If you’re as old as I am, you’ll recall software using the term “gamma” release instead of “release candidate” for that phase. ;)

Not sure if it’s still the same as it was back in my day, but KDE’s “release candidate” nomenclature was always a bit of a misnomer. You’d never see RC1 actually released as final. What it really means is that the alpha “feature refinement” beta “bug fixing” phase is over, and it’s the final testing phase for showstoppers. However, the definition of showstopper seemed always to be very wide. Thus, a lot of bugs still get reported and fixed during this phase, and RC really means “beta, but towards the end of the pipeline”.

Which is in contrast to the Linux kernel where a RC can be declared ship-ready and simply get renamed.

Admittedly there’s a fairly large impact difference between kernel level bugs, and say a bug in Okular…

Interesting. I just signed up for their “trial” version and punched my keywords in – “geophysical equipment rentals canada” and my region to Canada – my company came up first, followed by our primary Canadian competitor. It wasn’t until item number 8 that the SEO crap pages started showing up. Very nice. Now I just need to figure out how to make this a business expense ;)

You’ve got to add “reddit” to any search term to get answers to anything. Sadly, and perhaps due to the distributed nature of lemmy (and the relatively young nature of the network), lemmy results are still not great.

I run a small business – a niche business in scientific equipment. I have about a half dozen competitors in North America, and maybe a few dozen globally. So you’d think it would be fairly easy to dominate the search results for those specific terms – and we do!

However, mixed in with the search results are a bunch of shell companies that don’t actually have any equipment – they exist only to drive traffic to another company through their website to get a referrer bonus. So it looks like there’s more competition than there is, but really it’s just a bunch of optimizers creating these shell companies to earn referral income. And those sites are terrible! We refuse to stoop to that level.

Unfortunately, google makes too much money now, and is too beholden to their shareholders to change it. So unless a competitor shows up with “don’t be evil” back on the menu, with their own algorithms (and not just repackaged bing or whatever), we’re stuck with this for now I guess.

I miss the google of ~1999 when it was disrupting the crap search engines. Now it’s just another crap search engine.

necro on the thread, but add

!progmusic@lemm.ee (which sometimes has electronica)
!progressivehouse@lemmy.world
!spacemusic@lemmy.ca (disclaimer - I run that one)

You had ChatGPT write that apology, eh? ;)

Tangent: Once upon a time (like… 2006 or 2007) when KDE was first creating KRunner, I did some work in porting features from KDesktop (from KDE 2&3) into KRunner.

History: KDesktop had a bunch of session management code embedded in it, to handle things like the “log out” command – because KDE was window manager agnostic, you couldn’t put that code into KWin in case someone wanted to use something else. So it had to go into something that was always running in the background while a KDE session was up. The options were KDesktop and Kicker – but kicker wasn’t as stable, since it allowed plugins, so KDesktop got the job.

With Plasma taking over the desktop “window”, and being so new and crash prone at the time, a bunch of the KDesktop session management code needed a place to land. KRunner was a much smaller in scope program that would be always on, so I ported all that code into KRunner. KRunner, that early in development, had the job of “being used to restart whatever crashed” so it has to be super stable. I was nervous as hell doing that work haha.

I haven’t been involved in KDE development for over a decade now. I wonder if that code is still there. I’d wager it all got reworked during the Wayland related porting.

Linux users: what do you plan to remap it to?

This is a fantastic video. Watched it on my lunch break. I was aware of the rolling method, but all of the developments after that were news to me. Very cool.

When I was part of the KDE marketing working group, we always talked about 5% being the magic number. If we hit that, then the avalanche of ported and supported third party software starts. It’s a weird chicken and egg thing. Looks like we’re close!

Missing: any sort of physicist who will tell them both that the forward model says that the sun won’t explode for a few billion years, and so far that model hasn’t been wrong.

Recency bias. There’s always been good video game movies and shows, mixed in with bad ones. Most basic example: the Tomb Raider movies were pretty great (for their time). Pokemon has been running so long that people have forgotten it was created as a cross marketing opportunity to sell the game. Mortal Combat and Resident Evil are always overlooked. Hell, even the super campy Street Fighter movie is fun.

My personal favourite is Steins;Gate.