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by roryirvine | 2025-09-18 13:20:26+00:00
There was also Ventura Publisher, which was one of the most important DTP packages at the time. It ran under GEM, and was probably the biggest driver of GEM sales at the tail end of the 1980s.

Unfortunately, it was bought by Xerox in 1990-ish, with development slowing from that point onwards - not helped by a decision to port it to OS/2 ahead of Windows, which turned out to have been a sub-optimal choice once Win3 began to take off.

Its main competitor was Aldus Pagemaker, which was originally a Mac app but became available on Win/386 just as the MacII line was beginning to stagnate. By the time that QuarkXPress finally arrived on the PC in 1992, GEM was long since dead and OS/2 was nearly so. Xerox sold Ventura to Corel in the mid-90s, but it never managed to regain its early popularity.
by JdeBP | 2025-09-18 13:20:28+00:00
Yes, this is a bodge. And yes, it should be unnecessary to jam in an inhibitor lock taken around the lifetime of an interactive shell permanently in the background.

The author wants xyr system to not suspend either when there's someone active on the GUI or when xe is logged in over the network. Theoretically, systemd already has a whole mechanism for making this happen.

The pam_systemd.so hook into PAM allows systemd-logind to track SSH sessions in its replacement for the Unix login database — all of that stuff under /run/systemd/users/, /run/systemd/seats/, and /run/systemd/sessions/. And in theory systemd-logind could respond negatively to a suspend request if there is an active SSH login session even if the GUI is idle.

In practice, it does not quite have the logic for achieving this. It's close, but it does not pass around enough information for this to be done as, say, a PolicyKit rule.

* https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/src/login/login...

* https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/src/login/login...
by panny | 2025-09-18 13:20:52+00:00
I have a Rock64 that runs LxQT.

I run KDE Plasma on my laptop. KDE animations are too bloated and heavy for the Rock64, and there's way too many preferences to fiddle with to disable them all. If there was some kind of global "lightweight mode" checkbox in the plasma prefs, I might give it another try.

LxQT is fine. The main gripe I have with it is there's no sort of LxQT-meta package on ArchLinux which installs everything I actually need without a lot of fiddling. I spent a couple weeks just gradually figuring out things were missing that would make the environment a lot better. It would be nice if it just included things like oxygen icons and whatever. I understand lightweight, but they should have an "opinionated" lightweight option since I just want something that runs well on a SBC.

I used to run XFCE on an arm chromebook for a few years as my daily driver. Between the two, XFCE seemed much easier to install/customize. IDK about now, since that was before the latest release which uses latest GTK. I assume it is less lightweight now as a result of that change.
by srean | 2025-09-18 13:21:02+00:00
At the root of the fast transform is the simple fact that

ax + bx = (a+b)x

The right hand side has fewer arithmetic operations. It's about finding common factors and pushing parentheses in. Because of the inherent symmetry of the FT expression there are lots of opportunities for this optimization.

Efficient decoding of LDPC codes also use the same idea. LDPCs were quite a revolution (pun intended) in coding/information theory.

On the other hand, something completely random, few days ago I found out that Tukey (then a Prof) and Feynman (then a student) along with other students were so enamored and intrigued by flexagons that they had set up an informal committee to understand them. Unfortunately their technical report never got published because the war intervened.

Strangely, it does not find a mention in Surely You're Joking.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-18 13:22:03+00:00
Some might say it feels dated, but for me Cinnamon gives more of an impression that the whole thing has been thought through. It has a better grip on various aspects of design like its use of whitespace, control alignment, and typography too.

Don’t get me wrong, KDE is a nice desktop in many ways, but it would benefit considerably from attention of a professional UI designer.
by sho_hn | 2025-09-18 13:22:50+00:00
Honestly, this one I'm not sure about as I haven't worked on the connectivity UIs myself. I know we have backends to NetworkManager and ConnMan, and generally I would assume we pass through errors they generate and perhaps try to augment them, but I'm not personally aware of the SOTA on WiFi error reporting and how we stack up.

I'm sure if you're missing anything useful diagnostics-wise it's worth a FREQ though. A lot of us also do travel with our laptop to numerous FOSS events all over the place and encounter sub-par networks left and right, after all.
by lucideer | 2025-09-18 13:22:56+00:00
Excellent, excellent article. I do have one (odd) question though.

Perhaps I'm in a bubble (or outside of a bubble), but I don't know what the opening premise of this article is talking about. Namely:

> There’s been an influx of people telling others to develop taste to use AI. Designers. Marketers. Developers. All of them touting the same message.

I have not seen this influx. I have never heard anyone telling others to "develop taste to use AI". I work with & talk to a lot of developers, designers, marketers across a span of areas so this seems surprising to me. I've talked to outright skeptics, blind fanatics & some in between - the discussions with those "in betweeners" tend to centre more around functional contributions of AI as an aid rather than it's "creative output" & our judgements of same. I have yet to encounter anyone who has strong thoughts on taste w.r.t. AI beyond the polar extremes of "AI can do my creativity for me" & "only use AI for explicitly functional non-taste-related tasks".

