This Week in KDE Apps
This Week in KDE Apps
Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps. As Carl is still in vacation, this issue is only partially complete.This Week in KDE Apps
Harvard Announces It Will Defy Trump Order to Cut DEI Programs and Expel Pro-Palestinian Protestors
Harvard Announces It Will Defy Trump Order to Cut DEI Programs and Expel Pro-Palestinian Protestors
Harvard University announced it will not comply with orders from Donald Trump to cut DEI programs and expel students in involved in pro-Palestinian protests.Ahmad Austin Jr. (Mediaite)
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Trump, Bukele Condemn Abrego Garcia to Prison On Live TV
Trump, Bukele Condemn Abrego Garcia to Prison On Live TV
It defies a Supreme Court ruling, flouts a lower court ruling, and undermines the basic principle that the government must provide due process before depriving…Josh Kovensky (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
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'This is the crisis moment': Political scientist says Trump crossed a crucial red line
'This is the crisis moment': Political scientist says Trump crossed a crucial red line
Jacob Levy, Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory at McGill University, cautioned in a Blue Sky thread that the case involving a Maryland man the U.S. government acknowledges was "wrongfully deported" has reached a "crisis moment.Sarah K. Burris (Raw Story)
Meta resorted to 'buy-or-bury scheme' with Instagram and WhatsApp deals, former FTC Chair Lina Khan says
Meta resorted to 'buy-or-bury scheme' with Instagram and WhatsApp deals, former FTC Chair Lina Khan says
Former FTC Chair Lina Khan said Monday that Facebook's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp drastically changed the social networking ecosystem.Laya Neelakandan (CNBC)
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Hacked documents reveal guide to serving Elon Musk on private jets | TechCrunch
Some of the preferences are surprising for the CEO of Tesla, a company dedicated to sustainability. Apparently Musk isn’t “interested in conserving fuel” because he “wants to fly as quickly and as direct” as possible.
Surprising? It's 100% expected behavior from the richest asshole in the world
Hacked documents reveal guide to serving Elon Musk on private jets | TechCrunch
A recent breach of Berkshire Hathaway-owned private jet company NetJets has revealed a guide for flight attendants serving Elon Musk, per a BloombergRebecca Bellan (TechCrunch)
OpenAI Launches GPT‑4.1: What You Need to Know About the New Family of AI Models
OpenAI Launches GPT‑4.1: What You Need to Know About the New Family of AI Models
OpenAI has officially released the GPT‑4.1 family — and it’s more than just a minor upgrade.Mazdak
Trump says he supports deporting U.S. citizens
It's only a matter of time before "really bad people" includes you.
Does the US feel like a Nazi hellhole yet or do you need more convincing?
Trump says he supports deporting U.S. citizens
President Trump told reporters his administration is exploring the option of deporting U.S. citizens if they are violent criminals and "really bad people."MSNBC
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OpenAI's new GPT-4.1 AI models focus on coding
OpenAI's new GPT-4.1 AI models focus on coding | TechCrunch
OpenAI has launched a new family of models called GPT-4.1. They focus on coding, and are exclusively available through the company's API.Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
FTC v. Meta: in opening arguments, FTC lawyers accuse Meta of a “buy-or-bury strategy” to cement a social networking monopoly by buying Instagram and WhatsApp
U.S. Argues Meta Built a Social Media Monopoly
The tech giant went to court on Monday in an antitrust trial focused on its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The case could reshape its business.Cecilia Kang (The New York Times)
The Trump administration is refusing to ask Salvadoran president Bukele to release man who was mistakenly deported and Bukele isn't interested either
Bukele, who met with Trump in the Oval Office on Monday, was asked by a reporter if he’d consider releasing Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who was living in Maryland before he was arrested and deported back to his home country last month despite an immigration judge’s years-old order preventing the government from sending Abrego Garcia back to El Salvador.
“Are you suggesting I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? How can I return him to the United States, like I smuggle him into the United States? Of course, I'm not going to do it,” he said.
