Vishnu @[email protected]

This week in KDE: Elisa displays the progress of the playing song inline and allows you to customize the sidebar, the Disk Usage viewer recovers a classic widget design and KDE's remote desktop session viewer, KRDC, solves its cursor lagging problem.

https://pointieststick.com/2020/07/10/this-week-in-kde-new-features-galore/

Why Mastodon and the fediverse are “doomed to fail”

-> a small rant about how the profit lens distorts our understanding of success vs. failure:

https://write.as/eloquence/why-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-are-doomed-to-fail

Chapter 99 in The Tech Industry Is Broken With Problems It Has No Desire To Fix.

Tech corporations demand "freedom" to exploit the software commons without contributing to it. To use open source communities and their volunteers as unpaid interns, while keeping the platforms they build on top of their work proprietary, and patent-encumbered. To ensure their ability to keep doing this, they run a constant PR offensive against copyleft licenses that oblige reciprocity, framing them as a denial of developer freedom (to prevent users and other developers using their freedoms).

We are happy to invite you to a webinar on
"The Challenges before Courts"

Discussion with Mr. Gopal Subramanium,

Senior Advocate Supreme Court of India.

Moderator: @[email protected] Parthasarathy, Advocate High Court of Madras

Time: June 15, 2020 05.30 PM India

Today, we've unveiled our roadmap to #PeerTube's v3: live streaming, global search, better plugins, playlists and moderation: we will need your help!
▶️ info https://framablog.org/2020/05/26/our-plans-for-peertube-v3-progressive-fundraising-live-streaming-coming-next-fall
▶️ share and support https://joinpeertube.org/roadmap

Implemented a "Play with Random People" feature to Vett, The Dots & Boxes online game : https://vett.space

What started as a hackathon project from @MLHacks Hack-at-Home comes to a finished end 23 days later 🎉

Learnt @vuejs, @WebTorrentApp & more along with @athulcajay

Say yes to #OpenAccess + Peer-Review

https://ashwin.info.tm/open-access-peer-review.html

> a good reminder that none of us is truly isolated in this interconnected world of ours.

Aerosol transport visualization

https://fyfluiddynamics.com/2020/05/aerosol-transport/

#FYFD #fluiddynamics

Great news: KMail finally gets approval to use Google Sign In. You can now access GMail with KDE's powerful email client again, while at the same time keeping your Google account password safe.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/gi5bol/mailkontact_oauth_signin_with_gmail_enabled_again/

Qualified appreciation of ProtonMail for finally making their stuff open source

However, I still strongly recommend against them, because basic access to open/standard protocols like IMAP and SMTP should never be locked down as a paid "extra"

We conducted an analysis of the policy documents of the COVID-19 based apps developed by the Central as well as State governments. https://sflc.in/our-analysis-indian-covid19-apps
#Privacy #Surveillance #ArogyaSetuApp #COVID2019india

The Masjid Verdict With A Secular Ring

Writes Senior Advocate Dinesh Dwivedi

https://www.livelaw.in/columns/the-masjid-verdict-with-a-secular-ring-155496

Kind of a pre-announcement: the #activitypub implementation for #Lemmy has reached a usable state, and we are planning to start some test servers with working federation in the next days.

Before you get too excited, the implementation is still in a very early state and will take a lot more time before its ready for production. We aren't even thinking about federation with other platforms yet.

It's official, more addons will arrive in #FirefoxPreview within the next two weeks:

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/04/14/april-extensions-for-firefox-preview/

#mozilla #blog #addon #WebExtension #Firefox #Preview

Grab some popcorn, sit back and enjoy the show: Plasma Bigscreen is coming to a TV near you!

https://dot.kde.org/2020/03/26/plasma-tv-presenting-plasma-bigscreen

Try Plasma Bigscreen now on your Raspberry Pi 4!

https://plasma-bigscreen.org/

No relief for Jammu and Kashmir. Internet speed to be restricted to 2G till 3rd April 2020.
#LetTheNetWork #KeepItOn #JammuAndKashmir #internetshutdown
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RT @NetShutdowns
A new order for the temporary suspension of Internet has been issued for Jammu and Kashmir  that limits the internet speed on post-paid sim cards to 2G only. Pre-paid customers won't be able to access Internet.
#LetTheNetWork #KeepItOn #i…
https://twitter.com/NetShutdowns/status/1243193534188044288

#introductions : Hello Fosstodon!

Plasma Mobile is an open-source user interface for phones from @kde Community.

We will use this account to share updates, and stay in touch with our community!