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Alex

@ stsquad @lemmy.ml

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FLOSS virtualization hacker, occasional brewer

  • Valve employee Pierre-Loup Griffais talks more about anti-cheat support for Linux/SteamOS on FPS Podcast #83

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  • Fundamentally the reason they want to use kernel modules is to observe the system for other executables interfering with the game. This is a hacky solution at best

    The TPM hardware can support attested boot so you can verify with the hardware nothing but the verified kernel and userspace is running. That gives you the same guarantees but without letting third parties mess with your kernel.

  • Helping Valve to Power Up Steam Devices | Igalia

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  • It's nice to see Valve and Igalia see the benefit of open GPU drivers for Proton and FEX utilise.

  • Steam Machine

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  • I would have thought unified memory would pay off, otherwise you spend your time shuffling stuff between system memory and vram. Isn't the deck unified memory?

  • What software do you use to aggregate email in a single interface?

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  • mu4e inside my Emacs session.

  • Is the US currently in a recession or entering one?

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  • Anyone working there during the shutdown?

  • Employment contract that allows for open source projects, advice needed

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  • I've generally been up front when starting new jobs that nothing impinges my ability to work on FLOSS software on my own time. Only one company put a restriction in for working on FLOSS software in the same technical space as my $DAYJOB.

  • Matrix movie lore opinion question. Did cypher try anything else before betraying the group? Would neo and the others have tried to help him if he asked?

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  • Morpheus made it very clear to neo that taking the red pill was a one way trip to enlightenment. Cypher references the red/blue pill test when talking to Neo so we can assume he did the same with him. I think Morpheus is pretty clear there is no going back.

  • Open source GZDoom community splinters after creator inserts AI-generated code - Ars Technica

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  • The article mentioned there is a long history of forks in the open source Doom world. It seems the majority of the active developers just moved to the new repository.

  • Turing Test

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  • What ever happend to the classic "reticulating splines"?

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    Priorities

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  • He does?

    I read the first link in the thread that examines his blog post about London. While I don't agree with his politics he wouldn't be unusual amongst a significant minority of the population who vote for the likes of Reform. That seems to be enough for some to draw the conclusion he's a Nazi he wants to arbitrarily murder people.

    This automatic jump to accusing anyone who you disagree with a Nazi just devalues the term.

  • Every goto in the Linux kernel / Just another day on the linux-kernel mailing list

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  • Really nice combination of data and presentation.

  • what are your biggest contributions to open source software?

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  • I helped with the initial Aarch64 emulation support for qemu as well as working with others to make multi-threaded system emulation a thing. I maintain a number of subsystems but perhaps the biggest impact was implementing the cross compilation support that enabled the TCG testing to be run by anyone including eventually the CI system. This is greatly helped by being a paid gig for the last 12 years.

    I've done a fair bit of other stuff over my many decades of using FLOSS including maintain a couple of moderately popular Emacs packages. I've got drive by patches in loads of projects as I like to fix things up as I go.

  • Am I the only guy here on Stock Android?

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  • I run stock on a pixel although I do have droidify installed and prefer that too the play store for most things. Especially for the freeze app where all my corporate stuff is run from.

  • Ethical artificial intelligence ?

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  • There are certainly open source models trained on public data sets that you can run locally.

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    This Autism stat makes no sense

  • Cloudflare bankrolls fascists

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  • I didn't know who Kirk was until the assassination I have better things to do with my limited time than go on a deep dive into their history before posting any comment on the news. I kinda got the vibe when I realised that was who Cartman was based on in the recent South Park.

  • Here comes a new JPEG challenger

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  • On mobile any particular useful compression will become on-demand hardware acceleration which can be very power efficient. I'm fairly sure webp had hardware acceleration on most chipsets these days.

  • Apache OpenOffice vs LibreOffice (2025): Which One Actually Delivers?

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  • Was it before or after Oracle acquired Sun that the fork happened? I'm fairly sure it was Oracle that passed the project across to Apache and I have no idea why the Apache foundation accepted it.

  • Would you trust an open source software maintained by a developer who you disagree with politically (or otherwise don't like the developer)?

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  • I run thousands of pieces of software and I have no idea what the political leanings of the developers are. Obviously I know about the main Lemmy developers because this seems to be a recurring topic here. However why would I start caring about these particular developers now?

    There have been developers who have done shady things in their projects and it usually torpedoes the trust in the project and people fork and move away. However whatever I may think about the Lemmy developers politics I have no reason to believe they are doing nefarious things in their software.

  • Fastest disk-space usage analyzer (for files), faster than ncdu?

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  • Yeah I don't think this is an ncdu issue but something is broken with the OPs system.

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    QEMU version 10.0.0 released

    www.qemu.org /2025/04/23/qemu-10-0-0/
  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Can't add matter devices with f-droid companion app

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    What ever happened to QAnon?

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Fish 4.0: The Fish Of Theseus

    fishshell.com /blog/rustport/
  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    Soldier of FORTRAN :ReBoot:​ (@[email protected])

    infosec.exchange /users/mainframed767/statuses/112180749990584294
  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    A week of fprintfs has me wanting to code rust next week

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Controllable water valves?