Bukele added that the reporter’s question was “preposterous” and said he lacks the power to return him.
“We just turned the murder capital of the world to the safest country the western hemisphere. And you want us to go back into the releasing criminals, so we can go back to the the murder capital of the world, and that's that's not going to happen,” he said.
Bukele won’t commit to returning man who was mistakenly deported from U.S.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to ‘facilitate’ the man’s return after he was deported and incarcerated in a Salvadoran prisonAndrew Feinberg (The Independent)
US army investigates after young private follows the Base, which has vowed to recruit soldiers for so-called race war
“The TikTok account affiliated with the group includes a clear statement supporting accelerationism and advises joining the group to be linked up with other individuals to exploit ‘collapse’,” said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a longtime far-right analyst and expert on the Base who noticed the soldier following the account.
“The Base has been designated as a terrorist group by the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.”
But under the reign of the new Pentagon, extremism and the far right are an afterthought, while policing and deleting away “woke” ideologies remains paramount. Hegseth has his own connections to Christian nationalism and was reported by a servicemember for alleged extremist tattoos that prevented him from attending president Biden’s inauguration.
Fears over extremism in US military as soldier revealed as neo-Nazi TikTok follower
US army investigates after young private follows the Base, which has vowed to recruit soldiers for so-called race warBen Makuch (The Guardian)
Bernie Sanders spoke at Coachella and the crowd went wild
Sanders took the stage to introduce the singer Clairo, whom he praised for standing up for reproductive rights and speaking out against the war in Gaza. He then urged the crowd to get energized and fight back against President Donald Trump’s lawless, authoritarian agenda.
“The future of what happens to America is dependent upon your generation,” Sanders told the crowd. “Now you can turn away, and you can ignore what goes on, but if you do that, you do it at your own peril. We need you to stand up, to fight… for economic justice, social justice, and racial justice.”
Bernie Sanders spoke at Coachella and the crowd went wild
"You can turn away, and you can ignore what goes on, but if you do that, you do it at your own peril."Mother Jones
COVID-19 Infection in Children tied to Long-Term Kidney Risks: JAMA
COVID-19 Infection in Children tied to Long-Term Kidney Risks: JAMA
Researchers have found in a new study that pediatric COVID-19 infection is linked to a higher risk of adverse post-acute kidney outcomes, particularly in children with preexisting chronic kidney...Medical Dialogues
Google created a new AI model for talking to dolphins
Google created a new AI model for talking to dolphins
DolphinGemma will get its first test run this summer.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
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I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened
I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened
My whole desk setup now easily fits into a backpack and I can take it anywhereAnthony Spadafora (Tom's Guide)
Meta to start training its AI models on public content in the EU
Meta to start training its AI models on public content in the EU | TechCrunch
Meta announced on Monday that it's going to train its AI models on public content, such as posts and comments on Facebook and Instagram, in the EU afterAisha Malik (TechCrunch)
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Fund managers quietly fear Trump doesn’t have a tariff plan and that he ‘might be insane’
Fund managers quietly fear Trump doesn’t have a tariff plan and that he ‘might be insane’
Some fund managers concerned ‘that the White House is not acting rationally, but rather on ideology. And some even fear that this may not even be ideology’Gustaf Kilander (The Independent)
Fund managers worry about Trump’s mental state amid tariff debacle
Fund managers quietly fear Trump doesn’t have a tariff plan and that he ‘might be insane’
Some fund managers concerned ‘that the White House is not acting rationally, but rather on ideology. And some even fear that this may not even be ideology’Gustaf Kilander (The Independent)
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A network of X accounts is targeting Canada ahead of the election
A network of X accounts is targeting Canada ahead of the election - The Logic
The accounts are pumping out thousands of posts about the Canadian economy and alleged support within Canada for U.S. President Donald Trump’s annexation threat.Martin Patriquin (The Logic Inc.)
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Spain: Tens of thousands protest nationwide housing crisis
Summary
Tens of thousands protested across Spain, including 150,000 in Madrid and 100,000 in Barcelona, over a worsening housing crisis fueled by real estate speculation, foreign ownership, and tourism.
