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Core fonts absolutely support Unicode. My (non-Xft) xterm windows are full of Unicode characters right now. It is true that anti-aliasing is not supported by the X.Org server, alth…

It talks about trimming 'legacy' features and specifically says they are omitting 'font-related' operations. That obviously means no useful core X11 application will work (unless y…

The meaning of 'X server' has been well-established for 30+ years.

If you are not going to implement X11 drawing ops and XRender (which I, and many others, still use heavily), what's even the point? Any 'modern' program that only does client-side …

Definiteness has no obvious equivalent in Russian.

>If an English word looks similar to a Russian word, then the stress is likely on a _different_ syllable Most of these are Latin and French loanwords where Russian (same as e.g. Ge…

>the only way to "fix" the birth rate is to reject humanity (education, urbanization, technology) and retvrn to monke (subsistence farming, arranged marriages, illiteracy, supersti…

I’m actually happy about DRAM prices and hope more people share your mindset. This is the only thing that can force developers to start optimizing memory usage instead of externali…

It's absolutely possible to be mistaken about this. The placebo effect is very strong. I'm sure there are countless things in my own workflow that feel like a huge boon to me while…

'It's $CURRENTYEAR' is just a cheap FOMO tactic. We've been hearing these anectodes for multiple current years now. Where is this less buggy software? Does it just happen to never …

I am surprised. Does that imply most GNU/Linux users go out of their way to install Chromium actually? Ubuntu and Firefox have a similar market share.

The anti-AI ‘movement’ is a minority like all partisans are a minority. You shouldn’t be comparing them to passive consumers but to enthusiasts who actively demand ‘AI’ in their br…

It’s easy to bash Mozilla because it is failing. Their usage share is a statistical error, and most of it comes from being shipped with Ubuntu. Firefox badly needs a value proposit…

Those are garbage-collected environments. I have some experience with a garbage-collected 'assembly' (.NET CIL). It is a delight to read and write compared to most C code.

High-level languages were absolutely indispensable at a time when every hardware vendor had its own bespoke instruction set. If you only ever target one platform, you might as well…

My evidence is the git commit log: https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/84460945/#q84481507 This doesn’t even include the XFree86 CVS commit history and older, which accounts for most …

It's part of XInput 2.0 and works as well as it ever did with upstream X.org. The more popular approach to multiseating these days involves logind, udev and two video cards (or drm…

How come 90% of his comments are dead then? This one was too until I vouched for it.

Are you aware you are shadowbanned?

If you decide to move your blog to another platform, are you going to maintain API compatibility?

>In practice, you had to pay for everything. As a private individual, you didn't actually have to pay for anything once you got an Internet connection. Most countries never even tr…

Given how heavily most C programs lean on type erasure vs. monomorphization and how often they reimplement basic data structures, it's kind of a miracle they hold up against Rust/C…

>This uses a static variable to have it persist between both the compare function calls that qsort makes and the main call which (potentially) changes its value to be 1 instead of …

>How did people even come to this bizarre conclusion? The first reason is that it is true. All of the best evidence suggests a minor male advantage on g and a major advantage in mo…