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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 2w ago

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@hsza@social.tudbut.de @kde@floss.social @witchgirls@woof.tech True, but there is always a point when they reveal themselves, right? You know the type that are "just asking questions"? I know for a fact they have special place in many KDE mods hearts and often get kicked. There is also the problem that if you establish yourself as an open project, which KDE is, it is hard to justify a preemptive exclusion policy. It is also hard to prohibit something based on what you think some people are going to do and not what they have done... That may be nothing, or nothing you are able to see. Mind readers don't exist.

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 1mo ago

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@Gina@fosstodon.org In what way? If you could provide, say, 3 adjectives that best describe Bern in your opinion, someone may be able to provide a better answer.

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 2mo ago

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The trick Meta doesn’t want you to know about... If you have a pair of Meta AI glasses, pop them in the microwave for five minutes on full power and you’ll significantly boost the camera’s resolution. The explanation is simple: the radiation emitted by your microwave splits the pixels on the camera sensor, allowing them to split 2, 3, up to 4 times. This is what manufacturers do to create models with different resolutions (and prices!) but with identical hardware. Get the best resolution for free! Thanks to https://social.heise.de/@vowe/11692838 for this tip. #Meta #AIGlasses #Hack

social.heise.de

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 6mo ago

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@b9AcE @kde It does not logically follow that a successful option will eliminate all others. That is what corporate monopolies try to do, but not even they are always successful. If they were, we would not have Linux, BSDs, Haikus today. And systemd is not developed by an evil, monopoly-seeking corporation, it is Free Software distributed under an LGPL license, and can be modified by third parties and forked any time. Your screed comes over as tribalism, if you don't mind me saying, based on nothing more than FUD. Instead of hating on the option you don't like, wouldn't it be more productive to support the system you do? I mean, if you fear "your" option may one day disappear, this is not the way to help it.

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 7mo ago

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@mr_harm @kde Some people don't like it.

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 7mo ago

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@PuntoyComa@masto.es @ctxt@mastodon.world @accioncontraelodio@mastodon.social @teclista@hortensia.social @lainterseccion@hortensia.social @X_net@mastodon.social Uh...

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 6mo ago

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RE: https://todon.eu/@b9AcE/116351455990841473 @b9AcE @kde "there is no valid reason for any DE to care how its DM was started, nor the DM to depend on any particular init, just as no distro not built for single use single task should be limited to only 1 PID1, only 1 shell, only 1 browser, only 1 App Store" But none of that is happening, is it? You have plenty of DMs, inits, shells, browsers and app stores to choose from, right?

todon.eu

b9AcE: "@kde@floss.social No, it's not fine. It's the wor…" - Todon.eu

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 7mo ago

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@txt_file @kde Ah! The "X11 vs Wayland" brigade has turned up! Here, you dropped this:

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 7mo ago

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@kde It seems like #KaOSLinux swallowed the FUD hook, line and sinker.

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 6mo ago

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@Gogoetak@xarxa.cloud Firmado! Gracias!

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 6mo ago

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@b9AcE You are the one claiming that systemd is "infecting" FLOSS and threatening to kill all other options, hence the onus of proving that is on you.

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 6mo ago

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@b9AcE Okay. Why don't you illustrate what you mean with an example? Please cite an example where "[a FLOSS] project [has] declared they cannot maintain support for other choices because the dominant have decided to go from once an option to the default, then prioritized and finally become exclusionary non-interoperable, so the smaller projects cease being able to handle the extra work". (Your description of the chain of events is a bit garbled, but I hope I have understood correctly the gist).

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 6mo ago

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@colinstu @memoriesin8bit @kde TL;DR: "I did not know a word."

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 7mo ago

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@rl_dane @kde Absolutely. As I understand it, the "sad people" are those who refuse to back down for... reasons; or those that actually benefit from spreading FUD, as it feeds them traffic.

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 7mo ago

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@badrihippo @mr_harm @kde Not judging or anything. To each their own.

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 9mo ago

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@scy@chaos.social Not to generalise or anything, but they do seem to hate words in general, not only sweary ones.

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 28mo ago

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@greenman@fosstodon.org @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

I am reading "I think Adobe products are better because I know how to use them."
There is no such thing as an "intuitive ui", just one you have become used to. See 1.
Can you back this up with some stats?

And that would be three things, hardly 300% more things.

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 28mo ago

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@teledyn@mstdn.ca @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social No necessarily a "Public Education" issue. Often it is corporations interfering in public institutions. At the _public_ faculties of computer science unis in Extremadura and Málaga I heard the same. A little probing revealed that Microsoft, Adobe and Oracle were funding labs and researchers, and lavishing gifts on the professors.

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 17mo ago

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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Throw enology into the mix and it's enough to push you to drink.

