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Is that really true? I can get into basically any car and understand everything immediately because they are all mostly the same. If Linux could software update the insides of a Linux car it would be unrecognizable every year.
> there's no discipline in the Linux community [...] look at projects like glibc or GNOME

So not the Linux community then. Outside it.

Do all the new GitHub-driven programmers who exclusively use MacBooks and constantly rev things with the same frequency not exist? Why is this still being presented as a freedesktop-related problem and not a general problem with creators' fickle and fleeting attention, when we have evidence that the category isn't as narrow as the pigeonhole you're trying to put things in?
This is probably similar as self-hosting some services vs letting someone else deal with it. Hosting something like Elasticsearch requires a lot of knowledge and understanding. If you run it yourself it's free! So you end up doing it yourself, but really you'll need to spend engineering hours on it. Engineers being one of the most expensive expense in a business, you've suddenly not really saved much, and you'd have been better off having Elastic do it for you, and you could have started using it in less than a week rather than months.
I've heard this from a couple of power users before. But maybe GNOME does not optimize for power users?
Change causes stress, it's a scientific fact. It is thus not surprising that many don't like change for any reason, nor is it a reason not to change if the reasons are sound.

While we can all agree X is a pile of something, I am in the camp that remains unconvinced by Wayland. It does not work on my hardware, it does not solve problems I have. OK, no more screen tearing, which is nice.

Wayland have to understand that if they want to replace X, they'll have to replace X.
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"I don't work on the trading floor, but I'm an attorney who services a variety of financial institutions, including broker/dealers.

This isn't the exciting, hilarious answer you want, but a lot of people had no idea it was even happening until the past 48 hours, and even now, it's mostly just a funny news article about some internet trolls making a bubble.

This is a big deal to the shorting community, but to the other 99% of the financial world, nobody gives a shit.

As much as young people on the internet like to imagine this as an epic, David vs Goliath, Wall Street vs Main Street showdown for the history books, from a bird's eye view it's actually just a brief dumpster fire where a couple hedge funds lost their shirts betting on one little small cap stock. It has happened before, and it will happen again.

In 6 months, nobody will remember or care, except that (maybe) it will become more difficult for retail investors to trade options.

And not because the greedy hedge fund oligarchs forced the SEC to crack down on retail investors. But rather because, when this is all said and done, there is going to be a black hole where most of these retail investors' brokerage accounts used to be, and the SEC and brokerage community will be lambasted for failing to protect unsophisticated investors from a bubble.

I have been monitoring the WSB threads, and while the WSB veterans know that they're making a suicide charge for the memes, they have brought thousands of naive, new investors with them - who predominantly think that they're going to somehow come out on top, not realizing that they're cannon fodder for the more savvy WSB users to exit with gains.

Redditors never seem to stop and think about why the WSB guys know so much about derivatives trading. Or how they seem to know how to access and read from a Bloomberg terminal. Or why there are so many users there that can seemingly drop tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on complicated meme plays.

How do you think that WSB knew that GME was open to a short squeeze and a gamma squeeze play?

WSB's power users are younger finance bros. It's 30-something investment bankers and portfolio managers memeing with each other and cosplaying as "autists."

If you didn't know what a gamma squeeze was 48 hours ago, you are their exit strategy and the down payment on their next Porsche."
>> To be honest I don’t see how you can understand the first bit but not the second. Yes, they can make changes that you don’t like without consulting you.

People in charge of large FOSS projects like Gnome should not pretend it's just some hobby project they can do whatever they want with. Those projects are essentially public infrastructure and should be treated as such. It's not their personal plaything.

Yes, people who do the work have the most say, but sometimes they really use that to do stupid things with the code. I don't know how to correct that though. Commercial software is no better about this.
> Nvidia users are shitty consumers and I don’t even want them in my userbase.

Can't say he isn't straightforward. If you bought your computer without thinking about running Linux on it, or if you're looking to install Linux on an employer-supplied Windows laptop, there's an excellent chance you're a shitty consumer that he doesn't want using his software.
You'd probably get the same question from a plumber if you asked him how to plug a pipe in a non-intuitive way. He has no way to know your pipes are laid out in a strange way, and the only spot you have left to add said junction without redoing your plumbing is back there - unless you tell him.

