amazari

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Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time(khronos.org)
274 points by amazari 7mo ago|193 comments
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by amazari 7mo ago
It is LibreOffice at its heart, but wrapped with a web-techs UI, AFAIK.
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by amazari 8mo ago
You know that all the Wayland primitives, event handling and drawing in gnome-shell are handled in C/native code through Mutter, right ? The JavaScript in gnome-shell is the cherry on top for scripting, similar to C#/Lua (or any G
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by amazari 8mo ago
Came here to note that contrary to what is said here, Lollypop is not "new", nor is it representative of current so-called "GNOME-isms". It uses UI idioms and technologies (gtk 3) of its mileage, 2017.
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by amazari 10mo ago
Indeed, their work on WebKit, Servo, Mesa drivers, the kernel, and more is seriously impressive! Their customers, Valve, in this case, deserve credit for being good FLOSS citizens (even if they are building a DRM walled garden on top of it
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by amazari 11mo ago
So this is AMD catching up with Nvidia in the RT and AI upscaling/frame gen fields. Nothing wrong with it, and I am quite happy as an AMD GPU owner and Linux user. But the way it is framed as a revolutionary step and as a Sony collab i
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by amazari 11y ago
Well, at least xdg-app has the concept of "runtimes" shared among applications. If a lib/bin in a runtime has a security issued, the whole runtime might be updated. Transparently for the apps running over it. A runtime might
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by amazari 13y ago
> No, it's not. The serverside is implemented in Scala using a JGit as a GIT library for the files and H2 database for saving the metadata. From a quick scan of the sources, H2 seems to be an hard-coded dependency. Do you have any p
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by amazari 13y ago
I guess the major advantage of this solution over github is its source availability under a FOSS license (Apache). The story's title might indeed be more informative by stating that instead of focusing on the implementation language.