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by nialv7 4y ago
Really? What about extension manifest v3? The axing of jpeg XL?
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by nialv7 4y ago
It's odd that the author states they wrote the article in response to arguments on Twitter, yet they didn't show us the arguments this was a response to.
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by nialv7 4y ago
This is basically what's described in Calculating God.
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by nialv7 4y ago
If you are going to waste people's CPU time anyway, might just as well mine some bitcoins with it I guess? Using users' browsers to mine bitcoins is doing almost exactly the same thing as this.
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by nialv7 5y ago
I wonder if things are too centralized nowadays - you are either on Twitter or not on Twitter. Whereas in the case of a BBS or IRC, you could be ban from one board/channel/server but not another, so everyone can have their own sta
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by nialv7 5y ago
> Whereas if you start with the popular platform and progressively remove moderation, you end up with different effects, because you still have the core, non-bad-actor population. Pretty sure that will just let bad actors back in and dri
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by nialv7 5y ago
sometimes it's because the software existed before the conventions. Such is the case for Xorg.
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by nialv7 5y ago
Mozilla laid off most of the MDN team in 2020 [1], then shifted the responsibility of updating MDN from Mozilla to the community [2], then created the Open Web Docs organization to take over the job of funding MDN [3]. And _now_ they come a
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by nialv7 5y ago
Not answering your questions but I am so glad this "controversy" exists. I've learned so much more about this topic from all these response videos than I could have if there was no controversy.
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by nialv7 5y ago
The most recent NVIDIA driver released has GBM support: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-4...
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by nialv7 6y ago
I have to ask: were they not properly reviewed when they were first merged? Also to assume _all_ commits made by UMN, beyond what's been disclosed in the paper, are malicious feels a bit like an overreaction.
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by nialv7 6y ago
> which makes the protocol use a lot of bandwidth. not true in most of the use cases. ownership of bitmaps are transfered, no actual pixels are being copied.
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by nialv7 6y ago
> ... over improving x11 They have literally been improving X11 for several decades.
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by nialv7 6y ago
> A unified way to change applications settings. This is not true anymore even on X. Also, if you use GNOME or KDE, both of them has unified settings > because the X server takes care of most of the stuff. ... , unless using a big lib
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by nialv7 6y ago
I want to argue for the use of "Authorization". What you pass in the "Authorization" header is an user identity, which is established through authentication. And the server uses this identity to decide if you are authori
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by nialv7 6y ago
I don't understand. The impression I got from this thread is that the sentiment towards Scrum is mostly negative. So why is Scrum so prominent in the software industry today? My guess it that, although bad, Scrum is not bad enough to a
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by nialv7 6y ago
> Scrum was created by one of the creators of the agile manifesto I can't wrap my head around this. The first item of the agile manifesto literally says: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
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by nialv7 6y ago
> The irony is that one could still have predictability and metrics without Scrum I like to think that it would take a technically competent manager to understand the progress and performance of the developers. OTOH, with Scrum, you can
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by nialv7 6y ago
pipewire already works surprisingly well. Even bluetooth source and sink works. Only problems I had so far are: * sometimes bluetooth devices would connect but not output audio, have to restart pipewire. * sometimes pipewire gets confusing
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by nialv7 6y ago
> The devices require a wi-fi connected hub, not too strange for things that use Zigbee Wait, why would Zigbee devices require Wi-Fi connection? That would be a red flag for me, I would have avoided products like this.
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by nialv7 6y ago
> I once had "systemctl restart unbound" reset my volume That's fascinating, do you have more information on this particular bug?
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by nialv7 6y ago
Do you have something that backs up your belief?
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by nialv7 6y ago
Notice I didn't say async code is easier to reason about.
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by nialv7 6y ago
No, multithreaded synchronous code is not easier to reason about than async. I think most would agree.
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by nialv7 6y ago
I don't quite understand why one would find async code hard to read. Basically if you just ignore the async/await keyword, the code should read mostly the same as synchronous code (which is the point of the async/await effort
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by nialv7 6y ago
No offence, but parsing (in a compiler, not in general) is probably the most boring part of a compiler. As this is a PhD course, I'd expect the goal of it to be preparing students for research in the field, not writing parsers for some
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by nialv7 6y ago
I think you are both right. This is good for the future of MDN, but OTOH cutting cost is likely to be what motivated Mozilla to make this change.
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by nialv7 6y ago
Do you try to get them into the official wayland protocols? (if there is such a thing.)
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by nialv7 6y ago
That doesn't answer the question.
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by nialv7 6y ago
> massive fragmentation issues across the graphical part of the Linux ecosystem This is a fair criticism. It is true that we see each of the compositors rolling its own extensions to the protocol. But I believe wayland is trying to stand

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