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The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.6.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment series with an initial batch of improvements and bug fixes.

KDE Plasma 6.6.1 improves the Custom Tiling feature to correctly respect key repeat, improves the Networks widget to show a more appropriate icon in the panel or system tray when Wi-Fi is disabled, and improves animation performance by leaning more heavily on the Wayland Presentation Time protocol.

This release also re-enables searching for Activities using KRunner and KRunner-powered searches, updates overall app ratings in Plasma Discover to match a simple average of the individual ratings, and improves the critically low power level notification on battery-powered devices.

The Networks Widget was the first thing I noticed.
The separation of ipv4 and ipv6 info and the added status page in the kcm was a nice addition.

Clonezilla Live, free and open-source disk cloning and imaging software for system backup, recovery, and deployment, has released its latest stable snapshot, v3.3.1, based on Debian Sid, with the Linux kernel updated to v6.18, and Partclone to v0.3.45.

A major highlight is expanded support for 4Kn (4K native) and 512n/e disks. The release adds mechanisms for cloning between mismatched sector formats, allowing 4Kn-to-512n/e and 512n/e-to-4Kn migrations. NTFS handling is improved by correctly updating the Total Sectors field.

Moreover, a new utility, ocs-pt-512-4k-convert, enables conversion of partition tables from 512B to 4Kn layouts. The GPT expansion tool ocs-expand-gpt-pt has also been rewritten to detect sector mismatches and perform conversions when needed.

I used this back in the day after i left university with free MATLAB.

Very functional, but struggled (8 years ago was the last I tried) with large datasets, especially variable exploring. It also was missing signal processing and filtering libraries back then.

I had since switched to python with numpy, Pandas, scipy, and matplotlib and it is phenomenal.

I would try it out because it has probably improved a ton, but Python is now available in excel (and it already was in libreoffice) for sharing scripts with people without python at work, so I don’t know if it is worth it lol.

Do it for the nostalgia, bro. I enjoyed using octave at uni as well. Gotta be some fun in there somewhere now. 😁

Everyone knows that YouTube is a hot mess when it comes to privacy, and I finally got fed up with having to shell out my hard earned money for YouTube Premium. It wasn’t too dificult to find a reasonable solution for my Fedora system… just pop into Gnome Software and install Pipeline. Problem solved there… no tracking, and I only had to deal with the occasional sponsor message in a video. I’ve also got UBlock Origin, Sponsor Block and Dearrow installed in Fire Fox, so things are solved there too. The problem was my iPhone, and how to work around the ads in YouTube there. Thankfully, a little research lled me to an app/server called Yattee. I found a few guides in their documentation about how to install it (it assumes Docker, but I have Podman on my Fedora system and had to modify some instructions slightly to take SELinux into account), and I successfully got it set up. I did have to connect Yattee to an Invidious instance, but that’s quite straightforward to do. Finally, I used Tailscale Serve to create a reverse HTTPS proxy in front of the Yattee server hosted via the Podman instance so I could access the server from the client app on my iPhone regardless of wherever I happen to be. I’ve tested it out, and despite the client being a beta (v2.x) and the server being fairly new as well, it allows me to enjoy YouTube videos without Google’s privacy-invasive BS. Two final notes: 1. The server isn’t exposed to the public internet, and is only available over my tailnet. 2. I use a public Invidious instance, but the integration isn’t for the actual retrieval of videos (that’s handled by the Yattee server, which is YT-DLP based), it’s more for search and metadata retrieval. Maybe not a perfect solution, but it does the job I want it to do.

Yattee Server is just a YT-DLP based back end for Yattee 2.0 (which is currently only available via TestFlight). Yattee 1.0 was actually pulled by the dev from the App Store because it was out of date and broken. Being blind, I can’t tell you the resolution that videos play in, but at least for me they play smoothly with some rare stuttering. From what I can tell, setting things to proxy the videos Directly through Yattee Server leads to a temporary download that lasts for 24 hours, but the playback is slow to start due to the requirement of the download needing to occur first. Once it does play, then the experience is as I described earlier.

