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kde , to KDE
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Pledges coming from proprietary software companies mean nothing

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157496/microsoft-ai-carbon-footprint-greenhouse-gas-emissions-grow-climate-pledg

Get behind the community that is really fighting to curb climate change:

https://eco.kde.org/get-involved

@kde

Poster announcing KDE Eco's monthly meetings, in which like-minded people, like yourself, get together to work on reducing computing's impact on the climate.

Screenshot of a headline of the Verge. A photo shows Satya Nadella talking about Copilot at some bullshit Microsoft event and the headline itself reads: "Microsoft’s Al obsession is jeopardizing its climate ambitions" The introductory paragraph reads: "After pledging to slash its greenhouse gas emissions, Microsoft’s climate pollution has grown by 30 percent as the company prioritizes AI."
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    • vintprox ,
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    @kde @kde Pledges seem to be a trend as of recent.

    kde , to KDE
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    We joined the @matrix Foundation:

    https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix/112260366265625821

    @kde

    vintprox ,
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    Welcome news! @kde joins @matrix as a member :ablobcatbouncefast: :blobcattea: :blobcatreach: :ablobcatnomcookie:

    kde , to random
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    WARNING: Global themes and widgets created by 3rd party developers for Plasma can and will run arbitrary code. You are encouraged to exercise extreme caution when using these products.

    A user has had a bad experience installing a global theme on Plasma and lost personal data.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1bixmbx/do_not_install_global_themes_some_wipe_out_all/

    Global themes change the look of Plasma, but also the behavior. To do this they run code, and this code can be faulty, as in the case mentioned above. The same goes for widgets and plasmoids.

    vintprox ,
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    @kde Why does something marked nothing more than a theme and qualified by a store as such even have arbitrary code as executable? I wouldn't think that themes need to be turing-complete to function...

    grafcube , to Open Source
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    Your choice of browser matters — Google's Web DRM and the open internet

    https://grafcube.codeberg.page/blog/2023/08/06/web-drm-api.html

    I wrote this blog post to inform the people I know who aren't as tech savvy or otherwise don't put any thought into their choice of browser. Another goal is to help get enough awareness on the topic and make sure it fails.

    @opensource @privacy

    vintprox ,
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    @grafcube @opensource @privacy

    Yaaay, time to really push that SearX/alternative-search-engine crusade, because there is more reason for a user to say "fuck you" to the hungry machine.

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