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[ssokolow]

It is the default... on FreeBSD and NetBSD.

That said, to answer the intent of your question, allocators always make trade-offs and different...

[ssokolow]

Sounds more like one of the IP blocks you'd click together to build some kind of SoC-like thing in an FPGA... sort of like how a MiSTer core for an IBM...

[ssokolow]

According to this post, the plan going forward is to get Nouveau and the nVidia driver sharing a kernel-side backend....

[ssokolow]

Look at the Open Pandora handheld.

They chose the OMAP3 SoC because, with the closed-source parts of the GPU driver being entirely in userland,...

[ssokolow]

1. Firefox's WebExtensions API was a superset of the Chrome/Chromium extension API, even before Google decided to "improve" it in ways ad-blocking

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[ssokolow]

For a variety of reasons (insufficient support for enabling "resist fingerprinting" but faking the reports rather than forcing the window size,...

[ssokolow]

FFFFFFFFFFF...!

Some preference when my first goal is to minimize my browser's fingerprintability for anti-tracking purposes. (eg. It's already...

[ssokolow]

I'm guessing MediaSync is for when you're helping your grandparents pick a display, knowing that movie-watching is the only thing they really do outside...

[ssokolow]

From what I've seen on YouTube channels like Technology Connections and Techmoan, Betamax was objectively inferior. Less play time and more complex (read...

[ssokolow]

Because not even AMD cares about Mantle now that they have Vulkan. They recognized that the value of an API is in not being tied to a single hardware...

[ssokolow]

VESA VRR/AdaptiveSync is a standard derived from AMD FreeSync in the same way that Vulkan is a standard derived from AMD Mantle....

[ssokolow]

Well, nVidia had plenty of opportunity, what with KWin devs sending the EGLStreams guy to go talk to the driver guys.



That's...

[ssokolow]

My brain just free-associated to a similar argument against pseudoscientist logic:...

[ssokolow]

TL;DR: Zircon was started in 2016. In 2016, Rust was still too young....

[ssokolow]

I literally said "until nVidia wrote the backend and gave them someone to maintain it".



My understanding is that...

[ssokolow]

Also, KDE was fairly strategic about addressing that. They said "we're neither writing nor maintaining a backend for kwin_wayland that's used by...

[ssokolow]

That's why I said "even". Aside from that, though, the history of MP3 use on Linux has shown that patents are an inconvenience to individual...

[ssokolow]

That is a concern with Mesa being MIT. Even the GPLv2 explicitly prevents this by ensuring that, if they distribute a build of such a thing to you, they're...

[ssokolow]

That would make sense. Historically, encode licenses have tended to cost more than decode licenses as an artifact of the "many viewers, few TV stations"...

[ssokolow]

That's what's going on. Hence Ekstrand: Plumbing explicit synchronization through the Linux ecosystem getting linked earlier.


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