Deep Learning is no Intelligence
Here we are in the year 2025 and every company that wants to grab your money now peddles AI. Even most search engines will now start with some “AI powered” summary. ...
Over 20 years of bug squashing
The open source project I work on for the longest time is KDE and there more specific Kate. This means I look at user bug reports for over 20 years now. The statistics tell me our team got more than 9000 bugs since around 2001 (just for Kate, this excludes the libraries like KTextEditor that we maintain, too). ...
KDE Applications & Icons
In this rather lengthy post I talk a bit about the current issues with icons for the KDE applications I work on or use. Let’s start with looking at what I mean with KDE applications and what the current state is, up to KDE Frameworks 6.2 and current KDE Gear 24.02. Then let’s see what will be improved in future releases. ...
Kate & Icons
How it shall look… Linux & BSDs Windows macOS State on Fedora 40 Workstation & XFCE Spin… Screenshots taken from the GNOME bugtracker, copies to not stall their GitLab instance. ...
Kate on all Platforms - 2024
Unix like systems with X11 or Wayland All Unix like systems with either X11 or Wayland are well supported since ever. Linux with X11 and now Wayland is for a long time the primary system on that Kate work happens. ...
KDE Frameworks 6 / Plasma / Gear Release Schedule Plan
The Qt 6 based KDE Frameworks 6 (KF6) development is ongoing since some time. Already many things including Plasma and several applications, like Kate, have working KF6 based development versions. ...
Planck and QMK
The Planck Keyboard Over the past two years I tried out a few different keyboards for fun. I started with common form factors like TKL boards, went over 75% boards like the Q1 and then to a 60% HHKB. ...
Keyboards and Open-Source
Keyboards and Open-Source, how is that related? In my Keyboard Fun post from last year I talked a bit about my interest in mechanical keyboards. Since then, I played around with a few more keyboards/switches/keycaps/… ...
Plasma & Kate on Wayland end of 2021
Wayland, the future after X11 Since years Wayland based compositors are promoted as the successors to the venerable X.org X11 display server. In the embedded space it seems Wayland already has made a lot of progress and some distributions start to use it per default, too. ...
Farewell Telegram - Hello Signal!
In the last few years I started to use Telegram as my main messenger, beside good old SMS/e-mail. I never used WhatsApp as I try to stay away from the Facebook/Meta/… ecosystem. ...
Keyboard Fun
Keyboards? In the recent past, I started to get more interested in the quality of the keyboards I use at work and home. I always hated to use very cheap low-profile boards, but otherwise I more or less always worked with what came stock with my PC in the good old times ;) ...
BorgBackup - Continued
In my last BorgBackup post I described my new setup using BorgBackup for the backup of my private data. After two weeks of use, I have now first experiences on the way the incremental backups perform and some additional information how I apply this to backup a virtual FreeBSD server hosting some of my stuff. ...