- The people who absolutely have to have X11 like myself usually have reasons. It sounds like currently a lot of those reasons for using X11 would prevent using this X server. Like reliable non-fragmented and widely supported screenreader protocol. Or the ability to do keyboard and mouse sharing.
>Applications will be isolated from each other by default and can only interact with other applications either through a GUI prompt asking for permission, such as with screen recorders, where it will only be allowed to record the window specified or by explicitly giving the application permission before launched (such as a window manager or external compositor).
- For nvidia increasing the numbers of their money-multiplying mutual investment ring is more important than the value of the deals. It's about involving more capital and people and making their grift too big to fail and keeping the stock numbers up. Nvidia has the ability to promise large amounts of money like this in announcements but I haven't read about any of them actually having money or good exchange hands yet.
- The problem with this is that NPU have terrible, terrible support in the various software ecosystems because they are unique to their particular soc or whatever. No consistency even within particular companies.
- >Making changes can be done with just normal git commands, eg git commit. Many Debian insiders working with patches-unapplied are still using quilt(1), a footgun-rich contraption for working with patch files!
Huh. I just learned to use quilt this year as part of learning debian packaging. I've started using it in some of my own forks so I could eventually, maybe, contribute back.
I guess the old quilt/etc recommendation in the debian build docs is part of the docs updates project needed that the linked page talks about.
- Rydberg atoms aren't antennas. When modulated and then read out by the electrical field of a laser they can be used to infer the ambient electrical field at a arbitrary frequency over very, very narrow frequency bandwidths. This can be used to receive radio signals. But it's not very good at it and it's not an antenna. While the specific frequency can be tuned over a very large range the instantaneous bandwidth is still too narrow to actually receive anything but narrowband carrier (no modulation wings) and barely that.
These are physics tools for specific things, not general radio receivers for transmitted information.
- That's a clever way to get a lower bound for power users. I'm surprised. But also, I did qualify my statement and said people who install firefox. I wonder how many of those 200 million users did, or how many of them had it installed by some power user who set up their computer. I know there are at least a couple dozen people right now who are Firefox users because I installed it and put it front and center on the computers I built or setup or fixed for them.
- Yeah. I see this in every thread. Business types that aren't used to how normal human beings communicate see the human firefox users writing and they can never address the points. Instead they always get hung up on the tone and debate over the irrelevant tone becomes the primary/top thread in HN FF posts.
- The post lists a number of ad-tech moves Mozilla has made in recent years, the ever increasing upper management salaries, and the insistence on trying to make Firefox preprocess everything you see on the web instead of showing you the web itself (AI).
I personally agree with these complaints. I think most people who intentionaly install Firefox agree with them. Despite all it's attempts otherwise, Firefox was and still is mostly used by "power users" and we're pretty much the only ones left that intentionally install the browser. Mozilla being the only working alternative to Alphabet domainance over the web doesn't change the validity of these issues. The real issue here is that Mozilla wants to be HUGE instead of just being a browser for humans.
I'd been a Firefox user since K-meleon (with a gap decade when Opera was actually a real browser and innovating). But for me the breaking point wasn't all this ad-tech stuff or the signalling of AI. It was when Mozilla showed they no longer cared about their core userbase and wanted to chase after demographics that didn't care about browsers at all; when they made the security theater Add-ons signing portal in version 37 and made it so one could not edit or install such things without Mozilla's central and continued approval (also, baking in 3 year expiring add-on certs making FF trial-ware). These days, for me, it's just a fallback for my bank. I use a Firefox fork for my main browsers which is much more Firefox than Firefox.
- smbc did a comic about this: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/copyright The punchline is that the moral and ethical norms of pre-1913 texts are not exactly compatible with modern norms.
- This seems like a cultural mismatch more than anything. Mozilla makes software that human people use and human people use normal language rather than avoiding the non-profitable aggravation associated with emotive language that a company employee might be used to.
