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So where’s actually the correct place to send a feature request to #KDE Plasma Addons?
Its GitLab readme says that I should “report bugs and feature requests in KDE's bugtracker under the plasmashell category”, but that requires me to choose a Component and there’s no “Plasma Addons” component or anything like that.
The bugs.kde page also says that I should, if I’m “not sure this is actually a bug, instead post about it at https://discuss.kde.org”.
So if each place tells me to post it somewhere different, where should I post it?

Optimization techniques for SQL ML queries: A performance analysis of real-time feature computation in OpenMLDB
Mashkhal A. Sidiq, Aras A. Salih, Samrand M. Hassan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15529

Optimization techniques for SQL+ML queries: A performance analysis of real-time feature computation in OpenMLDB
In this study, we optimize SQL+ML queries on top of OpenMLDB, an open-source database that seamlessly integrates offline and online feature computations. The work used feature-rich synthetic dataset experiments in Docker, which acted like production environments that processed 100 to 500 records per batch and 6 to 12 requests per batch in parallel. Efforts have been concentrated in the areas of better query plans, cached execution plans, parallel processing, and resource management. The experim…

The Declarative configuration journey: Why it took 5 years to ignore health check endpoints in tracing
#OpenTelemetry

🌐 Network and console error diagnosis - analyze network requests for #CORS issues and inspect console logs to understand feature failures
🎯 User behavior simulation - navigate pages, fill forms, click buttons to reproduce bugs and test complex user flows while inspecting runtime environment
🎨 Live styling and layout debugging - connect to live pages, inspect

Google unveils Private AI Compute, a cloud platform providing a "secure, fortified space" to run AI tools on devices, similar to Apple's Private Cloud Compute (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/818364/google-private-ai-compute

Google is introducing its own version of Apple’s private AI cloud compute
Google is rolling out Private AI Compute to use the cloud for AI requests while keeping on-device levels of privacy, a similar feature to Apple. 

The last few days, #Slack, which I only use via a browser, keeps asking for video and audio permission, even though I'm not joining a call or using their audio feature.
Is slack trying to steal my #data and I'm only noticing because I monitor and track all such requests due to

@… one for the feature-requests: I'd love to see a 'jump to' hotkey with fuzzy-search, ala ⌘P in VScode / Notion, ⌘K in Discord / Beeper / Spotify / Slack,
Pictured: (annoyingly) ⌘F in my beloved @…; one of the slicker/simp…

Request a Note: How the Request Function Shapes X's Community Notes System
Yuwei Chuai, Shuning Zhang, Ziming Wang, Xin Yi, Mohsen Mosleh, Gabriele Lenzini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09956

Request a Note: How the Request Function Shapes X's Community Notes System
X's Community Notes is a crowdsourced fact-checking system. To improve its scalability, X recently introduced "Request Community Note" feature, enabling users to solicit fact-checks from contributors on specific posts. Yet, its implications for the system -- what gets checked, by whom, and with what quality -- remain unclear. Using 98,685 requested posts and their associated notes, we evaluate how requests shape the Community Notes system. We find that contributors prioritize posts with higher …