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This release improves the ALSA plugin, JACK and GStreamer support, and adds numerous new features for a better multimedia experience.

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Out today is Qt 6.6.1 with more than four hundred bugs resolved.

One of the key highlights of this release is the resolution of a memory leak issue related to memfd/dma-buf during the shutdown process of uploading buffers.

Finally, for Gnome users who want a change of desktop…

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never rely on a single service to host your backup files. to you it is IMPORTANT to the service its just another file.

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Google: “You can risk data loss backing up to local hard drives, or you can let us lose your data for you!”

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I believe in multiple, redundant backups as protection against me, and me, and me… ∞

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Hey, we dont need to bash Google at all times… We can be concerned about our own freedoms and our software solutions. Cloud services have become too sticky, if you know what I mean.

I am discovering cloud services and hosting services daily. Lets keep an open mind!

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Google is the biggest data collector/seller of them all. Bashing, full steam ahead!

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A good overview of manifest v3 and its implications.

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Me, who thought backing up my PGP keys to google drive will be safest thing :moyai:

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After the rage inducing news From M(Shit), take this :smile:

And, that’s not all, they have also decided to sponsor these projects for $1000/month each , with only a simple demand:
All we ask in return is that they remain good people and keep doing all that they can to make these engines powerful and approachable for developers everywhere.

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PeerTube v6

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I miss the “Don’t be evil” Google. Or would if it was ever real.

Hear that part about how many other browsers get dragged along with Google’s change? That’s their goal. Control the HTML render engine, control the internet.

We need more engines available that aren’t Blink (chromium). We have Geko, and to a smaller degree this group of engines that barely see any use. WebKit and Geko being the two well-backed engines right now, the rest are either single-developer (Goanna) or maintained but not developed anymore (Trident, Flow, Servo), or just dead (Presto, KHTML).

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More like pwnCloud, am I right? :laughing:

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This one is a replacement for Google Translate, found in Aur as ‘pot-translation-bin’;

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Is that Chinese or Japanese?
Garuda should be added to that :smiley:

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