Sure, some people are assholes, but that's just people. Nobody's in your mind, they can't guess your requirements, thought process and level of experience. In my experience, more often than not, asking the question "why would you want to do that?" gets you a bad reason. "I did X this way because Y. I need Z." would filter the legitimate questioning out. From there, the others are just assholes, and those are everywhere.
When I'm at my framebuffer terminal, I can either type 'startx' or 'sway'. If I go from typing 'startx' to typing 'sway' does that count as "switching to Wayland"?
I feel your pain.

In my case, ranting didn't help. In fact, it made things much worse.

Also, in my case, I was lucky enough to hand my project over to some really sharp, energetic and positive people that have taken my work to the next level.

Turns out, the absolute best thing that I could do for my project, was to step away from it completely (not even being a "benevolent dictator emeritus"), after ten years of dealing with some really annoying crap. My being associated with the project was actually a boat anchor. I hate to say it, but not everybody loves me, and I'm fairly good at giving as well as I get (see "didn't help," above).
It is up to your compositor. Some just allow everything (like X)
That comparison makes no sense: fast_float parses floats whereas std::format and fmtlib print floats — they don't do the same thing.
There's evidence of funds hedging against the squeeze actually happening, as seen by the millions in contracts aiming at 800.

The short vs free float ratio is still said to be above 100% so shorting even more now is probably not a good idea.
Thanks for the reply! Not necessarily, I work in R&D developing low-level data collection so I'm more just trying to keep my ear to to ground in terms of what's going on in the stack just above what I'm doing :)
All this talk of crashing and no car analogy?!
It doesn't matter if they are the cause, they're the ones still doing all the actual work. If productivity is going up, they should share in it just as much as the capitalists.
I wonder if it was manual removal or a spam protection bot..
Belarus has a more stable society than the US?
"rejects anyone who wants to use an nvidia graphics card."
Yes this part is true.
"my option is to use an "evil" but very stable driver and no wayland to do my job and get paid, or not."
So what is the problem? That you can't have nice things for free?
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You're getting downvoted, but its not clear why.

This is a perfectly valid argument about why wayland doesn't work, from a user's perspective, not a developer's. This is precisely what users expect from the system, and frankly, Xorg made it work, despite the mess it was of a tech stack.

Wayland is a very beautiful ivory tech stack, but it was created for a much different use casw than what an average user is going to care about, and as such, it suffers greatly in the end-user's eyes vs. the old and busted Xorg.
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I suspect the wage figure doesn’t take into account non-monetary benefits like health insurance. Considering healthcare and education are the only sectors that have increased prices in relation to wages, this is probably an omission that would change the argument of this article.

But yes, make education better and cheaper like the Swedes and Estonians have done with school vouchers, and adopt the Bismarck healthcare model used to great success in many European countries like Germany, Switzerland, France, & the Netherlands.

These are two simple suggestions, naturally the method will be as key as the principle in order for them to be successful, but the track record is there.

Alternatively, adopt the negative income tax that Milton Friedman suggested, which together with a state-guaranteed health insurance and a school voucher system, would create a really solid and efficient welfare state. Maybe forego income tax totally and do that with a higher VAT instead.
> This, uh, looks like a semi-propaganda website.

The link could be changed to more known mint press. https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-censorship-conference-ce...

> This stuff is easily debunked

Please be careful with this. While the website lacks reputation it seems it did happen as described in this case.
>It's the sort of thing that seems attractive to junior developers, but more seasoned folks know that the legacy system contains years of embedded knowledge and workarounds for "real world" issues.

The Wayland developers are the same people who have been building all these workarounds for xorg for decades. This isn't a new thing coming out of nowhere. When the old guard is telling you that their own work needs to be replaced, I'd listen.

>Perhaps we did need a new display server, perhaps Wayland is conceptually better than Xorg, but it'll be many years before it reaches feature parity, if it ever does.

Good thing nobody forces you to use it and it's just one click away on the login screen from switching to xorg. In the meantime people who want to hack on the project can do so and ship their changes to users to test them plus those who do suffer from xorg issues( because yes, xorg doesn't do well on a lot of things that aren't even that modern despite all the workarounds for the "real world" issues it has) can use wayland right away.
It makes perfect sense for a private business, even though it's a disaster for the state in the long term.
Wine was actually pretty damned good even before Valve got involved. I remember playing Half-Life with Wine in the early aughties.
I imagine the "business event" to be:

Company: "We've been checking offshore software development rates and will be cutting your compensation to $25/hour to be competitive".

