Diseased Open Source Software Community - it's about ethics in Code of Conducts

[AmpleApricots]

You can write pixels directly in (I think) ARGB format to /dev/fb*, even via shell script if you so desire. (and yes, you can do cat /dev/urandom > /dev/fb0) SDL also can directly work in the framebuffer last time I checked.

One of the big things wayland weenies justify that bikeshedding exercise with is the insecurity of X. e.g. every program can read the clipboard, or keyboard inputs into other windows. X actually has a security extension to be able to differentiate between trusted and untrusted programs. As you might guess, untrusted programs cannot read the clipboard or keyboard input into other windows. It's not particularily hard to set up, it's mostly not extremely well documented and a lot of programs are poorly written, expect things and crash if they're untrusted.

I ran X all the way down to an Allwinner A20 (two 32-bit Cortex-A7) and Cyrix MediaGX (~Pentium MMX era performance) recently. Absolutely fine and smooth behavior, if xorg.conf and the kernel are set up properly. Of course with a lightweight window manager. If you smash something like Gnome's DE on top (complete with loadbearing javascript mouse cursor) then poor performance is hardly the fault of X isn't it?

I'm personally amazed how anything GUI related just kinda grew in resource demands with the computer specifications over time, while offering absolutely no extra value whatsoever. (usually, quite the contrary) GUIs are a solved problem and there's only so many ways to make a GUI. Why do things like "heavyweight GUIs" with current computers even exist? This absolutely should not be a thing anymore, just like decoding mp3s is not computing heavy for modern processors anymore.

 

[BigGuyOS 6 : Jovial Janny]

One of the big things wayland weenies justify that bikeshedding exercise with is the insecurity of X. e.g. every program can read the clipboard, or keyboard inputs into other windows. X actually has a security extension to be able to differentiate between trusted and untrusted programs. As you might guess, untrusted programs cannot read the clipboard or keyboard input into other windows. It's not particularily hard to set up, it's mostly not extremely well documented and a lot of programs are poorly written, expect things and crash if they're untrusted.

Why isn't anyone working on X12 again? I remember reading on /g/ something about the X11 team getting taken over by wayland shills who are actively sabotaging it, but idk if that's true.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I remember reading on /g/ something about the X11 team getting taken over by wayland shills who are actively sabotaging it, but idk if that's true.

They took over the x.org foundation at around the same time wayland was adopted as a freedesktop.org project. The first wayland devs were (say it with me now) Red Hat employees, who saw an opportunity to capture and control another slice of userland on behalf of their employer. Wayland complements systemd quite nicely in that regard, as they're both incomprehensible, disjointed, expansive piles of shit that break standardised ways of doing things for no reason other than to force compliance with the new, red-hat directed way.

 

[AmpleApricots]

, but idk if that's true.

Hard to say, a few of the more esoteric X features got broken in recent years, with no clear interest to fix them. There's also a fix for tearing (TearFree) for modesetting drivers which intel iGPU machines are supposed to use now and doesn't get rolled into a major release in basically years now, for no clear or good reason as it would be an important thing to add to make X better. A similar thing is going on with refresh rates. Only way to get it is to compile from master. The best thing that could happen at this point is a proper company swooping in to fork and clean up X, which IMO even though it's unusual "legacy" composition is still easier and more pragmatic than to make wayland useful, as in my opinion, the wayland protocol is conceptually broken, perhaps by design.

I wrote smaller X programs before, to e.g. make keyboard sharing between systems more useful than solutions that existed at the time and I never found working with X particularly hard or complex, but well, it's C.

 

[306h4Ge5eJUJ]

for no clear or good reason

It's so that Wayland "finally fixes screen tearing". The standard playbook of RedHat and its ilk is to break your shit and then replace it with their thing "because the old thing is broken".

 

[jakkufurosuto]

for some reason yet unknown today, the godot engine xitter was reveling in being Xer Xister's Choice, because... it just is, ok?

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a few chuddevs were not amused and so the community manager janny had to work extra hard today hiding all that hate speech contributing to literal trans dev genocide.


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anyways, Total Godot Death, retvrn to making small modifiable game engines

 

[Kyangyenki]

Stumbled upon polish troon in alpine linux and now I am horrified

https://ptrcnull.me/
https://p4.team/

standard issue catgirl, girlfriend of 4, mother of 1.

Someone save that poor kid

 

[Sugriva]

for some reason yet unknown today, the godot engine xitter was reveling in being Xer Xister's Choice, because... it just is, ok?
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anyways, Total Godot Death, retvrn to making small modifiable game engines
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I actually like using Godot but they're making it extremely difficult to keep using it.

