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by sprash 4y ago
Wayland does not care about security. In fact it does not even offer standardized access control protocols. The flaw here (among many others) is that the protocol that is responsible for negotiating display output for multiple processes (wh
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by sprash 4y ago
Legitimate concerns of people that have a severely degraded user experience are not flamewar. Xorg lost most of its corporate support which moved mostly to Wayland, that is true. Despite this Wayland has very poor adoption rate. The main re
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by sprash 4y ago
Actually they don't work "on Wayland". The Wayland protocol provides no mechanisms for screen sharing and it is not intended that it ever will. Screen sharing has to be done by external protocols that are either compositor sp
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by sprash 4y ago
> It shouldn't be possible for a chat program that someone exploited to be able to access your ssh private keys So far this never happened on free operating systems running free software on X11. Hence I refuse to believe this is a r
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by sprash 4y ago
> the state we are today with virus scanners and the like. Generally you want to trust as little as possible This is only true if you run closed source software on non-free systems. I honestly can't remember that I ever had to use a
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by sprash 4y ago
> I have difficulty understanding how a reasonable person can come to such a conclusion. The applications are very niche. Compilers are usually not smart enough to utilize SIMD, it is a hit or miss. And in order to implement properly eff
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by sprash 4y ago
The hatred is probably not that "irrational". We live in an era where specialized hardware for specialized problems is required because new manufacturing processes may give us a (seemingly slowing down) increase of transistor budg
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by sprash 4y ago
No! The Wayland protocol provides no mechanisms for screen sharing and it is not intended that it ever will. Screen sharing has to be done by external protocols that are either compositor specific or using a somewhat standardized dbus proto
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by sprash 4y ago
> That make no sense. Those are big and doesn't fit all purposes. It makes sense because Wayland was invented for the purpose of forcing hobbyists and power users into ecosystems that are 100% corporate controlled.
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by sprash 4y ago
Yes. Similarly a crash of Xorg will bring down all running applications. However thanks to standardized interfaces in X11 both the window manager and the compositor can independently crash or even replaced at runtime by a different program
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by sprash 4y ago
The presenter says that you should not write native Wayland clients at all but use either Gtk or Qt.
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by sprash 4y ago
He recommends wlroots. (Which means it won't work with Nvidia GPUs btw.)
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by sprash 4y ago
I only know this word from context. And it is actually written with "k". So what does it mean? (Context/my reasoning: If you have to prove that you are a smart programmer you can't stay away from learning Rust. Hence it
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by sprash 4y ago
It is not rapidly and widely accepted. It is pushed by a small but very vocal minority for all the wrong reasons. When you have to prove your intelligence level (or rather "street cred") in a competitive market you have to show th
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by sprash 4y ago
Why would that be bad?
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by sprash 4y ago
> This inflation issue is entirely a making of our own shortsightedness. Yes, central banks printing money relentlessly for more than a decade has nothing to with it. We the people are to blame!
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by sprash 4y ago
I know you are trying to be funny. But it's a rather sad story after all.
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by sprash 4y ago
I find the concept of MGR is very intriguing. Imagine creating GUIs simply by writing escape codes to stdout. No need to deal with C-libraries, the GUI can be completely language agnostic and all applications work instantly over network as
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by sprash 4y ago
Next year all x86_64 patents will expire. From then on everybody can make a IME/PSP/Pluton-free x86_64 chip. This makes RISC V completely obsolete since the x86 ecosystem is obviously much more mature.
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by sprash 4y ago
It is just your personal assumption that they are the "same people". But it would make sense because due to lack of standardized interfaces Wayland forces every functionality into a monolithic implementation which is the opposite
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by sprash 4y ago
X is a protocol just like Wayland. One of those protocols contains a standardized interface to implement window managers the other doesn't. The argument people are trying to make is that a display stack should have such a standardized
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by sprash 4y ago
It's obvious sabotage. Don't ever use GNOME, don't use GNOME software, don't contribute to GNOME projects, don't go to their conferences and don't ever give them money.
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by sprash 4y ago
It's still not running properly and obviously requires many workarounds for problems known for years. So, Which part? every part. If thier customers demand Wayland support they have to do it I guess. To me it seems like a huge waste of
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by sprash 4y ago
Is there something similar for Stack Overflow?
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by sprash 4y ago
> I don't see why so many people are against Mozilla using donations how they see fit. Because people donating to Mozilla are expecting that those funds are used for the browser and not a string of experiments that fail miserably. P
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by sprash 4y ago
> slow to the point of being unusable ble.sh has a vast array of configuration options. By disabling features I didn't like or need I was able to make it run pretty fast and responsive.
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by sprash 4y ago
For now maybe (I wouldn't believe those polls sponsored by state media for a second btw.). Even the strongest anti-Putin propaganda campaign will go up in flames as soon as people have sit in the cold and lose their jobs at the same ti
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by sprash 4y ago
I strongly disagree. People in Germany couldn't care less about Ukraine because it is far away. Most assume that Putin will win this war anyways. However, they care strongly about cheap Gas because it directly influences their lives.
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by sprash 4y ago
Indeed. It's most probably an inside job.
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by sprash 4y ago
There was actually not much need of drivers or firmware. 3Dfx products had a very simple and straight forward way to write commands directly to registers [1][2][3]. 1.: https://web.archive.org/web/20180220234020/ht

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