Developers: "Nope".
However they do it, somethings there are tragedies.

I'd been checking out a hardbound original edition of our county's history, published in 1882. History as of 1882, which included stories back to the first settler in the area. Used it for stories (was a Scout leader) that had names and places that would resonate with local people. Our ancestors, recognizable as families still here today taking interesting, sometimes epic action.

Then one day, it was gone. Sold in the library's purged-book sale, probably for $1. Some well-meaning shelf-optimizer just looked at the checkout frequency or some other defensible metric, and it came up "toss".

If a library can't curate our local history, unavailable anywhere else in the world from any source, I call that a total fail.

I discontinued my library card, and have never been back. It was disheartening, disillusioning, heartbreaking. To realize (what had been going on for some time) that a library was no longer a place to keep books. It was a circulation machine for juvenile fiction and romance novels. Something like a dentist's waiting room, writ large.

Btw, the book was probably worth hundreds. Nothing at the book sale sells for over $5. So clearly the library had no idea what they had.
I liked your witty response. HN seems to love authority these days.
Is screen sharing on a modern laptop with a Nvidia 1070 too much to ask though?
I used to live in rural Georgia and there is a network of 300 libraries. It made the books I could borrow much larger because if my local libraries didnt have it, I can request one from hundreds of miles away. I thought that was the most awesome thing.

Now I live in Atlanta area (big city) and the two counties I have lived in do not participate in it. There is the same feature but I can only request books from within the county but that's like...what..2 dozen libraries?

https://georgialibraries.org/what-we-do/
I am reminded of this post by Matt Taibbi on the parallels between the Trump presidency and WWE. A very interesting read: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/controversy-creates-cash-688
The article appears to be more about validating negative worldviews than journalism. I'd like to hear more about the events from somewhere else.

Edit: Looks like this is a better source, though I haven't read it yet. https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-censorship-conference-ce...
This continually drives me nuts, especially watching people from windows use macs. They want to get normal maximize behavior to not have to manually size a window, and instead get thrown into fullscreen. This causes an immediate wtf moment, asking me how to undo it, and then living with a tiny little window. sigh
Sure, but the flatpak model is a way to get these advantages for as large a userbase as fast as possible. If you use flatpaks without bind-home under wayland today, you’ve significantly improved your actual security already.

Sandboxing arbitrary badly behaving software is just going to use the same APIs as flatpak, so this helps for your use case as well.
There is even a case to be made that too much nuclear disarmament could create a less stable situation, because arsenals might deplete enough that an exchange might seem survivable.
Apparently an optimised, rather 'riced' kernel for gaming setups. Default filesystem BTRFS with zstd compression, integrated with snapshotting and GRUB. So you can easily roll back from a botched upgrade, straight from GRUB. Which could be handy since it's based on Arch.
All I see here is that you're not going to get everything that you want. No-one is. We are all using software that's imperfectly adapted to our personal use cases. Unfortunately, unless we're paying, no-one is under any obligation to change it for us, and we'll have to make do as best we can.
> Individually, these things are small, but the small impedances these changes introduce does take a toll on people, especially when you're trying to just get stuff done.

One of the problems is a parity disconnect. A developer/PM often has very different perspective from their users: They see the new changes as they're happening and so they're all small, incremental changes, plus they're closely following development.

A lot of users only infrequently update and/or infrequently use certain features, and so for them, all these small incremental features add up to be massive change for the sake of change. This will often manifest as "Every time I go to do x, it's totally different and I have to re-learn everything!".

I find a lot of software -- especially FOSS -- also communicates change poorly. Release notes are the primary way to get across changes, yet there are several bad things people do that make it basically impossible to read:

* List every change or commit message, especially without categorizing or simplifying the wording

* Don't properly highlight feature changes (eg with screenshots and/or reasoning)

* Have dozens of betas/pre-releases, but don't consolidate the release notes into a final "here's what's changed since the last main release" document

Some examples of exceptionally good release notes: Visual Studio Code [1], Jira [2], Gitlab [3] (though if they only provided their changelog [4] it would be a good example of being overly verbose to the point of unusable).

