@movq@www.uninformativ.de Here you go 🤣 https://git.mills.io/prologic/gonix/src/branch/main/cmd/imgview/main.go
@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, Rust is quite popular in the Wayland scene, it seems.
In image viewer in 170 lines? Show me. 😅
2,000 Retired Google Pixel Phones Get a Second Life As a Private Cloud
UC San Diego researchers are working with Google to build a private cloud from 2,000 retired Pixel Fold motherboards, demonstrating how discarded smartphones could provide useful, low-cost computing capacity. “The full smartphone cluster is expected to launch this fall,” reports The Register. “Depending on how well the initial phas … ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I looked into swagimg. That’s the thing, The latest version pulls in fark’n C++ (geez fuck) and luajit. Anything else I’ve round for Wayland depdns on Rust (wtf?!) – So I built my own in Pure Go. It’s wonderful, so simple, only ~170 lines of Go 🤣
@prologic@twtxt.net The only image viewer I like in general is this one:
https://codeberg.org/nsxiv/nsxiv
It’s for X11, though.
Allegedly, this Wayland image viewer is somewhat similar to nsxiv, maybe you’ll like that? 🤔
Benchmarking Bcachefs 1.38.6: The First Release No Longer “Experimental”
Released last week was Bcachefs 1.38.6 with a host of performance improvements to this out-of-tree, copy-on-write file-system. Given all the performance improvements and this being the first release since Kent Overstreet dropped the “experimental” flag on the file-system, I decided to fire up some benchmarks looking at how the Bcachefs file-system performance has changed with this new version. ⌘ Read more
Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Claude Guillemot, co-founder of French video game company Ubisoft, died Friday at the age of 69. According to French media (via Bloomberg), Guillemot died in a plane crash in the French resort town of La Baule. He was one of two people aboard the plane, both of whom died.
Guillemot founded Ubisoft with his fou … ⌘ Read more
Xfce Wayland Compositor Sees First Preview/Alpha Release
Over the past half-year, Xfwl4 has been developed as a Wayland compositor for the Xfce desktop environment. Released this weekend was the first preview release of Xfwl4 in alpha form… ⌘ Read more
Linux Finally Lands Battery/Charger Driver For 14 Year Old Microsoft Surface RT Tablet
It’s been 14 years already since Microsoft announced the Surface RT hybrid tablet as their first-generation Surface device for going up against the Apple iPad. All these years later, this NVIDIA Tegra 3 powered device is finally seeing a mainline Linux kernel driver for supporting battery and charger status… ⌘ Read more
@bender@twtxt.net Someome else’s BDay. I’ll convey the wishes. 😅
AMD Updates ROCDXG To Deliver Better ROCm Experience On WSL
Back in March AMD introduced ROCDXG to improve their Windows Subsystem for Linux support. This improved Windows Subsystem for Linux “WSL” support with the ROCm compute stack is a cleaneer architecture, open-source compared to their legacy WSL code having closed bits, and more robust handling. Today they issued a new ROCDXG library release to further enhance their WSL support… ⌘ Read more
Hmmm are there really no decent Wayland (desktop) compatible image viewers that don’t drag in Mesa and all it’s hundreds of dependences or GCC and libgcc and it’s multi-hour long build time or Rust? geez
Behold! 😎 I present to you, GoNIX 🐧
Several US States Bet That AI Can Solve Their Prison Recidivism Crisis
America’s state prison systems need ways “to keep people from returning to prison,” reports the Wall Street Journal, “when an estimated 40% end up back behind bars within three years.”
Part of the problem comes in the form of filing cabinets, manila folders and legacy digital databases. In other words, records for a single prisoner m … ⌘ Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org show us, Lyse, to put our minds at ease! 🙏🏻
@movq@www.uninformativ.de It is horribly hot and humid here, and is not even 08:00. AC ran overnight for 3+ hours. It is going to be hellish, not going to lie.