Am I the only one missing this influx?
by tasuki | 2025-09-18 13:22:58+00:00
> Nvidia announced that it will buy $5 billion in Intel common stock at $23.28 per share, representing a roughly 5% ownership stake in Intel. (Intel stock is now up 33% in premarket trading.)

Why/how is INTC premarket up from $24.90 around 30% (to $32), when Nvidia is buying the stock at $23.28 ? Who is selling the stock?

I suppose the Intel board decided this? Why did they sell under the current market price? Didn't the Intel board have fiduciary duty to get as good a price from Nvidia as possible? If Nvidia buying stock moves it up so much, it seems like a bad deal to sell the stock for so little.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-18 13:23:09+00:00
> I think 99% of WhatsApp users would gladly stop using WhatsApp and switch to something like Signal, if they had verbal agreements of "everyone else" that they would also switch.

Most users do not care. If you told them other users agreed to switch platforms, they’d be annoyed about having to learn a new app when they already had one that was set up and they knew how to use.

HN is part of a small bubble that doesn’t understand product management for common people. Average users do not care. They just want a product that works.
by bgwalter | 2025-09-18 13:23:25+00:00
The RedHat apparatchik at the top of the link is amazing. Attacking others from his secure position and celebrating more corporate influence:

"Good news is several Google and Apple engineers have volunteered to help with libxml2 and libxslt security issues, despite your effort to sabotage libxml2 users -- especially web browser users -- by disclosing all vulnerabilities immediately rather than allowing them the industry-standard 90 day disclosure deadline used by all other GNOME projects (#913 (closed)). They've posted a couple patches in the libxslt issue tracker already. I assume you're not satisfied with this, and are now trying to push them away. If that's your goal, you'll no doubt succeed pretty quickly."

RedHat often has a detrimental effect on open source, it is filled with bureaucrats and careerists.

Thanks Nick Wellnhofer for going AGPL. You are setting a great example!
by bluGill | 2025-09-18 13:23:39+00:00
The important part is that there is no way to know if women really will choose a private vehicle over the bus. We have examples all over the world of women who could drive if they wanted to (they could get a license and afford a car), but they don't. Is this a small minority or not we really cannot say.

Given same price is false - a car is always more expensive, but many of the costs of a car are fixed, gas itself is cheap while you still have to make the car payment even if you ride the bus and let the car sit - so it seems like a car could be cheaper.

I believe that given transit is a reasonable option for most trips (not just getting to work) most women will decide over 5 years that transit is safe and will start using it. However there is no real way to know except to try it meaning your bet is not really possible - there are too many variables allowing me to say you didn't do enough.
by christophilus | 2025-09-18 13:23:54+00:00
I just find it ugly vs Gnome or Mac. Inconsistent padding, font sizes, colors. Admittedly, this was maybe 5 years ago. Has that improved?

These days, I daily drive Niri and love it. I love the workflow of a scrolling WM. I love that I can configure it via a single text file in the standard configuration directory, I love how lightweight it is. It’s just about perfect for me.
by nickjj | 2025-09-18 13:24:34+00:00
In this case we didn't need a long term solution for searchable data on Slack.

We did the migration in stages, basically this:

- Provide access to Teams - Create all of the new teams / channels there - Make Slack read-only but still keep the lights on - Allow folks to search and reference historic data as needed with Slack - Ensure everyone was moved over to Teams and felt ok enough using it - Remove access to Slack - Perform Slack export / PDF creation of important channels - Attach Slack PDFs to important Teams channels - Cancel Slack subscription

In the end, most people never even needed to use the PDFs because they got everything they needed out of Slack before access was removed, but they are there for peace of mind and a last resort.

We also took this as an opportunity to stop using chat as a source of truth for long lived information. Anything that should be stored long term made its way somewhere else (Jira, Confluence, etc.).
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by mschuster91 | 2025-09-18 13:24:45+00:00
Why would either of these three be interested in buying a fab? The only other large player with its own fab is Samsung and Samsung has the same problem that Intel has, namedly a fab that is nowhere near close to TSMC.

I agree that Intel would be better served to spin off its fab division, a potential buyer could be the US government for military and national security relevant projects.
by sylens | 2025-09-18 13:24:50+00:00
I hadn't really kept up with the development of KDE until I got a Steam Deck and booted into desktop mode. Once there, I was quite surprised to find a really performant, attractive, easy-to-use desktop environment. My previous KDE experience was probably a decade prior to that and I didn't really enjoy it that much, so it was a refreshing experience.

