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:

Stop telling people to sanitize user input

Whether you're dealing with a web application or some other application, all user input should always be considered "hostile" and "dangerous", but you should not just universally sanitize user input.

via unixdigest.com March 7, 2026

GPG Update 2026

A recent toot of mine got the response “friends don’t let friends use GPG” which, I suppose, is true enough. It certainly isn’t the attestation-friendly thing to use, and the opsec failures that are so easy with GPG-encrypted mail make it a hazard there. …

via [bobulate] February 3, 2026

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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