Encounter

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by Encounter 7mo ago
From https://asahilinux.org/about/ > Apple allows booting unsigned/custom kernels on Apple Silicon Macs without a jailbreak! This isn’t a hack or an omission, but an actual feature that Apple built into these d
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by Encounter 8mo ago
Yes, it installs into a separate partition and you choose whether to boot into macOS or Linux.
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by Encounter 2y ago
It seems to be in the works: https://www.reuters.com/world/white-house-seeks-plan-possibl...
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by Encounter 2y ago
WebGPU has a (mostly) standardized C API: https://github.com/webgpu-native/webgpu-headers
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by Encounter 2y ago
As someone with diagnosed & medicated ADHD, it genuinely, truly affects my every day life. After medication, I remember thinking “oh, this is how normal people’s brains work”. I’ve been playing most of my life on hard mode. I won’t deba
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by Encounter 3y ago
https://archive.ph/LcR02
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by Encounter 3y ago
Yes, actually: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevdev/udev-hid-bpf/
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by Encounter 5y ago
Think about how much worse PDF exploits would be if they did!
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by Encounter 5y ago
I've seen plenty of projects that use MoltenVK as a drop-in backend for macOS. It seems complete enough for general use, but I haven't used it directly so I'm not sure what's missing.
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by Encounter 5y ago
OpenGL still works on the M1 (Apple designed their own GL-over-Metal driver), albeit with the OpenGL version limitations from modern macOS in general. Vulkan works over MoltenVK. Other than old games, I'm not sure why 64-bit only is an
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by Encounter 5y ago
Well you can use Vulkan over Metal with MoltenVK, so that point is a bit moot. Opinion time: WebGPU will become the standard graphics API to target for cross-platform. gfx-rs/wgpu already works over Vulkan/Metal/D3D12/D3
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by Encounter 5y ago
Metal is by far a much friendlier API than Vulkan. Its approach with opt-in complexity is arguably the correct one. (Ever tried writing a Vulkan "Hello triangle" from scratch?) It's also gaining some nice features that are us
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Wgpu Alliance with Deno(gfx-rs.github.io)
4 points by Encounter 5y ago|0 comments
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by Encounter 7y ago
You're still at the mercy of Apple giving you a valid (and revokable) app development certificate. Apps installed with a development certificate expire after a certain number of days. There's also a limit to the number of devices
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by Encounter 9y ago
Or if the site was usable on mobile.
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by Encounter 9y ago
One where we still need to work to live.
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by Encounter 9y ago
uBlock Origin seems to bypass the quote page.
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by Encounter 9y ago
Why do you use a year old version of Chrome? You're just exposing yourself to dozens of public vulnerabilities.
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by Encounter 10y ago
Huh, they do a good job of making it look official. (Definitely more so than mediacccde.) I'll have to link from media.ccc.de from now on.