Comment Plasma won the Desktop wars (Score 2) 41
I used to be a supporter of lightweight desktops but now there is really no good reason left to avoid KDE Plasma.
An amazind desktop.
Submission + - Google Sounds Alarm Over Europe's Tech Sovereignty Package
Elektroschock writes: Kent Walker, Alphabets Global Affairs VP and Chief Legal Officer, pushes against open source policies in the European Union. Mr. Walker is not a European citizen or resident.
The company warned that Brussels’ policies aimed at reducing dependence on American tech companies could harm competitiveness. According to Google, the idea of replacing current tools with open-source programs would not contribute to economic growth.
Submission + - KDE Plasma 6.6 released (kde.org)
jrepin writes: KDE Plasma is a popular desktop (and mobile too) environment for GNU/Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems. Among other things, it also powers the desktop mode of the Steam Deck gaming handheld. The KDE community today announced the latest release: Plasma 6.6 .
In this new major release Spectacle can recognize texts from screenshots, a new on-screen keybord and new login manager are available for testing, and a first-time wizard Plasma Setup was added. Your current theme can be saved as a new global theme, which can also be used for the day and night theme switching feature. Emoji selector got a new easier way to select skin tone. If your computer has a camera available you can now connect to a Wi-Fi network by scanning a QR code. Application sound volume can now be changed by scrolling over an application taskbar button via mouse wheel. When screencasting and sharing your desktop you can now filter windows so they are not shared. A setting was added to enable having virtual desktops only on the primary screen. If your device has an ambient light sensor you can enable automatic screen brightness adjustment. Game controllers can now be used as regular input devices.
For complete list of new features and changes check out the KDE Plasma 6.6 release announcement and the complete changelog.
Comment Meta could also be blocked in Europe (Score 3, Interesting) 31
Out of Greenlad solidarity we should do the same in Europe. US Tech is a danger to the liberties in our societies. It is a small measure we could take against the Trump regime and hiis backers.
Comment Minted (Score 1) 124
I would just wish that Linux Mint would transition to Plasma. There was a time when it made sense to be different but we need to get Wayland right.
Comment AI crash (Score 1) 106
I am looking forward to the economic figures of the U.S. after the AI financial crash.
Submission + - Consultation Without Continuity: Open Source and the Digital Networks Act (europa.eu)
Elektroschock writes: The recent European Commission’s call for evidence on open ecosystems, led by Leontina Sandu of the DIGIT department, attracted an impressive number of 1,658 contributions. Open Source developers demonstrated their creativity by developing tools to extract and analyse these contributions. Yet, the Commission’s handling of open source remains highly inconsistent. Strikingly, the recent Digital Networks Act (DNA) legislative proposal of the European Commission does not even acknowledge open source or the Open Internet Stack. How absurd is it in 2026 to talk about internet infrastructure without saying a single word about open source?
Submission + - Substack confirms data breach
An anonymous reader writes: Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers
‘Newsletter platform Substack has confirmed a data breach in an email to users. The company said that in October, an “unauthorized third party” accessed user data, including email addresses, phone numbers, and other unspecified “internal metadata.”’
ClippyAI: “A hacker leaked data allegedly from nearly 700,000 users, including email addresses, phone numbers, names, user IDs, Stripe IDs (for payments), profile pictures, bios, and other internal metadata.”
‘Newsletter platform Substack has confirmed a data breach in an email to users. The company said that in October, an “unauthorized third party” accessed user data, including email addresses, phone numbers, and other unspecified “internal metadata.”’
ClippyAI: “A hacker leaked data allegedly from nearly 700,000 users, including email addresses, phone numbers, names, user IDs, Stripe IDs (for payments), profile pictures, bios, and other internal metadata.”
Submission + - Munich makes digital sovereignty measurable with its own score (heise.de)
alternative_right writes: The city of Munich has developed its own measurement instrument to assess the digital sovereignty of its IT infrastructure. The so-called Digital Sovereignty Score (SDS) visually resembles the Nutri-Score and identifies IT systems based on their independence from individual providers and "foreign" legal spheres. The Technical University of Munich was involved in the development.
In September and October 2025, the IT Department already conducted a first comprehensive test. Out of a total of 2780 municipal application services, 194 particularly critical ones were selected and evaluated based on five categories. The analysis already showed a high degree of digital sovereignty: 66 percent of the 194 evaluated services reached the highest levels (SDS 1 and 2), only 5 percent reached the critical level 4, and 21 percent reached the most critical level 5. The SDS evaluates not only technical dependencies but also legal and organizational risks.
In September and October 2025, the IT Department already conducted a first comprehensive test. Out of a total of 2780 municipal application services, 194 particularly critical ones were selected and evaluated based on five categories. The analysis already showed a high degree of digital sovereignty: 66 percent of the 194 evaluated services reached the highest levels (SDS 1 and 2), only 5 percent reached the critical level 4, and 21 percent reached the most critical level 5. The SDS evaluates not only technical dependencies but also legal and organizational risks.
Comment AI financial bubble (Score 1) 33
Obviously there is a AI bubble that will burst and the state will then be able to put less money into education of the next generation.
Comment Sad (Score 5, Interesting) 77
It is sad that Richard Stallman got banned by an online mob after a legally sound defence argument for diseased Prof. Marvin Minsky, as a scholar visting Epstein, while the best friend of Jeffrey Epstein ruins the country and asks for a piece of ice.
Comment Re:Google killed something that I had never heard (Score 1) 8
Sorry, what is this tool even for?
Comment Policyporn (Score 1) 203
Alex Karp is a provider of domestic security porn, political positions just over the top that affirm the radical fantasies of security service falcons.
Positions that make the opponents such as liberals freak out, so Karp is viewed as a friend of the security departments.
Comment US wind power (Score 0) 76
It is frightening to see the orange perils of wind power in the US, while in Europe, we are massively expanding wind power generation.
In Germany, they now start to engineer wind power generators in the efficient range of 300m+
Gicon builds in Schipkau Brandenburg a wind generator with 365 meters (1200ft) https://www.gicon.de/gicon_hoe...
Wind power is simply the most cheap energy supply.
Submission + - European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy (europa.eu)
Elektroschock writes: The European Commission is stepping up its efforts behind open-source software, rolling out a new open ecosystem strategy to support EU technological sovereignty, competitiveness and cybersecurity. Building on President von der Leyen’s political guidelines, the initiative will review the Commission’s 2020–2023 open-source approach and set out concrete actions to strengthen Europe’s open-source ecosystem across key areas such as cloud, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and industrial technologies. The strategy will be presented alongside the upcoming Cloud and AI Development Act, forming a broader policy package aimed at reducing strategic dependencies and boosting Europe’s digital resilience.
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