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_d7xz | 5 years ago | on: Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yet

In order to support recording on different Wayland compositors (without having to develop tons of other middle layers by yourself), one would need to simply activate their built-in screencasting tool according the specified user settings. This took me a bit of time to figure out for GNOME, and I had to fill a bug-report to speak to one of the compositor developers to understand how to do that, as no documentation was available at all. Even so, some hidden bugs appeared (Quality wasn't too good, audio had to be recorded separately over ffmpeg, and then both audio and video had to be merged together in one file, V9 had a bug that consumes 100% of CPU on some hardware, so we had to use V8 by default... etc).

In order to go further, I had to do the same thing for KWin on Wayland, Sway and other compositors out there in the market and then integrate them into my program. I had to find some workarounds for any bugs that may occur.

Later on, some changes for ffmpeg API broke the Xorg recording (Green Recorder used ffmpeg to record on all desktop environments on Xorg), so I had to do more testing now for multiple versions of ffmpeg and on which distro do they work and don't work.

So I just gave up, as I simply didn't find any particular reason to continue doing that since the only amount of support I received on my then-opened Patreon was $20 per month at its max.

But it shouldn't be said that Wayland can not support screencasting or that it breaks screencasting. It is possible, and the previously mentioned issues are actually on the compositors' developers side, not the protocol.

mhsabbagh | 7 years ago | on: Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image

Those are his companies, he founded them with his money. He's the CEO of all those companies, unlike the situation here. She wasn't the leader of the entire project. And she didn't even put her hands on the other aspects other than processing the image from the data.

> Another team leader might have botched it and we wouldnt have the picture.

How do you know that? The "might" means nothing here. There were many other teams working too and each of them have their talented leader doing complicated things. Choosing this one specifically from all others to take the credit is meaningless.

mhsabbagh | 7 years ago | on: Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image

No I am not, in order to create the image they observed the black hole for years, which is coming from the work of the people I linked to in my source, 200 people from 40 countries and all the other astronomers, being the team who just produced the image from the data is relatively smaller effort comparing to the overall work of all the people involved for years. I am not blaming her, I didn't say she's the one pushing this thing, I am blaming this BBC article. She never said "I am the one".

Yes she was in charge of the team responsible of producing the image from the data, it doesn't mean in anyway that she's "behind the first image of the black hole". Everybody involved is behind the image.

This is not about celebrating those people, it's giving the main chunk of the credit to this person alone. I have no idea why is it such a hard thing to understand or why is this even an issue. Claiming that this person is the only "crucial" person involved is a straightforward lie. If that's how the media has been doing it for 30 years, then the media needs to change and fix their lies.

mhsabbagh | 7 years ago | on: SpaceX Crew Demo-1 Mission [video]

Ah, here I am, setting under the blanket and drinking a cup of tea with lemon, watching a rocket 9600km away from me that's about to go to space in few minutes.

What a time to be alive.

mhsabbagh | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Successful projects that weren't received well on HN?

On just a small side note to remind our selves: Projects that didn't receive well in HN doesn't necessarily mean that HN didn't find it promising/useful or ignored it. It could have been posted at times when participation is low (e.g midnight), for example, so nobody actually saw it. Or people simply just forgot to upvote it, and it went unnoticed in the flood of too many other submissions.

I remember that I posted an article that I wrote to HN someday, and it got only 10 votes. Just a day later, some other guy posted MY article and got around 320 votes. I think it's just luck sometimes.

mhsabbagh | 7 years ago | on: How India's sex workers prevented an Aids epidemic

Am I the only one who's extremely pissed off by the subtitle?

> Beating Aids is India’s greatest public health achievement. A new book says it wouldn’t have happened without women

Replace this with "it wouldn't have happened without men" and you would feel how ridiculous this subtitle is.

mhsabbagh | 7 years ago | on: IBM acquires Red Hat

First Microsoft buying GitHub and now IBM buying Red Hat.

I wonder how the next year will be for Linux and open source in general, looks like we are going to have a lot of drama.

mhsabbagh | 7 years ago | on: Only a few vendor-paid developers do almost all open-source work

This is hilarious:

>> It is fair to say that for almost all of the projects in the CNCF, specific vendors account for most of the development work being done.

> Not just “many” open source projects—all of them.

The author moves from an analysis written about CNCF projects to generalize a conclusion about all open source software. What a misleading title and content, it remains hanged without any evidence on those claims.

mhsabbagh | 9 years ago | on: Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop

The website is down from the load, it will come back after a while.

The article is based on many sources, in the original forum thread on Lenovo forums there are many people who faced the problem with other models, some weren't even Lenovo but the problem with Lenovo is that the BIOS is locked completely, those people (using ASUS and Dell laptops) confirmed the problem is solved after the switch to AHCI from RAID.

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