Notices by Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io), page 74

It's really really long... will it fit on my case?

Y U No USB-C, XFX?!?

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It's a big baby...

New toy!

#GPU #RDNA3 #gaming #graphics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVrWcbyOmxY
#space #moon

I asked a Chinese friend if these characters are also used together in Mandarin, and she replied:

"In Chinese it is used as 4 words idiom to enthesize what was done (usually by a person). Shortened it to two words means the same. But it could mean 'why' if it is used as the first word of a sentence and it will literally turn it into a question."

The idiom is: 所作所為 (place make place do).

@srevinsaju #japanese #chinese #kanji

@greypilgrim That's at home.

The work browser is exactly as you described: MITM'd by a CA to decode TLS traffic... it's also noticeably slower.

These "security" appliances cause more damage to everyday productivity than the hypothetical threats they're meant to prevent.

@niklaskorz Wait a few more months, when the cheaper variants of the RDNA3 series get unveiled...

Now imagine being a GPU engineer at Evilcorp, and being forbidden by management to ask questions to the other Mesa developers...

Maybe you're smart enough to figure out everything on your own... but if you're really smart, why would you be working for Evilcorp when there are similar jobs at Valve, Intel, AMD, Qualc... err... never mind! 😏

#Mesa #GPU #Graphics #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Linux

For example, look at this super cool mesh shaders feature that was merged into Mesa just yesterday by a Valve engineer:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-22.3-RADV-Mesh-Shader

@niklaskorz Indeed, and they should!

I predict they'll get there incrementally, open-sourcing parts of their stack that make most sense to to ease the support pain for themselves and for their customers.

Perhaps they'll start from the most painful part, the kernel drm driver:
https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

@lightweight Indeed. Using the #GPL while signaling that all businesses are welcome to contribute.

Linus gets a lot of press for his rude emails, but there were other notable leaders in the #FreeSoftware movement who were actively fighting against Red Hat, Canonical and all the other businesses who played a crucial role in the success of #Linux.

There's just one little difference with linux: using permissive licenses (mostly MIT) instead of the GPL.

This means that evil GPU vendors *can* use Mesa as a starting point for their proprietary drivers, without giving back. Oh no! 😠

But, who will able to keep up with the pace development? The moment they fall behind, their hardware will stand out for missing the latest #Vulkan extensions, optimizations and bug fixes...

Look at this feature matrix: https://mesamatrix.net/

How many companies on the planet have the money and the in-house talent to build a graphics stack supporting all this stuff without starting from #Mesa?

I mean, Mesa has grown to the point that major #GPU vendors *have* to contribute code for their hardware or risk being at a disadvantage.

Even #Qualcomm is participating nicely, and soon or later even #Nvidia will capitulate.

#Mesa is succeeding in building the same momentum that made the Linux kernel a huge success.

I was just admiring the release notes of Mesa 22.3, which is just 3 month of work from 22.2:
https://docs.mesa3d.org/relnotes/22.3.0.html

#mesa #opengl #vulkan #linuxdesktop #graphics #gpu

@kenneth @jxself People were joking that one day there would be toasters running #NetBSD.

Today there are *billions* of appliances and tiny IoT devices running Linux.

https://www.ups.com is failing certificate validation in Chrome (but not in Firefox).

Is it just me? It's been like this for a few days...

Oh no, #Fedora, why are you facilitating #Microsoft's #TrustedComputing vision? 😞

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-38-Unified-Kernel-Part-1
#UEFI #SecureBoot #DRM #Linux #Kernel

@freakazoid Has William Shatner become our popularity benchmark?

Will we be waiting for its advent, like "The Day of Linux on the Desktop"?