I just wish there was a way to ensure that the company itself doesn't do a proprietary fork.

The US is not only restricting the free speech of their own citizens but also from citizens of other countries...

Mercedes Benz is already for example using KWin from KDE as Wayland compositor and likely many other open source components. So this sort of move is not without precedent.

It's a smart move to do so instead of switching to Android Auto and loosing control of one of the most important component of the experience of the car.

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Another open source app with a bit of similar goal: https://apps.kde.org/itinerary/

The collaboration part is not that developed (but does exist based on Matrix as decentralized and end to end encrypted storage). That works very well is ticket extraction for hotels, train or flight + search for connection using public transport APIs.

Disclaimer: I'm involved with that app

What's the difference with RR?

From the same author, Heaptrack to investigate memory usage is also very helpful: https://invent.kde.org/sdk/heaptrack/

The issue is that it would require normal user to also do the same, which is suboptimal from a privacy point of view.

Kwrite is basically kate without any plugins. Both applications are hosted in the same repo and developed at the same time.

It already exists and it's called Kleopatra. It's developed by KDE with some support from the GPG developers and is part of the Gpg4Win suite.

It's used by quite a few companies and public administrations.

I like the idea. GPG encryption are super helful when sharing secrets.

Disclaimer: I work on some UI for GPG as my day job.

INAL at some point, I was wondering if it wouldn't be easier to sue these companies for DDoS-ing than copyright violations.

Yeah Falkon is not using KIO. Same for Konqueror for network request. In the old time of QtWebkit and even older time of KHTML, the webview would reuse the Qt network stack, but now it's reusing the implementation from Chromium.

Btw KIO is now using QtNetwork for it's http implementation, instead of having it's own. So http2 is now also supported.

I had a similar case when I work on a Matrix client (NeoChat) and I and the other devs were wondering why loading an account was so slow. Removing the loading spinner made it so much faster, because the animation to render the loading spinner uses 100% cpu.

Use the Reuse specification and tooling instead: https://reuse.software/

There is no need to reinvent a solved problem by rewritting it in rust with a different format, particularly considering that reuse was developed by the FSFE in collaboration with some lawyers.

That's really cool. I am always impressed about that people are able to do with Krita, this makes me happy as a KDE developer even though I am not really involved with Krita.

Already discussed less than a day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42803559

There are quite a few stock images on that website...