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Ephera

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  • USA: Oberstes Gericht der USA stoppt Trumps globale Zölle

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  • Vor allem spannend, weil seine Diktatoren-Rolle angeknuspert wird. Er kann sich nicht mehr darauf verlassen, dass jegliche seiner Untaten durch die Mehrheit im Supreme Court als rechtens deklariert wird.

  • switched back to KDE and don't regret

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  • Did you try on KDE since Plasma 6 came out? It introduced a native, manual tiling mechanism, which just needs to be configured by a KWinscript to make it automatic, so it still feels native when you resize the tiles. I'm pretty happy with Krohnkite these days either way...

  • switched back to KDE and don't regret

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  • Yeah, it likely won't support that any time soon, because it's incompatible with Extended Window Manager Hints standard.

    Having said that, Plasma 6.6 (which just came out) allows for having only a single virtual desktop on non-primary monitors, which is all I wanted, personally...

  • switched back to KDE and don't regret

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  • KDE Plasma can do that, too, via a KWinscript: https://codeberg.org/anametologin/Krohnkite 🙃

    On a more serious note, this is a genuine recommendation. I've been using Krohnkite and similar scripts for a few years now, and they're absolutely fine, especially since Plasma 6 introduced a native, manual tiling mechanism, which they just have to configure.Especially for newbies wanting to try out tiling window management, without having to figure out a minimalist environment like a bare window manager, this is a great entrypoint IMHO.

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  • It's just really oversimplifying memory usage. OS designers had that same thought decades ago already, so they introduced disk caching. If data gets loaded from disk, then it won't be erased from memory as soon as it isn't needed anymore. It's only erased, if something else requests memory and this happens to be the piece of "free" memory that the kernel thinks is the most expendable.

    For example, this is what the situation on my system looks like:

     
        
free -h
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            25Gi       9,8Gi       6,0Gi       586Mi       9,3Gi        15Gi

    Out of my 32 GiB physical RAM, 25 GiB happens to be usable by my applications, of which:

    • 9.8 GiB is actually reserved (used),
    • 9.2 GiB is currently in use for disk caching and buffers (buff/cache), and
    • only 6.1 GiB is actually unused (free).

    If you run cat /proc/meminfo, you can get an even more fine-grained listing.

    I'm sure, I could get the number for actually unused memory even lower, if I had started more applications since booting my laptop. Or as the Wikipedia article I linked above puts it:

    Usually, all physical memory not directly allocated to applications is used by the operating system for the page[/disk] cache.

    So, if you launch a memory-heavy application, it will generally cause memory used for disk caching to be cleared, which will slow the rest of your system down somewhat.

    Having said all that, I am on KDE myself. I do not believe, it's worth optimizing for the speed of the system, if you're sacrificing features that would speed up your usage of it. Hell, it ultimately comes down to how happy you are with your computer, so if it makes you happy, then even gaudy eye-candy can be the right investment.I just do not like these "unused RAM is wasted RAM" calls, because it is absolutely possible to implement few features while using lots of memory, and that does slow your system down unnecessarily.

  • Is Firefox signing you in to your Mozilla accounts?

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  • Firefox Sync is end-to-end-encrypted. Mozilla cannot see your synced data.

    Either way, I have no idea how this is supposed to happen without you entering your credentials into Firefox at some point. Even if Mozilla wanted to be sus, they couldn't just guess which account is yours.

  • Widelands, the open source Settlers-like devs plan to ban all AI generated contributions

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  • Well, you don't really need to announce anything, if the AI-generated submissions were super helpful anyways.

    But yeah, I guess, all I can say is that I really don't believe your theory. Especially Widelands could've done so many other things in the past, if they cared so much for attention.

    But I have also been in the maintainer role, having to deal with generated submissions, and it really isn't fun. I'm talking specifically about fun, because these are community-driven projects, so you need volunteers to have fun for anything to happen.In theory, a generated code submission could bring useful changes to the project, but it still isn't fun to review, because there isn't a human on the other side that you can teach. Even worse, you're effectively just talking to an LLM through a middleman. If I wanted to use an LLM, I'd use it directly.

  • Widelands, the open source Settlers-like devs plan to ban all AI generated contributions

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  • Community-driven open-source projects don't have anything to sell. They don't care terribly much for the publicity.

  • Is Firefox signing you in to your Mozilla accounts?

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  • Are you using Firefox Sync with the same e-mail address? I believe, that all gets put into the same account system.

  • TIL drinking, smoking, games, etc are all "social lubricants" for making conversations easier.

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  • Referring to alcohol or cannabis as social lubricants has been criticized because they have negative effects on empathy.

    I feel like weed does the opposite to that lol to me at least 🤷‍♀️

    Might be referring to drugs making it harder to follow an intelligent conversation. You might have stronger reactions to certain emotions, but proper empathy requires a deep understanding of another person's situation, which you won't gain while your mind is booked out...

