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by sprash 6mo ago
It was/is mostly the same practice except for the cases where it really counts. Window managers in general, xdotool, all kinds of input mapping and automation or the fact that you can write a screenshot tool in less than 500 LOC are
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by sprash 6mo ago
It means that Wayland is the worst and most idiotic graphics API ever conceived. Talking to Wayland's "asynchronous object oriented protocol" directly is a fucking disaster [1]. Secondary and partly duplicated infrastructure
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by sprash 6mo ago
Yes but the Nvidia NV-1 preceding the Vooodoo was much more impressive. Using NURBS you could display perfectly round objects. Also it had forward texture mapping which significantly improves cache utilization and would be beneficial even t
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by sprash 6mo ago
The original rc-style sysvinit scripts of arch were neither brittle nor buggy. Everything could be configured with "rc.conf" and writing own services was dead simple. All of this was possible with many orders of magnitudes of less
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by sprash 6mo ago
Example: Windows can only be resized when the client finished drawing the new resized window. Otherwise you would get "visual artifacts". So typical operations dealing with window management can not be async when the insistence on
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by sprash 6mo ago
This also means low-performing clients can make the whole Desktop stutter/freeze and it is one of the many reasons the Wayland architecture is beyond idiotic. High responsiveness is obviously far more important than avoiding the occasi
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by sprash 7mo ago
> Why? CLI applications typically read text from stdin and write text to stdout. The tcl model of "everything is a string" makes exactly the right abstraction to create GUI frontends for CLI applications rapidly and keep them s
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by sprash 7mo ago
Tcl/Tk to this day is the best tool to make GUI frontends for CLI applications. Besides that, in the past I used it in production for intranet database entry applications. It has since been replaced by Flask. In my opinion the higher c
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by sprash 7mo ago
It is obviously not dead but it should be dead: Almost all of the technical and economic progress made in the last century was achieved with macroscopic quantum effects. Particle physics spends a lot of energy and material resources to meas
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by sprash 8mo ago
Playing around with 68k assembly is actually much more fun. These days all the logic is absolutely dwarfed by caches in terms of chip area. This means using RISC does not really make as much sense today as it did in the 80s. That's why
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by sprash 9mo ago
It is already possible today. There are access control hooks provided via XACE. Nobody uses them because the attack scenario is basically non-existent. If you run untrusted malicious apps having full access to your home directory you have b
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by sprash 9mo ago
All the major arguments in that decades old talk are invalidated with the introduction of DRI3.
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by sprash 9mo ago
So far so good. The feature set is bit random though. Things i personally miss is function overloading, default values in parameters and tuple returns.
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by sprash 9mo ago
> And not individuals who work at Microsoft does not count. How in the world does this not count? People act in the interest of those who pay the bills.
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by sprash 9mo ago
It is irrelevant who invented Rust. The relevant fact is that it can be used as a tool to divide the community because of its very opinionated design. Systemd was equally opinionated and also caused huge division. Who is paying the bills of
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by sprash 9mo ago
It's not dead. It's being murdered. Microsoft, Apple, Gnome and KDE are making the experience worse with each update. Productive work becomes a chore. And the last thing we need is more experiments. We need more performance, respo
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by sprash 9mo ago
Unpopular take: Windows 95 was the peak of Desktop UX. GUI elements were easily distinguishable from content and there was 100% consistency down to the last little detail (e.g. right click always gave you a meaningful context menu). The inn
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by sprash 10mo ago
The current main contributor is 100% corporate sponsored mostly through fronts like Igalia.
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by sprash 10mo ago
The only real Wayland community effort is Hyprland. The author of that has been banned from contributing to Wayland by the corporate sponsors of Wayland. Hence there is no community. Also the whole "there is no Wayland" "it&#
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by sprash 10mo ago
Desktop Linux needs standardized and stable infrastructure. X11 delivers on that perfectly. Wayland despite receiving huge amounts funding has actually far more moving pieces. Even for the simplest tasks you have to deal with a dbus infeste
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by sprash 10mo ago
Always the same lies. People "stepped up" in the and as a result were outright banned from the gitlab (instead of e.g. just rejecting pull requests). Current maintainers refuse to do any release management and instead treat every
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by sprash 10mo ago
There is no X11 bitrot. Just a lack of funding. If funding for Wayland stopped today, Wayland would die much quicker than X11 because there is essentially zero community involvement whereas for X11 there are enough people that care to keep
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by sprash 10mo ago
This is pretty low level access. The phone you are going to pair it with and is providing network access is definitely more closed than this.
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by sprash 10mo ago
> complete walled garden Not really. You can build your own apps [1]. 1.: https://github.com/even-realities/EvenDemoApp
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by sprash 10mo ago
A full terminal emulator including firmware and 8080 emulation but with small trivial GL shaders that can be disabled exists here: https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/terminal-simulator
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by sprash 11mo ago
The long term play is to drive out community participation and bring in corporate control in the apt/Debian ecosystem.
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by sprash 11mo ago
This was true before they switched to systemd. Now the pstree and mounts are as polluted with noise as any other distro.
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by sprash 1y ago
This rare 22-segment display is the most interesting I've seen so far. It can display the full 7-bit ASCII range including special characters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2cyZoCat_U
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by sprash 1y ago
> I think MGR has the greatest potential for a comeback because of its unique architecture I think so too. But this time with modern drawing primitives. Instead of lines an circles we need shaders and textures. In the end, even the most
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by sprash 1y ago
If you use Cairo on X11 rendering automatically happens with the XRender extension. This is a rather efficient wire protocol that supports sub-pixel coordinates, transparency, gradients and more. No off-screen rendering required. (Some of t

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