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by sprash 1y ago
> Oracle owns the rights to the NeWS source code so I'm not allowed to post it on my Github page. They are certainly not making any money with it right now. All patents should be expired by now. Have you ever sincerely asked if you
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by sprash 1y ago
> 1994 Apparently you have to be criticizing X11 for more than three decades now. Since you seem to know your stuff, could you please post a link to your git repository containing your personal display server that solves all the problems
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by sprash 1y ago
> while Wayland leisurely moves forward Debateable. But it sure started with huge step backwards. On X11 all relevant functions are at least standardized within the xrandr protocol. On Wayland you don't even have that. So it really
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by sprash 1y ago
Seems like somebody forgot to read the pamphlet[1]. 1.: https://stopthemingmy.app/
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by sprash 2y ago
A test [1] by a random dude with the older Wormhole N150 delivers half the performance (as in tokens/s) of a RTX 4090 in generic Llama tests. The new p150 should have double the performance according to specs, but who knows. I'd c
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by sprash 2y ago
> Can you point out any specifics? How much time do you have? First of all it needs to be much simpler to do simple things. You are right that you need to "allocate some shared memory for a surface, agree on a pixel format, etc&quot
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by sprash 2y ago
I find it very surprising how well Xorg still works considering it receives essentially zero funding. To me this is a sing of a very robust design. I'm also not surprised at all how bad Wayland is. The protocol makes wrong abstractions
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by sprash 2y ago
The VRR issue can be solved with a simple patch that never got merged into mainline (no idea why). Hence it's not inherently a X11 problem and honestly also a rather niche problem compared to the humongous deficits Wayland brings. Mixe
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by sprash 2y ago
Wayland lacks a strong reference implementation. The resulting fragmentation in the ecosystem turns the most popular compositors into de-facto standards every application developer will have to use as a reference. This means Gnome's pr
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by sprash 2y ago
What exactly is better? I can't even think of a single thing. It has worse performance on almost all metrics. Heavy fragmentation. Very limited and incomplete API measured in functionality but still extremely complicated to work with a
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by sprash 2y ago
It should be easy to create something better than X11. And if not pour more resources into X11 developement. Wayland on the other hand is a complete failure on all fronts. It should be abandoned ASAP.
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by sprash 2y ago
This is pretty good: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4dlyWX But more practical are: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XsjSzR https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MtSfRK https:/&#
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by sprash 2y ago
The CIA has papers about it [1, 2]. Paper [2] even contains experiments that should be easy to replicate (and will obviously not work). It's probably complete BS. There is a paper [3] that derives the Maxwell equations from quaternions
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by sprash 2y ago
The mostly unelected EU regime really loves censorship. Nobody ever claimed that Putin is in any way better. That doesn't mean that the EU isn't complete shit. And if you want to focus on the EU market like Whittaker claims in the
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by sprash 2y ago
As long as they don't get rid of the Qt dependency the project is a bit pointless. If you are using Qt anyways Qt Webview offers already a superior way to render HTML than Ladybird.
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by sprash 2y ago
Almost 100% of the "scientific community of mathematicians" is funded by the government. They can't be trusted either. If they want to publish something that is considered to be a "threat to national security" the a
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by sprash 2y ago
If there was public evidence allowed to be released nobody would be using those algorithms obviously. The point of those algorithms is to make them hard to break for the public and easy to break for the agencies . E.g. None of your mentione
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by sprash 2y ago
"Chat Control" is already real. This is just codifying prevalent practice done by a multitude of agencies into law.
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by sprash 2y ago
This is why the XRender extension was introduced. There you have antialiasing, all blending modes you could wish for, subpixel coordinates, advanced drawing operations like gradients and it is fast because it is fully hardware accelerated.
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by sprash 2y ago
Not powerful but extremely simple, especially if you want to avoid JavaScript at all cost: https://chartscss.org
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by sprash 2y ago
> X11 wins in some cases, Wayland wins in other cases Even according to your blog post uncomposited X11 wins in all cases (or is tied within the error of one millisecond). It especially sweeps the floor with immediate rendering.
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by sprash 2y ago
> "broken by design" is an extraordinary claim and requires extraordinary evidences There are many technical aspects that make Wayland broken by design (like default forced vsync, forced double buffering, a fucked up event-loop
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by sprash 2y ago
Wayland is also a "client-server" model. If you use DRI3, X11 and Wayland even do the exact same thing "under the hood". Only the sub msec negotiation phase is slightly more complicated on X11. We are talking about ver
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by sprash 2y ago
The X11 DRI3 buffer swap mechanism is identical to the one used in Wayland. The fact that Wayland has still worse performance across the board (especially latency metrics) might be an indicator that Wayland is fundamentally mismatched with
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by sprash 2y ago
No they decided working on X11 would not rake in enough consulting money. So they engineered a completely non-working solution called Wayland that is broken by design and takes years and many consulting hours to fix.
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by sprash 2y ago
The real reason people stopped developing Gtk applications is that GNOME tends to declare widely used APIs arbitrarily as "internal interface" and makes incompatible changes even on minor version updates. It's a constant chas
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by sprash 2y ago
I would be interested in a comparision of uncomposited X11 running Xterm using this measurement method. Xterm outperforms everything "on paper" with typometer but is it really real?
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by sprash 3y ago
This is also not what happened. I remembered that she once was proud of her work and the fact that her image was used so widely. Then FOSS and engineering in general was targeted by a wave of cultural marxist psyops that brought us useless
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by sprash 3y ago
As expected fine-tuned st is the clear winner. However, it can be improved even further by removing double buffering altogether. Since the code is very hackable it's quiet easy to do and many LOCs can be thrown out.
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by sprash 3y ago
It's a Wayland problem if it is really problem at all though. The author complains that XCursor themes take too much space on disk (They will live uncompressed in VRAM anyways). Considering we are talking about Megabytes in the age o

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