Maltimore@maltimore@social.tchncs.desocial.tchncs.de

In my process of becoming a unix greybeard, I have effectively transformed my #Fedora installation into a poor man's #Debian.
Every time a new fedora release comes out, I upgrade from the then third-latest version to the then second-latest version.
My other computer is simply debian of course.

It's been a long road for #Wayland's recently landed color management extension. Let's take a brief look back at how this latest feature was formed: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/12-years-of-incubating-wayland-color-management.html

Plasma 6.3 is here... and it's Pixel Perfect!

One year on from Plasma 6.0, and this is what you can expect in your next update: massive steps in the support and configuration of drawing tablets, pixel perfect window placing and zoom, extended hardware monitoring, even more customization possibilities, and so much more.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.0/

#desktop #freesoftware #opensource

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

As someone who has been doing "AI" professionally for 10 years now and really believes in its potential, I've been quite bummed about how much people on Fedi hate it.
But I've just set foot outside academia for the first time and heard a keynote talk about AI in an industry meeting and it was so fucking dumb that I left early, angrily. The most insane brain rot bullshit I ever came across.
Now I understand why people outside academia hate it so much.
#AI #ML #MachineLearning

First direct chemical synthesis of a gene over 1700 nucleotides long covered by Chemistry World!

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/first-direct-chemical-synthesis-of-a-gene-over-1700-nucleotides-long/4020938.article

Read the full paper in Chemical Science (which is free to read!) here:

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/sc/d4sc06958g

The moment Estonia disconnected its power grid from Russia has been shared online. A historic step toward energy independence.

I heard you like broken Linux camera drivers.

Playing with statues (25 photos): https://streetartutopia.com/playing-with-statues/

Do you find it easy to simply focus on your current task, even though you have the entirety of human knowledge available at your fingertips within seconds, or are you normal?

Sequoia National Park

One rather crude measure of how stable Linux is, is how long you can keep your computer running without a reboot. Not that long ago, it used to be that every time you put your computer to sleep, there was roughly a 50/50 chance that you'd manage to wake it again. Nowadays, I go at least 7 days between reboots. Ideally I'd like to reboot only every month. It takes at least 3-4 minutes to get my working state back each time, but mostly I just don't want the mental load burden.

A next version of @kde@floss.social Plasma is just around the corner and it will come loaded with new features for drawing tablets and improved #wayland support. Shout-out to @redstrate for making it happen as part of their work on the We Care About Your Input - #KDE Goals project.

There is even a website with the current status and planned goodies.
https://artonwayland.redstrate.com/

#kdegoals #artwithopensource #digitalart #illustration #wacom #tablet #krita

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Given the environmental disaster of AI-inflated data processing energy demands, DeepSeek's apparent efficiency would be a pure good news story were it not for American imperial panic.

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/27/24352801/deepseek-ai-chatbot-chatgpt-ios-app-store

Do we know of any examples of #mastodon servers operated by regional digital rights organizations for the activists in their region?

The whole "immigrants are important for the economy and will do the jobs you don't want to do" line of reasoning is a completely dehumanising capitalist approach. Our value as human beings should not determined by our economic output.

In the last 2 days, Social Web Foundation partner and W3C ActivityPub working group participant Meta has blocked and hid the posts of abortion pill providers. https://archive.is/TnwMw

Neither SWF or SWICG has condemned the action. Why do these organizations continue to provide the Zuckerberg entity with influence in determining the future of the fediverse?

In light of US tech oligarchy setting its sights on Wikimedia Foundation, a historical detail I did not know before: #Wikipedia became the non-profit it is today partly as the result of a labour strike of Spanish Wikipedia editors who disagreed with the proposed inclusion of advertisements. Initially, it was not clear what revenue model Wikipedia would get, and Wales moved towards a for-profit model already a year after launch. However, rather than working for free, so Jimmy Wales could profit from their labour via advertising, Spanish contributors forked Spanish Wikipedia as the Encyclopedia Libre Universal. Under the threat of losing the editorial community of such a large language, Wales conceded and set up the non-profit.

That is to say, however imperfect they are, all the digital commons we have are the result of ongoing struggle and hard work to keep them as commons.

Via Las Redes Son Nuestras (https://www.consonni.org/es/publicaciones/las-redes-son-nuestras) by @teclista

Update with more info:
https://post.lurk.org/@rra/113873611500414068