gldrk

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by gldrk 9mo ago
Core fonts absolutely support Unicode. My (non-Xft) xterm windows are full of Unicode characters right now. It is true that anti-aliasing is not supported by the X.Org server, although scalable fonts have been for a while ( https:/&#
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by gldrk 9mo ago
It talks about trimming 'legacy' features and specifically says they are omitting 'font-related' operations. That obviously means no useful core X11 application will work (unless you count xlogo and xeyes). Whether the
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by gldrk 9mo ago
The meaning of 'X server' has been well-established for 30+ years.
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by gldrk 9mo ago
If you are not going to implement X11 drawing ops and XRender (which I, and many others, still use heavily), what's even the point? Any 'modern' program that only does client-side rendering already supports Wayland. AFAIK G
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by gldrk 9mo ago
Definiteness has no obvious equivalent in Russian.
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by gldrk 9mo ago
>If an English word looks similar to a Russian word, then the stress is likely on a _different_ syllable Most of these are Latin and French loanwords where Russian (same as e.g. German) carried the accentuation over from the source langu
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by gldrk 9mo ago
>the only way to "fix" the birth rate is to reject humanity (education, urbanization, technology) and retvrn to monke (subsistence farming, arranged marriages, illiteracy, superstition), which no civilized country will ever do.
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by gldrk 9mo ago
I’m actually happy about DRAM prices and hope more people share your mindset. This is the only thing that can force developers to start optimizing memory usage instead of externalizing the costs onto the poorest users.
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by gldrk 9mo ago
It's absolutely possible to be mistaken about this. The placebo effect is very strong. I'm sure there are countless things in my own workflow that feel like a huge boon to me while being a wash at best in reality. The classic
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by gldrk 9mo ago
'It's $CURRENTYEAR' is just a cheap FOMO tactic. We've been hearing these anectodes for multiple current years now. Where is this less buggy software? Does it just happen to never reach users?
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by gldrk 9mo ago
I am surprised. Does that imply most GNU/Linux users go out of their way to install Chromium actually? Ubuntu and Firefox have a similar market share.
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by gldrk 9mo ago
The anti-AI ‘movement’ is a minority like all partisans are a minority. You shouldn’t be comparing them to passive consumers but to enthusiasts who actively demand ‘AI’ in their browser/Paint/Notepad.
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by gldrk 9mo ago
It’s easy to bash Mozilla because it is failing. Their usage share is a statistical error, and most of it comes from being shipped with Ubuntu. Firefox badly needs a value proposition beyond not being Chromium-based.
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by gldrk 9mo ago
Those are garbage-collected environments. I have some experience with a garbage-collected 'assembly' (.NET CIL). It is a delight to read and write compared to most C code.
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by gldrk 9mo ago
High-level languages were absolutely indispensable at a time when every hardware vendor had its own bespoke instruction set. If you only ever target one platform, you might as well do it in assembly, it's just unfashionable. I don&#x2
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by gldrk 9mo ago
My evidence is the git commit log: https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/84460945/#q84481507 This doesn’t even include the XFree86 CVS commit history and older, which accounts for most of the code in X.org. Some
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by gldrk 9mo ago
It's part of XInput 2.0 and works as well as it ever did with upstream X.org. The more popular approach to multiseating these days involves logind, udev and two video cards (or drm-lease-manager). Then the two display servers are com
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by gldrk 9mo ago
How come 90% of his comments are dead then? This one was too until I vouched for it.
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by gldrk 9mo ago
Are you aware you are shadowbanned?
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by gldrk 9mo ago
If you decide to move your blog to another platform, are you going to maintain API compatibility?
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by gldrk 9mo ago
>In practice, you had to pay for everything. As a private individual, you didn't actually have to pay for anything once you got an Internet connection. Most countries never even tried enforcing copyright laws against small fish.
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by gldrk 9mo ago
Given how heavily most C programs lean on type erasure vs. monomorphization and how often they reimplement basic data structures, it's kind of a miracle they hold up against Rust/C++.
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by gldrk 9mo ago
>This uses a static variable to have it persist between both the compare function calls that qsort makes and the main call which (potentially) changes its value to be 1 instead of 0 The only misleading thing here is that ‘static’ is mono
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by gldrk 9mo ago
>How did people even come to this bizarre conclusion? The first reason is that it is true. All of the best evidence suggests a minor male advantage on g and a major advantage in more specific abilities, such as mental rotation. See
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by gldrk 9mo ago
You can pre-share the certificate out of band, or set up your browser to TOFU like SSH does. Then they are not useless and may be superior to PKI for certain threat models.
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by gldrk 9mo ago
PKI is basically powerless against nation states executing a targeted MITM attack. It does prevent them from passively snooping everything.
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by gldrk 9mo ago
This is very impressive as an art project, but terrible as an actual home page. It’s slow as molasses and difficult to navigate. Microsoft Bob failed for a reason.
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by gldrk 9mo ago
Postel’s law allows a degree of forward compatibility. This was important before continuous software updates were practical. User-facing code is the best place to apply it: I want my text editor to highlight invalid source code on a best
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by gldrk 9mo ago
>You can make your HTML as malformed as you like and the web-browser will do its best to display the page for you. I love the todepond website, but the source-code makes me break out in a cold sweat. Yet it renders just fine. It renders
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by gldrk 9mo ago
This pre-packaged talking point is often repeated without evidence. The vast majority of X.org developers, including all of the original ones, simply moved to other venues at one point or another. Only a few, like Daniel Stone, have made

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