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by sprash 6y ago
> Serious question, what are the key differences and tradeoffs between the DRI3 and Wayland APIs? DRI3 gets you a file descriptor which can be used as a DMA-Buffer to directly render and present graphics. The Wayland protocol never clari
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by sprash 6y ago
> angling to replace Xorg The Xrandr extension enabling all this functionality is defacto part of the X11 protocol for a long time and not just "Xorg". > Xorg could have just added Wayland support You already can run any Way
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by sprash 6y ago
Or it could be part of the Wayland protocol from the get go sparing everyone of major headaches. At some point you arrive at a core functionality resembling X11 and you went full circle breaking everybody's workflow and tooling in the
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by sprash 6y ago
> What complexity? What is a wl_registry_listener and why do I need it? What is a simple XGetImage() equivalent on Wayland? On Xlib function names at least give you an idea about what they are supposed to be doing. > Also, how often
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by sprash 6y ago
I'm specifically not talking about toolkits. I'm talking about a "simple" native Wayland client. Try to write one and witness utter insanity.
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by sprash 6y ago
You underestimate the inherent complexity of Wayland. As exercise I recommend to implement a "Hello World" native Wayland client. Watch and see the complexity explode when you simply want to add the functionality to take screensho
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by sprash 6y ago
Not entirely. Despite the fact that no available Wayland compositor allows you to disable vsync at this point Wayland also throws away all the work done by ddx drivers on X11 implementing 2D acceleration. This allows X11 clients to de-facto
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by sprash 6y ago
A chunk of code that is running in production for more than 30 years and should be considered battle tested. In my experience Wayland compositors crash much more often than X11 despite the supposed reduced complexity. The last time X11 serv
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by sprash 6y ago
> I'm honestly surprised no one has just tried to make it so you can "firewall" X11 programs This can be done via firejail[1] + xpra/xephyr but is a rather cumbersome endeavor. The X11 standard also contains access co
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by sprash 6y ago
Which is a mistake. On X11 the server, window manager and compositor are three separate programs. Both window manager and compositor can individually crash, started, stopped and replaced at runtime without any of the other running X11 clien
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by sprash 6y ago
In my experince X11 is faster (as in latency) when run without any compositor.
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by sprash 6y ago
Build orbital rings and put solar panels in space. Can be done with todays technology.
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by sprash 6y ago
Everybody is tired of it. Except for the central bank that is causing it. As soon as central banks stop printing money the whole crypto verse will die like a fad. But so will your passive investments like ETFs. That can't happen theref
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by sprash 6y ago
It is not "wishful thinking", it is misleading because approximately more than half of all Bitcoins are lost for ever or tainted. Especially early Bitcoins mined by Satoshi himself should be considered inactive permanently. Additi
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by sprash 6y ago
This is not true. Network consensus is not reached by miners but by the nodes in the network that recieve/transmit transactions and blocks. If you want to protect Bitcoin from "chinese nation state manipulation" simply run a
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by sprash 6y ago
The only thing that is "spitting into faces of hard working people" is the relentless printing of money by central banks that incentivize speculation over productive work and make bubbles like Bitcoin or GameStop possible in the f
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by sprash 6y ago
So how does Monero solve the scaling problem? >So LN will become centralized. Route finding in adverserial environments lead to a more hierarchical as opposed to a mesh-like network structure, true. But it is still decentralized because
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by sprash 6y ago
Central banks print Trillions of dollars to buy bonds right at this moment and get away with it. They live in a vacuum and can do what they want without much democratic oversight. Since all the relevant mining is happening in China nowadays
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by sprash 6y ago
If you are a central bank that can print money out of thin air you can use that money to buy the majority of the mining capacity and make bitcoin useless with a 51% attack. People that want to destroy bitcoin have no interest in making mone
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by sprash 6y ago
> It sounds as if Nano is still vulnerable to a 51% attack. Every cryptocurrency is vulnerable to a 51% attack including Bitcoin.
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by sprash 6y ago
Schnorr signatures make bitcoin coinjoin transactions as efficient as Monero. Monero on the other hand might have problems with scaling because off-chain infrastructure like Lightning does not exist yet.
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by sprash 6y ago
It doesn't. Doge works that way and is highly volatile.
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by sprash 6y ago
I want to respond to the "Limitations" which are mostly not true thanks to new technology introduced into Bitcoin core years ago already: - Lack of anonymity: This can easily be addressed with coinjoin wallets and after that by us
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by sprash 6y ago
Bad advise. There are only two mistakes you can make with Bitcoins: 1. Selling 2. Not buying Jokes aside. Simply treat it as highly leveraged investment. It makes sense to have those in your portfolio if you know what you are doing.
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by sprash 6y ago
> Likewise, storing money under your mattress isn’t a useful thing to do, digital or otherwise. This is just not true. It is a tool to let prices properly represent the risk of future price changes. People who save money supply a net pos
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by sprash 6y ago
> If Bitcoin sluggishness and fees got sorted out, I think people would like this. They got sorted out via Lightning Network. Instantanious transactions with very low fees are possible. However UX around Lightning is lacking and regular
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by sprash 6y ago
> Are these shaders or on CPU or manually designed? Most likely hand drawn by the individual pixel. Even "computable" effects like antialiasing or dithering are mostly done by hand.
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by sprash 6y ago
Suicide is even more impactful. He should try it!
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by sprash 6y ago
You are wrong. The earth is getting bombarded with free (as in money) energy from the sun at all times. It is a matter of logistics and political will to use that energy to its fullest extend. There can be prosperity and nature preservation
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by sprash 6y ago
Right now I have multiple capture devices (front mic, rear mic, capture) which can be selected in alsamixer via "Input source". It would be great to have another "virtual" capture device that uses e.g. front mic but rout

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