why xz compression is not good to keep files, see what wget developer writes about it: https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html
see also ycombinator thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12768425
#compression #xz #bz2 #wget #developer #opinion #technology #utility #unix
the world went mad: there is trump in usa, putin in russia, and matrix works over http.
#why #screenshot #programming #compilation #technology #matrix #design
and then, i thought, what did we gain with wayland. ok we loose things, but for what?
https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1905024-HV-FEDORA30D09&obr_sgm=y
11 years after the first release, what we have is comparable performance to X.
11 years is a lot of time. you had everything, all corporate resources, political force to push this technology, money to develop, and still, 11 years after the first release - comparable performance.
should i believe to wayland?
#xorg #wayland #benchmark #politics #technology #linux
p. s. if i use wayland + gnome | kde (and those are cpu hoggers, let’s say you cannot deal with audio + gnome/kde, gentoo-studio recommends and ships by default xfce, but even xfce is too heavy for me) then i loose speed anyway, because gnome/kde.
and if the speed of xorg vs wayland is comparable, then windowmaker on xorg is faster than gnome on wayland.
p. p. s. phoronix has to remove ‘php’ letters from its url apis, to be free to change underlying php and get rid of it.
The Wayland architecture integrates the display server, window manager and compositor into one process. You can think of Wayland as a toolkit for creating clients and compositors. It is not a specific single compositor or window manager. If you want a different window manager, you can write a new one.
I don’t know much about Wayland but the immediate question is: Why would you want to do that? If Wayland has it’s own window manager built in why do you need another one? It’s like support for Windows or OS X. Not needed as those systems have their own window managers and not really support replacing it. This is contrary to X which has no window manager by default and allows and encourages others to implement it. Window Maker is a window manager for X (as stated in the info box) and Wayland aims to be an incompatible replacement of X. So they are not really a good match at first sight.
now, they say - use wayland, it’s a new and good thing. this is a dealbreaker for me. i can’t live without windowmaker.
also, says
If Wayland has it’s own window manager built in why do you need another one?
wait, how? seriously? if there’s a one brand of bread, why would you need another one?
this is centralization again.
#quote #technology #wayland #xorg #linux #unix #windowmaker #design
harari https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/ #harari #technology
i have been written this comparison two months ago in armenian, when set up local mastodon instance. let me try to translate.
so diaspora vs mastodon.
technical:
— diaspora has markdown support — mastodon has not. — diaspora provides atom feeds — mastodon does not։ (the comment under armenian post says that mastodon version 2.3.1 actually provides atom feeds) — diaspora has mail like system — mastodon has no։ — diaspora has real time chat — mastodon has no։ — diaspora can strip geolocation information from images. — diaspora can crosspost to twitter, facebook, tumblr, wordpress. mastodon cannot. — diaspora has post preview. — recent feature - diaspora provides embedded players for media links.
— it is possible to follow/subscribe to the tag in diaspora. in mastodon as i understand, you can pin the tag and see it always in one of the columns of desktop web view.
— mastodon streams are autoupdating. as i understand they use push, and it’s very fast. also i like it because you see life is happening. diaspora page has to be reloaded manually, it only shows notification count. — diaspora has no API, mastodon has. — that’s why there are several useful applications for mastodon, but no one for diaspora. — mastodon allows to customize your page a bit more, and to choose that long header image. — mastodon has user data import/export, therefore migration, but that’s coming to diaspora. — mastodon provides a feature to silence not only a person, but node or tag. — mastodon provides separate stream for all public posts on a node, and that i find useful. — it’s much easier to set up local community rules from the admin interface. — admin interface has much more features.
cultural:
in diaspora, in my opinion, people not from our node usually tend to not write, but share links or images. also, they are mostly from europe, and leftist. let’s take in to consideration, that american lefts are right compared to european lefts.
in mastodon people from not our node usually come from twitter background, therefore the text is more common there. even if it’s realtime shitposting, i love that. also, they seem different to me, not necessarily mostly left. there seem to be more people, and more technical as well. it looks like there are more life than in diaspora.
#diaspora #mastodon #community #technology #culture
and I like this photo the most, shot by Nare, colour dye material for ancient Armenian books
#colour #paint #books #armenia #matenadaran #dye #yerevan #history #technology #art
It is often said that the government is not able to use money/resources efficiently. As efficient as private entrepreneurs can. Well, I agree.
However recently I’ve seen a couple of proprietary software projects, which were closed by the authors. You cannot download the mobile application. There is no website. It’s over.
