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Linux kernel hacker and maintainer etc.

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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 4 months ago
A correction. Libera Chat already supports as of today IRCv3 at least in some level (not full coverage of the features):

https://ircv3.net/support/networks
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Jarkko Sakkinen

About a year now without Facebook 🥳

Two years without LinkedIn.

Never used list that comes into mind:

1. Instagram
2. Snap Chat
3. TikTok
4. Spotify (I use BandCamp and SoundCloud because they have all the interesting music. I never have had a thing for cherry-picked and uninteresting music)
5. Discord
6. TOR (As of today I haven't been in a situation where I need to buy narcotics or illegal sexual services or associated oriented material from Internet)

Projects touching this topic that I find interesting and trying out once in a while.

1. IRC 3.0: think time would right to establish wide IRC 3.0 network. There's a niche for this. I hope someone like OFTC or Libera Chat would start providing this for developers interested both having projects there or help to establish IRC 3.0.
2. Try Quiet: Look at https://tryquiet.org/. It's not yet stable enough for production but this could be a great alternative for Signal group chats for instance.

#SocialMedia #IRC #IRCv3
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@raito yeah i got it just mumbling about my philosophy 🙂
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@raito IMHO, it is good to promote projects like I have (and will also end up to MAINTAINERS file after it becomes my daily CI). for the sake open source community detox :-)

"I love Fedora on my host but I still see NixOS as a one of kind tool for building operating system images"

If I start to look at some project I'm contributing to, or software that I use, as "a clan", then it is time to do be offline for some time and do more exercise etc. :-) I've been there too (not judging).
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I have not slept a lot for one week but this work needed some stretch. It was surprisingly hard to find material where NixOS is used "only" as a tool. It is an alternative to Yocto and Buildroot for me, as this is exactly where I use it, and where I previously used aforementioned builders.

Thus, I've postponed to do this for two years, although the idea has been spinning on my mind for some time (especially for testing aarch64 kernel with the help of macOS w/o having to install Asahi). Week of insomnia starts to pay off...
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days since I broke kernel.org: 0
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Next up: macOS
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@Conan_Kudo @monk apologies for red hatters, i love fedora so much overall, thus this caught my "what **** is this shit o_O" antennas :-) if RH would overall suck you could not see the difference...
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@Conan_Kudo @monk I did cut some corners yes, but having a size-fit pipeline for data always does also a major difference :-)
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@monk @Conan_Kudo That is sort of different discussion, and I'd say "it depends" :-)

Podman Desktop is not just Electro app, it's a shitty app even if you compare it to apps made with Electron.

For a modern GPU the main glitch with web technology based apps is not that much the UI description language. It's more related to the software rendering pipeline from the 90s duct taped into composition based pipeline, and single core design duct taped into multi-core.

The difference between app and "non-app" is not really whether the app uses Gtk, QT or HTML. It's really the level of access to the local system resources. At least this is the conclusion you mostly likely end up with, if you start to specify more formally the difference between "an app" and "a web page".

I said this in some other thread too but Electron run-time on top of Servo could be pretty nice even for hardware with relatively slow CPU but still multi-core, and mediocre GPU. Servo is a software architecture that has been optimized with an eye for modern GPU's and multi-core CPU's as the primary targets.

Gtk and Qt only perform better because they have had a privilege to break backwards compatibility with the new major versions, not because they would do something magically awesome to get the rank of being a "native app", or their engineers would particularly be better in their job.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 5 months ago
IMHO, for Microsoft it would make whole a lot of sense to back this up. E.g. creating Servo based Electron runtime and put VSCode on top of that would be money well spent.
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It shares also the similarity with Linux that it has some technical edge over competition. The rendering engine is superior compared to the existing science. Thus, Servo has an actual bet to be also commercial success :-)
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@Conan_Kudo RH brand for me is like GPL across board, polished desktop experience, standards compliance and generally top notch quality. Shitty Electron app with Telemetry red flags straight from the get go does not fit.
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@Conan_Kudo This was just a shock for me because it did not match my typical RH expectations. It's exactly like someone had made a fake RH application that is actually ransomware 😅
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 5 months ago
The best thing that happened to Servo in its history was most likely being orphaned from Mozilla.

The world needs "Linux of Web Engines" because while kernel runs the machinery, web is the interface that users interact with. Then both ends are covered and governed.

#servo #linux #mozilla
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@Conan_Kudo I hope some smart person some day does Electron runtime based on Servo. It could make it sleeker given how well-constructed GPU pipeline it has.
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@Conan_Kudo Yeah, it was like stereotypical enterprise GUI :-) Would make sense if it was CISCO Podman Desktop... The very first question you get ask is query to enable Telemetry...
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 5 months ago
Tried Podman Desktop by Red Hat as it was first monitor I found.

It's IMHO fucking horrible. Looks bad and a complete mess, which is pretty relevant attribute for that purpose. I mean the use and purpose is to visualize the situation, right?

This feels much more sane GUI option: https://github.com/marhkb/pods

#podman
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