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961.
by shmerl 3y ago
Copyright maximalists managed to circumvent the law by inventing a generic "law" that allows them to ban legal things. I.e. DMCA 1201. As long as they claim it's "circumventing protection measures" they can claim it
962.
by shmerl 3y ago
Willing servants of their censorship overlords.
963.
by shmerl 3y ago
It's say it's all already skewed in favor of DRM proponents and all for bad reasons. So any movent even further in that direction should be strongly opposed. See also: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/in
964.
by shmerl 3y ago
Movie industry is guilty for existence of DMCA 1201 garbage. They shouldn't be demanding anything.
965.
by shmerl 3y ago
Did iOS get a proper Firefox now?
966.
by shmerl 3y ago
What's Nvidia specific about it?
967.
by shmerl 3y ago
You couldn't really since it's DOA. Otherwise you'd be stuck with unsupported path.
968.
by shmerl 3y ago
The idea is that to worry about security in something broken by design is a folly.
969.
by shmerl 3y ago
It's not like xdotool is so secure in the first place. X11 is one huge hole from that perspective. Anything can read anything and all your important input can be read by some other window anyway.
970.
by shmerl 3y ago
Makes perfect sense for it to be something that interacts with the compositor. So KWin does expose such API. But that's not part of Wayland itself or its protocols. Want to make it easy? Use KDE which cares about flexibility and write
971.
by shmerl 3y ago
You can decide whatever you want. Being stuck with unsupported case (X11) you support yourself is "viable" as long as support yourself is something you can do.
972.
by shmerl 3y ago
For what xdotool does - pretty much a substitute. For anything else you need a compositor specific tool. KWin scripts or something might work for KDE: https://develop.kde.org/docs/plasma/kwin/
973.
by shmerl 3y ago
Yes: https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool
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by shmerl 3y ago
Stuck up means they don't care to collaborate. If they don't, how would anyone know about their specific needs? Those who don't have this dinosaur mentality do work with Wayland developers and their needs are addressed faster
975.
by shmerl 3y ago
> Further, it's not even clear that this kind of program is practically possible on Wayland. It's pretty clear. But some are too stuck up to even research it or be part of shaping it. Which is common among legacy vendors who
976.
by shmerl 3y ago
> The question is "when? I'd say within this year already. Some major parts like explicit sync are being merged already. And all future work (like HDR) will only go to Wayland. Not to X11. So this claim that X11 is a viable o
977.
by shmerl 3y ago
Buggier or not - it's too late to think X11 is the alternative. It's not. Wayland is going to get better for whatever is needed. X11 is absolutely not the way to go.
978.
by shmerl 3y ago
Kind of obsolete in the age of Wayland.
979.
by shmerl 3y ago
Long overdue.
980.
by shmerl 3y ago
Oh, this is a very neat tip: umr --list-blocks Getting versions of all these IP blocks for a specific card can be confusing. UMR repo for the reference: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/tomstdenis/umr
981.
by shmerl 3y ago
52 and a half: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pomQy5JkRAw
982.
by shmerl 3y ago
It's not the merit - it's the moat (i.e. lock-in) as the linked article states. Merit in this context would mean something you can compare across different GPUs. For CUDA - you can't. I.e. it's a tool to force you to use
983.
by shmerl 3y ago
I always understood async/await as expression of concurrency and threads as expression of parallelism. Which aren't the same thing. Concurrency breaks computation into chunks that can be interleaved even on a single CPU advancing
984.
by shmerl 3y ago
Could be. Haven't really looked into third party scripts development since I'm not using tiling. But actual KWin APIs should support it.
985.
by shmerl 3y ago
KDE has tiling scripts for KWin which can do the same thing. So you can get the same functionality without the need to go barebones for everything else.
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by shmerl 3y ago
It would take away a huge chunk of their advantage, no doubt about it. Let Nvida compete on merit instead of lock-in. Then you can say their advantage lies in being better. But Nvidia is very lock-in oriented, which undermines the claim tha
987.
by shmerl 3y ago
Lock-in should be broken. CUDA is one of the worst things about this whole ecosystem. Looks like AMD came close to breaking it, but they abandoned developing the translation layer.
988.
by shmerl 3y ago
Is there any benefit in tiling only WMs vs using tiling let's say in KDE?
989.
by shmerl 3y ago
Good. It's hilarious how Apple complains that it "threatens our core practices". If their core practices are based on anti-competitive behavior (and they are), they should be totally threatened. I want to see ban on competing
990.
by shmerl 3y ago
That's interesting, but from 2021. Did anything change in practice?

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