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FOSS AI painting with Krita (swg-empire.de)

submitted 16 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://swg-empire.de/post/966943

cross-posted from: https://swg-empire.de/post/966893

FOSS AI painting with Krita

It's so awesome that I can let my kid paint with Krita and let her enhance the picture with AI live. She wanted to have an AI picture editor on her phone but I didn't like the privacy policy. But Krita AI Diffusion came to the rescue.

After testing it out myself I showed her Krita, the most important tools and how to use layers and before I could say anything she was off to paint a nice landscape. When she was finished I actually got to enable the AI plugin and show her the ropes around that. And after enabling live painting she went ham and added a phoenix and a giant hand.

Hardest thing about it was that she had to describe what she wanted in English. But she's already learning that in school so it shouldn't give her too much trouble in the long run.

Anyways, FOSS rules!

MBition, the company that designs and implements infotainment systems for Mercedes-Benz, has become a KDE patron. by Bro666 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

KDE has an office in Germany for administrative purposes, but its base is worldwide. As a non-profit charity, we have rivalries with no-one.

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#Akademy2024 awaits your voice! Don't miss the chance to present your application, ideas, or best practices. Submit your proposals by May 24, 2024. (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/akademy/statuses/112330811960096279

#Akademy2024 awaits your voice! Don't miss the chance to present your application, ideas, or best practices. Submit your proposals by May 24, 2024.
https://akademy.kde.org/2024/cfp/

Be inspired by our past sessions from Akademy 2023: https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/p/fndy89wuSCGHhyujXR72e8

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsHpGlwPdtMp67EH84ljQohyCdqjCraU2&si=GoCWSL0lpB61Bvtc

@[email protected]

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GCompris in India - An Example of Its Global Spread, from a Contributor's Perspective (tube.kockatoo.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/1171992

In this video, we talk to Aiśwarya Kaitheri Kandoth (Aish) who tells us about the growth of free software in Kerala, India, and of her role in the take-up and evolution of GCompris in schools there.

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GCompris in India - An Example of Its Global Spread, from a Contributor's Perspective (tube.kockatoo.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/1171992

In this video, we talk to Aiśwarya Kaitheri Kandoth (Aish) who tells us about the growth of free software in Kerala, India, and of her role in the take-up and evolution of GCompris in schools there.

Look! No ads! by Bro666 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

(Psst! Show them this:)

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The #Akademy2024 Call for Participation (CfP) is now open! (cdn.masto.host)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/akademy/statuses/112246259874693015

The #Akademy2024 Call for Participation (CfP) is now open!

Don't miss the opportunity to talk about your project and present your ideas to the community! The CfP will close on 24 May 2024.

Find more information and submit your talk at https://akademy.kde.org/2024/cfp/

@[email protected]

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Support for #MCAP format is coming to #LabPlot 🚀🙂 (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/LabPlot/statuses/112229009522045503 - [email protected]

Support for #MCAP format is coming to #LabPlot 🚀🙂

@[email protected]

#MCAP is a standardized container file format for storing heterogeneous robotics data.

See how to read and plot #Robotics (#Sensor) data with #LabPlot.

➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK5QbFi90wA

#DataAnalysis #DataScience #Data #DataViz #Science #Statistics #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource

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KDE Itinerary in February and March: New vehicle and train coach amenity information, DST changes in the timeline, indoor routing and the Transitous project (volkerkrause.eu)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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WARNING: Global themes and widgets created by 3rd party developers for Plasma can and will run arbitrary code. You are encouraged to exercise extreme caution when using these products. (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A user has had a bad experience installing a global theme on Plasma and lost personal data.

Global themes do not only change the look of Plasma, but also the behavior. To do this they run code, and this code can be faulty, as in the case mentioned above. The same goes for widgets and plasmoids.

We are calling on the community to help us locate and quarantine defective software by using the "Report" buttons available on each item in the KDE Store.

Please see this linked image to locate them.

Meanwhile, KDE is taking measures to properly warn users before each download and we are also putting in place ways of auditing and curating what is uploaded to the KDE store.

Nevertheless, this will take time and resources. We recommend all users to be careful when installing and running software not provided directly by KDE or your distros.

And remember to report any faulty products you find!

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This weekend I am contributing to Transitous. You should too. (quickfix.es)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Transitous is a new community-driven routing service. Add your own city and help make it great.

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Plasma 6.0.2 is out (kde.org)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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KDE believes in the power of diversity and inclusion. Women* enrich our community, shaping more inclusive and accessible tech. by Bro666 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Then you got banned with no right to appeal, just like everywhere else

Damn right

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A PSA from KDE: Plasma 6.0 bugs (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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.0 versions can contain bugs not found in the pre-launch versions. You can help us get them removed by reporting them. And look out for updates to Plasma, as they will come with many fixes over the next few weeks!

