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Remember folks, if you see a grown man beating the living shit out of a small child, do not interfere. The man might be Israeli and the child Palestinian and you wouldn’t want to be called an antisemite.
it would be antisemitic to not hold the small child so the grown ass man can take a break from hitting the child. Letting child abusers get exhausted is antisemitic. Also you need to give the abuser a stick with which to beat the child in order to make the abuser feel safe feelings because the child clearly represents an existential threat to the man.
I actually once did see a grown man (a roadside newspaper vendor) kicking the shit out of a street child at a robot. I wound down my window and screamed "Stop it! Stop it or I'm calling the police " . Dude turned to me to explain that the kid had stolen his money so he was getting it back (showing me the pouch). Kid took the chance to GTFO.
In this current conflict, there's nowhere for the kid to go, and everyone is pretending they see nothing wrong. 😥
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Was natürlich stimmt ist, dass jemand, der •in Buchenwald• mit einem "Ceasefire Now" T-Shirt (geschweige denn Banner) aufkreuzt, mit erhöhter Wahrscheinlichkeit nicht einen reibungslosen Ablauf erleben möchte, sondern evtl. einen medienwirksamen Eklat - ganz wertfrei, unabhängig davon, wie die Forderung an sich zu bewerten ist, oder der Legitimität einer solchen Aktion.
Von daher wäre es zumindest theoretisch legitim, die Mitarbeiter*innen dahingehend zu sensibilisieren. Rein praktisch.
Nur: das ist ja überhaupt nicht das, was sie geschrieben hatten!
@bifouba Exakt. Im ersten Fall wäre - gerade wenn es sich zu internen Schulungszwecken nutzen lassen soll - eher hinzuweisen auf deeskalierende Maßnahmen - anstatt maximal eskalierend zu interpretieren.
Graph shows the RPM required to create Earth-like gravity, based on the radius of the station. I used a log scale for radius to show everything from 10-meters
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Palestinians fear razing of villages in West Bank, as settlers circle their homes
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When someone tells you to trust the experts, this is what they mean. On a serious note, academic studies, on average, are pretty much this. In some fields, the situation is even worse.
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@aral@ar.al “At what point do we, as paying users, draw a line and walk?”
Well, they previously did draw multiple lines by first becoming users, then paying users, so I guess they are used to changing plans and going from paying to non-paying shouldn’t be that hard.
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The kind if person who would benefit from that shouldn't be using a computer. But then again, most smartphone users shouldn't be using a phone. How about choosing different default settings in an installation based on a central "expert" vs "newbie" setting?
People who find computers useful should be using computers.
This weird idea from some linux users that only people who see their computer as a hobby and have mastery over them should be allowed to use them, and that computers should be designed exclusively around the needs of computer-as-hobby users, is absolutely nuts.
Its a tool. It should be designed to be useful as possible to anyone who needs such a tool.
Sincerely, Another linux user who cares about UI/UX and is tired of this kind of junk. It's a dumb argument, let's all stop making it please. Linux supports all your "technical user" wildest dreams, let the average people have their features and design considerations too.
Its a tool. It should be designed to be useful as possible to anyone who needs such a tool.
Twenty years ago I might have agreed. Now, in hindsight, I can say that giving everyone access to computers & thereby the internet has brought out the worst in humanity, including mass-manipulation and authoritarian regimes thanks to people making even worse calls in elections than they used to.
The devil is in how things are made useful to users who just want to get things done. The problems comes with corporations making decisions about what users should need to understand, and what users want. There's been a lot of dumbing down and manipulation in that process, serving the needs of those corporations and advertisers and not the needs of the users.
Software can be made useful for those who don't want or need to undertand all the details, in a good, non-harmful way. The principle of separation of interface and implementation even demands it. But our society being what it is, that largely doesn't happen, so I'm inclined to agree with your pessimistic take.
I recently installer something, and KDE showed me where it ended up in the launcher, which I appreciated, and now I'm not supposed to use a computer. Really? Thanks.
At least me wife will be happy, but I'll need to find new work.
