It may have a different connotation in the US than in Europe. In US media I’ve only heard the term being used recently, in Europe it’s been around for decades.
In Europe, “Antifascist” is a label that people groups use to describe themselves, similar to how other describe themselves as patriot or pacifist. Someone carrying an Antifa flag at a protest is maybe comparable to someone carrying a Gadsden flag at a right wing rally.
Yeah, basically this. People have been calling themselves Antifascist, but only the right-wing calls it "Antifa". Literally anyone carrying a sign at a protest that says "Reject Fascism" is an antifascist. Those are the people the US government is calling terrorists.
I tried to get Copilot to port the Linux drivers for my HP CP1025 to macOS, but it failed. Even modern Linux can’t print to it any more, I had to put an older distribution on a RasPi and now I’m printing at reduced quality.
It was crazy how the LLM held on to outdated information. It suggested so many things that might have worked on an older macOS but very obviously wouldn’t nowadays. It also tried to port from Linux for a while until it eventually discovered that cups on Linux didn’t support that printer either.
Weird, since the most used open source inference engine is faster on Vulkan on platforms that offer multiple options, with the sole exception being Nvidia, due to poor Nvidia driver quality (which I am forced to assume is intentional, Nvidia wishes to maintain their moat after all).
If you think that’s dedication: I met Dominic (DA) who they interviewed in this article almost 20 years ago in the Spanish desert, where taught us Euroburners the art of MOOP cleanup. He’s been at it for a long time now.
i've always felt like going to Burning Man, something just attracts me to it. but i'm a eurodude, going to the US just for a festival sounds idiotic and i currently don't want to visit the US anyways.
are there similar events in europe? you sound like an experienced oldhead :)
Look up whatever regional burns[1] exist in your country or neighboring countries, and attend one of those. Ideally, join whatever online community exists around it first, and then reach out to some of the camps that interest you about joining and helping with whatever it is they like to do. I love Burning Man, but I can honestly say that I've had a lot more fun at my local regional burns than I've had at the big burn.
I’ve had a similar FAANG experience. They approached me, I made “no relocation” a non-negotiable condition from the start. We started talking, I did the marathon interview until late in the night (CET vs PT), put my formal application in their system, and after two months they said they were ready to make me an offer. On the same day, it turned out that they had not even bothered to look up the pay range for my country. Instead, I was asked for the fifth time if I were willing to move to California.
Linux 20 years ago wasn’t what it is today. Low latency audio for example, that was something that BeOS in the late 90s could do out of the box, a similar experience on Linux required special kernel patches and some compromises or it simply wasn’t there at all.
Audio latencies of less than 10ms on consumer hardware were otherwise unheard of. Windows, out of the box, was still operating in the 100+ms range.
Yet after 20 years of Linux distros, we still see Linux struggling with getting a simple desktop together without X or Wayland crashing itself and logging you out because of someone wanting to tweak their desktop via a custom init script or systemd script.
Let me know when I can support 100% of all Linux distros and users like I can with macOS and Windows.
There's only one macOS and only one Windows. You can support only the big distros (basically Debian/Ubuntu or/and Fedora/openSUSE; for example that's what Chrome does) and let respective distro maintainers handle issues to other ones. Or just use Snap or/and Flatpak.
I would love to see a BeOS/Haiku userland on top, of the Linux Kernel. That would bring wide hardware support, including HW accelerated 3D (something BeOS was always lacking). It is not going to happen though, the attempts that were didn’t go far and porting the entirety of Haiku would be a gigantic effort that no one is volunteering for.
IIRC that was one of the two/three main ways forward discussed and planned for after Be Inc went belly up.
- OpenBeOS (Haiku) - rewrite from scratch
- Option 2 (can't remember if it had a name) - was just to Implement BeOS userland on a Linux, to get free access to drivers etc. Most of the Be community was not interested, and I cannot remember if they even got started..?
- (YellowTab - Some company had access to BeOS sources and started releasing and somewhat updating the OS on a commercial basis - but don't think they actually had the rights to do that....)
This would probably have meant that the Mac wouldn't have become so popular amongst developers. At least that was the reason for me to switch to Mac because it's a "proper" UNIX with a window system that actually works ("Linux on the desktop" has mostly caught up in the meantime, but 10 years ago that was quite different).
BeOS was less compatible. There were also many improvements to it in the later versions. When NeXT bought Apple[0], BeOS was not even in its pre-release phase. Its heyday, such as it were, was really on Intel, with R5 and the Personal Edition, in the last few years of the 90's.
I would love to see a hardware company pick up Haiku and “do an Apple”: make a small set of focused computers with excellent support for a specified set of hardware.
Intel should do this. It's rounding error and they can use it to push the envelope. Intel should have done this with Linux, Solaris, Beos years ago to push Microsoft.
The NDK wouldn't be a problem, but requiring powerful devices speaks volumes about how lacking is Android in that field, when one can build low latency synthesizers and effects using a cheap old Raspberry PI 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtU8jMtbplE
True low-latency workloads on modern Linux (and 10ms is definitely low-latency!) still require a custom patchset (namely PREEMPT_RT). It's slowly making its way through the process of being upstreamed, but still.
I'm glad you mention audio because I'm going to spend 60€ on a dedicated microphone just because Linux cannot use simultaneously my Bluetooth headphones and their integrated mic without manually changing the codec (which additionally sucks when using the mic). Some problems improve but others simply never dissapear, like audio. Maybe there is a lack of interest or maybe is a design or a process problem, I don't know.
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