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It was/is mostly the same practice except for the cases where it really counts. Window managers in general, xdotool, all kinds of input mapping and automation or the fact that you …

It means that Wayland is the worst and most idiotic graphics API ever conceived. Talking to Wayland's "asynchronous object oriented protocol" directly is a fucking disaster [1]. Se…

Yes but the Nvidia NV-1 preceding the Vooodoo was much more impressive. Using NURBS you could display perfectly round objects. Also it had forward texture mapping which significant…

The original rc-style sysvinit scripts of arch were neither brittle nor buggy. Everything could be configured with "rc.conf" and writing own services was dead simple. All of this w…

Example: Windows can only be resized when the client finished drawing the new resized window. Otherwise you would get "visual artifacts". So typical operations dealing with window …

This also means low-performing clients can make the whole Desktop stutter/freeze and it is one of the many reasons the Wayland architecture is beyond idiotic. High responsiveness i…

> Why? CLI applications typically read text from stdin and write text to stdout. The tcl model of "everything is a string" makes exactly the right abstraction to create GUI fronten…

Tcl/Tk to this day is the best tool to make GUI frontends for CLI applications. Besides that, in the past I used it in production for intranet database entry applications. It has s…

It is obviously not dead but it should be dead: Almost all of the technical and economic progress made in the last century was achieved with macroscopic quantum effects. Particle p…

Playing around with 68k assembly is actually much more fun. These days all the logic is absolutely dwarfed by caches in terms of chip area. This means using RISC does not really ma…

It is already possible today. There are access control hooks provided via XACE. Nobody uses them because the attack scenario is basically non-existent. If you run untrusted malicio…

All the major arguments in that decades old talk are invalidated with the introduction of DRI3.

So far so good. The feature set is bit random though. Things i personally miss is function overloading, default values in parameters and tuple returns.

> And not individuals who work at Microsoft does not count. How in the world does this not count? People act in the interest of those who pay the bills.

It is irrelevant who invented Rust. The relevant fact is that it can be used as a tool to divide the community because of its very opinionated design. Systemd was equally opinionat…

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It's not dead. It's being murdered. Microsoft, Apple, Gnome and KDE are making the experience worse with each update. Productive work becomes a chore. And the last thing we need is…

Unpopular take: Windows 95 was the peak of Desktop UX. GUI elements were easily distinguishable from content and there was 100% consistency down to the last little detail (e.g. rig…

The current main contributor is 100% corporate sponsored mostly through fronts like Igalia.

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