Swiss tech company Proton, which provides privacy-focused online services, says that a Thursday worldwide outage was caused by an ongoing infrastructure migration to Kubernetes and a software change that triggered an initial load spike.

This week in KDE Plasma: The last sprint towards Plasma 6.3

Improvements in usability, exciting features and mechanisms that ensure stability land in the latest Plasma release before 6.3 hits desktops next month:

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/11/this-week-in-plasma-final-plasma-6.3-features/

#plasma #Plasma6 #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #desktop

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There were some posts over the holiday season asking for projects to donate to, and for those who have the means to comfortably do so, this is an important gift to consider.

If there's only a limited amount each of us is able to give, I assume there's no point giving it all to, for one example, The Linux Foundation, because a small personal donation is trivial next to the ~$15,000,000 USD they receive from sponsors dependent on them[1]. I understand that funding sources can be a major and profound source of bias[2] and ideally we would be, for example, helping to make Firefox independent of Google, but until we have more collective power, it's not worth letting smaller important projects struggle instead.

So, which important projects should we leave to the sponsors, and which really need our support?

The destruction of OkCupid by Match Group looks like a politically motivated attack against the minorities and intellectual power users who used to flock there.

OkCupid used to be the best place to match diverse people.
They crowdsourced thousands of multiple choice questions from which you built your search filter:

• Which answers you accept
• How important each is to you
• Your answer for the other side of the match equation
• Voluntary explanation

The match results were factored into friendship, dating, and sex. "Friendship" contained ethics and communication style, so it also worked for business partnerships.

Then Match Group bought it.
For a while they let it be, but then they:

• Removed the factoring - no more looking for friends or sex, only complete packages
• Removed search - no more finding the best matches anywhere on the planet, now you just swipe like Tinder
• Removed keyword search - no more finding niche interests not included in the questions, like "furry"
• Removed the search filter - now everything has to be the same to match: both of you must have or not have tattoos for example, never mind what you like - one of my likes went from 95% to 50% match
• Deleted the voluntary explanations without warning, so no one could back theirs up
• Deleted ~95% of the match questions without warning
• Deleted all accumulated likes, which were the best matching people around the world with maximal couple/friend/sex partner potential except, for example, location for now. They broke the profile links, so bookmarks became useless.
• They delete matches (mutual likes) if they haven't been messaging in a while, as if that meant they're not a match - no, they have a temporary problem, such as life situation
• They police inconvenient statements in the users' introductions as the political situation evolves - the day after the mass murderer healthcare insurance CEO got shot, the section in my profile containing (for months) "fuck the healthcare system - make a better one" was deleted without sending me a copy to edit

Avoid dating services owned by Match Group.

Summary

Elon Musk livestreamed a conversation with Alice Weidel, co-leader of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, on his platform X, endorsing her and urging support for the AfD ahead of Germany’s February 23 election.

The livestream, which drew over 200,000 viewers, raised concerns across Europe about Musk’s influence in foreign politics.

AfD, under observation for extremism, has gained popularity amid discontent with Chancellor Scholz’s government.

Musk’s promotion of Weidel and controversial remarks on other European issues are being monitored for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.

• WM - Awesome WM
• Theme - Catppuccin Mocha
• Terminal - Kitty

First time using Awesome and i'm really enjoyng

KA-BEEWWWWOOOOOOMMMM!

yes, not a unix os but rather unix-like, and i want to program all of it on python, is that possible?? even the kernel, i want it all python. i know most kernels use c++ or c* but maybe python has a library to turn c* into python?? i'm still sort of a beginner but thanks and i would appreciate the answers

Neat article about avoiding a memcpy in a circular buffer.

Basically, there's a right-wing push to stop requiring health insurance to cover preventative care.

Summary

Meta announced the termination of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, including hiring practices and supplier diversity initiatives.

Internal DEI teams and equity training programs will be disbanded, despite Meta's earlier achievements in boosting representation.

The move follows Meta's recent alignment with Donald Trump, including a $1M donation to his inauguration.

Critics link this decision to growing right-wing backlash against DEI efforts. Similar rollbacks have occurred at companies like Walmart and Ford.

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Will this become available in older models like FSR and Framegen or will it be exclusive to RDNA4. It would be a boon to RDNA3 mobile chips if the performance gain is comparable to FSR3.