fwxwi | 6 years ago | on: Are We Wayland Yet?
Because it is NOT the same driver. AMD, just like nVidia, want to keep their own secret sauce secret, because that's where the money is.
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fwxwi | 6 years ago | on: Are We Wayland Yet?
Definitely, it's his software and he can do whatever he wants, and I'm not criticising him, I'm criticising Linux for not offering a stable driver API. As far as I know they don't even want to allow shims like the one Android Treble introduced. It is not a technical decision, it's a political one.
fwxwi | 6 years ago | on: Are We Wayland Yet?
I didn't say there's a technical reason, I said they want to keep their source code secret, which to me is a reasonable argument.
fwxwi | 6 years ago | on: Are We Wayland Yet?
Yes, Windows has a stable driver API you can build upon.
Linux does not, because they want all drivers to be inlined (included in the kernel) and open source. nVidia does not want to release their trade secrets, so they don't want to open source their drivers.
(No idea about macOS)
fwxwi | 6 years ago | on: Apple Missed Its Chance to Fix Credit Cards
Weakest article ever. One of his main arguments is that a Taco Bell transaction got miscategorised, lol
fwxwi | 6 years ago | on: Edge vs. Chrome: Microsoft's Tracking Prevention Hits Google the Hardest
They will use the Chromium engine, so it will be fast and render pages well.
If they stick an ad blocker by default, something the Mozilla Corporation hasn't got the balls to do, they will definitely get some market share.
fwxwi | 6 years ago | on: Koalas ‘Functionally Extinct’ After Australia Fires Destroy 80% of Their Habitat
Or perhaps the title of this article is intentionally ambiguous to make people click.
fwxwi | 6 years ago | on: Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later
State of browsers in 2019: asking your browser to bypass an SSL error is so hard that it's easier to ask for a mirror.
btw, if you use Chrome and you see an SSL error, just type "thisisunsafe" and it will load the webpage. Try it here: https://expired.badssl.com/
fwxwi | 6 years ago | on: Can gaming become the happy-hour for remote teams?
I will never understand this trend where, during your worktime, you do lots of stuff that have nothing to do with work. Be it gaming, playing pingpong, getting drunk, rallying for your favourite political cause, making friends, psychological therapy, or whatever.
fwxwi | 6 years ago | on: YouTube’s annoying Premium spam
ublock origin on desktop, youtube vanced on android.
fwxwi | 6 years ago | on: TikTok: Cheerfulness and censorship
Yes you have a point. As I've said I don't use it, so I don't know how it goes. What I'm saying is that a politics-free social network is not only possible, but desirable.
fwxwi | 6 years ago | on: TikTok: Cheerfulness and censorship
That is false. TikTok is a platform where people upload videos of themselves doing things like lip syncing, dancing, etc. That does not have to turn political at all. Unless you use the good ol' argument that "banning all political discussion is supporting the status quo which is also political"
fwxwi | 6 years ago | on: TikTok: Cheerfulness and censorship
Or Tumblr with pornography.
fwxwi | 6 years ago | on: TikTok: Cheerfulness and censorship
TikTok is, as the title says, a social network for cheerfulness and fun. I don't use it, but I can understand they outright ban politics: 1) they avoid becoming the vile cesspool Twitter has become, 2) they avoid being asked by governments around the world to take down posts, 3) they avoid being targeted in propaganda campaigns.
fwxwi | 6 years ago | on: Three of Apple and Google’s former star chip designers launch NUVIA
It also sounds like Lenovo (computer company), Denuvo (DRM system), and Pepsi (beverage)
fwxwi | 6 years ago | on: 100k+ page views a month for $5 with a self-hosted static site
If it's just nginx serving files you can do this with a 386. I mean seriously what's so special about this? Maybe I'm missing something. Pretty sure nginx can serve thousands of static files with gzip+ssl per second using the crappiest ARM VPS available. Stick that in Online.net or OVH and you will pay no bandwidth fees.
Of course if your baseline is a wordpress site where every page weighs 3 MB and takes 2 seconds to generate when there's no server load, then this might seem like black magic to you
fwxwi | 6 years ago | on: Cname cloaking, a disguise of third-party trackers
What's the difference between this and what Instart Logic has been doing for years now? https://github.com/gorhill/uBO-Extra#purpose
fwxwi | 6 years ago | on: Cname cloaking, a disguise of third-party trackers
You can't block an IP address with a hosts file; you can't even use wildcards in them. You will need a firewall rule.
fwxwi | 6 years ago | on: Stop Using Facebook
Oh boy this again.
Everybody has heard about all these things on the telly, on online newspapers, etc. The media launched a massive campaign against Facebook. It didn't work. People find value in Facebook and they don't care about your predicament. Let people enjoy things!
fwxwi | 6 years ago | on: Mastercard Bans Automatic Billing After Free Trials
That's supposing I would be stupid enough to keep money in my PayPal account, which I'm not.
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