Organizers demand rent cuts, more social housing, and the repurposing of vacant properties. Renters face soaring costs, with many spending over 40% of their income on housing.
Protesters accuse landlords and investment funds of profiting while evictions rise.
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has proposed rent caps and limits on foreign ownership, calling the crisis a “social emergency” needing urgent action.
Spain: Tens of thousands protest nationwide housing crisis
Spanish tenants' associations called for a day of national protest over real estate speculation. Renters are increasingly unable to afford housing as the property business booms.Jon Shelton (Deutsche Welle)
On the plus side, he said, both parties shared the same fundamental analysis: that Spain has a basic lack of housing.
rewinds a decade
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_…
In 2013, Raj Badiani, an economist at IHS Global Insight in London, estimated that the value of residential real estate has dropped more than 30 percent since 2007 and that house prices would fall at least 50 percent from the peak by 2015.[10] Alcidi and Gros note; “If construction were to continue at the still relatively high rate of today, the process of absorption of the bubble would take more than 30 years”.[11]In the period for 2007-2013, Spanish house prices fell by 37%.[21] Each year almost a million homes were built in Spain, more than in Germany, France, and England combined.[22]
I guess that housing oversupply issue got solved despite Spain's population size being pretty flat since then.
Spain Population (2025) - Worldometer
Population of Spain: current, historical, and projected population, growth rate, immigration, median age, total fertility rate (TFR), population density, urbanization, urban population, country's share of world population, and global rank.Worldometer
Access to future AI models in OpenAI's API may require a verified ID
Access to future AI models in OpenAI's API may require a verified ID | TechCrunch
OpenAI may soon require organizations to complete an ID verification process in order to access certain future AI models.Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
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Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’
Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’
Microsoft fired the employee who interrupted the company’s 50th anniversary event, according to an email sen by The Verge.Tom Warren (The Verge)
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Depending on your closeness to the actual technology I'd be damn tempted to take one for the team and sabotage these projects.
You can't imagine how literally violently mad I would be if any of my work was used to kill people. Doesn't matter who.
LOL they asked her to apologize. Never working for Microsoft. Fuck right the fuck off.
Qual è il mutuo più conveniente oggi in Italia?
Qual è il mutuo più conveniente oggi in Italia?
Mutui in Italia: come scegliere quello più conveniente nel contesto attuale In Italia, il mutuo rappresenta uno strumento fondamentale...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
Donald Trump threatens new 50% tariffs on China
Donald Trump threatens new 50% tariffs on China
The US president warns of the extra tax unless China withdraws its own 34% counter-tariff on US goods.Emma Haslett and Charlotte Edwards (BBC News)
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Who wants to bet that the idea of retaliatory tariffs wasn't gamed out beforehand and they have no strategy?
It seems like if you want a trade war with China, you'd want partners to help you apply pressure and replace Chinese goods you can't do without. Maybe somewhere like Vietnam for cheap labor; Canada for rare-earth minerals; and the EU to buy expensive American goods and services. Oh no.
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US Justice Dept mobilized armed Marshals to warn ex-lawyer over congressional testimony
Oyer has since told various media outlets that her firing came shortly after she declined to recommend restoring gun rights to actor Mel Gibson, a supporter of President Donald Trump.
She is one of several Justice Department officials slated to testify on Monday afternoon before a hearing organized by Democrats in the House of Representatives and Senate about the Trump administration's treatment of the Justice Department and law firms who act in cases disliked by the Republican president.Democratic U.S. Senator Adam Schiff of California called the mobilization of the Marshals to deliver a letter an effort to "intimidate and silence" Oyer, while U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland compared it to a move "ripped straight from the gangster playbook."
EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech
EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech - Techzine Global
EU prepares countermeasures to Trump tariffs with focus on Big Tech digital services after the 20% import tax on European products.Coen van Eenbergen (Techzine)
No, not tariffs. Tariffs would make Europeans pay more.
