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

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.

@a1ba whatever systemd uses

@a1ba @lanodan

they said "Gamers™ (as in the self-titled ones to a point of nearly defining it as personality trait, not like players) are a special kind of toxic though."

but what does that even mean...

as I said, I do play games a significant amount of time and would call myself one.

But then assuming everybody else uses "gamers" as in "those toxic ones" doesn't get you anywhere, as you _will_ be misunderstood and only irritate the non toxic ones.

@lanodan Who is a "gamer" then and how many people are "gamers" according to this definition?

How many Linux users do we have?

How much higher are the chances to find a toxic person in all of the Linux users, and in all of the gamers?

The point I'm trying to make is, that there are a lot of people who would call themselves "gamer" without being toxic. And I don't think we can do that collateral at all.

I myself would me a "gamer" because I do play games a lot.

@lanodan my point is you can't just make such general statements.

There are certainly toxic gaming sub communities out there. But saying "gaming community" being toxic is the same as saying "sport community" are being toxic.

Sure, there are toxic sports fan out there, but I wouldn't dare to say that sports communities are all toxic.

Unless you say all of humanity is being toxic, but then the label "toxic" means nothing anymore.

@lanodan gaming is part of human culture, and maybe at this point it's not "toxic gamers" but just "toxic" people in general who are the problem.

It's not some niche interest. It's human culture.

@lanodan well.. then there is no point in faulting gamers for anything at all.

So your choices are either to insult half the population or to give up talking about it? I kinda don't see it.

I honestly don't understand the hostility some FOSS developers have towards gamers in general.

Sure, there are toxic gamers, but there are also toxic users of your random FOSS app.

If it wouldn't be for wine/proton, the Linux desktop would probably be dead already. I certainly wouldn't have become a linux developer if playing random windows games on Linux wouldn't have been possible.

And I'd wish that toxicity against gamers and gaming related companies to stop.

we should have `humanrights` as a default build option in every build system, so distributions who want to advocate for it have a global option to opt-in into projects expressing it more vocally via build time flags.

My personal opinion is, that it shouldn't be an option, but sadly we live in a world where some of it is controversial and we should force the controversy.