Wait, hold on. Is this actually an issue that needs a solution? It feels like Wayland is doing something very stupid here. Why not let apps control their windows? I cannot remember when an app stole focus last time. The only time this makes sense is while entering a password. But that is a very specific case that can be solved by having the password dialog on a protected desktop (ie. one with only that single window.)
> I cannot remember when an app stole focus last time.
You must not use Windows where every application comes with its own auto-updater, often stealing focus and minimizing your game once when the updater pops up, and then again when it restarts the main application it just updated.
Devs can't be trusted to not turn their users homicidal. Someone has to stop them for their own good.
This is purely anecdotal, but I think I’ve seen ChatGPT insert special space characters other than normal space. It also likes to use the different dash characters (en, em and hyphen) more than would appear in normal text.
I don’t understand why electrical grids are so problematic, but they seem plagued by corruption, incompetence, and poor planning everywhere.
Here in Sweden the grids was built by taxpayers and then sold off to a private company for maintenance and operation. That went as well as you can expect. Future development and growth is basically impossible as the private company has zero incentive or interest in laying new wire or upgrading old.
When you turn energy generation into a market, it opens up the possibility for huge amounts of money to be made by big players constraining supply at just the right times. Of course if properly competitive markets existed outside econ textbook models, it would solve itself, but unfortunately the barrier to entry is too high in the real world so competition is always limited to a few players who try to get as large as possible (gobbling up any smaller ones in the process).
This kind of profiteering by intentionally constraining supply when there was very high demand was literally something Enron became infamous for, but it still happens all around the world.
Of course, on the transmission and distribution side you can’t even try to have a market and there is always a natural monopoly, it’d just be impossible for anyone to overbuild a new grid in any service area. So turning a state-owned natural monopoly into a private one tends to turn out just as badly as anyone could expect…
I really like that USB port. It can probably be made to work in both directions (like USB-C). Does it require a special PCB thickness that is hard to come by?
Each new decoder represents an increase in attack surface which is why not all video/audio formats supported by ffmpeg are enabled in Chrome.
This is despite Chrome having ffmpeg as a depency.
[caveat: this was the status quo when I last checked a couple of years ago]
The damage they do is much worse. They practically control the evolution of the web standards at this point, thanks to their market share. They also get to dictate the dominant standard and stifle competition in associated domains like image formats. What makes it so insidious is that this damage is practically invisible to the regular users, unlike the spyware-like behaviors it exhibits.
This is a chicken and egg problem. What is Mozilla's incentive in spending any effort on JPEG XL if Chrome doesn't support it? There won't be any demand for it from content creators until the majority browser adopts it.
The only way to protect the web users' interests against Google's commercial interests is to dethrone Chrome - no matter how farfetched that sounds. It's such a shame that the world managed to paint itself into a corner again inspite of the bitter experience with the earlier browser wars.
Mozilla has stated that they will support it as soon as a memory safe decoder is available. If Chrome doesn't support it then, it's reasonable to have this discussion.
Some countries (Poland?) has experimented with banning advertising in public spaces. Think bill boards. This has lead to very clean and good looking cities. I don’t think the it’s unreasonable to ban ads in other places too.
Here is the thread that likely sparked his resignation (if this is a resignation), and more specifically Linus’ response to Hellwig’s earlier comments regarding rust and the Linux kernel.
I agree – I'll need to look this up myself, but I'd love to know what his self-reflection on his annoyance involved: I admit that I still need to do the same to learn restraint during disagreements with new collaborators, that I haven't had the experience to feel trust with yet. My anger's stopped me from productively working in informal standardization efforts within my org.
The only person to get to have it both ways it seems is Linus. In the past he's railed against c++ and it would be cold day in hell to see c++ code in linux.
To be fair, it's his tree. On the other hand, I am a little worried that Linus has been hypocritical in the past few years, but most of us get soft as we age I guess.
Sometimes we need to give awesome tools to creative people and see what they come up with, even when we don't understand the implications ourselves.
I think millimeter accurate GPS is one of those tools. It has the power to enable so many things. Things we cannot imagine without using the tool itself.
40 cm vs 1 mm is the difference between landing a quadcopter smoothly or crashing it into the ground.
20 cm vs 1 mm is the difference between a robot navigating through a door or crashing into the wall.
20 cm vs 1 mm is the difference between mowing the lawn or cutting through your flower bed.
Unfortunately it doesn't look like we'll be getting millimeter accurate GPS anytime soon. The Genesis satellite might be a prerequisite though.
