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Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers

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Re: Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers

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Post by graynk »

trinsic2 wrote: post #340
pityJuke wrote: post #322

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> call of duty where they dynamically alter in game loot mechanics to get people to purchase in game items. [Citation needed] > I certainly dont think that Valve designed there systems to encourage gambling Cases are literally slot machines. > [section about third-party websites] I don't think Valve deliberately encouraged it. OK, but they continue to allow it (through poor enforcement of their own ToS), and it conti…

If you say so. Sorry not see any of this. Valve is a good company and there reputation has been developed over the years as such.

this is just willingly turning a blind eye. it's not about the reputation or being a "good company", it's about the facts of what they do.

Re: Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers

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Post by UltraSane »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #329
LeSaucy wrote: post #114

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Still the king but developing/testing/debugging group policy issues is a miserable experience.

I disagree. Group policies are extremely straightforward to administer in my experience.

That depends on how fine grained your targeting rules are. They can get insane.

Re: Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers

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Post by embedding-shape »

m4rtink wrote: post #312
embedding-shape wrote: post #281

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Still, some sort of OS is required to run that browser that renders the websites, and some team needs to manage a fleet of those computers running that OS. And that's where Microsoft will sit, since they're unable to build good consumer products, they'll eventually start focusing exclusively on businesses and enterprises.

If you just need something that runs a browser, can't you do that with something like Chrome OS/MacOS/RHEL Workstation/whatever SUSE has for workstation users ? :)

Inertia, unless there is a really big reason why, big companies just go with what they have, for better or worse, even if it sucks or is expensive.

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Post by zipy124 »

butlike wrote: post #219
ZeroCool2u wrote: post #11

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Igalia is a bit unique as it serves as a single corporate entity for organizing a lot of sponsored work on the Linux kernel and open source projects. You'll notice in their blog posts they have collaborations with a number of other large companies seeking to sponsor very specific development work. For example, Google works with them a lot. I think it really just simplifies a lot of logistics for paying folks to do th…

Oh ok, so Igalia owns the developer sweatshops now. Got it.

Just because work is 'out-sourced' to contractors does not mean it is a sweatshop....

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Post by zipy124 »

tayo42 wrote: post #43
chucky_z wrote: post #25

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This isn’t explicitly called out in any of the other comments in my opinion so I’ll state this. Valve as a company is incredibly focused internally on its business. Its business is games, game hardware, and game delivery. For anything outside of that purview instead of trying to build a huge internal team they contract out. I’m genuinely curious why other companies don’t do this style more often because it seems incr…

I feel like I rarely see contacting out work go well. This seems like an exception

This is mostly because the title of contracter has come to mean many things. In the original form, of outsourcing temporary work to experts in the field it still works very very well. Where it fails is when a business contracts out business critical work, or contracts to a general company rather than experts.

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Post by zipy124 »

sneak wrote: post #188
tapoxi wrote: post #10

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Valve is actually extremely small, I've heard estimates at around 350-400 people. They're also a flat organization, with all the good and bad that brings, so scaling with contractors is easier than bringing on employees that might want to work on something else instead.

300 people isn’t “extremely small” for a company. I don’t work with/for companies over 100 people, for example, and those are already quite big.

300 is extremely small for a company of their size in terms of revenue and impact. Linus media group and their other companies for instance is over 100 people, and is much smaller in impact and revenue than a company like valve, despite not being far off the number of employers (within an order of magnitude)...

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Post by zipy124 »

hobobaggins wrote: post #128
loeg wrote: post #40

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Phoronix is blogspam?!

It is certainly not, I'm not sure where the commentor gets that view. Most likely because alongside their primary journalistic content they also produce secondary reporting like these short pieces, disseminating niche viewership content to a wider audience. I can see how it might be easy to see it as blog spam given the latter is almost entirely their purview, but it should not be misconstrued as such in this case.

Re: Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers

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Post by HexPhantom »

Fiveplus wrote: post #17

Valve is practically singlehandedly dragging the Linux ecosystem forward in areas that nobody else wanted to touch. They needed Windows games to run on Linux so we got massive Proton/Wine advancements. They needed better display output for the deck and we got HDR and VRR support in wayland. They also needed smoother frame pacing and we got a scheduler that Zuck is now using to run data centers. Its funny to think tha…

Yeah, it's a great example of demand-driven open source work actually landing in places that matter

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Post by ksynwa »

butlike wrote: post #219
ZeroCool2u wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Igalia is a bit unique as it serves as a single corporate entity for organizing a lot of sponsored work on the Linux kernel and open source projects. You'll notice in their blog posts they have collaborations with a number of other large companies seeking to sponsor very specific development work. For example, Google works with them a lot. I think it really just simplifies a lot of logistics for paying folks to do th…

Oh ok, so Igalia owns the developer sweatshops now. Got it.

I don't know much about Igalia but they are worker owned and I always see them work on high skill requirement tasks. Makes me wish I was good enough to work for them.

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Post by HexPhantom »

999900000999 wrote: post #2

That's the magic of open source. Valve can't say ohh noes you need a deluxe enterprise license.

Exactly. Once the work is upstream and open, it stops being "Valve's thing" and just becomes part of the commons
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