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RustConn looks very promising. Could it retire Remmina?

Brazil mentioned!

(Also jokes aside, makes sharing with my fellow countrymen easier)

As some good news out of Intel today on the Linux/open-source side following last year’s layoffs, they’re hiring for some new Linux software development roles – including for enhancing their Linux graphics driver stack that also includes a focus on Linux gaming with the likes of Valve’s Proton (Steam Play).

Intel passed along six new engineering roles they have posted as recently as yesterday – three of which are for GPU software development engineers where the focus isn’t only on HPC/AI GPU compute but also Linux gaming.

Intel is such a weird company, “we’re still having issues with CPU’s and factories, let’s scale up GPU stuff!”

Tbh I hope it goes well for them, more competition can only be a good thing. AMD is basically unchallenged on Linux and NVIDIA is unchallenged on Windows.

But those Arc cards actually look good (for the low budget segment they are in that is…) and are mainly held by lackluster drivers. So I get the decision.

While we are on the horizon of seeing PCI Express 6.0 devices, there are already early Linux kernel patches beginning to surface for PCI Express 7.0.

The PCI-SIG officially released the PCIe 7.0 specification i nmid-2025. PCI Express 7.0 doubles the raw data rate to 128 GT/s to allow for 512GB/s bi-directional communication in a PCIe 7.0 x16 configuration. PCIe 7.0 retains backwards compatibility with prior PCIe revisions, offers power efficiency improvements, and other enhancements.

Me: we’re on PCIe 7 now????

I believe the PCI-e revisions are usually used in datacenters before home computers, and of course Linux is really big for datacenters…

but also this could be preparations for 2028 or even 2029 hardware, datacenters especially need this stuff to be really stable so it’s gotta be done in advance

Introduced to the Linux 4.12 kernel’s staging area back in 2017 was the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver. The Realtek RTL8723BS is an 802.11 b/g/ SDIO WLAN adapter with Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity too. In the nearly decade since this driver was added to the staging area, it’s continued to be cleaned up and with the Linux 7.0 merge window there is yet again a lot of work on cleaning up this WiFi driver for the old Realtek hardware.

It’s not over the finish line and still in the kernel’s staging area, but the Realtek RTL8723BS driver continues seeing more clean-ups. This driver started out as based on Realtek downstream vendor driver code and cleaned up in the year since by various kernel developers. As for its popularity, the RTL8723BS did appear in the original Intel Compute Stick as well as various Intel Atom and ARM devices.

We should just outlaw realtek. The world would be a better place.

So I would like to know from experts working on Realtek or those who are following closely enough to understand the details what exactly does the “Big HAL layer” entail interms of so much refactoring?

From what I can understand it looks like most of the vendor released stuff is not inline to the design of the kernel and thus it works in a different manner than the rest of the kernel.

But then, why wouldn’t experts try to clean room implement the driver by mimicking the official driver?

so they made a nazi propaganda unlocker. this is so weird. those guys are so weird.

can it also uncensor the epstein files 🤭

Good title! But fuck CNBC.

Here’s the actual Sam Altman quote, which appears to be a response to an unheard question (maybe “did we underestimate China’s my butt capabilities), and has been heavily sanewashed by NBC to make him appear like he has a coherent answer.

It’s really not.

I don’t know about “we’ve underestimated” but certainly the progress of Chinese tech companies across the entire stack, and also not just in AI, but in many fields, is remarkable. Um. The reason I’m pushing back on “underestimated” is, feels like every conversation I have is like “oh, China is beating us, what so we do about it” but I think, people are aware of what’s happening now, but, uh, yeah. Chinese progress is amazingly fast.

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

came here to say this. they’re apologetic because they got caught. “bug” my fat arse

I don’t advocate because I hate it when people do it to me. What I do instead is that I use it (be it the Fediverse, Linux, any Free/Libre tools, like I use also use analog tools whenever and wherever I can) and let people see that I don’t need or miss the corporate-owned alternatives many of them think are the only way and show them there is an alternative to proprietary (and to digital, something too many Free/Libre users seem to forget ;)

A few people will be intrigued enough to ask me questions but it is them that will be asking the questions and not me bothering them with my own remarks and suggestions which makes a huge difference: they want to know more. From those people, a few will be that intrigued they will be willing to give this or that specific app or tool a chance, or even give Linux a chance… That Linux curiosity has been made a lot simpler thx to the Windows 11 debacle, and thx to the fact that installing my distro of choice (beginner friendly) takes less than 5 maybe 6 minutes on most machines, even older ones, and then, most of the times, everything will work out of the box. There is a real wow moment, there… Followed by some real frustrations but it still is much better than starting with the frustrations and no wow, imho ;)

Um akshually, they’re made in the country of Taiwan.

TBF all hate towards China is justified. I used to think they were a tolerable evil, but they’ve been using their influence help elect people like Donald Trump, propping up Russia economically during the war, commitring genocides in Xinjiang and Tibet, the hostile millitant occupation of Hong Kong, and supporting dictatorships in Iran, Cuba, Indonesia, etc.