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Introduction¶ At this year’s LLW we held a workshop to finally come up with something that all present could agree was a solution to the problem that client-side1 JavaScript, CSS etc. gets distributed to the user without proper (or typically any) license…

At FOSDEM 2025 I presented my (intentionally controversial) proposal how to keep copyright and licensing info in minified JS/CSS and asked for feedback, including from front-end developers.

Confession¶ I have a bit of a problem with my download folder.

Introduction¶ I started writing this blog post in March, completely oblivious of Mozilla’s plans of getting rid of Pocket, but with life and work being in the way I never got around to finishing it.

Introduction¶ Update: intentionally controversial With enough time past for feedback to have arrived in the past two years, I can now reveal that this original proposal was never intended as a final solution.

FOSDEM can be pretty daunting, with (over) 2 days and dozens of parallel tracks.

Intro¶ I am not a linguist by any stretch of the imagination, just someone who likes languages, and as someone whose native tongue is Slovene/Slovenian, it feels like a civic duty1 to explain a specific way we use the dual grammatical number.

If you have not been following this blog series, I made a wrapper for Firefox to be able to run different tabs (and more) in different KDE Plasma Activities.

Moving forward with e-mail¶ Well, after many years of trying to figure things out with how to cope with owning a third-level domain .name domain name, I caved in.

This is a longer one … it took long too.

For the past few days I was at the seaside.

Updates explained the benefits of the extra subvolumes added tip for UpdateDB added Baloo fix Disable Baloo (for now!)

BIOS tweaks¶ First of all I went through the BIOS and did some basic securing by re-arranging the boot order1, disabling boot and wake from LAN, and password-protected the BIOS.

Updates elaborated a bit more on the keyboard fixed some gaming issues with Proton added some benchmarks added Apostrophe Hardware¶ Case & Dimensions¶ First impressions start with the outside look and while I was concerned about that the silver colour wou…

As promissed the last time, here is my crazy idea … Updates added Baloo fix for Btrfs, which is now scheduled for KF 5.111 Operating system / distribution¶ This time round, I will go for EndeavourOS.

Updates added MNT Reform added Purism) added caveats about modern S0ix / Modern Standby added info about Framework’s controversy As I have tooted2 recently, I am currently waiting for a new laptop to arrive.

Intro & scope¶ I had the following train of thought during a thread that emerged on the Legal Network about the question of consequences of the removal of a copyright statement in a super-permissive license like the 0BSD.

Intro & thanks¶ About a year ago I wrote about my gripes with Firefox not playing nicely with KDE Plasma Activities and how I created an Activity-aware Firefox hack/wrapper.

Dear readers, a few of you have actually contacted me that my blog was offline – specifically the blog post about How and why to properly write copyright statements in your code.

undocumented feature = surprise surprise = unexpected functionality unexpected functionality = bug QED ;) hook out → packing …

Intro¶ KDE Plasma is my preferred desktop and I am a heavy user of its Activities1 – I tend to have one to two dozen Activities on each computer (see below for examples).

Let us start 2022 with a cool little tool that I recently found out about1.

Introduction¶ Initially I wanted to make this series to reflect: the first few days; the first few weeks; the first few months; after maybe a year or so. … as you can see it did not work out.

Introductionary story¶ There are several memes circulating the Linux space: not knowing how to exit vim, invoking sudo to get someone to make you a sandwich, how Linux is the stuff clouds are made of, &c &c.

Introduction & the pain¶ I am a big fan of both KDE and Mozilla software – while no software is perfect, of course, these two I like and trust the most when it comes to my desktop and web browsing respectively.

Intro – how Plasma went “kaboom”¶ I have been running Manjaro as my main Linux distribution for some time now, and until recently never had an issue.

So after a full “Ring Fit” month – i.e. 30 days played1 – let us see how this workout game held up for me.

This blog post was not easy to write as it started as a very simple thing intended for developers, but later, when I was digging around, it turned out that there is no good single resource online on copyright statements.

Continuing with my Ring Fit Adventure adventure1, these are the first full two weeks of working out with Ring Fit Adventure.

This week I finally got my Ring Fit Adventure for the Nintendo Switch.

Today I was wondering what the most commonly used license that people use in OpenAPI, so I went and did a quick analysis.

I have gone through several stages of this and so far nothing has stuck as ideal, but I think I am inching towards it.

For the uninitiated, Surströmming is an infamous heavily fermented herring.

Masala chai (commonly and somewhat falsely abbreviated to just “chai”) literally means “spice mix tea” – and this is what this review is about.

After many years of working on it, it is with immense pleasure to see the FLA-2.0 – the full rewrite of the Fiduciary License Agreement – officially launch.

Last year, three new umbrella organisations for free and open-source software (and hardware) projects emerged in Europe.

I had the pleasure of sampling 10 Assam teas from Vahdam (a very well chosen birthday gift from my fiancée).

While browsing around wikis while waiting for the new kernel to compile on my poor little old ARMv5 server, I stumbled upon Mosh.

After many years of simply ignoring and avoiding the option to learn how to drive, a few months ago I gave in and started taking driving lessons.

After over a decade of using Bash and almost a decade of using Zsh I decided to take Fish for a spin.

It feels like I just came back from Berlin1 and I have to go back again.

Earlier today I was at my alma mater – the Ljubljana Law Faculty – for the viva voce of my master’s thesis on the topic of “Fiduciary Licence Agreement – New Challenges”.

I just moved my web server’s SSL/TLS certificates to Let’s Encrypt and I am positively surprised how relatively easy it was.

In the past few years there has been a huge increase of Rogue-like games, especially thanks to the indie scene.

It is that time of the year again – the day we display our affection to our significant other …and the Free Software we like best.

Yesterday I passed my last exam on my alma mater – the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana.

New year usually brings changes.

Inspired by Aurélien Gâteau’s blogpost and the thread on KDE Forums, I decided to change my global KWin short-cuts as well to see how it fares.

The avid reader might recall that since 2011 or so I have been shaving with DE razor blades – that is right, the ones that your granddad might have used – and last year I wrote the reasons why shaving oil and DE blades are the superior method of shaving as

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