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 28mo ago

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@teledyn@mstdn.ca @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Ugh. Apple. Another bunch of scammers that have no shame. Combine ignorance with lack of funds (which leads to this "we need to get this deal!" mentality) and this is what happens. I see education boards halfway between corrupt and victims.

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 38mo ago

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@itmodulo @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Wow! Those photos are really nice!

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 28mo ago

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@greenman@fosstodon.org @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

But as far as I know you can.

Bitmap design ✔️
Vector design ✔️
Layout ✔️
Video editing ✔️
Photo retouching ✔️
Animation ✔️
...

Maybe you have info I am lacking. What 300% more tasks can you not do with FLOSS tools that you can with Adobe products?

Also, could you define "better"? In what way are they "better"? Because it is not in all ways, is it? The way they treat users is atrocious, so in that sense they are not "better", right?

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 28mo ago

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@greenman@fosstodon.org @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social That's a nice round number. How did you get to it?

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 9mo ago

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@adipoeserPursch@troet.cafe @thijs_lucas@norden.social Maybe. She may take the pendant off while driving, but I can't see it being a massive problem.

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 2w ago

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@hsza@social.tudbut.de @kde@floss.social @witchgirls@woof.tech My point is that KDE, or indeed any open project, cannot preemptively forbid access to the project without knowledge of a user's history. And knowing a user's history would require user-per-user vetting which firstly sounds kind of ethically questionable, and second is untenable for a volunteer-based project with limited resources. So sometimes you are going to have nazis in the bar that you are not going to know about 🤷. When they reveal themselves (or get revealed by others) you can deal with them, which is what happened today in KDE. And dealt with they were.

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 4mo ago

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@veronica@explains.social Absolutely, But the chances of getting it on those platforms are so small as to being virtually non-existent. Definitely not victim-blaming though!

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 5mo ago

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@supertobi @nomis @GIMP @lgm OH! It changes colour! Very nice. Thanks!

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 1w ago

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@WPalant@infosec.exchange Why are you tagging KDE? Who in KDE is supporting harbouring racist and/or fascist within the community?

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 2w ago

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@hsza@social.tudbut.de @kde@floss.social @witchgirls@woof.tech It's not. Most vibe-coders are poor kids from convulsed countries trying to keep their heads above water. They often ask for money for their contributions or "solutions" to bugs. Or they are trying to get their feet in the door in mentorship programs, like GSoC, as a way to make headway in a richer country's IT industry. They have no awareness of the politics associated with the current AI situation and the stance should very much be that of "deplore the crime, but pity the criminal".

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 8mo ago

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@cstross@wandering.shop Massive! Good luck!

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 5mo ago

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@nomis @supertobi @GIMP @lgm Great pic. Thanks!

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 5mo ago

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@nomis @GIMP @lgm Can you add a final picture that shows the badge working?

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 2w ago

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@hsza@social.tudbut.de @kde@floss.social @witchgirls@woof.tech

Realistically, no extremist can keep up the pretense of civility for long*. If you look at KDE's CoC, I doubt they would not violate it in the first week.

https://kde.org/code-of-conduct/

I mean, especially now when they feel emboldened.

kde.org

KDE Community Code of Conduct

Preamble In the KDE community, participants from all over the world come together to create Free Software for the desktop. This is made possible by the support, hard work and enthusiasm of thousands of people, including those who create and use KDE software.

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 5mo ago

Interesting new video/audio editing/streaming project that is worth following:

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/2TfUV95JW4dyfnjwou1PU5

Kockatoo Tube

PLASMA STUDIO DEVLOG #1

You can find all of these videos as written articles, plus some extra content, at https://thelibre.news You can the channel grow by donating to the following platforms: Paypal: https://paypal.me/ni...

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 47mo ago

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@JesseSkinner@toot.cafe @jkbecker@infosec.exchange New...

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 7mo ago

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@trancilo@fosstodon.org I am pretty sure @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl funds only EU projects, depending as they do on funds from the EU. @osuosl@fosstodon.org is in Oregon, the US, so they would not qualify, unfortunately.

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*The* Paul Brown @Bro666@social.tchncs.de

· 2w ago

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@hsza@social.tudbut.de @kde@floss.social @witchgirls@woof.tech

They do... If we are talking about banning bad actors that bring their CoC-infringing views to KDE managed platforms. Point in case the amount of bans and blocks handed out every time we express support for LGBTQ+ contributors.
It seems like you are confabulating two different things: AI-pushing vibe-coding contributing wannabes are not the same crowd as alt-right trolls and s**tstirrers. Those usually don't get their stuff admitted into KDE either by the way.

In any case, as mentioned above, these are two different problems and I would appreciate it if you could keep them separate, as you are making it hard to figure out what you are talking about in any given moment.

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