speeddemon

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by speeddemon 5y ago
I've heard plenty of those stories, I'm asking about this specific instance. Your first article is talking about something unrelated to this, and the second is something that happened three years ago.
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by speeddemon 5y ago
Please show proof of that in the specific instance you're talking about before dismissing someone as "part of a mob" or a "bot". Studies I've seen show that it's not always bots. Some people actually just
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by speeddemon 5y ago
Are you saying that someone who has a computer, internet and a twitter account can't have their life threatened? What? If someone says their life is threatened, I suggest listening to what they have to say, and not dismissing it outrig
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by speeddemon 5y ago
There are some comedians who, upon hearing that someone is offended by one of their jokes, would have the courage to ask why, and listen deeply to the answer. They would then take the time to revise that joke, and make it better so that it
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by speeddemon 5y ago
GNOME isn't dropping themes, that was some misinformation that went around twitter. See this blog from a GNOME developer for more info on what the situation actually is: https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2021/0
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by speeddemon 5y ago
Either one, it wasn't explained how the protocol can be used to do any color depth higher than 8 bit. Also the PNG format is extremely common and supports 32-bit color, so if you don't support that then you cannot accurately displ
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by speeddemon 5y ago
>Yes >Good. Please avoid these snarky responses, this is not helping explain anything and will not serve to change anyone's mind. >I HAVE TOLD YOU AT LEAST 4 TIMES: YOU NEED TO USE A STATE OF THE ART TERMINAL TO FIRST CORRECT
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by speeddemon 5y ago
I figured something like that was the case, thank you for the explanation. Still that seems like a bad hack that terminals are not going to implement because it goes off-spec. It seems as if iTerm or kitty protocols (or anything else design
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The Medical Right to Repair: The Right to Save Lives(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by speeddemon 5y ago
From reading the protocol "spec" I do not see how it could be used to transmit 32 bit color (or higher). The spec describes 8 bit indices into a palette. I have seen no sixel tools that are able to output 32 bit color, or any sixe
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by speeddemon 5y ago
I'm asking for people to stop posting these rants. There's nothing wrong with scratching an itch, but the rants are just inflammatory and cause drama. I have never personally found them to be an adequate documentation of governanc
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by speeddemon 5y ago
https://vt100.net/docs/vt3xx-gp/chapter14.html#T14-1 Am I reading this incorrectly? It seems I was wrong, it supports 8-bit color, not 6-bit color. But that's still terrible, and every Sixel implementation I&
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by speeddemon 5y ago
>Not with 16 million colors. That's what 24 bit color mean (2^16) also called "truecolor" mode >Try to use sixel to play videos in mintty, with 24 bit support so palettes aren't a problem. You are confusing sixel w
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by speeddemon 5y ago
That explanation isn't convincing to me, it's getting more into emotional territory (they are hostile because they didn't accept our patch) and away from technical territory (here are reasons why our patch wasn't accepte
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by speeddemon 5y ago
You're saying you're "reading between the lines", that reads to me like an emotional statement, not a technical one. Please let's focus on the technical issues at hand and what has actually been said, not on what we
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by speeddemon 5y ago
Have you read this issue? It goes more into detail about the issues with sixel: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/terminal-wg/specifications/-/... If these issues keep coming up, and you keep saying "sixel
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by speeddemon 5y ago
>This is such a good read. I really like their project and their motivation. I can't agree. Like most rants, I found it to be very needlessly emotional, lacking in the technical department, and motivating towards the wrong goal (try
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by speeddemon 5y ago
I do think this website is still small enough to have decent moderation, but there are plenty of borderline toxic and/or trolling comments I've seen here that go unmoderated. I've also seen tons of blatant and dangerous misin
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by speeddemon 5y ago
I'd be careful with that, I don't see why game development would be any different. You still have to focus on customer satisfaction. Single indie game developers succeeding without doing that seems to be an exception, not the rule
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by speeddemon 5y ago
I'm guessing the article refers to a form of "cowboy coding" or similar things promoted along with the myth of the 10x programmer, where there are attempts to apply that practice (of siloing developers and having them only wr
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by speeddemon 5y ago
There is a standard API for screencasting and it works fine if you're only doing screencasting. Since the API is in the xdg portal, it sits at a layer above Wayland and X11 and in theory it should make it easier for you because it work
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by speeddemon 5y ago
>I still can not fathom how Wayland could even exist this long without any decent way to do screen recording and I also do not get why there is no official protocol or at least extension for this! It likely won't ever get an officia
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by speeddemon 5y ago
That's not really a big deal, you could just develop a small shim for that d-bus API if you really needed to. But I agree, it would be better for them to switch to Pipewire.