Notices by Gabriele Svelto (gabrielesvelto@mas.to)

We are modernizing the user interface

Pray we do not modernize it further

Slowly reading through Ed Zitron's last article on AI and there's one thing that stands out: it's clear that the AI bubble might send us straight into another 2007-style financial meltdown. When it happens it's crucial that we point the finger at those responsible for it, because - with most of the industry tied up into this madness - the scapegoating will be one for the ages.

The situation in Syria is very complex, far more than the simplistic reporting you will find in the mainstream press. However if you're trying to understand why the Israel Defense Forces got involved then this is the crucial bit of information you need to be aware of.

@eniko I'm finally on vacation and I'd happily write one for you if you'd like

@eniko I would have still dusted off a skill I haven't used since the beginning of this century. What do you need, float or fixed-point inputs? Z-buffering? Some kind of parameter interpolation? Do you have a preference between scanlielne or uniform rasterization?

@usul Raptor Lake systems have known timing/voltage issues that get worse with temperature. Things are so bad at this time that we had to disable a bot that was filing crash reports automatically because it was almost only finding crashes from people with affected systems https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1975808

If you have an Intel Raptor Lake system and you're in the northern hemisphere, chances are that your machine is crashing more often because of the summer heat. I know because I can literally see which EU countries have been affected by heat waves by looking at the locales of Firefox crash reports coming from Raptor Lake systems.

@wyatt @mir @doskel the root cause of the instability is a problem in clock distribution. Heat increases the resistance of the metal paths and transistor leakage, in turn degrading the clock signal and making timing issues more likely to manifest themselves

https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/Client/Intel-Core-13th-and-14th-Gen-Desktop-Instability-Root-Cause/post/1633239

As you probably heard animated PNG images (APNG) have been standardized! So here's a story on how I used an APNG file to cut a phone's power consumption by 10 times in a common scenario during the weeks leading up to the launch of Firefox OS 1.0. We'll talk about webpage layout, rendering, mobile hardware intricacies, driver bugs and of course APNG files. 🧵 1/15

https://social.linux.pizza/@knurd42/114743763415059021

#FirefoxOS #PNG