This is the actual change if you’re curious: https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=80b6f094756f

And the paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3626780

Great cover, great band

I think the writer just couldn’t resist the pun. A bit myopic of them.

Open sourcing old games is awesome for video game preservation.

Great! So I’ll have to pay way less income tax next year, right?

… right?

I hope Web Monetization takes off. I wouldn’t mind seamlessly paying X cents per hour to whatever site I’m browsing, which also can be distributed to creators. I hope this would enable professional content creators to diversify to platforms like Peertube. Unfortunately it seems the Web Monetization / Interledger platform isn’t quite usable yet. I tried, and it’s all very broken still.

I agree. E-mail is the original federated service. And 50 years later e-mail spam remains a big problem. I hope Fedi projects can get spam mitigations on-par with email before spammers start getting serious about this place.

I sure would like to buy the man a beer if I ever have the opportunity

America and Europe have been supposedly allied since WW2. That’s “no longer” the case, now more obvious than ever before.

Moving from C to C++ would also not solve any real problem. C++ of course adds OOP which I think can be nice (not everyone agrees with this!) but it also adds an insane amount of language complexity and instability. Mentally reasoning about C code is hard, reasoning about C++ code is nearly impossible.

Rust however brings a novel solution to classes of problems like ownership and mutability with the borrow checker. It’s now accepted to be a great tool for writing high performance code while preventing a substantial amount of common, but often subtle, bugs from slipping through. It’s not arbitrarily the first non-C code to be accepted in the kernel. And it’s used in other operating systems like Android and Windows already.

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“The problem is that we all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor. That’s the problem.”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Just fucking do it already. America is rapidly being destroyed and all the Democrats will have got to show for it in the future history books is “They did their utmost to avoid taking any possibly biased-looking decisions.”

Duh, I missed that it was under Steam Input. Yeah, most likely that’s just controller polling. Amazing that somehow saves 6% battery.

Oh, you refer only to this specific patch. I’m not 100% sure about this patch, but there are other kinds of polling rates, including a global kernel polling rate which greatly affects performance, and tweaking it might perhaps save battery life. And I just mean in general it appears Valve invests a lot of time into mobile power efficiency and I wonder if some makes it upstream.

It has been my experience, which seems generally accepted online, that Linux is greatly outclassed by Windows when it comes to power efficiency on laptops during normal usage. So contributions of new ways in which power efficiency could be improved would be great.

I wonder how many of these updates make it from Steam Deck into mainstream Linux. Because my Deck lasts a lot longer on battery power than my Linux laptop does.

That was hilarious. I totally get it, kid.

It’s been continuously surprising to me how much hatred some C and C++ devs have for Rust. While Rust isn’t perfect, and plenty of criticisms aimed at the language are well-reasoned, the borrow checker is IMO the logical next step forward in “zero-cost abstraction” which is one of the strongest core philosophies behind C and C++.

The R4L effort seems to be structured sensibly, starting out with only allowing Rust code in (new) drivers. From what I can tell there’s comparatively little that has to be maintained upstream, but even that is encountering aggressive pushback.

I can’t help but feel like some devs have spent so much of their professional careers learning how to avoid the many footguns of C(++) that they fundamentally resent Rust for being a language which avoids most these problems, allowing fast code to be written with fewer bugs in less time and with less effort. This feeling is based on having written lots of C++ code for over 20 years, and having personally encountered devs who deeply resent Rust just because it’s not C.