KDE:

Microsoft has blatantly copied us in Windows 11, and as a result, people are starting to see Plasma as a cheap clone of Windows again. (...) Making the panel float by default provides an immediate visual differentiation from Windows 11 and we hope this will help jolt users’ brains out of “ew, it’s slightly different from Windows 11” mode and into “wow, this is new and cool and I wonder what’s in it” mode.

https://pointieststick.com/2023/05/11/plasma-6-better-defaults/

Microsoft:

Microsoft is preparing to launch Windows 12 (...) with several new design ideas, including a new desktop experience with a ‘floating’ taskbar. Microsoft wants to create a floating effect for the taskbar by separating it from the desktop and rounding off the edges.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2023/07/02/windows-12-microsoft-quietly-hints-at-next-gen-windows/

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Linguistic terms I want to make mainstream:

The Chewbacca agreement.

The peculiar situation of two bilingual but not fully competent individuals that results in each speaking a different language to each other without ever changing to the other speaker's language, that nevertheless produces a perfectly intelligible conversation to them.

Named, of course, after how Chewbacca just howls and chirps but everyone understands him and replies in English.

It is a very frequent situation in regions where more than one language is common or dominant.

If you are horrified by the Web Environment Integrity proposal by Google (#DRM for ads), stop using Chrome and switch to Firefox and block ads everywhere.

The only eyeballs left for Google to show ads are the ones protected by ad blockers. That’s the highest growth opportunity they have, and we cannot let them have it.

🇩🇪 #Germany has its own Mastodon server for its federal and state government accounts.

We know these are official as their server is on the German bund.de domain.

(Most are in German)

#Deutsch #Deutschland

➡️ @Bundesregierung - The German Government

➡️ @hib_Nachrichten - Today in the Bundestag

➡️ @bmi - Federal Ministry of the Interior

➡️ @AuswaertigesAmt - Federal Foreign Office

➡️ @GermanyUN - Germany in the United Nations

➡️ @GERonCyber - Federal Foreign Office Cyber Ambassador

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