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That was for show purposes. It was certainly intended to display OS capabilities while impressing people at the same time. Linux eventually came to dominate the live-cd scene in the early 2000's but, to this day, people still cute this demo as specially incredible. Actually, there was Linux with X11 and a functional browser that run from a floppy. And that is something that is really impressive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28515025

It would be cool the have it as my lock screen.

Is it RYF-capable?

There's theme park with animatronics dinosaurs close to where I live: https://alchymistprehistoricpark.com.br/o-park/

Their argentinosauro is Huge.

The perks of living in a big city.

Come on: "Specifically, [Dave] is using bifacial solar panels– panels that have cells on both sides. In his preferred orientation, one side faces South, while the other faces North. [Dave] is in the Northern Hemisphere, so those of you Down Under would have to do the opposite, pointing one face North and the other South."

That is not the kind of thing I come here for.

And I spent a long time thinking how could frogs colonise a whale.

Instead of having the pixels on the letters scrolling down, wouldn't it also work if the pixels were simply re-randomized every frame?

This is interesting, but there was something that was even more impressive many years ago: a GTK theme that rendered all decoration and widgets using text chars and a GDK backend that rendered to text. Combine both and you could run any GTK app on a terminal with legible text and a beautiful TUI.

http://zemljanka.sourceforge.net/cursed/screenshots/

How did we let this happen?

Oh, yes... Actually I remember: it was a long slow series of accepting small artificial restrictions. I remember people laughing at me at the time. They said it won't matter, they didn't care, that I was paranoid...

Now... Here we are.

> I’m basically obsessed with local-first open-source software.

We all should be.

I still get more impressed with xwoaf (X window ona floppy) https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/http://pupngo.dk...

https://web.archive.org/web/20240201194541/http://pupngo.dk/...

Fixing a business model that was always a force that slowed down development, implementation and adoption is not something that should be "fixed". MPEG dying is something to celebrate not whine about.

> all the investments (collectively hundreds of millions USD) made by the industry for the new video codec will go up in smoke and AOM’s royalty free model will spread to other business segments as well.

https://blog.chiariglione.org/a-crisis-the-causes-and-a-solu...

He is not a coder, not a researcher, he is only part of the worst game there is in this industry: a money maker from patents and "standards" you need to pay for to use, implement or claim compatibility.

> My Christian Catholic education made and still makes me think that everybody should have a mission that extends beyond their personal interests.

I remember this same guy complaining investments in the MPEG extortionist group would disappear because they couldn't fight against AV1.

He was part of a patent Mafia is is only lamenting he lost power.

Hypocrisy in its finest form.

Hi Uecker!

I really don't know this is the best place to ask, but I don't know anywhere to ask you, so... Is C2Y getting any generic programming features? I'd really love the one with _Type as a new type that stores a type.

In some sense... I bet there are more people writing assembly than FORTRAN today.

"Application error: a client-side exception has occurred while loading www.amodeling.com (see the browser console for more information)."

Great start

Actually, the correct index is this one: https://pixelmoondust.neocities.org/archives/archivedtiles/b...

I updated the Wikipedia article on io_uring to dispute that.

> We're working to primarily rebuild the original AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), AOL Desktop, Yahoo and ICQ platforms as close to the originals as possible, and document the entire thing.

Why not contribute to one of many FLOSS implementations that were once maintained?

I don't know if it supports HDR on MacOS but, AFAIK, it doesn't on windows and in Linux it is only supported with Wayland.

Though I don't like the Wayland x X11 flamewar, I'm happy to see some modern features are only supported on Wayland.

That may please the crowd that will be able to say "sorry, I can't use x11 because it doesn't support a feature I need" bringing some symmetry to the discussion.

Edit: correction: it is about the development 5.0 version: https://devtalk.blender.org/t/vulkan-wayland-hdr-support/412...

I've seen energy-aware scheduling, literately decades of effort that culminated on the EEVDF scheduler so that it was possible to have a good scheduler that worked well on desktops, servers and HPC... and, between all those efforts, a giant parallel one to prevent or influence to OOM-Killer to behave better.

I really wonder if a "simple" memory-aware scheduler that punished tasks whose memory behavior (allocation or access) slows down the system would be enough. I mean, it doesn't happen anymore, but some years ago it was relatively simple to soft-crash a system just by trying to open a file that was significantly larger than the physical RAM. By 'soft-crashing' I mean the system became so slow that it was faster to reboot than wait for it to recover by itself. What if such a process was punished (for slowing down the system) by being slowed down (not being scheduled or getting lower cpu times) in a way that, no matter what it did, the other tasks continued fast enough so that it could be (even manually) killed without soft-crashing the system? Is there a reason why memory-aware scheduling was never explored or am I wrong and it was explored and proved not good?

I remember an interview with Kasparov. He said something, I don't remember exactly... It was something like "The skills chess develops are very important for... playing chess"; as a way to say "if you're good in chess, that doesn't mean you're particularly smart or good in other areas too".

As someone who played chess competitively in my childhood and teens, chess helped me a lot about concentration, problem solving and decision taking. I also learned to win and lose and to have respect for other people due to the competition.

As a teacher in my adulthood, I was extremely impressed by knowing a high rated player that was very weak student, especially in logic.

I now agree deeply with Kasparov about the importance of the skills chess develops.

Everytime I tried touchpad on windows laptops I disered it worked as well as in Linux.

I know things have improved a bit after 10, but I used to say that it is easy to see who is using windows because they always brought their mice with their laptops.

No. Actually, Microsoft is telling the truth. Your computer is not good enough for their software. Consider Linux instead.

I bet it already exists, but what about an issue tracker in plain text maintained by git itself?

Having this specific guy becoming the lead/creator/maintainer of Xlibre, strengthens my argument about the kind of people who are against the Xorg->Wayland replacement.

GPM support?