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Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Backs KDE with €1.3M

https://www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05/14/kde-bags-13m-as-europe-realizes-it-might-need-an-os-of-its-own/5240562
93•Lihh27•1h ago

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pjmlp•1h ago
Now this is interesting, because moving away from foreign cloud vendors hardly helps if everything else stays the same.

Maybe some Jolla sponsoring as well?

joe_mamba•1h ago
Let's fucking gooo!

KDE has been the most used DE in the Arch space since 2019 and kept growing, totally deserved BTW.

https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/fun/Desktop%20Environments/his...

eigenspace•1h ago
Its really cool seeing KDE make so much progress, and mature into such a big, robust umbrella organization that helps so many smaller open source projects. They're a real jewel of the Open Souce ecosystem.

Germany gets a lot of shit for things they do poorly, but should be proud of both KDE, and the Sovereign Tech Fund.

I also think it's worth reflecting on just how much stuff KDE gets done with so little money. I dropped them 50€ yesterday, and would encourage people to do the same: https://kde.org/community/donations/previousdonations/

shevy-java•17m ago
Funding is nice, though ... why so much into KDE? Not other projects?

I think KDE was better in the past. With its "wayland-only" future it will leave behind several linux users.

> I also think it's worth reflecting on just how much stuff KDE gets done with so little money. I dropped them 50€ yesterday, and would encourage people to do the same

So the donation daemon worked. Though, if they now have so much money, why would you recommend more money to KDE and not other projects? Why not xserver https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver or gtk2-ng https://git.devuan.org/Daemonratte/gtk2-ng? Granted, these have fewer users, but there should be more diversity among those receiving funding.

I also donate a small part of my monthly income, but I don't feel a need to say where to or nudge others to do the same. It would not make any difference to me personally if Joe donates to abc or xyz.

jl6•1h ago
> The names Sécurix and Bureautix are nods to the famous indomitable Gauls Astérix and Obélix

Incoming retcon of Unix…

cyanydeez•50m ago
So, it's nice to see governments realizing the software is a public good and likely needs to be treated as such, including, inevitably, as a utility. Open source is a seemingly ideal foundation for a democracy to adopt. Commercial, private code, then is the other side of the fence and needs to be tightly controlled and regulated the same way Russia, China, North Korea, etc are seen in political spheres.
cenobyte•41m ago
So they have money to throw away? because there is no path to profit....
eigenspace•33m ago
KDE is a common good. This is like saying there's no path to profit for building roads or sewers. It's an enabler of profit and development.
Apocryphon•29m ago
Digital infra...
shevy-java•22m ago
Will Nate finally abandon his donate-now daemon or not?

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https://arkadiyt.com/2026/05/13/removing-the-modem-and-gps-from-my-rav4/
370•arkadiyt•3h ago•180 comments

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383•allenleee•5h ago•102 comments

First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5

https://blog.calif.io/p/first-public-kernel-memory-corruption
91•quadrige•2h ago•12 comments

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198•hetsaraiya•3h ago•47 comments

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https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/power-free-popsicle
41•NaOH•2h ago•10 comments

HDD Firmware Hacking

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77•jsploit•4h ago•6 comments

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48•danieltanfh95•2h ago•27 comments

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530•dmayo•6h ago•566 comments

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160•rbanffy•8h ago•50 comments

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50•e-topy•2d ago•94 comments

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Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30412
371•Chaoses•12h ago•423 comments

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56•bookofjoe•5h ago•20 comments

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Leaving the Physical World

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