Look at the point that op made instead of the tone: the AI feature should be opt-in not opt-out.
That's a good point. Let's talk about that. It seems like it's a simple thing to do to show good faith that this won't be a normal corporate AI push.
- Yep. But I didn't want to restrict the conversation to that sub-thread's framing and wanted to have a more positive framing showing the original post really did make decent points and discuss them rather than the culture mismatch. But given I'm writing this it seems it didn't work and that's on me for being too on the nose, re: hyperbolic.
edit: You're right, you didn't criticize the article or address it at all. You just criticized the tone and implied FF users not happy with this move would drive the mythical "normal" users away.
- The new CEO's big three statements are anything but focused on Firefox the browser and I agree with everything in this silly "Make Me CEO..." post like,
First: All this AI stuff should be opt-in not opt-out and purely local.
Second: There is no good monetization model and the current status quo is anything but entirely transparent given one doesn't bite the hand that feeds it.
Third: No one wants anything except the browser. Mozilla keeps trying to do anything except make Firefox and it keeps backfiring.
Attempts to characterize the above as hyperbolic probably stem from a mismatch in culture. Perhaps some are expecting to read corporate blandness while this was written by a human person who happens to use occasional swear words and suggestive metaphors. That doesn't invalidate the above sensible points in the rant.
- Given the way you're framing this no, it's not worth it for you to blog. Using words like "shipping","low-signal", "networking". And odd ideas like blog posts having to "work" and provide some tangible gain. These are for-profit concepts so I assume you want to do this to make money or meet people to allow you to make money.
There is no money in blogs if there ever was. The money moved away to social media a long time ago. Leave the blogs to human people talking to each other and showing off their gardens and pets and hobbies.
- So keep your crappy crap phone for a job and use a real computer for your personal life.
- Getting a special "notice me on social media (like HN)" fix won't actually fix the problem with using Apple's systems. It's just a temporary reprieve until some other aspect of their control of one's life breaks (by accident or indent).
- Or they just point to the turing test which was the defacto standard test for something so nebulous. And behold: LLM can pass the turing test. So they think. Can you come up with something better (than the turing test)?
- IRC doesn't have quite as many people because people have moved to computers that are not capable to keeping TCP connections open (smartphones). But there are good and active communities left in the ~400k people left IRCing.
- >Caffeine alters mood and causes euphoria.
It alters mood. It does not cause euphoria. But even if it did an addiction does not come from liking/enjoying something. Addiction comes from wanting something. Caffeine does not directly chemically alter the mechanisms of wanting (incentive salience) in the mammal brain. Drugs that directly manipulate wanting are the addictive ones.
Caffeine's mechanism of action is simply blocking the measurement of metabolic product build-up in the brain (adenosine) which is used internally for determining how tired one should be.
- In terms of compilation of programs Go is far, far easier than Rust. For Rust to compile a random Rust program on the internet one almost always has to have the absolutely latest out of repo compiler toolchain from curl rustup.whatever | sh. The normal 4 year release cycle is incompatible with rust development. For commercial use cases this doesn't matter. But for open source like the tor project it does.
That said, since they use Firefox this bridge has already been burned.
You realize that's worse, right? And to be clearer: core Wayland protocol does not have countless ways. It has zero.
Instead of a single protocol with the strong X11 reference X server the wayland compositors pick and choose between libinput, or libei, or libportal with the InputCapture PR, xdg-desktop-portal with the InputCapture interface, some I've probably missed, or maybe you have nothing at all (weston). It's a gamble if your choice of desktop environment and it's wayland compositor's non-core wayland protocols will match up with those the developer for $software chose. On X11 linux everything that works somewhere works everywhere. With the various waylands if you stay within your desktop's ecosystem you'll probably not notice, but go beyond it and you will.
Each wayland desktop pretty much runs it's own compositor with it's own set of third party libs because the wayland core protocol spec is very minimal. I would say incomplete. ref: https://wayland.app/protocols/