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by md8z 5y ago
The problem with XRender (and Cairo) is that it is still inherently an old-school immediate mode API. It's never going to be as performant as a fully parallelized GPU implementation.
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by md8z 5y ago
X forwarding "just works" in Wayland via XWayland. None of that has changed significantly. But I'm disappointed to see this myth keep popping up. X in general isn't "network transparent." Some X11 clients are,
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by md8z 5y ago
"If I understand the OP correctly, this sort of philosophy is deeply troubling to some people. For simplicity-oriented folks, trivial things should be trivial, as a matter of principle." I suspect those people don't matter to
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by md8z 5y ago
I didn't mention that because I think the "website with just some simple HTML and CSS" has moved mostly to Facebook and Medium and things like that. "Small bit of Perl and PHP" has been replaced with Wordpress and S
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by md8z 5y ago
I'm a little confused to be reading comments where people are nostalgic for that. I feel like I always have to remind people that the web was horrible back then. All I remember from that era is that everyone used Myspace, which allowed
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by md8z 5y ago
I don't understand why you're mentioning the US government or policing speech, this article (and my analogy) is about youtube taking a video down. I think you may have misunderstood the analogy.
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by md8z 5y ago
Are you saying that this artist is just playing a character? Maybe in reality they really are a Biden supporter? I guess that wouldn't be surprising.
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by md8z 5y ago
Sure, why not? Would it be suspicious if you and your neighbor both shared the same local doctor and got similar medical advice?
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by md8z 5y ago
And just a few more things. The sections on video drivers, printers, Xorg and Linux kernel I think are mostly correct but I would say you probably want to remove any paragraphs that have no sources, or ones that have low quality sources. Ra
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by md8z 5y ago
"Again, a bloody insult. You carefully choose words to insult the author, are you like that IRL as well?" I'm not insulting the author, that is a statement about the article. If you are suggesting that everything you write ha
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by md8z 5y ago
Anyway I'll get into it. From my perspective from actually working on this, the problem with most of these statements is that none of these things can actually be fixed in Wayland. Wayland is just a really basic protocol for putting bu
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by md8z 5y ago
"_It was you_ who started with "misinformation" even though it was _never_ the author's intent." I am not saying it is your intent, most people who get things wrong are not intending to do so. It still however can b
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by md8z 5y ago
Well there are a number of ways to set up a firewall, I think you can install from a number of them, and it's also trivial to use a raspberry pi for that. Can you mention which packets you're having trouble understanding? I may no
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by md8z 5y ago
I generally try to avoid responding to rants because every time I do that, the author gets angry and starts complaining at me. In my experience, people who rant are just frustrated and blowing off steam, and are not trying to be taken serio
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by md8z 5y ago
The article actually is that wrong because it stems from one faulty piece of information, I tried to mention that. Wayland is not meant to sit at the layer of the stack you're thinking it is. You could be asking for all those features
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by md8z 5y ago
What is missing here is that no other method to collect feedback and product analytics has been proposed. It is impossible to make decisions at a company the size of Microsoft without that type of information. All the larger companies are d
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by md8z 5y ago
Maybe I'll go through it if I have time but there are several other things that are really wrong or misleading in the article, it's a research project in itself to correct all the misinformation there. (A lot of the article is mos
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by md8z 5y ago
It's incredibly hard to write a toolkit in general, I don't think Wayland has much to do with that. Using the X11 APIs to make a toolkit in 2021 is probably a worse idea. GTK and Qt want to improve but AFAIK they're low on st
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by md8z 5y ago
"My point is that the nature of digital technologies is such that information is far more ephemeral and closed off than it's ever been" I don't think I agree with that. For a lot of pre-historical research the only thing
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by md8z 5y ago
"free software ensures users always have access to a software and can modify it if they disagree with the author." IMO this is a really terrible reason to use free software/open source, and not a positive point in its favor.
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by md8z 5y ago
It works for me with GNOME and Firefox 93, your colleague may have to update. Not Google Meet but I did it successfully with Jitsi. But I am referring specifically to the developer experience I had with the API, not the progress of any give
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by md8z 5y ago
"their telemetry (and, more generally, spying) are in a different league from Windows', and (2) users are capable of choosing to use another distro" I just find this to be not convincing, sorry. It doesn't matter that it
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by md8z 5y ago
"You can take your seat capability pointer and wl registry listener and shove it up your a*." Well it's not my API and this is also incredibly rude, please don't say these things to people online. You should not be using
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by md8z 5y ago
I'm using GNOME on Wayland and pressing the "Print Screen" key takes a screenshot so I'm not really sure what you're talking about, it would help if you could clarify. My experience developing screenshot/screen
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by md8z 5y ago
I have done some hacking on Wayland and most of the comments there about Wayland are misleading or wrong. I could go through that list but I don't know if I'm really interested to do that unless the author reads the feedback and c
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by md8z 5y ago
This comment is really confusing to me. If you're trying to build a comprehensive desktop platform then you actually want more and more middleware. That's what entices app developers to the platform when they have a lot of structu
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by md8z 5y ago
X11 is not really a viable solution anymore. The API has some pretty major flaws that there are no plans to fix. Or rather, the plan to fix them has been to ship Wayland as the new API. It should continue to be backwards compatible because
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by md8z 5y ago
I wasn't talking about my perspective or your perspective though, this would be the perspective of the majority of Ubuntu users and Windows users. (Disclosure: I don't use either of them, I use Debian and I don't have popcon
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by md8z 5y ago
I noticed that as well. The entire Wayland section is completely confusing and incomprehensible to me, and also filled with numerous false statements. It's just very poorly researched.
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by md8z 5y ago
It's pretty rude to insult someone by calling them an "attention deficit teenager" regardless of what they're working on. I would recommend against quoting that article.

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