What qualifies as "expert" setting can be very divisive.. for me, it would be removing this menu entirely. Or even switching from KDE to sway or similar ^^U
But if I was the kind of people that do use this kind of menus I would probably find that kind of indication useful. It helps finding the category the app you just installed belongs to. If you install an educational app/game that teaches programming by giving instructions to a turtle in order to draw a graphic/picture (I think I have seen something like that before): which category should it be at? games? education? development? graphics?
My main point is: If the desktop environment "expert" toggle is set once, gimmicks like this one here would be disabled by default. On a default installation, with the "expert" toggle to "off", those same gimmicks might be enabled by default.
Everything in the desktop is a gimmick... remove all visible things of the desktop and only show apps. Settings can be handled in a text configuration file. Or are some of these gimmicks actually useful, even for "experts"?
I have many times, installing a new app on a Windows Server, just gone in and seen the latest installed app and clicked on it. Sorry, that is my best example as that is where I most often use this feature - I don't install that many apps on my desktops.
If this defaulted to off, then it would actually be useless.
Would just be the other way around with what posts you see online. Instead of OP you'd see "how can I find my newly installed apps" and the same "ahem" screenshot reply.
Except that if people don't know the feature exists, they might not ask about it. If you see the feature exists and you don't want it, it is easier to figure out how to turn it off.
There are many feature that are turned on by default - this is just one of them.
I see plenty of posts here, on the kde matrix, on the kde forums, on the bugtracker asking for non existing features.
I have no clue about the exact percentages, their motivations or feelings, so it's hard to conclude anything.
Personally, I more often ask for nonexistent features (and i feel no barriers there) than turning off something that is on by default - which is a good sign I guess?
But you don’t see all the people that does not ask for features, but could benefit from them. I worked IT support for years and I often suggested features or different workflow to users because I could see they were doing things that could be done easier.
I’m glad there’s a toggle, it seems like it would actually be useful here but I’d probably turn it off.
With that said, there’s a special place in hell for the multitudes of apps that have red notification dots all over the UI with no clear indicator as to what they’re about or how to clear them 😁
I cannot wrap my head around the use case of this. Is the attention span of people really this degraded in 2025 that they need to be reminded what program they just installed?
I think the author has a valid point. This just clutters the UI and adds unnecessary mental load by directing your focus to the indicators every time you open the application menu.
Don't get me wrong, I am not against a "new" label in every context but in this specific case it just feels unnecessary.
*edit: If the use case is: Little Timmy installed a new program on grandmas PC and now she can see the new program better I guarantee you grandma will be super confused when the green dot disappears and from that time on can't find the program anymore. I support a couple of KDE systems with users like Grandma and a dynamic UI like this is contra productive in my experience. For grandma you put the app she is supposed to use in the taskbar as a starter and that's it. No "new" label needed.
Some apps have weird names and I forget what they're called. Showing a "new" badge, even if it's just for the first few times I open the app, makes it more likely that I'll remember the app's name.
Thanks for the reply. Forgetting the name of the application you installed 10 seconds ago was not something I had considered. I wonder if this a common occurrence since this literally never happened to me before.
You can set most KDE menus to show the "Comment" key of the .desktop files instead of the "Name" key. So "KDE Advanced Text Editor" instead of "Kate".
Packages can come with several "programs" that aren't necessarily named the same as the package. Example: Calibre installs menu items for "Calibre", "EBookViewer" and "EBookEditor" on my distro.
It's not about forgetting...it' about helping to quickly find what you just installed and what is all included.
What's the problem here? I said I had never had that problem before and therefor was wondering if that's a common problem users might have. So that would make the feature indeed not as useless as I thought.
I install graphical and visual design apps. And I'll navigate to the category by mouse. I don't memorise the names of all my apps. I'm not in IT, and I'm not working with text all the time. I'll right click the app icon and go 'Add to favourites', so I have a highly productive, 1 click access to important apps. I'm interested in usability, am not a beginner and I know my UI and settings well. I can see why people find this tiny green dot useful. It's OK if you are not into usability. But note that there are many different user types, with different needs at different times. And the flexibility of KDE Plasma makes it a really great desktop environment.
