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First known symbolic gesture observed in birds; scientists recorded the Japanese tit using repetitive wing movements to signal "after you" to others.

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It took me only 7 months to figure out the reason why my Nokia 3410 did not work at .

I completely forgot that such thing as carrier SIM lock exists 🤪 Suddenly CCC SIM is not considered invalid anymore. I guess I got spoiled by all that FLOSS on phones 😂

@dcz @tylnesh I think I had Windows 95 running in a VM on my Librem 5 at some point, just for giggles 😂 No need for VMs to get fullblown desktop DE indeed:) I don't think I have ever used VMs there for anything actually useful; I did use containers quite a lot though.

I'm at an EU workshop for Apple to discuss and justify its DMA compliance plans. They've been forced into 3 huge u-turns by EU (killing PWAs, removing Epic Games' developer licenses, sideloading) so I'm interested to see their demeanour. Will it be humility, or the usual 'fuck you, we're Apple'? There are people from EU companies that Apple blithely planned to bankrupt by sneakily removing PWAs here. And regulators have human feelings too; no-one like "fuck you". I'll be here all day (try the baguettes!)

It always gives me joy when I see that people find useful the /sys/kernel/debug/devices_deferred sysfs entry that I only added to scratch my own itch 🙂

This time in a FOSDEM talk by @a3f about the Linux kernel drivers and devices matching mechanism: fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event

#linux #kernel #FOSDEM

@jnv Ecoterrorism (Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley)

With a bit of help from the next phosh-osk-stub release can (optionally) hide when a keyboard gets attached.

@decathorpe @cassidy Up until a few days ago you could easily fix that by uploading samples from your neighborhood.

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@nekohayo The only thing gnss-share does is to export NMEA data over Unix socket for consumption by Geoclue, which then uses that data together with cell tower and WiFi positioning implemented by querying MLS (you can also configure it to use Google's service if you have Google API key). AGPS is a separate thing that speeds GPS fix up (otherwise it would take several minutes to acquire from cold start even in perfect conditions).

@nekohayo Well, guess which service implements cellular network tower based positioning 🙃

It will be easier to replace than WiFi though. And yeah, there's GNSS, but it needs time and sky visibility.

@rotopenguin @doragasu a. was more like "dead on arrival" than "deprecated" 😂 and when it comes to b., DP can't interleave with USB packets, but it can operate using just two lanes and leave the other two to USB.

After being kneecapped by a #patents troll years ago, #Mozilla Location Services, the only somewhat trusted (non-Google/Apple) "Wi-Fi positioning system" (geolocation based on triangulating collected #WiFi SSIDs), is now shutting down: github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/iss

MLS was how #GeoClue could get a meters-accurate location without a #GPS receiver / sky line-of-sight.

It was used by many #GNOME / #KDE apps to get instantaneous neighborhood-level location (for maps, local weather…) on #Linux laptops.

@catsalad Had a really excessive number of annoying papercuts after updating to 6.0.1 - nothing really showstopping though and 6.0.2 already fixed vast majority of them, so it's not bad after all 😊

@stfn @wariat @pecet To podstawowe składowe każdego sterownika graficznego pod Linuksem. Zapewne nadal używasz już nierozwijanego Xorga - Nvidia od wielu lat miała własny sterownik dla Xorga, ale Linux w ciągu ostatnich dwóch dekad dorobił się wielu API do obsługi GPU i sam robi rzeczy, które kiedyś robił Xorg. Nvidia dopiero niedawno wypuściła sterownik implementujący te API i nadal ma w nim poważne braki (a gry to jeden z use-casów który na tym cierpi, z migającymi klatkami pod Waylandem).

@stfn @wariat @pecet Nvidia latami nie potrafiła przygotować działającego sterownika implementującego GBM, a dzisiaj nadal nie ogarnia niejawnej synchronizacji buforów. To są absolutnie podstawowe aspekty stosu graficznego, ich brak nie mieści się w mojej definicji "działa".

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