falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com

Some good news for a change.
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/google-analytics/

1 day late, but DPF-Plugins has its own release today too.
See https://kx.studio/News/?action=view&url=dpf-plugins-v15-released

Carla and Ildaeil still need a release, but the JACK stuff took a lot of time so these last ones are late. Still coming soon though.

It is release day again!

We got not 1, not 2, but 3 JACK related releases!

https://jackaudio.org/news/2022/01/15/jack1-v01260-and-jack2-v1920-releases.html
https://jackaudio.org/news/2022/01/15/jack-example-tools-release-1.html

🚀 🚀 🚀

More FOSS drama, @rghvdberg@sonomu.club reset that counter again!

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-corrupts-npm-libs-colors-and-faker-breaking-thousands-of-apps/

Green is the best color, when you get green you know you are good 💚

All builds green, let's go 🚀
https://github.com/DISTRHO/PawPaw/actions/runs/1680221527

(Just silly things to ignore, nevermind me, was just a pain to get all the builds working. Go green!)

It is the end of another month, and year too!
Time for one of those reports.
https://kx.studio/News/?action=view&url=kxstudio-monthly-report-november-december-2021

Want to write about current and future plans too, another day.

Happy new year! 🎉

Cardinal inside Cardinal inside Cardinal inside Cardinal.

How many levels deep is that? Yes.

KDE Neon is a find distro most of the time, but them updating Qt packages means a few things get broken as side effect..

Well, Telegram-Desktop stopped working a few days ago, time to rebuild a new version.

Maybe once KDE6 begins to take shape all the updates to KDE5 take a step back and focus goes on stability, that would be nice..
From week to week some small details change in KDE, often for the best, but having to relearn things gets annoying sometimes.

The little things sometimes make you happy, GMT (Game Maker's Toolkit) on YouTube has a nice video regarding accessibility in 2021 games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IhQl1CBj9U

It is actually quite positive, and shows clear improvement from previous years.

The culture around the gaming industry is sadly still quite the shit-show, but hopefully that improves with time too.

Oh this is even worse than I thought.

- requires location access (won't work otherwise)
- transactions can use "push notifications", which basically means it goes through google servers, great security and privacy!

Since I do not have PlayStore on my phone, not sure what to do..
Using random apks from the internet seems like a terrible idea, even more for such crucial things as banking.

Obviously the application is not open-source, so won't make it to F-Droid or related services.

😦 😔 😞

Well this sucks, I am locked out of online banking..
Due to EU regulations online banking cannot use SMS or paper authentication methods anymore, requiring the use of "secure" mobile applications instead. 🤦‍♂️

So now you need an Android or iOS running mobile phone to do tasks that a simple web browser was capable of before.
The new "app" is quite the disaster, contains ads, introduces fees and sometimes doesn't even work at all.
What an improvement! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=caixaeconomica.approva

Summing up the current state of affairs in meme format. :P