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  • Qt is still the only excellent cross-platform desktop GUI framework.

    It's a pity that its current custodian's commercial licenses:

    • are subscriptions
    • are painfully expensive for a solo developer or small group
    • have a reputation for triggering legal threats and badgering from The Qt Company if one ever wants to end their subscription or (separately) use the open-source license for a FOSS project

    This situation makes me afraid to use their commercial offerings, which in turn means they won't get any money from me at all; I feel that I can safely use their libs only in open-source code. Their business model is their decision, of course, but I can't help wondering if their whale-hunting approach actually nets them more money than a more accessible, lower-cost, one-time (or one-major-version) license option would. In many other industries, high sales volume reaps more profits than high price.

    Thank goodness for the KDE Free Qt Foundation.

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    Dreams of Aether

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  • That misses the point. The Last of Us Part I is Steam Deck verified, but it consumes far too many resources.

    Do note that I'm not just talking about the Deck. Some hardware can run it smoothly, some can't, but in all cases, it's an insultingly bloated pig of a port.

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    www.eff.org 230 Protects Users, Not Big Tech

    Section 230 provides limited protection for all platforms, though the biggest beneficiaries are small platforms and users. Why else would some of the biggest platforms be willing to endorse a bill that guts the law? In fact, repealing Section 230 would only cement the status of Big Tech monopolies.

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    phys.org Surprisingly, some Dyson spheres and ringworlds can be stable

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    www.eff.org A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate

    In a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: it rejected a dangerous proposal that would have gutted end-to-end encryption in the name of fighting drug trafficking. Despite heavy pressure from the.....

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    blog.nelhage.com Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter

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