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This week in KDE Plasma: 6.2 is nigh (pointieststick.com)
 

Plasma 6.2 will be released in just three days! In the end we did revert the notification changes, so users of Plasma 6.2 won’t experience any new issues with notifications. The list of verified 6.2 regressions is extremely small, with most being low importance. We will of course eventually get them fixed anyway! But they aren’t release blockers.

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Zrythm Digital Audio Workstation Abandoning GTK For Qt6 (www.phoronix.com)
 

Zrythm is an interesting open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software package. It's been making use of the GTK toolkit but now the developers have decided to switch to Qt6 instead.

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[C++] What brings an upgrade to GCC 14 from GCC 13? (meetingcpp.com)
 

Recently I wondered what I get in term of C++ features for upgrading my system from version 13 to 14 of GCC...

Now, of course - a lot of bug fixes. Its surely a good idea to upgrade. But that doesn't answer my question. So a quick look at C++ compiler support showed that there is some interesting features, and mostly first C++26 support becoming available is one of them. Other features are more important to me though.

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Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe recognises Julian Assange as a ‘political prisoner’ and warns against the chilling effect of his harsh treatment (www.coe.int)
HDMI 2.1 in c/gaming@lemmy.ml
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh how I wish those TV manufacturers would get rid of HDMI and replace it with DisplyPort. HDMI mafia does not allow opensource implementations of HDMI specification and so not all latest features of it can be supported by graphics card drivers on GNU/Linux. Death to HDMI!

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The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age (thewalrus.ca)
 

Why are we letting algorithms rewrite the rules of art, work, and life?

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Linux App Summit 2024 – 4.,5. Okt. 2024 (conf.linuxappsummit.org)
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White House quietly supported invasion of Lebanon, despite opposition from Pentagon and State Department — Politico (www.politico.com)
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Israel Deliberately Blocked Humanitarian Aid to Gaza, Two Government Bodies Concluded. Antony Blinken Rejected Them. (www.propublica.org)
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DOOM Ported To Run Atop AMD ROCm + LLVM libc (www.phoronix.com)
 

An open-source developer at AMD has carried out a DOOM port that runs almost entirely atop AMD GPUs for rendering and the game logic. This DOOM GPU port relies on the AMD ROCm library with the LLVM libc C library for offloading the classic DOOM to the AMD GPU.

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Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable (www.ru.nl)
 

Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes show new proof that those claims are overblown and unlikely to ever come to fruition. Their findings are published in Computational Brain & Behavior today.

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Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 1) (blog.elenarossini.com)
 

The Fediverse has been teaching me how to be a better digital citizen. Actually, let me rephrase that: without the shadow of a doubt, the Fediverse has made me a better digital citizen.

You may have heard in passing how Fediverse networks are considered to be “ethical social media” – but this description has rarely been followed up by an explanation of how and why. I’d like to give it a shot, through the prism of my personal experience.

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Why EU leaders should get off Musk's X (euobserver.com)
 

When men go to pee in a public toilet they spend a minute gazing at the wall in front of them, in what many advertisers have seized upon as an opportunity to display posters of their products above the stinking urinals.

But in terms of framing, you'd better ask yourself: Is this really what I want my brand to be associated with?

You might well think twice if you were selling ice cream or toothpaste, so what if your poster was Ursula von der Leyen's face selling EU values?

Because that's the kind of environment in which the European Commission president, other top EU officials, and national EU leaders are posting their images and comments every day when they use X to communicate with press and the EU public.

Even the toilet analogy is too kind.

linux or windows? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

GNU/Linux only, with KDE Plasma for desktop as possible. Using it on work laptop (Kubuntu), home laptop (openSUSE Tumbleweed), PC (openSUSE Tumbleweed, also used for gaming), Steam Deck (Arch-based SteamOS). I don't use spyware/adware so Windows is out of question for me. Also it is not free as in freedom and opensource.

Linux 6.11 released in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Anyone else having the problem with the new kernel that graphics in games/benchmarks is quite a lot slower (about 15-20%) then with older kernel (I used 6.10.7 before I upgraded). This is with Powercolor Hellhound AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE? Even Einstein@Home GPU tasks take about 20% longer now (28 min with previous kernel to about 34 min now).

On Rust, Linux, developers, maintainers in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

Nope. here it is about the good DRM: Direct Rendering Manager

Surveillance Watch – an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations in c/technology@lemmy.ml
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's the heavy graphics used which looks like it uses WebGL and this is disabled in LibreWolf since it can easily be used for fingerprinting a user. It would be great if they could not use such heavy graphics if WebGL is not supported and just used simple static image or something like that. Well it would be great in general not just for privacy reasons.

[Level1Linux] Is Gaming On The Ryzen 9 9950X Better On Linux Than On Windows? in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

From my experince AMD drivers are pretty close, I'd even say slightly better on GNU/Linux, definitely more stable and consistent. For Nvidia, yeah they are bad at supporting GNU/Linux. Improved a lot through the years but still not there. For Intel, well not exactly an option for gaming, at least not the integrated GPUs I have used so far, but still better than in Windows in a similar way as in AMD case.

P.S. Another great thing with libre/opensource GNU/Linux drivers: When you report a bug with Mesa3D drivers the bug is quite quickly fixed, especially when you can provide them with backtrace and/or Vulkan/OpenGL API trace. Doing a bisect of source code commits amd identifying the commit that introduced a regression also help a great deal. Good luck doing the same with closed/Windows drivers: you can wait for years and no fix.

[Level1Linux] Is Gaming On The Ryzen 9 9950X Better On Linux Than On Windows? in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

It's totaly messed up in general and has been for a long time. They try to hack it for the new CPU model and stab you in the back for older CPUs, I'd say it is FUBAR.

We found the Missing Performance: Zen 5 Tested with SMT Disabled in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or they just found out that Windows process scheduler is still broken beyond repair. If you look at the benchmarks on GNU/Linux performance is all there. For example see Phoronix benchmark

Microsoft Ruined Windows in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah I am so glad I switched to GNU/Linux years ago, Have to keep supporting closed OSes at work with our software and with each release they are just getting worse and worse, while GNU/Linux just keeps getting better.

Microsoft Ruined Windows in c/technology@lemmy.ml
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah I am so glad I switched to GNU/Linux years ago, Have to keep supporting closed OSes at work with our software and with each release they are just getting worse and worse, while GNU/Linux just keeps getting better.

Microsoft Ruined Windows in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah I am so glad I switched to GNU/Linux years ago, Have to keep supporting closed OSes at work with our software and with each release they are just getting worse and worse, while GNU/Linux just keeps getting better.

Linux 6.10 released in c/linux@lemmy.ml
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