  • Beef and lamb get 580 times more in EU subsidies than legumes, study finds

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  • I once fried some champignons and put those into a flatbread, and that slapped more than it had any right to.

  • The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself

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  • LLMs do tend to be pretty good at textbook problems, because they've been trained on the textbooks. We have working students at $DAYJOB, who tell us that you can often get a flawless grade by handing in something AI-generated.

    But then, yeah, you don't learn anything, and that will become a problem sooner or later, because none of problems at work are textbook problems.

  • LOL

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  • Well, apparently you can extend Emacs to have it:

    Emaccordion

    Control your Emacs with an accordion — or any MIDI instrument![...]You can e.g. plug in a MIDI pedalboard (like one in a church organ) for modifier keys (ctrl, alt, shift); or you can define chords to trigger complex commands or macros.[...]The idea for the whole thing came from [dead link]. I immediately became totally convinced that a full-size chromatic button accordion with its 120 bass keys and around 64 treble keys would be the epitome of an input device for Emacs.

    https://github.com/jnykopp/emaccordion

  • LOL

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  • Music keyboards do have that sweet n-key rollover. So, there's probably some Emacs users playing their editor like a piano.

  • /etc? Never heard of her.

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  • [OP] accidentally untarred archive intended to be extracted in root directory, which among others included some files for /etc directory.

  • Does anyone have a good suggestion for a markdown note organiser?

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  • Yet more suggestions which you didn't ask for:

    1. GitNote might be up your alley. Its UI is not as slick as QuillPad, nor does it have as many features, but it does faithfully keep the folder structure.Somewhat of a deal-breaker for me personally: It can't do reminders.
    2. Embrace the chaos. 😅 I have a little program for managing my notes on desktop and it just dumps them all in one folder, too. If I need to find something again, I've got a little text search, which is basically the equivalent of grep -iR. I just make sure to mention enough keywords in each note, so that I can find it again.Personally, I much prefer this workflow, because you can start typing (and hitting Ctrl+S) and then later ensure that it has all the right metadata, rather than having to select a folder upfront where it will be saved.

    I actually tried QuillPad not too long ago and couldn't make it work for me, but being able to save as normal files seems to be a recent addition, so maybe that's what I was missing.I'll probably try setting it up to work with my desktop note system then...

  • Does anyone have a good suggestion for a markdown note organiser?

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  • Well, Kate would be the obvious choice for KDE...

  • ich-iel

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  • Musste letztens auch auf einen Bus ausweichen, weil der Zug nicht mehr weiterfahren konnte. Laufe also aus dem Bahnhof raus und schaue mich nach einer Bushaltestelle um. Ca. 200 Meter weiter sehe ich die einzige Bushaltestelle in weitem Umkreis, stelle mich da also hin. Dann sehe ich wie der Bus auf der Gegenüberseite der Gleise angefahren kommt, rechts abbiegt und eine halbe Minute später hinter mir auf einer Brücke davon fährt.

    Es gab nämlich noch eine Haltestelle, nochmal 100 Meter weiter, im dicksten Grün eingewachsen, wofür man hätte die Treppen zur Brücke hochlaufen müssen. Mein Fehler war, dass ich nicht an der Bushaltestelle "Kackkaff" stand, sondern an der Bushaltestelle "Kackkaff (P+R)".Und natürlich, dass ich meinen Röntgenblick an dem Tag zu Hause gelassen hatte, mit dem ich die zweite Bushaltestelle hätte finden können.

  • Guilty

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  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    MusicBrulez

  • Anti Meme @sopuli.xyz
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    When I'm hungry...

  • KDE @lemmy.kde.social
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    This Week in Plasma: dark mode switch and global push-to-talk

    blogs.kde.org /2026/01/17/this-week-in-plasma-dark-mode-switch-and-global-push-to-talk/
  • ich_iel @feddit.org
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    ich🌷iel

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    ich🎄🪄💻iel

  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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    How I imagine mathematicians...

  • Firefox @lemmy.ml
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    Copy RSS Button (Extension)

  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    Me, when doing error handling

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Underappreciated top

    friendo.monster /posts/underappreciated-top.html
  • Rust Programming @lemmy.ml
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    Everybody's so Creative! (about library abstraction design)

    daymare.net /blogs/everbody-so-creative/
  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    When the webpage doesn't want you opening new tabs

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    What's up with FUTO?

    drewdevault.com /2025/10/22/2025-10-22-Whats-up-with-FUTO.html
  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    Escaping a string when passing through multiple tools

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    When your Dad gives birth to you

  • General Programming Discussion @lemmy.ml
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    Fighting human trafficking with self-contained applications

    lwn.net /Articles/1036916/
  • General Programming Discussion @lemmy.ml
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    Thunderbird Accessibility Study

    tilvids.com /w/3ymZQj1ikB9hdtpMmaP836
  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    Wish granted

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    ich🦭🔄🐒iel

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    ich🕜🫑🫙iel

  • Firefox @lemmy.ml
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    Blasphemy! 😤