ddevault

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by ddevault 6y ago
There is no such thing as good C++ code.
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by ddevault 6y ago
The commons are full of propeganda and misinformation at the hands of your policies to "protect" them. Your guidelines are not holy writ, and are unfit for this task.
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by ddevault 6y ago
> we've been pleading with you for years already not to do it. The same years during which you've done nothing to prevent the spread of seditious misinformation on Hacker News. If you were better moderators I might take your gu
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by ddevault 6y ago
"there's this Linux feature that's incredibly slow on x86-64" This isn't the appropriate comparison. What they said is "x86-64 is incredibly slow", and then when you teased them for details, what they mean
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by ddevault 6y ago
Another obsolete "fact" about Wayland which hasn't been true since 2015. Which is all the anti-Wayland propegandists seem to be able to come up with. This was addressed by the linux-dmabuf protocol extension (which also works
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by ddevault 6y ago
So what? What percentage of Wayland desktops are on Linux? Do comments on Wayland generalize to comments on Linux? What percentage of Linux installations are on x86_64? Do comments about Linux generalize to x86_64? No, obviously they don&#x
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by ddevault 6y ago
Yes, they're optional, and no, they're not universally adopted, but this doesn't damn Wayland . An example of where the screenshot protocol isn't supported (and this is fine) is where Wayland is used as the driver for t
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by ddevault 6y ago
I have not said that Wayland is above criticism. I have said that the criticism which has been raised thus far is largely invalid, and that the benchmark you pointed to is flawed. If you insist on using flawed benchmarks as evidence for the
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by ddevault 6y ago
That's not really how Wayland extensions work. If I can reword your question as "are these protocols legitimate and standardized" the answer is "yes".
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by ddevault 6y ago
Obviously? The disconnect is that you seem to think that we can draw conclusions from nonexistent benchmarks.
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by ddevault 6y ago
It's not a fair comparison. You're benchmarking GNOME, not Wayland, and making generalizations about Wayland based on GNOME benchmarks is a false equivalency. Is GNOME on Wayland worse than GNOME on X11? Perhaps. Is Wayland worse
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by ddevault 6y ago
Wayland has nothing to do with GLES, and some compositors support pixman-based rendering similar to Xorg on embedded devices.
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by ddevault 6y ago
It's not a particularly arduous "adventure". We maintain a list[0] of programs which use these protocols. And wlroots != tiling window manager: there are multiple wlroots-based compositors which do not use the tiling paradigm
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by ddevault 6y ago
I am not aware of any up-to-date benchmarks which make a fair comparison (i.e. not just benchmarking GNOME), but I am intimately familiar with the technology and its performance characteristics.
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by ddevault 6y ago
I don't know what you mean by plugins. They're protocols, they have first-class support. X11 also uses protocols to implement these features.
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by ddevault 6y ago
GNOME is not a good representative of Wayland. Wayland is just a protocol - it's up to the compositors to have good performance to distinguish it from Xorg, and GNOME does not do well in this regard. Other compositors, particularly wlr
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by ddevault 6y ago
>Why limit yourself when you don't have to? Cost, power consumption, reliability, performance, security, weight, and volume, to name just a few. I really dislike the attitude that we should use the biggest hammer we can find for any
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by ddevault 6y ago
As far as I can tell, it rates a 4 on Mohs scale, i.e. "one big lie" - the idea that the speed of light varies with the distance from the center of the galaxy.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Funny, my experience was the exact opposite. I enjoyed A Fire Upon the Deep and I didn't even finish Deepness .
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by ddevault 6y ago
Gemini clients can, and do, take typography seriously. They don't let you do type setting . And in either case - the web is famously bad at this, compared to, say, TeX. You always work within your limitations, no matter what the platf
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by ddevault 6y ago
Then use a client which makes things look like that! You can specify annotate your code snippets in the Gemtext markup format, you know, just encourage people to put "lang:C" or "lang:Go" there and write a client which a
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by ddevault 6y ago
I am working on a gradual migration, personally. My blog is now dual HTTP/Gemini and I've started writing some Gemini-exclusive posts. There are a number of blockers, but I would ultimately like to also make SourceHut available ov
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by ddevault 6y ago
Gemini clients could easily add support for images: if a URL ends in .png et al, fetch it and if the mimetype is image/* then just stick it in the page. Tada! Some clients already do this.
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by ddevault 6y ago
For the record, I also have expressed plenty of choice words for both Google and Chrome, too. I think the whole web is garbage and I'm prepared to throw it out. That's the point I'm getting at here. I don't see Mozilla a
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by ddevault 6y ago
If you start with the web but less, you're never going to shake the web. You're still fundamentally buying into the same ecosystem. I don't want to be a subset of a broader ecosystem which I hate. I want a new ecosystem.
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by ddevault 6y ago
>startups create Gemini clients with a lot of new features starting to turn impossible for new implementations I don't think this is going to happen. We're pushing very hard for a culture which embraces the limitations of the p
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by ddevault 6y ago
>all feature inline code samples Supported >complete with the colours I don't want your colors in my terminal. Gemini is a user-agent , and this time we actually mean it. It's not a developer-agent or vendor-agent. You pr
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by ddevault 6y ago
The solution to this is not to use target="_blank" - it's not making the origin page non-cachable, take a long time to load, or require client-side state.
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by ddevault 6y ago
It is hosted on Gemini: gemini://drewdevault.com/2020/10/22/Firefox-the-embarassment-of-FOSS.gmi It's posted on the web as well because users of the web is its intended audience.
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by ddevault 6y ago
It won't completely replace the web, but I hope that it's a viable replacement for a subset of the web worth preserving. The rest of the web is either (1) best served some other way or (2) not worth keeping.

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