It's more about which category a particular specific software belongs. If a kid installs an educational app/game that teaches programming by giving instructions to a turtle in order to draw a graphic/picture (I think I have seen something like that before). Which category should it be? games? education? development? graphics?
I personally don't use this kind of menus with categories, I prefer dmenu style launchers where you type to search what you need. But if I was the kind of people that do use this kind of menus I would probably find that kind of indication useful.
I was very annoyed when I got this, but remembered that it's KDE, and turning it off is 4 clicks. Proprietary software often doesn't allow you to turn this off (easily). Windows has this "feature", where is the setting?
I don't think it's a productive "feature", but considering it can be turned off so easily I don't consider it a complete showstopper.
The main issue is UX imo. On Windows 11, it's "5 clicks", but you have to open the settings app and find the setting two submenus deep. On KDE, it's right click > configure application launcher > toggle setting > apply.
Yeah, for some reason they've seemed to made it harder to find the actual start menu settings instead of more generic taskbar settings. So that's a fair point.
It sounds like the author of the article is more concerned with the incentive it creates for developers to push useless or sloppy updates ("impact driven development") than the UX.
My understanding is that this only happens in newly installed apps, not recently updates ones. They are only highlighted because the user installed them, not because the developer did anything.
It's a screenshot of the application launcher, the menu to launch apps already installed, not the software store.
Thing like this are why there's a million settings in KDE; every dev is prepared for the inevitable "but I hate it, make it go away" complaint. Granted, this complainer was pretty respectful and threw in a donation to soften the blow. Most people just act entitled, like the dev personally affronted them with their update.
I find this complaint very strange. It's a dot. It helps people find what they installed.
But if this person doesn't need it, how would they ever see it? Most power users I know never even look in the menu, so they would never know there is a dot in the first place.
It's all a show. Some people are just desperate for attention. "Oh, look at me, I'm OCD" as if that makes them cool or something. This person just spent €100 for literally nothing (glad it went to kde of course). Being annoyed by this is, IMHO, very stupid. It's a menu that can't even stay open. Who's sitting there sifting their menu all day long that this bothers them? 😂
I'll never understand why this "new/green dot" thing exist, but I'll also never understand why it would bother anyone. lol. Like, it's in kick-off. How often are you scrolling through kick-off? Does anyone keep that menu open at all times that it triggers your OCD seeing it? Am I missing something? Or is it just people seeking attention?
When I install a new application, I generally run it immediately. Having the new indicator might be nice to help find it - they don't always drop into the menu where I expect.
I agree, I can't see why it upsets the author so much. "You've installed a new app, here it is." "YYYEEEAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!"
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I saw an article about a vibe coder who's allegedly dominating hackathons.
Of course he does, AI is good at producing code fast. But that means nothing for real-world applications where efficiency and maintainability matter.
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he may be right about some issues but he's a severely unlikeable person, perhaps he should try to keep his smug mug under control and more people might listen.
Wonder what that highly-revered pedophile Thomas Jefferson would have to say about this. Don't white men who love taking about Liberty love citing him?Where'd they go?
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Mogleg
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •it would be antisemitic to not hold the small child so the grown ass man can take a break from hitting the child. Letting child abusers get exhausted is antisemitic. Also you need to give the abuser a stick with which to beat the child in order to make the abuser feel safe feelings because the child clearly represents an existential threat to the man.
Fucking fuck.
#fuckisraelfreepalestine
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Robin Adams
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •From Private Eye:
Q: How many people have been killed in the conflict so far?
A: That depends on whether you count Palestinians as people.
Rosy Maths
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I actually once did see a grown man (a roadside newspaper vendor) kicking the shit out of a street child at a robot.
I wound down my window and screamed "Stop it! Stop it or I'm calling the police " . Dude turned to me to explain that the kid had stolen his money so he was getting it back (showing me the pouch). Kid took the chance to GTFO.
In this current conflict, there's nowhere for the kid to go, and everyone is pretending they see nothing wrong. 😥
Aral Balkan
in reply to Rosy Maths • • •Rosy Maths
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •