AI-generated music pisses me off. Thankfully YouTube tells me if something is AI-generated so I can skip away from it. I wish I could filter it out entirely, though.
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@dalias@hachyderm.io @datenwolf@chaos.social @miah@hachyderm.io The thing is, most applications in most toolkits *use* those APIs to draw UI elements these days. GTK does *everything* with Vulkan by default these days.
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@dalias@hachyderm.io @datenwolf@chaos.social @miah@hachyderm.io What? No. It literally has the opposite effect: only the remote server (even a headless one) needs to be able to run the GL/VK APIs or accelerated encoding. It makes it so that it's tolerant of high latency connections and lower bandwidth connections.
I've literally been able to use Wayland apps with waypipe --video ssh over in-flight Wi-Fi over the Atlantic with minimal UX impact. The app was responsive and worked fine.
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@dalias@hachyderm.io @datenwolf@chaos.social @miah@hachyderm.io There isn't anything to fix. It makes sense to use graphics rendering APIs for drawing. And offloading from the CPU to the GPU for this sort of thing frees up cycles for core logic to run on the CPU and lowers overall resource usage (including energy usage).
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@kernellogger@hachyderm.io @AsahiLinux@social.treehouse.systems The bootable flag thing is something that only exists in MBRs, and Apple's APFS containers (which contain a GPT when hosting a Linux install) have revived that thing. So now it functions like MBR does.
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@dalias@hachyderm.io @datenwolf@chaos.social @miah@hachyderm.io (1) is not the direction things are going. Integrated GPUs are spreading to more and more parts, even downmarket into ultra-low-end SoCs.
(2) I have never seen an X11 application do this. And nothing stops you from doing that with Wayland applications too, except for it doesn't make sense to do and never has, even in the X11 days.
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@whitequark @rey @cadey @0xabad1dea My understanding is that they're trying to do this with Copilot... The results are exactly as you expect.
The CFP is now open for #FOSSY2026 through April 30, and #CampKDE will be part of FOSSY this year! If you're coming to FOSSY and would like to speak about KDE things, consider proposing a talk!
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@mttaggart Sure, but he doesn't own it, he doesn't even get to make decisions unilaterally. That's really the difference here. If it was some kind of fake-foundation that was really a for profit company where he actually owned it, then I think there's some meat to it. But it's a real 501(c)(6) with trustees, bylaws, and formal public records. If the Rails Foundation is being sketchy, then yes, pull funding. But it seems fine so far.
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@j_r @emenel Basically, 37signals was already a large server customer, and they probably prompted this engagement so that they could rationalize all their workstation computers on Dell too. By doing this, they get publicity and discounted/free co-engineering alongside discounted larger scale Dell equipment orders for both servers and workstations.
It might be April Fool's Day, but you'd be a fool if you didn't check out today's #SudoShow episode where Noel, Bill, and I have a lighthearted conversation about pranks in the office. It's a nice break from the day-to-day humdrum with the #BusinessOfLinux.
I Don’t Know How to Make Coffee | SUDO Show 75
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@ebassi@mastodon.social @hughsie@mastodon.social The policy we adopted in Budgie is that Co-authored-by is explicitly for humans. Assisted-by should be used for substantive efforts from these tools.
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@mttaggart The conversations I had with the Framework people indicated they have never funded Omarchy. And funding RailsWorld makes sense when it is run by the Rails Foundation, which stewards Ruby on Rails. That's the stack their websites are all built on.
Are you saying they *shouldn't* support their dependencies? Because that doesn't sound good at all.
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@whitequark @rey @cadey @0xabad1dea Regardless of how you feel about the various AI/LLM things, it's definitely true that Copilot is the worst one of the bunch.
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@nextcloud@mastodon.xyz @ChaP@norden.social @clero@mastodon.social Couldn't you have come up with a better name than "Euro-Office"? I know ONLYOFFICE wasn't a great name either, but... competing for terrible product names isn't a competition worth winning... 😅
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@gunstick @whitequark @rey @cadey @0xabad1dea Microsoft Copilot is driven by the same incentives that all the other Microsoft products are: that is, people use them because their companies make them use it, rather than people willingly choosing them. That means that user feedback has a very low priority for them, since it has little impact on revenue.
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@ebassi@mastodon.social @hughsie@mastodon.social If it wrote more than half my code, probably? I don't think I've seen an autocompletion engine able to do that, though. 😅
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@mttaggart They literally didn't, though: https://frame.work/blog/framework-sponsorships
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@cadey @whitequark @rey @0xabad1dea If Copilot was my only experience of these things, it would be so easy to ignore the whole technology. It's supremely awful.
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@cadey @0xabad1dea Yeah, GitHub isn't generally working on product and service features right now. The number one priority is moving to Azure. And regardless of your opinion of Azure as a cloud platform, retooling GitHub to optimize for Azure is extraordinarily painful and slow work.
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@0xabad1dea Do they call the mailbox the postbox there too? I know that a major difference in British English is that mailboxes are called postboxes instead. So the usage of "mail" as the conventional way to describe letter delivery really only started with email there.
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@cassidy At least with extensions, you *do* somewhat have sizable data points with extensions.gnome.org and extensions distributors ship by default.
Same goes for settings. If distributors are changing them or considering changing them, that's a decent signal for consideration.
