Mastodawn

Trying to answer a question no sane person ever had to ask: How Hard Is It, To Open a File?

This one is about the great POSIX idea of a filesystem, and why you could not play your games and open chrome for a few days.

https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a-file/

How Hard Is It To Open a File?

It’s a question I had to ask myself multiple times over the last few months. Depending on the context the answer can be: very simple, just call the standard library function extremely hard, don’t trust anything If you are an app developer, you’re lucky and it’s almost always the first answer. If you develop something with a security boundary which involves files in any way, the correct answer is very likely the second one.

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d_ed Apr 10

Had a great time at the #kde #megasprint in Graz.

It's a sign of a good sprint when on the way back I'm glued to my laptop rejuvenated with even more energy to continue hacking on things.

d_ed Apr 6

Juan Carlos Muñoz Apr 6

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d_ed Mar 22

@shanmukhateja @kde

The alternative to userdb(in systemd) is accountservice which is also getting an optional placeholder for birthdate.

So distancing ourselves from systemd isn't achieving a lot.

Whether and how we populate that field on either service is left up to the desktop and no-one has yet.

d_ed Mar 21

KDE Mar 19

"SteamOS 3.8.0 Preview: Second Clutch" is out

This preview version is for the Steam Deck preview channel, comes with Plasma 6.4 and runs on Wayland by default.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/532126482488623649

#Plasma6 #Gaming #SteamDeck #wayland #linux #LinuxGaming

d_ed Mar 14

@aks @f4grx @thomholwerda @kde

The tool doesn't matter, the output does.

Handling LLMs is such a spectrum, from vibe coding without reading or understanding anything to being 100% identical to what the author would have written by hand. Banning the latter would be like banning certain text editors.

We have been getting human written slop for years! We deal with this the same way.

d_ed Mar 9

Today I had to do a Wayland related patch in WxWidgets affecting Plasma.

Before starting I had the impression that it was a super-crufty super-old super-dead project.

I will admit publicly I was super-wrong; the code in the areas I looked was pretty decent and the review process has been modern and very fast.

d_ed Feb 22

New safe advice for FOSS developers; always leave review comments like a YouTuber is about to do a Video on it.

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d_ed Feb 18

@tsdgeos @neal

No, sorry.

The graph is stacked rather than overlapping. So X11 is at 5%, Wayland at 95%

d_ed Feb 18

#kde

Fun updated stats on Wayland vs X11 within Plasma.

- 100% of all git-master testers with metrics enabled ran Wayland.

- Even though our overall conversion rate for all users on Plasma 6.x is around 80%, if we filter in on just Plasma 6.5.x users, we're at around a 95% crossover.