Hit the US where it hurts: intellectual property. The US forced the rest of the world to adopt its absurd intellectual property protections as a condition of getting tariff-free access to the US markets. Now that the US has reneged on that, the EU should restore rights to EU citizens that were restricted with these new laws.
‘Hands Off’ protests take off across US to oppose Trump agenda – live
‘Hands Off’ protests take off across US and Europe to oppose Trump agenda – as it happened
Protesters gather at more than a thousand events across the US and in cities abroad, such as London, Berlin and Paris. This blog is now closed.Maya Yang (The Guardian)
A very sad thing is that it's a protest. Even if it was reported on what would happen? What is the result of any of this?
Now imagine all those people went online and just created and shared content. Imagine all those people creating 5 things a week. They countered every bullshit on YouTube. If they countered every ounce of bullshit on Reddit. If they fucked with the algorithm by calling out the Rogan sphere and other podcasters making them look like the dumb asses they are. If they just culture jammed the fuck out of this broken fucking culture. But they don't.
They drive 2 hrs to stand in the cold hoping a media that doesn't listen will spread a message. I bet the protestors are not very clear on what the expected result is here either. Most probably seen that someone asked them to show up and they did. They're willing to do the work but in my opinion, it's directed into an energy sink with minimal reward. I think we can do better with understanding how content is king. How this is about culture and message and ideas rather than old school methods like protest in the streetds. People can laugh all they want thinking online content is just stupid jokes. It is. But also it's culture and this is about culture.
When Republicans and Russia wanted to change our culture to favor the right wing they didn't invest millions into protests. They hired influencers and created networks. They paid college kids to make memes. They ran bot farms to flood spaces with comments that dismissed opinions that didn't favor their view. Money and power were directed to dumb assholes that could get more people on brand. Joe Rogan went from being a dumb comedian to a platform to introducing people to those networks. And it branched out from there. It was strategic. All I'm saying is we all should think more systematically and strategically. Protests have a use case. I'm not sure how effective it is in a digital world. Protests should evolve I think.
We won't beat corporate funded media in their game.
You think those people aren't online?
This is exactly my point. You're proving it. The left have no idea what they're doing. This is why the right are winning. They aren't wasting their effort and time. They're targeting key areas using modern techniques and even inventing their own. The left are so hell bent on this romanticized ideals of the hippie putting flowers into barrels that they haven't progressed at all. It has cost so much and will continue to lead us into obscurity or worse.
I'll tell you what, let's come back in a couple weeks and see what these protests accomplished
Do they? I've seen the headlines but do they really?
Every few years it seems like they are circling the same drain as everyone else.
Protests where we all just gather and walk around aren't effective. You need to be proactive and anticipatory. We saw it with George Floyd protests. There's no win. Either people will show up and go home. Or, the protests will grow to a point that it becomes out of control. When it's out of control then the police salivate and pull out their black book training manual for how to beat hippies and they get to work. Just as a farmer leads his cows to slaughter. The police have solved the protestor problem. You will not win. Tactics need to adapt
Congo, M23 rebels hold first talks after months of conflict
DOHA, April 5 (Reuters) - Congo's government and M23 rebels last week held private talks in Qatar for the first time since the rebels conducted a lightning offensive in the country's east, a source briefed on the discussions told Reuters.
The talks, which will continue next week in Doha, offer the greatest hope of a halt to hostilities since M23 seized eastern Congo's two largest cities, a rapid advance that since January has resulted in thousands of deaths and forced hundreds of thousands more from their homes.
The fighting has raised fears of a wider regional war, as Congo's neighbours Uganda and Burundi also have troops in the region.
Reuters reported last week that Kinshasa and M23 planned to hold their first direct talks in Doha on April 9. But the source with knowledge of the situation said private talks were also held last week.
They were positive, the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity, and prompted the rebels to withdraw from the strategic town of Walikale, in an area rich in minerals including tin, as a goodwill gesture.