Well, this explains that, I’m stuck with Yattee 1.0, which seems to work for me, or at least has the same bugs as Invidious/Piped.

Following yesterday’s Linux 7.0-rc1 release, Linus Torvalds authored and merged a patch to get rid of the Linux kernel’s WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM Kconfig option. While that option was added with good intentions, on some systems it can yield a lot of unnecessary kernel log spam.

The WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM option has for many years been part of the Linux kernel and enabling it will provide a warning whenever there is a use of unseeded randomness within the kernel. To help spot situations of random number generation use prior to being able to securely use RNG on the system, this option was added long ago to help spot such uses of unseeded randomness by kernel code. But due to caveats on some CPUs around a fully-seeded CRNG, the WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM can become like an endless stream of spam. After encountering a bug report where much of the kernel log were just messages about unseeded randomness and in turn losing some of the initial boot log, Torvalds had enough and gutted out this option.

The proper way to find these things for the hypothetical developer that cares - if such a person exists - is almost certainly with boot time tracing. That gives you the option to get call graphs etc too, which is likely a requirement for fixing any problems anyway. See Documentation/trace/boottime-trace.rst for that option.

The solution for developers that care, if they exist.

This past week, there has been some controversy about the new Plasma Login Manager, which launched with KDE Plasma 6.6 and requires systemd. Soon after, KaOS surprisingly announced it would stop using Plasma as its desktop environment.

Which, whichever way you look at it, is a significant shift, considering KaOS has used KDE for 12 years for its primary and only desktop environment and has always promoted itself as a Qt-focused and GTK-free Linux distribution.

As a response (though not directly addressing KaOS), KDE later shared its position on the matter, which I covered here. And then, a few days ago, KaOS posted an explanation of its decision on its official website.

Common Niri W tho

Why not just keep using SDDM with KDE Plasma?

I like the idea of X forwarding, but it doesn’t work in real world anymore. As far as I know, it has to do many round-trips for everything. Launching something like LibreOffice Writer is funny, it will be loading bit by bit, icon by icon for several minutes. It was only usable for me on < 1ms network.

Unlike say VNC, it opens windows locally.

And now there’s Waypipe which does the same thing, but for Wayland. And it actually works! Even better than VNC.

BUT, it doesn’t work for X programs. It can somewhat work with rootful Xwayland… but that’s basically a desktop for X-only programs.
https://lemy.lol/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.ml%2Fapi%2Fv3%2Fimage_proxy%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Ffiles.catbox.moe%252Fqybbb5.png

Welp, I just wanted to check something on the remote desktop, so I launched VNC, and WOAH, I didn’t expect to get XFCE invasion.
I didn’t know XFCE can do Wayland now.

Anyway, this cursed thing does actually work pretty fine. xfce4-session works with Waypipe, good to know.

OC by @user224@lemmy.sdf.org

this is actually still very useful for vms, containers, etc. even over LAN it’s quite usable for ~gtk2 programs.

@cm0002@lemy.lol Could you at least cross-post like a normal person or link to OP? Hard to reply like this.

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Try it:
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What's your favorite no-signup API?

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Sunday dev challenge: how many free APIs can you chain together?

Here's one pipeline:
1. curl https://mating-liable-folk-fabulous.trycloudflare.com/uuid → get unique ID
2. curl https://mating-liable-folk-fabulous.trycloudflare.com/hash/sha256/$(uuid) → hash it
3. curl https://mating-liable-folk-fabulous.trycloudflare.com/base64/encode/$(hash) → encode it

All free, no signup, no API key.

Try it:
curl https://mating-liable-folk-fabulous.trycloudflare.com/uuid

What's your favorite no-signup API?

@selfhosted

#selfhosted #devtools #api #webdev #programming #foss #linux

Setting up Sunshine and Moonlight for high performance game streaming on Linux

moonlight/sunshine is really good, i heavily recommend it! You can also use it as a teamviewer alternative, but at the moment it requires some light fiddling to open ports etc. so its not really easy enough for “grandma downloads sunshine to get tech support from you” yet.