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by sprash 6y ago
Is there something like a GUI that generates .asoundrc files? The syntax is not exactly intuitive.
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by sprash 6y ago
There is no such thing as a window manager on Wayland. Everything is baked into one centralized "compositor". AFAIK some compositors like Weston offer a non-standardized plug-in interface that allows a 3rd party to implement a win
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by sprash 6y ago
> I do believe that the path forward has to be Mac OS/Android/iOS style sandboxing No this would be exactly the wrong path. One of the major strengths of FOSS/Linux is the fact that there are multiple authorities checking
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by sprash 6y ago
I strongly disagree with some points made in the document: > Window borders Do them in the application library! Client side decorations have the huge disadvantage that you can't easily close unresponsive applications. To do so would
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by sprash 6y ago
I would assume that there is a proper damage protocol in place that would move a "millions of pixels" only when there is an actual change. The only way to avoid that is to give applications direct access to the front buffer and us
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by sprash 6y ago
> OOP has a lot of flaws, but this article doesn’t seem to address them Besides spaghetti code it mentions that functions have non-deterministic results because the internal state of an object depends on the global state of the applicati
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by sprash 6y ago
The problem is not that the technologies are opt-in. The problem is that there is no simple UI implementation at this point in time. In the end any anonymized Lightning Wallet transaction will be just as simple as scanning a QR code with a
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by sprash 6y ago
The Lightning network in conjunction with Tor will make tracing of transactions nearly impossible in the future. However right now the technology to properly anonymize bitcoin already exists via coinjoin wallets. The most mature implementat
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by sprash 6y ago
Further tips that might interest people: Xterm should support sixels out of the box but needs further configuration to make it work properly: XTerm*decTerminalID: 340 XTerm*numColorRegisters: 256 If you want to scroll the conte
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by sprash 6y ago
Obviously yes. But depending on your distribution or locale settings you might have to launch the uxterm[1] wrapper instead of xterm if it doesn't work out of the box. 1.: https://invisible-island.net/xterm/manpage
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by sprash 6y ago
This! We have to switch to decentralized open source solutions. I have tested Jami and the video conferencing functionality works great on Android.
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by sprash 6y ago
> those will try to accelerate with XRender if that's available The XRender extension does all the rendering client-side. The one exception are glyphs which are rendered by the client only once and than stored in the server. XRender
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by sprash 6y ago
No it is not the same thing because in the hypothetical Xephyr case the client doesn't need to know who or what executes the rendering command. The client also doesn't have to implement its own rendering as a fallback.
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by sprash 6y ago
X11 has a strong reference implementation hence there should be no need for a fallback. If you really would want to launch a program which needs the new protocol on an old/outdated server for whatever reason you could use a wrapper lik
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by sprash 6y ago
Since he is using the Cairo library everything is rendered locally and transferred in uncompressed form to the X server for drawing. The same is true for all font engines which use in the case of Xft the Xrender extension. I never understoo
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by sprash 6y ago
Why stop at images? If you go the full way and include drawing commands like those in cairo script ( https://cairographics.org/manual/cairo-Script-Surfaces.html ) you can essentially abolish any other sort of app besides
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by sprash 6y ago
Not really that good. Most "effects" are completely overblown and subtleties like explained in this article are not accounted for.
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by sprash 6y ago
The only correct answer is to switch to decentralized solutions like namecoin. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Any "formal investigation" will be a temporary fix at best. ICANN can do what it wants and it always will.
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by sprash 6y ago
Finally the tinfoil hat comes to good use. But would it even help?
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by sprash 6y ago
Xwayland is more of a hack if anything. Half of the programs don't work because the security model of Wayland is fundamentally different than that of X11. E.g. Xeyes won't follow the mouse cursor because Wayland developers decided
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by sprash 6y ago
I'm blaming nobody. I'm just saying that there is a chance for X11 to become a real community project again. Never waste a good crisis.
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by sprash 6y ago
Good! Xorg needs to become a community project again. The current maintainers are almost without exception full time paid employees and act solely in the interest of their employers and NOT in the interest of the FOSS community. Their emplo
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by sprash 6y ago
In many ways it is still ahead of its time today. All electrical signals coming from user input devices are causing interrupts in the CPU resulting in a jmp directly into the interrupt routine which gives you the unmatched I/O latency
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by sprash 6y ago
That chip was nothing but a PowerPC Risc with some special functions. Nothing too exting. If you really want to tackle Lattice QCD with ASICS you could go much further than this chip. Since Lattice QCD is nothing more than Monte Carlo integ
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by sprash 6y ago
Wrong. Additional demand beyond bare necessities is only generated if there is disposable income available which is not the case when there is a oversupply of labor driving down wages. If employers would act systematically against their own
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by sprash 6y ago
That is exactly how the economy works. Demand and supply. Oversupply in labor results directly in diminishing incomes and the ability of employers to be extremely picky about who to hire (e.g. like you said nobody over 30).
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by sprash 6y ago
How is this better than Namecoin? Namecoin has the unique advantage that you can do merged mining with Bitcoin which would make the network as secure as Bitcoin without further waste of resources.
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by sprash 6y ago
And the brute force solution is the better solution this case. 240 or 360 Hz are not that "crazy" in the grand scheme of things considering 8k Displays will be the norm soon and the additional complexity in software and GPU hardwa
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by sprash 6y ago
If you deal with unequal trade "partners" like China that grossly disregard any intellectual property, don't care about labor security and environmental standards and as a result have a massive trade surplus not based on inno
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by sprash 6y ago
I still remember the huge 1234567890 party. It was one of the nerdiest gathering ever and the bar owner had no clue what was going on. Coincidentally I consider this the end of "golden age" of the internet which ended as soon as t

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