The_Decryptor

That last screenshot is fantastic

Tons of software meant to run on 32-bit hasn’t been updated to run on 64-bit natively.

32bit only Linux apps are basically non-existent, anything with the source available and maintainers would have been ported at some point in the last 2 decades, otherwise they have very specific technical reasons for being 32bit only (like OBS iiuc), the source has been lost somehow, or it’s a proprietary program where the company has no interest (e.g. Valve with Steam)

In fact I think Steam might really be it.

Or Automattic doesn’t have enough employees left to implement it

We still do.

For a community called “technology” there’s a pretty strong anti-AI bubble going on here.

Are you surprised people have opinions about technology, in a community dedicated to discussing technology?

Yeah from a quick glance over the spec it’s basically just small clarifications, promoting existing extensions (EXIF and APNG) to the core spec, and adding the new HDR metadata chunks.

The HDR stuff will be hit or miss, it’s backwards compatible in the sense that a viewer that doesn’t understand it will fall back to the ICC profile, but that still requires the viewer to support the (now deprecated) ICC based HDR method. If it doesn’t support HDR at all then you’re just out of luck since these images just require fundamentally different ways to view them.

MNG tried to do everything (iirc it could even embed links, did play/pause, and seeking, like a static version of Flash), not surprising it didn’t catch on. APNG was a simple enough extension that everybody just ended up using that instead (The only browser that doesn’t support it being IE and IE-era Edge). Now the W3C is handling PNG, they just accepted that reality and added it to the official spec now.

https://tardis.wiki/wiki/Skin

Why are they all in past-tense?

Use Zola or Hugo then

I always thought it was purely a hardware limitation, but reading up on it I found it’s actually just “virtual 8086 mode” that was dropped, 16-bit protected mode is still available even when running the CPU in “long mode”.

So it rules out DOS apps, but 16bit Win 3.x apps should still run. But it’s probably a compatibility minefield, and even MS decided it wasn’t important (iirc the only thing they kept around was support for 16-bit app installers, but by internally swapping them out with 32-bit versions when run, since it was apparently common for 32-bit 9x apps to still use 16-bit installers so they could show a proper error message when run under Win 3.x)

Akkoma actually, but same basic thing.

It’d have to be pretty damn spicy considering what the users already post.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/04/business/el-paso-shooting-8chan-biz/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20180526154936/https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/8chan-pedophiles-child-porn-gamergate/

It seems to me that 16-bit applications are already basically broken with 32-bit wine if you’re running a 64-bit kernel, by default it places extra restrictions over what the hardware already does to prevent apps from loading 16-bit code entirely.

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/FAQ#16-bit-applications-fail-to-start

Guessing that’s why they don’t feel it’s that important to continue supporting, seems a VM is the future for these apps.

WINE’s WoW64, does not work for all games.

Ok but is that because of fundamental limitations, or just because of bugs?

One’s easier to fix than the other.

Nvidia being the only company that can make Nvidia GPUs does make them proprietary, but it’s also a redundant statement.

The actual user facing side of it is cross platform, ray tracing is exposed via Direct3D and Vulkan like any other hardware feature.

One of the reasons 8chan was created, was that moot banned the gamergate crap from 4chan.

As I was doing that, I also thought I’d message the vendor and ask them if they could share any specifications or docs regarding their protocol. To my surprise, Nanoleaf tech support responded to me within 4 hours, with a full description of the protocol that’s used both by the Desk Dock as well as their RGB strips.

Now that is cool.

I am entirely unsurprised that people who hate systemd also hate wayland.

Wouldn’t have to order them to do anything, they’d gleefully offer to do it first.

Yeah this is a perfect use case for torrents, could go a step further and keep track of a downloader’s ratio to stop people leaching.