[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_52

[2] https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftware/jira-software-...

[3] https://about.gitlab.com/releases/categories/releases/

[4] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/blob/master/CHAN...
Good time to invest in Vancouver, but last time I checked commercial real estate there was already doing well. Maybe Centralia?
Oh yes, the solution to people being pissed off at you is to be even more pissed right back at them. That'll teach them how wrong they are!

Drew, all of the points that you have made here might have some backing in facts, and it is clear from the tone and overall message that you're frustrated, angry, at your wits' end....but such a rant will accomplish nothing but make you look like an asshole, which hurts everyone in the long run.

I would encourage you to delete this and start over. Even if you are a 100% right, this looks terrible, and nobody wants to see this.
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> How much of the market share is Nvidia? A stupid quick search's top result says 80%. So 80% of PCs can't run Wayland?

No. 80% of PCs cannot run Sway. Both Mutter (GNOME) and KWin (KDE Plasma) implement support for EGLStreams for the Nvidia driver. However, EGLStreams itself is inherently quirky and kind of broken, per Nvidia themselves. They're working on moving to DMA-BUF to fix this, and at least on the KDE side, are committing to replacing the implementation in KWin to use that once the driver is updated to use it.
I would agree here, if you could make a reasonable case that the problems trace back the protocol. But my point here is that practically all issues at hand happen outside of what Wayland is used for.

Wayland is a display protocol. Practically all of the pain people are experiencing has nothing to do with how Gnome/KDE/Sway really display things differently. The pain everybody experiences is that the realization that suddenly we need a new input stack too, a new way to screenshare, a new way to do clipboard access, a new way to do a bunch of other things. All stuff that also needs to made, standardized, and achieve maturity outside of the new display protocol.

It's tempting to call that fallout of other stuff that needs to be changed "Wayland" as well, but I'd say that misses the point completely and calling it that won't help anyone get this stuff fixed.
So, I have to admit, I'm sadly under-informed on many aspects of this discussion. While I'm a "Linux diehard" and have been for decades, I care more about the command line and generally look at the desktop environment as just something to run a browser and an IDE. So I'm FAR from a "Linux Desktop UI / Graphics Geek".

With that in mind, can anybody recommend one or more good books / websites / whatever, that represent a moderately comprehensive introduction to all this "desktop stuff"? That is, graphics servers, window managers, compositors, yadda, yadda, yadda. I'd like to dig in and actually start to understand some of the underlying details of what's going on with all of this.
What does OpenRC do for stopping services before shutdown? Does it just have a shorter wait time by default?
Yes, but if the rest are vaccinated than it's not a big issue.
"The most surprising thing about the whole story is that some higher ups were helping push through these patents, going so far as to claim that the patents are operable [1]."

I agree that the patent thing is a bit weird. It might help to know that DoD scientists receive bonuses for being granted patents. In my org, at least, so do their supervisors.
It does support Linux, just fine, on x11... It's also the only option for a significant portion of machine learning software.

Meanwhile we (or at least I) aren't asking any unpaid volunteers to fix anything. We're asking them to stop claiming their new software works for practically every use case when it doesn't, nothing more.
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Years ago I worked on my own HSM which used FPGA to implement DES. It had 3 copies of DES IP which allowed streaming 3DES. I could have put more copies of this on the FPGA but the single triplet was enough to stream data through it at astronomical speed. I think it was enough to saturate 1Gb/s and so I did not need more.

Compared to this, AES was much more difficult and it did not fit the FPGA I had and I eventually gave up.
Yep, I have to admit I completely disregarded the article and its possible legitimacy after seeing the ads on that website.
Antergos was completely broken (their installer did not work several times during the year because they did not properly test it) so let's hope it has a better reputation.
Funny thing, the most effective measure we found in addition to masks is the careful installation of plexiglass or similar panes similar to face shields, at cash registers and other public facing counters.
Next, hand disinfectant or gloves.
If you have any more context for that "fight," I'd be interested in tumbling down that rabbit hole, haha.
Kids are too big a fraction to dismiss. And they are massive infection vectors. A kid gets sick, everybody else in the family will get sick. People with kids know that. Teachers know that. Doctors know that.
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