Now it is definitely my preferred Linux desktop environment as well.
by bayindirh | 2025-09-18 13:25:31+00:00
This is one of the places I have found the relevant note [0].

It states the following:

Some of the more obvious issues are listed below. If these issues are important to you, you should stay with KDE 3.5 (KDE 3.5.10 was released in August 2008) until KDE 4.2 is released (scheduled for release in January 2009) when most of these issues are scheduled to be resolved. It is possible that distributions will work around some of these issues before distributing to users.

Also, IIRC, KDE developers were openly saying that releases from 4.0 to 4.2 will be buggy, and things will stabilize in 4.2 and beyond.

[0]: https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Is_KDE_4.1_for_you%3F
by sarlalian | 2025-09-18 13:25:40+00:00
It wasn’t slack, but I’ve had multiple vendors that I was in regular touch with, surprise me with pricing changes in the week(s) leading up to a contract renewal. Never quite this short notice, but definitely as little as 8 business days before the renewal was due.

Both times I’ve paid the new price for 1 year and cancelled. Both times our sales rep was surprised the next year when we didn’t renew.
by UmGuys | 2025-09-18 13:26:43+00:00
I googled Alex as I didn't know who that was. The government has an interest in public health. 1.2 million Americans (likely many more) died as a result of covid. There were refrigerator trucks filled with bodies in places. It was hell. People who spread misinformation literally kill people and themselves. It seems like the government back then actually worked with companies to craft guidance rather than threatening their licenses, suing, etc. There's no comparison at all to the current time. America was founded to rid ourselves of royalty and the first amendment is proof of that. Now America is gone.
by sho_hn | 2025-09-18 13:26:56+00:00
> Admittedly, this was maybe 5 years ago. Has that improved?

It may have, yes!

One of the ways we run the KDE community is that we have an annual process to elect community-wide goals, which then have their own leadership team, infra, budget, etc. The goals themselves are long-running, i.e. it's not one year and done, either.

In about 2020/21 one of the goals that won/was added was titled "Improve Consistency across the Board", which lead to e.g. a comprehensive update of the HIG, renewed efforts on the controls library, and many cleanup passes across the products to get them up to date and in line.

It's an ongoing process and I'm sure plenty of people can still point to a pet peeve or an ugly corner - we're happy to have discerning users with high expectations - but the general state of things should be much better than half a decade ago.

There's also a next-gen styling/theming system project called Union in the works along with a next-gen design system developed in collaboration to take things to the next level in a few years, but we're taking our time to get it really right instead of pulling a Liquid Glass (one lesson we've learned through the years is that clawing your way back from reputational damage is really hard, and compromising on release quality is never the way to go). You can see annual updates on this e.g. in the feeds from our flagship dev conference.
by Ygg2 | 2025-09-18 13:27:18+00:00
> But how do we scale that to 1000 dependencies, and every one of their updates? What tools are there to help us, and does the community at large use them?

Use

cargo install cargo-supply-chain cargo supply-chain --publishers

Run it for whatever you want to check, then have a lunch, it takes 10-30min.

It will list exactly how many organizations, and even individuals with publish rights are there. For turso there are 51 repositories, and 243 different individuals with publish rights.

Of course, this still doesn't group by github org and so on.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-18 13:28:47+00:00
It’s interesting to see how out of the loop many HN commenters are on social media. Any teenager or even occasional social media using adult could confirm that Instagram is a hotbed for business operations and marketing for many business. I barely use it myself but this is plainly obvious.

The number of overly confident yet entirely incorrect comments about how other people use WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook from people who obviously aren’t familiar with this platforms is interesting.
by bluGill | 2025-09-18 13:29:10+00:00
Even back in the day KDE pointed out that in real world use they were not as memory heavy because everything depended on the same toolkits that were shared. Meaning your startup memory use was higher, but once you launched the applications/tools you were going to use KDE used less. (this of course depended on which tools you ran, KDE assumed all KDE tools, run a non-kde application and it doesn't work)
by BrunoBernardino | 2025-09-18 13:29:52+00:00
I've started a "custom music on demand" service and I'm offering it for free for a few requests, so I can build up a list of some recent examples.

If you'd like to get some custom-made music (10-30s, completely human-made, no AI), post a comment here or reach out via email (you can find it in the link or in my own website, which is in my profile).

Yesterday I had a very "funny" (and HN-relevant) request, which is live as quick sample: https://youtu.be/E3B7e8Gyj1E

I'll pick a couple of requests that sound interesting (pun intended) and put them in the linked YT playlist. Thanks!
by tsimionescu | 2025-09-18 13:30:09+00:00
Last time I experimented with Linux desktop (maybe two years ago?) I had one silly annoyance with KDE on Fedora. I was running this on a laptop with a regular track pad. I was surprised to find out that tap to click was not enabled by default, I had to click the physical button to mimic a mouse click. Not a big deal I thought - I logged in, went to settings, and found a configuration to enable the behavior I wanted - great. However, this behavior was only enabled for my user. Every time I wanted to log in, the login screen would use the default behavior in KDE, since my user preferences weren't applied until I actually logged in, of course.