Your birthday, or someone else’s? Either way, happy birthday! 🥳🎂 May many more years come, with good health… and less heat! ☺️
Miracle-WM Aiming For v1.0 Later This Year For Mir-Based Wayland Compositor
Miracle-WM 0.10 released on Sunday as the newest feature release for this Mir-based Wayland compositor. With this new release is also acknowledgement they are hoping to cross the “1.0” milestone later in the year… ⌘ Read more
Valve Creates The Ray-Tracing Inspector “RTI” To Help Further Optimize Linux GPU Drivers
Merged today to Mesa 26.1 is the Ray-Tracing Inspector “RTI” as a new GUI created by developers on Valve’s open-source Linux graphics team. The Ray-Tracing Inspector is designed to help in analyzing and optimizing the Vulkan ray-tracing performance as part of their continued work on further bettering the Radeon RADV RT performance for Steam Play / Linux gaming… ⌘ Read more
OneXPlayer Configuration Driver Merged For Linux 7.2 Along With Other New Hardware
The HID subsystem updates have landed in the Linux 7.2 kernel with some treats that will excite Linux gamers and other desktop users… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.2 sched_ext Continues Working Toward Sub-Scheduler Support
Merged last week for the Linux 7.2 kernel were all of the sched_ext changes for this extensible scheduler support that allows loading BPF programs from user-space for handling scheduling tasks. Linux 7.2 continues building out sched_ext’s sub-scheduler support… ⌘ Read more
‘Tutor’ Who Took Online Tests for 124 Students Jailed for Three Years
A private tutor who charged money to take dozens of exams for students and submit coursework for them “has been jailed for three years,” reports the BBC, “after his scam earned him £300,000.”
Shahid Adnan completed assignments and online tests for more than 120 students at Liverpool John Moore’s University, the Crown Prosecution Service … ⌘ Read more
It’s ten thousand million degree celsius outside and I have to go to a birthday party today because wElL iTs My BiRtHdAy ToDaY, I think I’m going to die, send help.
TikTok Shows 3x More AI Slop Than YouTube, Report Finds
“About 59% of TikTok videos served to a new account’s For You feed are AI slop,” writes Search Engine Journal, “according to a report from Kapwing, the video creation tool company. That’s roughly three times the rate Kapwing found on YouTube.”
The company manually reviewed over 10,000 TikTok videos across 20 categories and ran a separate fresh-account test, countin … ⌘ Read more
Happy Summer Solstice and/or Father’s Day, to those who celebrate.
I spent mine setting up a gift from my wife, a Govee TV Backlight 3 Lite, and then watching a couple of movies that really brought the colors out: Flash Gordon (1980) and Dune (2021) (with Rifftrax commentary).
I’d call that a good day.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net 💯
Nothing scales so cheaply. 😁
Someone Forked systemd Over Its New Birth Date Field
The blog Linuxiac reports:
A new systemd fork has appeared with a specific purpose: removing systemd’s recently added support for storing a user’s birth date in JSON user records.
The fork, called Liberated systemd, published its first tagged release as v261 shortly after the official systemd 261 release. In other words, the fork follows upstream systemd while reverti … ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks…? 😄
I credit my subjects for how good they look. 😍
Early AMD GCN GPUs Seeing Improved GPU Recovery - Another Valve-Led Linux Improvement
Early AMD Radeon Graphics Core Next “GCN” GPUs are seeing work to improve the GPU recovery process in the event of hangs. This work is yet another improvement for older AMD GPUs being led by Valve’s open-source Linux graphics driver team… ⌘ Read more
The Secret Revolution in Battery Technology: 3-D Printing
“There’s a revolution in battery technology hiding in plain sight,” reports The Wall Street Journal. “The 3-D printing of batteries has the potential to put energy storage inside any device.
“This will enable lightweight and long-lasting consumer gadgets, long-range military drones and even nanoscale robots.”
Almost all the innovations we regularly hear ab … ⌘ Read more
Is Tesla Planning To Sell Modular AI Data Center Hardware?
