Monthly report - January

Hello,

This was too short but also a very long month. Many things I wanted to do I was unable to and had to push it to the near future.

Artix Linux

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Falkon

After a long while the bug 409575 (Python plugins don’t load with PySide 5.13) has finally a working with Qt (PySide2) 5.14.1.
GreaseMonkey can now grab userscript URLs (*.user.js) with newer Qt versions. 6974f8c2
Falkon can now handle web notifications (since QtWebEngine 5.13) with it’s notification system 409045

Other

I helped to hunt very annoying bug in ktexteditor 413848 (Drag&copy function (by using Ctrl Key) does not work anymore)

Articles from blogs I follow:

How I manage my bookmarks

Bookmarks are great, but just as much as I need them, I also find them dismal.

via unixdigest.com September 15, 2025

KDE Plasma 6 Wayland on FreeBSD

This year, 2025, the KDE Community held its yearly conference in Berlin, Germany. On the way I reinstalled FreeBSD on my Frame.work 13 laptop in another attempt to get KDE Plasma 6 Wayland working. Short story: yes, KDE Plasma 6 Wayland on FreeBSD works.

via [bobulate] September 7, 2025

Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO

There's a common narrative that Microsoft was moribund under Steve Ballmer and then later saved by the miraculous leadership of Satya Nadella. This is the dominant narrative in every online discussion about the topic I've seen and it's a commo…

via danluu.com October 28, 2024

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