 

[CrunkLord420]

Valve is entering into a direct relationship with Arch Linux. I fully support Valve's hostile takeover of the Linux desktop ecosystem. Red Hat needs to be excised and Valve is the perfect organization to actually implement pragmatic and timely changes. With Valve we can have Rome, with Red Hat we can't even get fucking thumbnails.

We are excited to announce that Arch Linux is entering into a direct collaboration with Valve. Valve is generously providing backing for two critical projects that will have a huge impact on our distribution: a build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave. By supporting work on a freelance basis for these topics, Valve enables us to work on them without being limited solely by the free time of our volunteers. This opportunity allows us to address some of the biggest outstanding challenges we have been facing for a while. The collaboration will speed-up the progress that would otherwise take much longer for us to achieve, and will ultimately unblock us from finally pursuing some of our planned endeavors. We are incredibly grateful for Valve to make this possible and for their explicit commitment to help and support Arch Linux. These projects will follow our usual development and consensus-building workflows. [RFCs] will be created for any wide-ranging changes. Discussions on this mailing list as well as issue, milestone and epic planning in our GitLab will provide transparency and insight into the work. We believe this collaboration will greatly benefit Arch Linux, and are looking forward to share further development on this mailing list as work progresses.

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org/thread/RIZSKIBDSLY4S5J2E2STNP5DH4XZGJMR/

 

[Carpenter Trout]

I actually like using Godot but they're making it extremely difficult to keep using it.

it also doesn't help them when there's loads of other engines to choose from, both for 3D and 2D.
I guess some retard forgot to tell the troon DEI hire to not make it a gender politic issue

 

[Coolio55]

I actually like using Godot but they're making it extremely difficult to keep using it.

Just make your super Chuddy game in it and be sure to respect the license by proudly displaying the logo on opening.
The other big Godot game is Cruelty Squad which is borderline Chud.
You can make that Chud Win 2:0.

 

[Worst Ever Contender]

The other big Godot game is Cruelty Squad which is borderline Chud.

I have some really bad news for you about the Cruelty Squad developer. The They/Them crossdressing schizo behind it gets very upset when you remind him that his game looks and feels like an MDE skit.
Besides, you’re also forgetting that one sonic game made in godot which gave people seizures. That’s basically a chuddy eugenics game.

 

[OneMillionRPM]

for some reason yet unknown today

More than likely it's a reaction to that "woke content list" that's been floating around among all the gamingcirclejerk types. Just never mind that it's a google doc that anyone can add to, so by this point it's just one big false flag for anyone to edit, immediately screencap, and throw around going "wow i guess (game) is woke now lmaooooo!!!!".

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Valve Helping Arch Linux With Build Service Infrastructure & Secure Signing Enclave (archive) - Phoronix story for the move already mentioned by Crunk above.

FreeBSD To See Better Laptop Support With Investment Backed By AMD, Dell & Framework (archive)

 

[Kola]

More than likely it's a reaction to that "woke content list" that's been floating around among all the gamingcirclejerk types. Just never mind that it's a google doc that anyone can add to, so by this point it's just one big false flag for anyone to edit, immediately screencap, and throw around going "wow i guess (game) is woke now lmaooooo!!!!".

There's no reason to make deranged guesses. They literally linked it in the post

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

This dude is making rounds again.

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/102579969

I found this weirdo on Wiby while back, but he's an infamous /g/ tech lolcow now.

 

[WTBOnlineFather]

This dude is making rounds again.

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/102579969

I found this weirdo on Wiby while back, but he's an infamous /g/ tech lolcow now.

Oh lol it's this retard again. I heard about him and visited his page years back. Of course someone like this is from Brno. Still awaiting a news headline that says drooling Brno man busted with terabytes of child porn.

 

[XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG]

This dude is making rounds again.

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/102579969

I found this weirdo on Wiby while back, but he's an infamous /g/ tech lolcow now.

FFS, 4chan links are the worst because threads will die and the links will become invalid
At least link an archive of the post like https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/102579969/

 

[Kyangyenki]

Godot drama continues on

Spoiler: Bonus, Godot spendings

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

Godot drama continues on

Apparently Titanium level is 100 euros per month so it won't bankrupt them overnight, sadly. What I find baffling is this shit I've barely heard of gets 54,242 euros per month. There's far more worthy open source projects that never see a single dollar. Of course Godot wastes that money on danger hair community managers instead of investing it into development.