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kde, 3 days ago (edited 5 hours ago) to kde

You heard #Adobe. Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all your art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things...

Kreative Suite

• Krita is your new design/painting app
• Kdenlive will give you video-editing powers
• glaxnimate adds 2D vector animations to you videos
• digiKam organises your collection images

https://kde.org/for/creators/
Also:

• Inkscape - create sophisticated vector-graphic designs
• Scribus - layout like a pro
• GIMP - need we say more
• Blender - ditto

@kde

rysiek, 3 days ago (edited 3 hours ago) to infosec

Lukewarm take:

When I see general* "security advice" that mentions "do not use public WiFi" or "use a VPN", I am immediately suspicious about all other advice offered.

Yes, a decade ago that was a consideration, because most sites were not using HTTPS. Credentials were flying cleartext on the wire.

Today, almost all sites use HTTPS. Doesn't mean the risk is zero, but it's way lower.

*) "general" meaning "without a very specific threat model in mind", meant for general public, etc.

#InfoSec

EUCommission, 3 days ago to random

EU, it is time to #UseYourVote!

Across the European Union, voting booths are ready to welcome you!

The Netherlands 🇳🇱 voted yesterday, and today is Czechia 🇨🇿, Estonia 🇪🇪 and Ireland 🇮🇪’s turn.

Our Union should never be taken for granted.
Defend it, shape it.

#EUelections2024

A voter gives his identity document before collecting his ballot for the European elections in a polling station, in The Hague on June 6, 2024, on the first day of European Parliament election. Photo by Nick Gammon / AFP) (Photo by NICK GAMMON/AFP via Getty Images)

impactology, 5 days ago to random

So interesting, segmenting video via mindmaps instead of timestamps
https://akomaps.com/

"Ako Maps is a suite of learning tools that links visual diagrams to video lessons.. Ako Maps can be 'linked' to lessons. Browse the map, then click a topic to navigate directly to that topic in the video"

hrefna, 4 days ago to random

There's a design pattern that is (somewhat tongue in cheek) named multi-single-tenant.

The idea is basically that you have individually created (and often provisioned) systems that are run on the same base system, sharing many of the same core pieces of infrastructure but in a way that keeps strict separation between them.

So I can deprovision someone and that's basically a wipeout. No tracking data to weird places, it's all under one provisioning handle.

But, we share infrastructure.

1/

impactology, 5 days ago to random

Physics Concept Extractor

https://curriculumredesign.org/physicsconceptextractor/

"Is there an automated or semi-automated way to extract the Core Concepts of a given Discipline? Using Physics as an example, here we present the results of our preliminary investigations"

Motivation for the project

https://curriculumredesign.org/wp-content/uploads/Physics-Concept-Extractor--Methodology_and_Results--CCR_2019.pdf

"Evidence suggests that students forget forget academic content at a rate of 50% every two years, meaning most of what they've learned in K-12 is completely forgotten by the time they graduate"

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freebliss, 5 days ago (edited 17 hours ago) to random

This week I'm officially beginning my work on #faircamp in the scope of the Faircamp 1.0 grant through #NGI0 Entrust @NGIZero, financed by @EC_NGI, which will span the next months throughout summer and early fall 2024 at least.

Working together with the people at NLnet foundation to set everything up has been a blast so far and I'm very grateful to be given this opportunity. <3 Everyone of you who use, support, contribute to, and spread the news about faircamp have made this possible as well, so thank you all!

First developments this week are the introduction of complicance with FSFE's https://reuse.software/ in the codebase, yesterday's release of a stable/version-locked AUR package (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/faircamp), setting up a dedicated "Feature suggestions" thread in the issue tracker (https://codeberg.org/simonrepp/faircamp/issues/90 - please read the fine print ;)), and some bugfixing work with support from @lislegaard which will go right into the next release. Excited to be back in the lab! \o/

evawolfangel, 6 days ago to Cybersecurity German

Please help: I am looking for a spokesperson or even better a CISO of the government of the Netherlands - ideally both. I need a quick and easy contact for an IT security related issue. The website is not helpful.
#cybersecurity #netherlands

noybeu, 6 days ago to microsoft

🚨 noyb has filed two complaints against #Microsoft (365 Education) for violating children's data protection rights!

👉 The company shifts responsibility for #GDPR compliance to local schools...

👉 ...and places tracking cookies without consent

Read all about it here:

https://noyb.eu/en/microsoft-violates-childrens-privacy-blames-your-local-school

bitsunited, 6 days ago to random German

Webfund.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1d7lfrk/littlebillyignoreinstructions/

dansup, 6 days ago to Pixelfed

So I spent longer than expected working on the privacy settings in the new @pixelfed app

I don't regret it, we have some pretty awesome privacy features!

Looking forward to shipping the new mobile app, and working with artists, creatives and photogs to make our platform better for everyone.

It's not who did it first, it's who did it right ✨

#pixelfed #photography #art #fediverse #cara

evanprodromou, 6 days ago to fediverse

I’m excited to say that I turned in my manuscript for the ActivityPub book for O’Reilly Media today. I started working on it in September of 2023, with a lot of interim checkpoints and deadlines since. In April 2024, I finished the first draft of the manuscript. Over the month of May, I’ve been working on improvements suggested by the technical reviewers who agreed to look over the book, and from my own re-read.

