crazyloglad

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by crazyloglad 7mo ago
That is pretty much what we've done, but not in as "narrow" a scope as just Desktop but more as 'everything user facing in computing'. Full breakdown will be covered later this year as 'Arcan As OS Implementati
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by crazyloglad 8mo ago
The entire article is from the browser internals angle. The page-writer one comes when we have tools to compile pages into app and layer in user features. The rough path for that is simpler ones first (Sile typesetter and Pandoc), then more
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by crazyloglad 8mo ago
Et tu, Brute? Posit this. If you want to catch a rare kind of elusive fish that both has in-depth knowledge of a very niche topic and, rarer still, willingness to play for the greater good, how would you approach finding such a swimmer? Fai
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by crazyloglad 8mo ago
see also: the reply to you in the web post. > User comes to an artistic website whose author thinks purple on red is a great color schema. The outer app used as your desktop/browser-UI has two mechanisms at its disposal. The first i
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by crazyloglad 8mo ago
> Author's inspirations are BBS + 'offline first", and together, this produces something like Android Instant Apps. On first visit, your client downloads some remote code, as a signed package. Then the code gets run, and i
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by crazyloglad 8mo ago
clicks web page. clicks videos. sees flashy demos. https://arcan-fe.com/videos/
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by crazyloglad 8mo ago
There's been a closed version of https://arcan-fe.com/2021/04/12/introducing-pipeworld/ that was VR centric as well as wilder 'layouters' to https://arcan-fe.com/2018/
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by crazyloglad 11mo ago
It's still around. Still doing its thing. One developer drafted a backend to ratatui for it, but he's been silent lately. I'm only marginally interested in that angle as its endgame "just" lands in TurboVision but R
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by crazyloglad 5y ago
There was no point in bringing up powershell at the time, its legacy is an entirely different beast from vtXYZ and would invite the next "why isn't hyper.is covered" and "why isn't upterm covered and ..." The f
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by crazyloglad 6y ago
"Good enough for your work" until issues like the one mentioned appears; You plug in a kvm, close the lid or something at the wrong time, come back and see your work gone. You then blame the client, the gpu or hardware, then the t
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by crazyloglad 6y ago
Xorg is better, but not by much. On write-fail they setup an internal buffer ~16k and if that one is saturated it is closed (that + whatever the kernel has). The protocol/packing is not that busy in the server to client direction so it
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by crazyloglad 6y ago
Part of it is that you either go to extreme lengths (like arcan-wayland) or it embeds itself so deep in the code base that it will be hard to get anywhere. If it doesn't get fixed, well, you don't have to be a reliability expert t
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by crazyloglad 6y ago
Need some shuteye (9am 'into the night'), but I think we are running into a similar misunderstanding that I spotted you having in the other Xorg thread. https://github.com/wayland-project/wayland-protocols&#x2
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by crazyloglad 6y ago
The mechanisms in Windows changed for doing some parts of it - as far as I recall it was due to the access controls (UAC) and DRM around the Window Manager (DWM) but it was a while ago, some vendors have figured out parts of working around
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by crazyloglad 6y ago
> I don't know if you've noticed, but "policy over mechanism" has thoroughly won in the desktop space. The dominant desktop is Windows; even macOS has several times the mind/market share that Linux has. Windows e
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by crazyloglad 6y ago
It is a compromise for how Xorg and Wayland can have a shared graphics backend that improves both sides and the part that the Xorg maintainer wants gone can go away. Arcan has had its own fork of Xorg for many years, as well as a Wayland im
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by crazyloglad 6y ago
One protocol for remote casting both single-application and composited desktops with: 1. free (bsd) implementation 2. all the remote use cases of x11, rdp(vnc), ssh (not as a suisse army knife netcat with encryption, the interactive thing
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by crazyloglad 6y ago
part of the latter, since we can wrap arcan, x11 and wayland clients this way, in a world of remote work -- well.
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by crazyloglad 6y ago
Author of the article referenced, not AMA but go ahead -- there is about ~3+ years of research going into this one, excluding the crash recovery bits that is a prerequisite ( https://arcan-fe.com/2017/12/24/cra
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by crazyloglad 6y ago
A few pointers: The first bit is that practically all that is argued in for here, is in Android - and has been so for a long time (~2013 last I worked on the topic in that context) and it is still not enough - they will go (and are going) h
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by crazyloglad 6y ago
thanks for noticing. RiP +Fravia.
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by crazyloglad 7y ago
Some (most) details from recent years are subject to NDAs of various sorts - the rough areas are in some computer vision projects for automated IoT/mobile device testing, runtime "VJ-ing" with watermark injection/removal
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by crazyloglad 7y ago
I get paid to work on Arcan so I don't think factorio would have that big of an impact ;-) The initial choice of Lua for Arcan was based on its use, at the time (2004-2005ish), in World of Warcraft. The UIs that people were hacking tog
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Writing a console replacement using Arcan(arcan-fe.com)
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by crazyloglad 8y ago
It's your weapon now. Use it wisely.
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by crazyloglad 8y ago
Both are supported, but it's not particularly heavy - it's only running at a monotonic clock of 25Hz (decoupled from display updates and deliberately chosen to not be evenly divisible with 60Hz to pinpoint animation issues). Alas,
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by crazyloglad 8y ago
at the very least, they'll have to work -hard- to get it as easy to hack as https://github.com/letoram/durden/blob/master/durden/tools/f... :-)
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by crazyloglad 8y ago
part of the 'flair' tool from: durden.arcan-fe.com
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by crazyloglad 8y ago
you have a tiling++ WM in 3D/VR. https://arcan-fe.com/2018/03/29/safespaces-an-open-source-vr...
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by crazyloglad 8y ago
I agree that the looking glass style 3D is fun and gimicky and hard to see added benefit. At the same time, speaking from personal experience - 3D in VR can give a much stronger sense of overview of many datasources etc. while at the same t

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