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cross-posted from: https://social.opendesktop.org/users/thisweekinkde/statuses/113332629027504589

This week in Plasma: hardware is hard

https://pointieststick.com/2024/10/18/this-week-in-plasma-hardware-is-hard/

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21070831

Announcement by the creator: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-android/23002

Unfortunately I don’t have good news on the state of the android app: I am retiring it. The last release on Github and F-Droid will happen with the December 2024 Syncthing version.

Reason is a combination of Google making Play publishing something between hard and impossible and no active maintenance. The app saw no significant development for a long time and without Play releases I do no longer see enough benefit and/or have enough motivation to keep up the ongoing maintenance an app requires even without doing much, if any, changes.

Thanks a lot to everyone who ever contributed to this app!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1268632

Hi everyone I’m happy to announce the new 2024 Ubuntu Community Council!

• Heather Ellsworth (~hellsworth1) @hellsworth1
• Scarlett Moore (~scarlettmoore) @scarlettmoore
• Nathan Haines (~nhaines) @nhaines
• José Antonio Rey (~jose) @jose
• Thomas Ward (~teward) @teward
• Merlijn Sebrechts (~merlijn-sebrechts) @merlijn-sebrechts
• Aaron Rainbolt (~arraybolt3) @arraybolt3 They are all elected for a period of two years.

cross-posted from: https://social.opendesktop.org/users/thisweekinkde_apps/statuses/113340776757238911

This Week in KDE Apps

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/10/20/this-week-in-kde-apps/

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21072107

Bitwarden introduced a non-free dependency to their clients. The Bitwarden CTO tried to frame this as a bug but his explanation does not really make it any less concerning.

Perhaps it is time for alternative Bitwarden-compatible clients. An open source client that's not based on Electron would be nice. Or move to something else entirely? Are there any other client-server open source password managers?