The first number only indicates the Qt framework version Plasma is based on. You can treat the second number as the actual major version of Plasma 6.

I agree that Wayland has massive accessibility deficits but it certainly doesn’t help if the talonvoice developer shuts down attempts to improve the situation with “Wayland is not supported.”.

I think they added AOT with .NET 6 and they are supporting Linux ever since the .Net Framework, .NET Core split.

You can use C# for pretty much anything the question is how convenient it is to do so. There are even some people who try to use .NET with embedded systems. I would use C++ only in cases where performance is the most important aspect of the product and even that niche grows smaller and smaller as time marches on. For example, at my current job we are using C# to implement some pretty intense image processing algorithms. Initially we wanted to use C++ for the performance critical parts, but we are still well within our performance targets using C# alone.

When you don’t want to depend on .NET runtime.

There is an option for that in .NET.

So how would I create such an “Open Source” model? They don’t share the data used to create them do they? Let’s not even get started on how much computing power I would need to train one of those things. These selfhosted models solve nothing except some data privacy issues. Sure you no longer send all your code to a shady AI company but you are still 100% dependent on them sharing their models.

Thatcher had to be genuinely talked down from using Nukes

There are only two source I could find for any such claims. One is an interview with Michael Quinlan, former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, who claims that after the war ended Thatcher suggested to him that she would have considered using nuclear weapons if the war went badly enough. The other is this book by Mitterrands psychiatrist written ~20 years after the conflict. I only really think the interview is a credible source, and it sure doesn’t sound like they genuinely had to talk her out of using nukes at any point.

Enjoy your curated experience brought to you by Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mastercard, and Visa. Rest assured that nothing will challenge you with uncomfortable topics or viewpoints.

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Yes that happens, for some reason that user actively goes to FuckAI and bans people who posted there. I can only assume that they see disdain for AI as a personal slight.

I would go for something like Processing for students who are just trying to learn a bit of programming as an extra credit. The JS implementation is called p5.js. I would introduce a little bit of C later in the course once the students are familiar with basic programming concepts. That way you can show them what is happening behind the scenes without overwhelming them from the start.

I consider the ORM hate uninformed and misguided at best. Just like any other technology not all of them are created equally there are better ones and worse ones. I have used Entity Framework Core for years and have almost no complaints but If I only knew ORMs like NHibernate then I might have a different opinion.

The difference being that Motorola is a well established device manufacturer and not just a community project with minimal funding. Google using play integrity to exclude a competitor could be very easily seen as an abuse of market power and they already have problems with antitrust laws.

No alternative codecs wont do, the application we are building has a hard dependency on these specific dlls due to another dependency requiring them. It was also just one example of many excuse my hyperbole. Here is another one, try to get winget to work with a local package cache. You have to go to some third party developer for that. Want another one? How about debugging windows binaries in an offline environment. Reasonable requirement? Microsoft says no.

Why is this arbitrarily “a whole different story” and who said anything about UWP, it’s the media codecs we depend on. Windows 10 N offered an offline installer for that “optional feature” and now Microslop makes my life more difficult for no reason at all.

Ok, where can I download the Media Feature Pack for Windows 11 N as an offline installer?

At my job we are working with a few air gapped Windows machines which is already really annoying because Microslop doesn’t offer offline installers for anything related to Windows 11 anymore. I expect this to get even more difficult over time.

Also:

I never said that you can remove a license retroactively. A CLA is an assignment of copyright from the contributor to the company. The only reason for a company to add a CLA to a project is to put a rug under the project which they will pull as soon as they gained a critical mass of users. It fundamentally undermines the social contract of open source development. These companies want to enjoy all the benefits of open source, like the market appeal and the free labour, but none of the drawbacks. A CLA is just one thing, a promise that the project will go non-free in the future.

Let me introduce you to the magical concept of the CLA. It means they can do whatever they want with the project but you can not. You should never contribute to CLA projects.

Very very simple.

Really? I find it quite feature packed for a notes taking app.