As for the themes and widgets created by third parties, we have already publicly advised developers to port their stuff. We have two pages available to guide them, one for themes, one for widgets.

If you, the user, discover your favourite theme or widget is failing, please look for it in the KDE Store and notify the author, as KDE has no control or leverage over third party developers.

Thank you

[email protected]

So far, I have to say that my #KDE #Plasma6 experience sucks. by Bro666 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Two of these are not KDE issues. The themes you are using don't work because the authors didn't port them, like we asked third party developers do... twice. Same goes for the calendar widget you are using. Go bug em, champ.

KDE cannot be held responsible for third party add-ons, but, for everything else: https://bugs.kde.org

KDE really needs some filtering by Bro666 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I know we are kind of boring with this, but...

https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Start_Here.21

This sounds like the perfect junior job anyone can do, with or without technical knowledge and zero need for coding, but that would, at the same time, substantially improve users' experience.

KDE is a Community with fuzzy edges, not a company, not a members-only club. Use the links in the page mentioned above 👆 and explain how you want to help.

Edit: And, yeah, you would very likely get a more positive reaction to what can be boiled down to a valid suggestion if you expressed yourself in slightly politer terms.

AUA: We are the Plasma dev team. Ask Us Anything about Plasma 6, gear 24.02, Frameworks 6 and everything else in the upcoming Megarelease. by Bro666 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Josh says: "Yes, we are always interested in making our applications mobile-ready and almost every new KDE application uses Kirigami our convergent framework. Some of our older applications such as Okular, Dolphin, etc need more work on mobile but this is something that's being worked on."

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AUA: We are the Plasma dev team. Ask Us Anything about Plasma 6, gear 24.02, Frameworks 6 and everything else in the upcoming Megarelease. (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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David, Nate, Josh, Marco, Carl, and Niccolò are here ready to answer all your questions on Plasma (all versions), Gear, Frameworks, Wayland (and how it affects KDE's software), and everything in between.

Fire away, Lemmy!

We were expecting to be done in an hour and we have past the 2-hour mark already! Time flies when you are having fun.

Thank you for all the questions and the welcoming and friendly atmosphere, but the devs must get back to making Plasma 6 great.

Please keep the conversation going and KDE contributors will continue to answer over the next days as time permits.

Thank you all!!

The last few weeks in KDE: It’s coming… it’s coming… it’s coming by Bro666 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

The migration to Qt6 and the work being carried out on Wayland, which is all going into Plasma 6.0, is going to allow massive changes that will be introduced over the 6.x series. There are some pretty cool features in 6.0, but the bigger changes will come over the next few point versions.

Plasma 6 Release Candidate 1 has landed. by Bro666 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Two more that didn't make it over from mastodon:

Plasma and apps for mobile also getting overhauled for 6. by Bro666 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

Gwenview, Dolphin, digiKam, AudioTube, Elisa, NeoChat, GCompris...

Plasma developer David Edmundson demonstrates how a desktop using Wayland, Qt6 and KWin can recover from a catastrophic crash as if nothing had happened. by Bro666 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The same principles can be applied to jumping from one desktop environment to another, for example, from #Plasma to #Gnome...

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/gT1rKp7QWu7S4GYsKtw87x

... And can provide a way to save the state of an application to disk, stopping the app in its tracks and removing it from memory, so that later you can restore it just where you left off.

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/3Sb8KKCmdQcPgoQsyK24YE

It's coming! The date for the big release of KDE's new desktop environment has been set. by Bro666 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think that KDE's track record shows that devs do not remove stuff just because. Quite the contrary.

But sometimes stuff does get removed and often it is because or it is unmaintained (and been so for a while), or because it is built on some old technology that cannot be replicated in the new environment without a complete rewrite.

In both cases, the reason a feature is discontinued boils down to a lack of resources.

Fortunately, the solution is simple: do your part.

KDE is a porous, grassroots and welcoming community. Join us and become part of the effort to build one of the largest and most diverse collections of end user, publicly-owned, free software projects in existence.

I know, I know: "but I can't code", etc., etc. But there are many things you can do to help. You can help organise Akademy 2024, you can translate menus and system messages, you can write documentation, draw wallpapers, design icons, edit videos, support booth staff at events, triage and report bugs, or just donate and contribute to financially supporting devs who still have to hold down pesky day jobs that get in the way of coding for KDE... The list goes on and on.

The point is, regardless of your level of technical knowledge, the more resources you free up elsewhere, the more time the people who do know how to code will have to maintain and translate software and features in the new Plasma 6 environment.

It's coming! The date for the big release of KDE's new desktop environment has been set. by Bro666 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Rude, but a teachable moment:

This is our standard answer to people who need reminding that KDE is a community powered by volunteers and that each contributor works for free to bring you the best software they can make with the means they have.