Electrek reports:
Tesla wants to sell modular AI data center hardware, according to a new trademark application for a product called “Megapod.” The filing describes a complete, self-contained computing system for AI workloads…
Tesla filed the “Megapod” trademark (serial number 99893717) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this month, through its … ⌘ Read more
UK Official Promises Statements ‘Around VPNs’ and Further Teen Restrictions on Chatbots and Social Media
PC Gamer reports:
The UK government is considering an Australia-style ban on social media for under-16s, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying that the ban could take effect as soon as spring next year. As for the much nearer future, Science and Technology Secretary … ⌘ Read more
@iolfree@tilde.club @movq@www.uninformativ.de These monsters!
@bender@twtxt.net Right, can’t think of anything more pleasing than that! If only I were a landscape gardener, I could enjoy that all day long. :-D
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Vorsicht, freilaufende Gewitter!
So ähnlich war’s zuvor auch. Weit ringsum absolut nix. Es regnet und donnert schon eine viertel Stunde, bis der Wetterbericht und das Regenradar dann auch umschalten und von dem laufenden Unwetter Kenntnis haben.
Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock’s Cameras to Stalk People
404 Media remembers how a Florida police office looked up his ex-girlfriend’s license plate in the Flock automated license plate reader system at least 69 times in 2024 — even searching for her mom’s license plate at least 24 times. The police office was charged with stalking and hacking-related offenses, serving one day in prison with five … ⌘ Read more
zlib-rs 0.6.4 Released With Fix For Intel Raptor Lake Crash, SIMD Optimizations
As a follow-up to last week’s article around Firefox leveraging zlib-rs and some nice upstream improvements to this Rust-based Zlib implementation, the zlib-rs 0.6.4 release is now available to ship all of these latest enhancements… ⌘ Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ich zitiere von woanders und bin zu faul zum Übersetzen:
Ich gucke schon den ganzen Tag dem Storm Tracking zu und alle Gewitter in der Nähe haben sich kurz vor meinem Standort ausgeregnet oder sind abgedreht. 😭🥵
Suddenly, a surprise thunderstorm out of nothing. I take it if the temperatures drop.
After Six Years Of Work and Over 360 Patches, Linux 7.2 Finally Removes Bug-Prone strncpy
Tech Times reports:
Linux 7.2’s merge window closed out a cleanup campaign on Friday that most kernel developers had stopped expecting to see end: the complete removal of strncpy(), a C string-copy function that the kernel’s own documentation labels “actively dangerous,” from every subsystem, driv … ⌘ Read more
Bloody heat, omfg
US Bill Would Mandate AI Chip Location Tracking to Thwart China and Other Adversaries
NBC News reports:
A group of companies that specialize in tracking international shipments of sensitive technologies is backing a Capitol Hill bill that would require America’s most powerful AI chips to incorporate stronger security mechanisms aimed at preventing the chips from reaching China and other adv … ⌘ Read more
The Rust Ecosystem Gets an AI Security Engineer in Residence
While the Rust Foundation has a Security Initiative to protect its ecosystem, “the threats have expanded,” they announced this week, “and so has the kind of help maintainers need.”
Much of this comes back to a single shift: Automated tooling (much of it now built on large language models) has gotten good enough to surface real vulnerabilities in o … ⌘ Read more
Qualcomm Posts Linux Patches For HP EliteBook X G2q X2 Elite Laptop
Last month Qualcomm engineers posted patches bringing up the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 Snapdragon X2 laptop on Linux. Sent out this weekend were a new set of patches from Qualcomm for bringing up the HP EliteBook X G2q laptop model powered by the Snapdragon X2 Elite SoC… ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net 100%. I am never going back to anything else but. Static sites would last much longer than any other too, for sure.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org oh yes! And, when I mow the lawn (which reminds me I need to mow the front soonish), you can add dust, bugs, and grass blades to the equation. Just “lovely”. 😂
@prologic@twtxt.net wow! So much accomplished! 😍
Canonical’s Upcoming AI Tool: Talk to Ubuntu Instead of Typing
This week the Ubuntu desktop’s director of engineering announced they’re bringing speech-to-text dictation to Ubuntu Desktop, aiming for an experience “that feels like a natural part of the desktop while respecting user privacy and running entirely on local hardware.”
“Speech recognition has become a common feature on modern platforms, and we think it … ⌘ Read more
The mixture of suncream and sweat really burns in the eye.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Good luck!