In total, my TODO file for this month has about 250 changes to be made. Some are small — just changing a word or two — but one required adding a whole new chapter, and many required multi-paragraph sections.

I took the last week of May off from my work at Open Earth Foundation to concentrate on making changes. My team was really supportive, which I deeply appreciated. I went to our country house in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, and I spent the week writing, editing, drawing and thinking.

Now, the next stage of book making starts: production. The production team at O’Reilly will be copyediting, indexing, and laying out the book. Their designers will be taking my UML diagrams and turning them into professional-looking illustrations. We have two rounds of quality control on code samples and fact checking on content.

In September 2024, the final e-book will be available for sale. I’ll have a link here for the pre-sale version when it comes out. If you’re eager to read the book, I highly recommend reviewing the early release version.

Thanks so much to my friends, family and colleagues who’ve made space and time for me to do this work. It has meant a lot to me. I hope the final product helps more developers create cool projects using ActivityPub.

https://evanp.me/2024/06/03/i-turned-in-my-manuscript/

#activitypub #book

pixelfed, 6 days ago to Pixelfed

We're aware of Meta/Instagrams new policies around AI and the desire for artists, photogs and other creatives to migrate to another platform!

Our new mobile app is officially submitted for App Review, and we look forward to it finally being on the App Store ✨

#pixelfed

echo_pbreyer, 6 days ago to random German

🇩🇪Heute berät die zuständige Arbeitsgruppe im Rat der EU über den neuesten, wahnwitzigen #Chatkontrolle-Vorschlag. Mit dem Konzept “#Uploadmoderation” sollen User jetzt erpresst werden:

Entweder, du erteilst der Totalüberwachung per Chatkontrolle deine “Zustimmung” oder du darfst keine Photos, Videos und Links mehr teilen.

Wir #Piraten sagen „Nein!“ zur Chatkontrolle. Gerade jetzt braucht es starke #digitaleFreiheitskämpfer im Europaparlament. Unterstütze uns mit deiner Stimme bei der #Europawahl!

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/chatkontrolle-blockade-wackelt-chatkontrolle-verweigerer-sollen-mit-foto-und-linkverbot-bestraft-werden/
#PiratenWählen

dumpsterqueer, 6 days ago to random EN

#GoToSocial memory usage looking good now (the important line is the orange one - heap size); looks like @kim has fixed the increased memory usage we were seeing on main recently.

To help you understand the graph: the high yellow line is memory allocated to GoToSocial by the operating system, the blue and red lines are idle/released bytes respectively, and the orange line is actual memory currently in use.

That's on a config with 60MiB of cache space configured, with hydrated caches, so account for 60MiB of cache usage, and about 40MiB for everything else (running the web server, constantly responding to requests, processing incoming data, media, etc etc).

openfuture, 6 days ago to random

We are partnering with the Environmental Coalition on Standards (ECOS) to implement a project granted by the Green Screen Catalyst Fund. Our research will focus on the environmental costs of Europe’s data centers & the need to reduce energy consumption in the digital economy 🏢 More here: https://openfuture.eu/blog/toward-sustainable-and-non-exploitative-resource-management/

tarakiyee, 6 days ago to random

Wow, the German government spends 197.7 million euro on Microsoft licenses. Think how many open source developers you can pay with that much money. https://www.heise.de/news/Bund-Lizenzkosten-fuer-Microsoft-auf-hohem-Niveau-insgesamt-neuer-Rekord-9744319.html

I wish this article came out before I wrote this blog post: https://tarakiyee.com/lets-talk-about-open-source-in-munich-and-everywhere-else/

hrefna, 6 days ago to fediverse

Some of the areas where I am most critical of #ActivityPub are areas where it is clear that the design is focused around how to represent the world rather than how a healthy system behaves.

Basically the focus is almost entirely on "how do I describe what humans are doing?" Sometimes in great detail, but very little emphasis is on "what is required for a set of health distributed nodes to talk to one another successfully."

wjmaggos, 7 days ago to fediverse

right now I love #ActivityPub. but something like a Personal Data Server that I can keep at home or pay somebody to manage, move whenever I want and connect to any new service that somebody develops, seems like the inevitable way forward. a blob with all my stuff as safe as I am willing pay for, where these companies are competing to be the most trustworthy and reliable. instead of having it spread out everywhere or with Google or Apple. and them pushing me to use their services. #SocialWeb

DrPen, 9 days ago to foss

How do I become more involved with aspects and initiatives of NGI? Anyone know? Please pass it on!
@NGICommons @fediversity

#foss #academicchatter #ngi

smallcircles, 10 days ago to foss

Advocating for #Wasmcloud to adopt a OSS-first approach and use #LinuxFoundation #OpenBAO as their example of a secret store integration in upcoming RFC implementation..

https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/issues/2190#issuecomment-2141124236

@linuxfoundation projects are already seen as overly corporate, and sticking as much as possible to at least #OSS and preferably even #FOSS in docs + elaborated examples would help to not further reinforce that notion.

#WebAssembly #wasm #Vault