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DOJ demands SCOTUS stop judge from forcing Trump to return wrongfully deported father
Summary:
With just hours to go before the Trump administration has to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a protected Maryland resident who was mistakenly sent to El Salvador as part of President Donald Trump’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants under an 18th-century wartime authority — back to the United States as part of a judge’s order, the Justice Department has tossed up a “Hail Mary” bid to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to put the kibosh on the efforts.
“On Friday afternoon, a federal district judge in Maryland ordered unprecedented relief: dictating to the United States that it must not only negotiate with a foreign country to return an enemy alien on foreign soil, but also succeed by 11:59 p.m. tonight,” wrote Solicitor General D. John Sauer in the DOJ’s Supreme Court application to vacate the order.
“This order sets the United States up for failure,” Sauer said.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis on Friday granted a preliminary injunction and gave the DOJ just over three days to facilitate bringing Abrego Garcia back to the country, referring to his deportation as “an illegal act” in her order. The 29-year-old was sent to El Salvador on March 15 in error as part of President Trump’s proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to rush through mass deportations — which have since been blocked by a federal judge — without providing due process to those being flown out of the country, often not to their country of origin. Abrego Garcia was in the country with protected legal status at the time of his deportation. His wife and 5-year-old child are U.S. citizens. The DOJ admitted to the lower court on Friday that his deportation was an “administrative error,” leading to the suspension of a 15-year DOJ vet who made the public confession.
On Sunday, Xinis issued a 22-page opinion saying she would not back off from forcing the Department of Homeland Security and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who are being sued, to return Abrego Garcia to U.S. soil. The DOJ filed an emergency motion to stay Xinis’ preliminary injunction on Saturday with the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals and lower court, “given the urgency of harms to the government,” the DOJ filings said. The 4th Circuit denied the motion on Monday shortly before the DOJ filed its Supreme Court application.
DOJ demands SCOTUS stop judge from forcing Trump to return wrongfully deported father
The Trump administration tossed up a "Hail Mary" bid to SCOTUS on Monday, asking it to stop the return of a protected Maryland resident who was sent to El Salvador just hours before they have to.Law & Crime
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Which Trump-supporting billionaires have lost the most in tariff markets turmoil?
Which Trump-supporting billionaires have lost the most in tariff markets turmoil?
Wealth of world’s richest tycoons shrinks as US president’s trade war spooks investorsMark Sweney (The Guardian)
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Hamas slams US claim it uses ambulances for ‘terrorism’ after medics killed
“[The remarks] are a hideous example of immoral solidarity with the Nazis of our time in their brutal war against defenceless civilians and humanitarian organisations,” the group said.
“Hughes’s accusations that Hamas is using ambulances are pure lies, devoid of any evidence, propagated by the US administration, alongside the government of war criminal Netanyahu, to justify its heinous and documented crime against paramedics and rescue workers.”
Updates: Netanyahu meets Trump as Israeli attacks continue in Gaza
Israeli forces kill two in attack on a tent housing journalists and issue new displacement orders for Deir el-Balah.Ted Regencia (Al Jazeera)
YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy
YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy
TariffTokers, Gen Z’s ‘it couple’, Easter potatoes, anti-MAGA hats, Zuck's D.C. mansion, Amazon's TikTok bid, Silicon Valley's cupid, and the fastest growing political channels on YouTubeTaylor Lorenz (User Mag)
The Kleptocracy Presidency | Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.
The Kleptocracy Presidency
Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.Anne Applebaum (The Atlantic)
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in reply to Omar • • •ramfetch was a fetch tool which displays memory info using /proc/meminfo i made back in christmas 2022 (i was around 11 years old at the time, currently 13) it got pretty popular on this sub and r/linux (it got 900 votes on r/linux and 797+ votes on this sub on reddit reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments…) , but i decided to remove it since i kinda thought it was dead, but i wanna bring it back with a new config file so yeah..
url: github.com/omardotdev/ramfetch
GitHub - omardotdev/ramfetch: a fetch tool which displays memory info using /proc/meminfo
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