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:

Richard Stallman's political discourse on sex

Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation, has been subject to numerous allegations of misconduct. He stepped down in 2019, and following his re-instatement in 2021, a famous open letter was published in which numerous organizations and i…

via Drew DeVault's blog November 25, 2023

Upgrading to FreeBSD 14 - how to fix a broken BIOS bootcode

A lot of people running ZFS zroot have managed to break their FreeBSD systems upgrading from 13.2 to the new 14.0 release because of a broken BIOS bootcode. In this tutorial I'll show you how you can fix that without having to reinstall.

via unixsheikh.com November 22, 2023

C++ Guidelines

C++ is definitely a language that has Lots of Ways to do It – kind of like Perl’s TIMTOWTSAC. A consequence is that when writing code, you need to think about which way to do things. When context-switching between projects, employers, or what-have-you, yo…

via [bobulate] November 21, 2023

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