Notices by karolherbst 🐧 🦀 (karolherbst@chaos.social)

@navi @lanodan Yeah, sorry, my wording was unnecessary abrasive.

It's great to see more movement in this area and a lot of things seem to improve lately.

I do appreciate the work and it's great to have alternatives.

The topic is generally quite heated, so probably best to not make posts like this, and I already regret it to be honest.

@lanodan there is more to it than to simply run services as a different user.

So I'm a little confused by the anti-systemd crowd. If you want to be better than systemd, why is none of the alternatives doing user service management? 🙃

That sounds like the obvious thing to implement, and yet people rather trash talk gnome for _not wanting to do user service management_ themselves, because it's a huge PITA to do properly and systemd gives it to you for free...

I should get some sleep, because tomorrow will for sure become "fun"

I sometimes wonder if people would like longer loving support branches for mesa or not.

Not that it's likely to change, just wondering if there is interest.

We don't have a strict policy on this, nor are there any reasons on why the branches on mesa are pretty short lived.

It's just that to have long living branches, somebody would have to volunteer or get paid to do so :)

But I'm more curious on what people think about mesa, being a critical piece, having only short lived releases branches.

@lanodan @a1ba Imagine your language would be designed in a way that it would be easily possible to figure out which projects across a vast number of those would run into issues 🙃

today in C nonsense: a declaration is available in it's initialization expression:

int some_func(void) {
int a = a;
return a;
}

@a1ba C would be 100 times better if such warnings would be errors instead by default

FOMO driven development

@gamingonlinux "Leftist Extremists Leave Linux Kernel, Demand Conservatives Be Banned" 🙃

@gamingonlinux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Karol-Herbst-Nouveau-No

got a lunduke video within _hours_ on this 🙃

The entire alt-right Linux scene went absolutely nuts because of this. It was fascinating to watch.

@gamingonlinux I managed to do something recently where they nuked the comment section, because it was like 300 comments full of that 🙃

I'm formally stepping down as a nouveau kernel maintainer.

I want to stress out this is only for the kernel side of things and has and will not have any impact on my involvement in mesa.

Don't really want to add too much here, just that things need to change. Recent events (tm) is just another example of the deep disagreement.

I won't be able to convince people I made up my mind on my own here, so I won't bother with it anyway.

Full upstream and public statement here: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2025-February/046677.html

we slowly reach the point where "AI advocates" need to be added to list of what constitutes being a "climate change denier".

AI leads to big data centers being build, which leads to massively higher power consumption, which means we get off carbon slower.

And the "counter argument" is that the benefits of AI will offset any damage done by climate change, which is simply 1. wishful thinking and 2. untrue.

It's just techbro culture at this point.

vulkan 1.4 100% speedruns just dropped

I have no idea who is the source, but...

@a1ba 1.0 to be precise

👀 bskeggs@nvidia.com

https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/132523/

(yes, it's all been a secret plan to infiltrate Nvidia and to get people to work on Nouveau instead from the inside as our previous plans apparently haven't worked!)

If the take away for everybody will be that alt-rights and nazis aren't welcomed in Freedesktop, then thanks for the publicity

musl should just suck it up and add non posix extensions if they are useful, meaning: if they are used and no direct replacement exists.

And no, "I have to copy this wrapper function" is _not_ a replacement.