And I have thought about community projects, collaborative projects. It looks like sometimes community projects can be even more efficient, because(if) they have no(limited) means to earn money. They decrease expenses as much as possible, and design software accordingly. And they can be more sustainable, though they have no income. Of course it depends on the community size. Number of speakers of the technology. (:
An example? Consider failed social network start-up. Now consider Diaspora. Social network start-up had to pay a lot for servers and infrastructure. Keep a space, and developers. Diaspora is hosted in different places, even on cheap one board computers. That’s about design and efficiency. Of course it has problems, and the development is not that fast as desirable. But the project is very efficient in some aspects.
#design #efficiency #free_software #software #diaspora #social_network #web #freedom #technology #sustainability
you look amazingly beautiful today. source
#mirror #raspberry_pi #rpi #technology #fun
— the most advanced model of interaction for different programs is COM. — and in linux world, it’s not used any more. — because gnome devs decided to write for those “who don’t understand anything”, and people become similar to those they are writing for.
#gnome #com #linux #corba #technology #design
— you have to know technology, — was saying one of my first university teachers, — that’s the only chance this country has, is that you learn technology. — he kept saying.
this is interesting. we interact with science through the abstraction of technology. that’s why knowing science is not enough. we see it through the prism of technology.
it’s complicated, it has it’s own ins and outs. often you cannot do anything without knowing technology.
#technology #science
ß letter evolution
#evolution #orthography #german #ß #technology #aesthetics #languages #deutsch #sprache #technologie #entwicklung
Afaik ß letter, “scharfes S” is not used in Switzerland, because they wanted to have a one standard typewriter for three main languages of the confederation. (: That’s interesting, how technology affects and sometimes even shapes aesthetics and even orthography.
#orthography #german #ß #technology #aesthetics #switzerland #languages #deutsch #sprache #technologie
this is both amazing and frightenful.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aThCr0PsyuA
#microsoft #hololens #holograms #technology
systemd is a political question even more, than technical. and probably a to some extent philosophical.
#systemd #gentoo #funtoo #politics #technology #freedom
In an attempt to spur innovation, Tesla Motors says that it will allow anyone to use its patented technology on electric vehicles — even its biggest competitors http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/12/5804122/tesla-opens-patents-to-all
#patents #innovation #teslo #electric-car #technology #vehicles
Probably, my main problem with many saas services, including facebook, is that they quietly substitute ideas of technology with exact services. The verb “to google” is a perfect example, because we all know that web search is not limited to google.
Companies like facebook and twitter avoid using standard technologies, so that people think of services provided by company, forgetting that Internet is a network, and it’s about technologies, not companies. It’s a space where anyone can create a service, by using common underlying and free for all technologies.
That’s why saas avoids usage of rss, for example. That’s why there is a question “what’s your name on skype?” instead of “what’s your chat id?”, as we do with email.
#Internet #saas #web #facebook #technology #rss #email #smtp #jabber #xmpp #google #search #twitter #technologies #service #skype #chat #email #decentralization #freedom
Լարի Լեսիգն ասում է, որ օրենքը սահմանափակում է ստեղծարարությունը
Ինտերնետի ամենահայտնի իրավաբան Լարի Լեսիգը մեջբերում է Ջոն Ֆիլիպ Սուսային, երկնային հեղինակային իրավունքները և ASCAP (երգահանների, հեղինակների և հրատարակիչների ամերիկյան ասոցիացիայի) կարտելը որպես փաստարկ մեր ստեղծարար մշակույթը վերածնելու համար։ http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.htmlv via @{Արգելիոն Argelion ; aragev@spyurk.am}
also on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q25-S7jzgs
#lessig #creativity #rw #ro #read-write #read-only #copyright #law #cc #creative-commons #broadcasters #bmi #right #democracy #future #technology #common-sense #court #liberty #freedom
#լեսիգ #ստեղծարարություն #պատճենաշնորհ #տեխնոլոգիա #օրենք #եթեր #իրավունք #ժողովրդավարություն #ապագա #դատարան #ազատություն #երգեր #ձայնագրություններ
Existing #franchise #dealers have a fundamental #conflict of interest between selling #gasoline #cars, which constitute the vast majority of their business, and selling the new #technology of electric cars. It is impossible for them to explain the advantages of going electric without simultaneously undermining their traditional #business. http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tesla-approach-distributing-and-servicing-cars #tesla
