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About ognarb
Previously GnuPG and KDAB. Contact email: carl@carlschwan.eu
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Comment #49210389
2 commits in the repo both generated by claude. This is AI slop, I wonder where you see good momentum?
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Comment #48121477
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…
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Comment #48119969
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 o…
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Comment #47700349
Source: I worked two years on GnuPG, which is certified VS-NfD: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geheimhaltungsgrad
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Comment #47697492
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
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Comment #47290937
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 qu…
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Comment #47272845
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…
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Comment #46514172
> 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…
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Comment #46174125
There is a nice overview of this sort of events on the End Of 10 website: https://endof10.org/places/
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Comment #45915151
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?
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Comment #45665476
Thanks for the link to the screenshots page, I completely forgot we had one
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Comment #45657656
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 …
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Comment #44988953
On linux, you are likely missing the db drivers for Qt for other database types.
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Comment #44813637
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 w…
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Comment #44403733
The US is not only restricting the free speech of their own citizens but also from citizens of other countries...
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Comment #44370728
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 s…
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Comment #44332879
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Comment #44252626
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 an…
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Comment #44077007
What's the difference with RR?
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Comment #44060443
From the same author, Heaptrack to investigate memory usage is also very helpful: https://invent.kde.org/sdk/heaptrack/
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Comment #43814718
The issue is that it would require normal user to also do the same, which is suboptimal from a privacy point of view.
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Comment #43756463
Kwrite is basically kate without any plugins. Both applications are hosted in the same repo and developed at the same time.
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Comment #43723650
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 an…
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Comment #43722640
I like the idea. GPG encryption are super helful when sharing secrets. Disclaimer: I work on some UI for GPG as my day job.