As for the last point... 🤷
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@scien@social.linux.pizza @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems @enigmatico@mk.absturztau.be @mgorny@social.treehouse.systems @Amorpheus@kind.social I definitely understand the perspective, but I think the crux of our difference of perspectives is that I operate under the model that a company is a social organization while you're viewing them as a financial one. I don't *need* them to give everything, I *want* them to give as much as possible. I've also found that there's always *someone* with influence to connect with in every company. Finding that someone can be hard, though. 😅
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@mttaggart But they aren't giving money to a Nazi. The money went to the Rails Foundation, a registered non-profit. They have public records for what they do with the money.
This is not complicated, indeed.
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@deobald@fantastic.earth @matk@mastodon.social @razze@osna.social Weirdly enough, I use both ~/Sources and ~/Projects. The latter comes from doing development on Mac OS X (which already creates this for Xcode, I think?). On my system, stuff I develop locally goes into ~/Projects and eventually gets into the ~/Sources hierarchy once I pick where it gets hosted.
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@scien@social.linux.pizza @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems @enigmatico@mk.absturztau.be @mgorny@social.treehouse.systems @Amorpheus@kind.social I personally don't think of it that way, because it kind of cuts out the indirect personality effects that have outsized impacts. Internal reputation, solid personality, respect, and influence are important factors. When I worked in a larger company, I had those things and that allowed me to encourage the company to contribute "by default". The conversation around FOSS was *usually* collaborative rather than consumptive.
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@scien@social.linux.pizza @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems @enigmatico@mk.absturztau.be @mgorny@social.treehouse.systems @Amorpheus@kind.social That particular reasoning isn't unique to "big tech" though. It's literally how *every* consumer of a FOSS component thinks.
One of the most bizarre things YouTube has recommended to me in a while: a country-style cover of the #PokémonJohtoJourneys opening theme... in *German* (it's dual language, technically...).
It's not like it sounds bad, but country style with German sounds so odd to my ears...
Pokémon – Die Johto Reisen | Country Cover
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@decathorpe @me Oh, I know what it means. That's why I use 😩 for this instead myself. But I've seen most western folks interpret it differently anyway.
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@drakulix@social.dreampi.es @cas@social.treehouse.systems @justsoup@mstdn.social If there was a way to do this in Plymouth, it would be neat if the bgrt theme could be configured by distros to do fancy things like that...
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@carl@kde.social I'm kind of a travel addict too... 😅
But also, honestly, I enjoy seeing old and new faces in new places. Though for me, this kind of travel is *considerably* more expensive than it is for you...
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@unfa@mastodon.social @timotimo@peoplemaking.games You can force X11 for an app through the command line even on Wayland. Since X11 applications run through Xwayland, that is sufficient for verifying the difference.
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@gentooza The sources have moved first, the mailing list and website are moving next. My understanding is the whole project is moving, but it's still "GNU GRUB".
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@dzwiedziu@mastodon.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run No. It is saying that we are unwilling to accept brigading in our places of discussion. The KDE community of contributors has always been invited to discuss evolution of policy. And that issue saw seriously problematic commentary by people who aren't in the community at all, but just chose to jump in and stoke fires.
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@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems @enigmatico@mk.absturztau.be @mgorny@social.treehouse.systems @Amorpheus@kind.social That's true, but I do see copyleft tipping the scales more often than not. A bigger driver is usually complexity. OpenStack and Kubernetes survive as permissively licensed projects because they're literally too complex to fork. Earlier attempts and "small cloud" solutions fail unless they are copylefted because they lack complexity for survivability.
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@lina The IBM Granite models have verified data inputs with open data sets to be exclusively permissively licensed stuff, so theoretically you can trace the synthesis back to the source if you want. That probably would be fine.
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@todayilearned It also has a nice side effect of being pleasurable for the visually impaired. The music provides situational cues that help paint an auditory picture and make it enjoyable for them too.
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@me @decathorpe I associate it with exhausted/worn out. So I would still ask regardless.
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@scien@social.linux.pizza @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems @enigmatico@mk.absturztau.be @mgorny@social.treehouse.systems @Amorpheus@kind.social I've been on both sides of interaction. It is true that question comes up a lot, but it's also just not that simple.
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@0xabad1dea @xaetacore If it's owned by USPS, it's a postbox. Since the ones that are at people's homes in the US are *not* owned by USPS, they aren't called postboxes. The drop-off boxes are called postboxes, since they are owned by the USPS.
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@larsmb@mastodon.online @krig@goto.liten.app As a self-employed freelance software engineer, this has been the crux of my struggle for the last couple of years.
What do I do? I love "solutioning", but I worry about losing the ability to do it. I also need to pay my bills, and if I can't produce well enough and fast enough, I'm basically toast.
It's really easy for people who have regular, stable incomes and a built-in long-term career to make judgements about stuff like this, but it's extremely hard for folks like me.
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@hughsie To be honest, I like the bouncing progress thing (also known as a "progress-less bar") for stuff like that.
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@scien@social.linux.pizza @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems @enigmatico@mk.absturztau.be @mgorny@social.treehouse.systems @Amorpheus@kind.social I have been lucky to have known great people who are good advocates even at crappy companies. Not every firm has those, and the character of the people doing engineering work in those companies really defines the relationship with FOSS.
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@timotimo@peoplemaking.games I'd rather not guess. Opening a terminal and unsetting WAYLAND_DISPLAY is enough to force an application to use X11.
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@pid_eins How do you determine what is a "powerful" terminal? And when systemd uses it, is there a case where it synthesizes the full distribution release string with it? That is, name + version + codename?
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@michelin@hachyderm.io No, that it's a nice lighthearted post. I also kind of agree with the content of the blog post, too! 😄