Valve is paying for FOSS support https://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.html

Cached version, while Cloudflare is down: https://archive.is/20251024040409/https://jyu.dev/blog/why-dev-null-is-an-acid-compliant-database/

string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_LXa_y1E

TL;DW: it never was a good theory and the majority of physicists stopped caring about a long time ago because of that

Interesting topic, but the random usage of “AI” to do things because they did not want to x, followed by them doing x anyways a paragraph down was weird. Also all the xitter LinkedIn style posts and pages of slop code made it awful to read…

They, as far as I’m aware, are not reselling like private equity would. They actually take over operations and get ROI through profits.

Thanks. Yeah, increasing revenue generation by increasing monetization is definitely part of their MO.

Can you explain more what and how they ruined something for you? So far I haven’t heard of any real negative change to the applications themselves.

Not to be a hater, but why? (Referring to the two screens, not the open source part)

I think you are thinking to hard about stories that aren’t meant to be thought about a lot. Whether you half the population or double the resources it is just a temporary “fix” anyways. It’s just a plot device for creating conflict and killing off fan favorites without actually killing off fan favorites in the end.

Maybe its also a ship of theseus type situation. If you have to copy /etc/ from somewhere else, is it still the same installation?

Hm don’t agree with their choices, but interesting to read through the thought process. The more colorful theme seems more useful to me, even if I can’t remember the colors I use. I think its a VS code standard theme. I never really cared about customizing everything in general, I just keep what I found useful around.

I think anyone is allowed to develop a KDE app. You have to go through a process to get accepted for the branding I think. But it not like they spent paid employee time on this afaik.

You cannot fix society with technology, the end.

Don’t have a link to the thread on Mastodon, but it was only in Singapore. So it is likely a troll or some glitch.

I know this is the wrong place to say this, but I really like the Windows Explorer. Dolphin is a good replacement, but it would be one of the few things I’d like to keep on Linux.

It definitely is/was. Most user facing software these days is a web app, or native application using JS anyways. The event loop and async programming is also ubiquitous nowadays in most languages, especially server side.

The true turing test

I’m not that deep into it and as you noticed information on the issue is sparse. My understanding is that it is not possible to get power management working for these cards (see https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/PowerManagement.html). May not seem like a big deal, but as far as I understand this means the cards are stuck in the lowest power setting i.e. perform as well as an iGPU.

And from my understanding this is forced by Nvidia because power management is disabled when loading unsigned firmware.

That is my understanding of the situation. Due to this the devs basically gave up on those cards as it is unfixable.

I am aware. Nouveau works okish with cards from the 800 series and older. It does only barely work with 900 and 1000 series cards, because of the firmware signing issue. You can check their page for compatibility information. And the new “open-source” driver only supports the RTX cards.

Nope, 900 and 1000 series have little hope of being properly supported. They require signed firmware which seems to be problem and are not new enough for the “open-source” solution from Nvidia for new cards.