I know, of course, that it's an extremely minor thing, but it felt quite representative. It also reminded me that Linux is stuck in this bygone age where it's expected for a computer to be a multi-user system, so of course they can't have a "privileged" user account other than root (and god forbid you'd think of using root as your normal every day user).
by mcdonje | 2025-09-18 13:30:21+00:00
Just switched over from gnome. Overall, I'm happy.

Gnome is configurable, but in a way that isn't really well integrated. It seems buggy to me, but I think it's because my preferences aren't standard.

For instance, I like having my dock on the left, and I like top bar stuff to be in the dock, so the dock is the only thing that can take up screen space, and I like the dock to disappear when I'm not using it.

Simple, right? Can't do it in the regular configuration. Can do part of it in tweaks, which is a separate configuration app, but then some of it requires extensions. So, that's 3 places to go to

What's it called when hiding complexity makes it more complex?

So, that gets me there, but then the dock fails to hide half the time on zoom calls. And when I unlock the screen, I can see the empty space where the top bar used to be for a quick flash before the full sized app window goes back to where I left it.

So far, I don't have those issues with KDE. I don't like the annoying and krappy branding with the launcher icon and more than half the apps having a K in the name, but you can change the launcher icon and use whatever apps you want.
by timw4mail | 2025-09-18 13:30:36+00:00
KDE has been my preferred desktop environment since I started playing with linux sometime in the KDE 3 days.

I'm glad the wobbly windows desktop effect has stuck around too: absolutely unnecessary, but it's silly and fun.

My biggest complaint has nothing to do with KDE itself, but the fact that GTK apps are so ugly by default. QT apps look fine in GTK desktop environments though. (At least KDE has easy built-in settings for handling GTK theming these days...I remember it being more of an issue a while back)
by m-p-3 | 2025-09-18 13:30:43+00:00
Reminded me that I'm due for my second dose, provided temporarily for free in Quebec for people between 21 to 45 years old who didn't get it when they were young because it wasn't a thing back then.

https://www.quebec.ca/en/health/advice-and-prevention/vaccin...

Now they're offering it to children as part of the standard regimen, which is great.
by hopelite | 2025-09-18 13:31:00+00:00
You can go stuff your "dogwhistle" nonsense and you not comprehending things is not my problem. Why would it be the jews, you nitwit? How do you get the jews out of this? Seems you have the growing up to do, you neurotic narcissist. You are correct, there is no "secret cabal", it is quite overt actually. It is a cabal that is overt, out in the open and it not only spans both of these stupid "left" and "right", "liberal" and "conservative", red team, blue team, deliberate divisions.

It is precisely why both parties have worked to keep the Epstein files suppressed, the DC madam contact book hidden, worked to invade countries and murder millions. Why are you so paranoid about it being "the jews" immediately when a cabal is identified?
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-18 13:31:02+00:00
> This needlessly divisive and devoid of any factual basis. No gulags will exist and you know it.

What about "Alligator Alcatraz", that has been called "concentration camp" [1] (so comparable with a gulag), or where the Korean detainees from the raid on the Hyundai/LG plant ended up, alleging utterly horrible conditions [2]? And there's bound to be more places like the latter, that was most likely just the tip of the iceberg and we only know about the conditions there because the South Korean government raised a huge stink and got the workers out of there.

Okay, Alcatraz 2.0 did get suspended in August to my knowledge, but that's only temporary. It's bound to get the legal issues cleaned up and then be re-opened - or the case makes its way through to the Supreme Court with the same result to be expected.

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/197508/alligator-alcatraz-tr...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07v1j98ydvo
by duxup | 2025-09-18 13:31:07+00:00
Trump and Co. are the biggest "snowflakes". Anything that even hints at not being in line with their thoughts, they put the power of the government to work to punish it. It doesn't even matter what anyone says or thinks, once they're set on it being bad, they're on it and it's always played up to be the worst thing ever.

There's no discussion, no indication what really happened, facts are irrelevant, all lies and threats:

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/trump-free-speech-abc-...
by graemep | 2025-09-18 13:31:09+00:00
You are looking at this: https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/surveys/detail/3572

it seems to be using a different measure (numbers do not match the link I posted) and I cannot see any numbers from 20 years ago.

There is graph from 2012 but that is from the low (if you look at my link).

Have a missed a pre-crisis comparable number in skimming it? If not, then what I see is still a significant decline over the last 20 years in the net positive.

IMO the Eurozone is very likely to have further crises. The architects of the Euro expected a greater degree of fiscal union but that never happened. A single currency without a large central budget is a mistake and makes it much harder to correct instability.