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by jchw 2mo ago
Now let's re-evaluate that based on how much it costs in both R&D and at runtime. This new technology has a lot of work to do to justify itself.
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by jchw 2mo ago
Usually the way to be able to even get the login screen is to use DRM/KMS based capture and use uinput for device emulation. It doesn't strictly need root but it does need privileges a user wouldn't have, like access to the D
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by jchw 2mo ago
YouTube does something that makes me irate: it saves the abusive autoplay settings only locally per device. There is no way to set it in your account, so every time I log back in I have to disable autoplaying thumbnails and autoplay next
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by jchw 2mo ago
I'd recommend using Libredirect if you're on a Firefox-based mobile browser. It can configure redirects to alternate "frontends" that will serve you much more agreeable HTML (though because we live in hell, it will usual
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by jchw 2mo ago
Should load much slower. Also, where is the unrelated autoplaying video that will unmute if you actually click it, that follows your scrolling and only becomes smaller when you dismiss it? Plus, it should probably have text that cuts off le
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by jchw 2mo ago
https://aloutfi.com/writing/load-bearing-smoking-gun I still pretty much stand by what I said; if my comments are ringing alarm bells then you're not really picking up on the right signals.
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by jchw 2mo ago
Well for one thing I also trust most people I respect to not suddenly have someone else speaking on their behalf in their voice with no disclosure in most contexts where it would not be normal, yet that seems to have happened here. So while
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by jchw 2mo ago
This blows my mind just as badly and I see it reasonably often: I talk nothing like any AI model that has ever been, it isn't even close . I'm going to be bold and say that even without checking, more analytical approaches li
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by jchw 2mo ago
> Like, who cares? You are literally asking this to people who clearly care... > In today's present, I wouldn't bother writing the article myself neither besides giving the instructions and auditing the output. Then why exac
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by jchw 2mo ago
"What if you're wrong?" I'd just like to address this real quick because some people seem to think this is just a "hunch" that has some probability of being false; there is absolutely nothing more certain on pl
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by jchw 2mo ago
Nah, it's not just that, literally all the stuff they've posted this year is obvious LLM writing, none of the stuff from previous years is. To get this close to LLM writing style without actually using an LLM, you would pretty m
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by jchw 2mo ago
Based on Hacker News, other parts of the internet and even some job experience, I've come to the realization that many people legitimately have no idea that their pants are down and everything is on full display. If you thought you cou
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by jchw 2mo ago
Don't worry. A flood of half-assed excuses for genuinely bad, annoying prose is being dispatched to your comment now. The internet is becoming a joke.
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by jchw 2mo ago
I don't think I'll be buying recent model years any time soon.
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by jchw 2mo ago
I'm going to be frank; there is literally no point in replying to me only to not read what I said again. I am running into KDE/GNOME/etc. limitations, not logind. And I both can and have submitted patches to both projects
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by jchw 2mo ago
No, although this was true until around 2019 when Linux introduced io_uring and finally had a genuine innovation. io_uring wound up giving us a unified asynchronous I/O layer that handles just tons of things. (And it is genuinely a ste
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by jchw 2mo ago
I personally use a systemd-based distro (NixOS) and logind is able to handle this use case. The point of trying to support libseat was for the sake of non-systemd distros. (Though elogind would probably work too.) I certainly wouldn't
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by jchw 2mo ago
> That's systemd limitations. It's kind of the opposite, systemd-logind provides better seat management than without. I attempted to implement the same concept using libseat and seatd unsuccessfully though I do not remember exa
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by jchw 2mo ago
The kernel definitely doesn't, although the VT layer kind of sucks and probably should've never been used to multiplex graphical sessions. (I mean, I get why it was, but oh well.) I was talking about this: https://new
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by jchw 2mo ago
To be fair, I think that was the entire challenge in the first place: the contemporary microcomputers were relatively limited on what they could do, so you couldn't necessarily afford to just do everything mainframes were doing. More i
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by jchw 2mo ago
A bit ago I accidentally bought a Keychron keyboard that didn't have QMK support, but then found that someone had ported it anyway, and I was able to flash it and fix some problems I had (the main one being that it seems like the defau
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by jchw 2mo ago
Joking aside I pretty much agree with this. Windows NT Object handles work pretty well. I assume they are pointers of some kind under the hood, but either way a machine word is probably large enough as it seems unlikely you would ever need
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by jchw 2mo ago
fds should have been IPv6 addresses. I will not elaborate on why or how.
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by jchw 2mo ago
Windows NT had many things decades before Linux, I've gotten used to it. There are things Windows has that I still sort of wish Linux had, I mentioned one of them just last night (RDP fast user switching/session roaming.) If we&#x
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by jchw 2mo ago
I have two complaints about sockets: 1, bidirectional sockets probably should've been ≥2 fd's, not 1. 2, non-blocking semantics and poll/select suck. Can't blame anyone in 1983 for not getting "async I/O"
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by jchw 2mo ago
Given that a lot of the use case is interacting with two different programs simultaneously, even just supporting it at the compositor level is pretty valuable: then it should "just work" for that use case. You can't really do
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by jchw 2mo ago
On the note of the two different kinds of seats, a tangent: better multi physical seat support is something I am passionate about, specifically, I want Windows-style "Fast User Switching" on Linux with RDP. Today's Linux RD
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by jchw 2mo ago
I swear to God there are articles on news sites (glorified blogs, but you know) that are along the lines of "people on twitter are saying this" and then if you actually look there is literally one (or perhaps two if you're
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by jchw 2mo ago
People often don't bother chosing less bad options when they don't feel like they like either option very much, they instead choose the path of least resistance. It's one thing to put up with Firefox lagging behind when you
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by jchw 2mo ago
> But what does "having principles" translate to? Focusing on the EME issue, how many people are going to be like "humpf, firefox added EME so I'm going to use chrome instead!"? Is that small slice of the user ba

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