bcrescimanno (u/bcrescimanno)

bcrescimanno commented on NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules developer.nvidia.com/blog... · Posted by u/shaicoleman

mepian · a year ago

The current stable proprietary driver is a nightmare on Wayland with my 3070, constant flickering and stuttering everywhere. Apparently the upcoming version 555 is much better, I'm sticking with X11 until it comes out. I never tried the open-source one yet, not sure if it supports my GPU at all.

bcrescimanno · a year ago

The 555 version is the current version. It was officially released on June 27.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-555.58-Linux-Driver

bcrescimanno commented on XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable." bsky.app/profile/filippo.... · Posted by u/junon

jijijijij · 2 years ago

> "After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Merged did great things - terrible, yes, but great."

I think the most ingenious part was picking the right project to infiltrate. Reading "Hans'" IFUNC pull request discussion is heart-wrenching in hindsight, but it really shows why this project was chosen.

I would love to know how many people where behind "Jia" and "Hans" analyzing and strategizing communication and code contributions. Some aspects, like those third tier personas faking pressure on mailing lists, seem a bit carelessly crafted, so I think it's still possible this was done by a sophisticated small team or even single individual. I presume a state actor would have people pumping out and maintaining fake personas all day for these kind of operations. I mean, would have kinda sucked, if someone thought: "Hm. It's a bit odd how rudely these three users are pushing. Who are they anyway? Oh, look they are all created at the same time. Suspicious. Why would anyone fake accounts to push so hard for this specifically? I need to investigate". Compared to the overall effort invested, that's careless, badly planned or underfunded.

bcrescimanno · 2 years ago

> Compared to the overall effort invested, that's careless, badly planned or underfunded.

Not at all. It's a pattern that's very easy to spot while the eyes of the world are looking for it. When it was needed, it worked exactly as it needed to work. Had the backdoor not been discovered, no one would have noticed--just like no one did notice for the past couple of years.

Had anyone noticed at the time, it would have been very easy to just back off and try a different tactic a few months down the line. Once something worked, it would be quick to fade into forgotten history--unlikely to be noticed until, like now, the plan was already discovered.

bcrescimanno commented on NVK is now ready for prime time collabora.com/news-and-bl... · Posted by u/jalict

viraptor · 2 years ago

I fell behind on the progress here. Could someone explain:

- does the nouveau driver these days allow enabling higher power/speed?

- how would I switch between the OpenGL and Zink implementations when running an app today?

bcrescimanno · 2 years ago

> does the nouveau driver these days allow enabling higher power/speed?

My understanding is that, yes, with the Nouveau GSP code in Kernel 6.7.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-GSP-Merged-Linux-6.7

bcrescimanno commented on Orbital's Hartnoll brothers look back theguardian.com/lifeandst... · Posted by u/obiefernandez

bcrescimanno · 2 years ago

Like many others in this thread, I've enjoyed a ton of Orbital. My introduction was when 99x in Atlanta played "The Box" a few times and I picked up a copy of In Sides. Also, like many, I spent many a late night learning to code with some Orbital album as my soundtrack.

So many great tracks listed here and I'll add another: one of my personal favorites is their collaboration with Angelo Badalamenti "Beached" from the 2000 film The Beach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBRgfm0osig

bcrescimanno commented on There has never been a better time to game on Linux tildes.net/~games/1dcj/th... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

bcrescimanno · 2 years ago

Valve getting involved. Proton. SteamDB. The progress that's been made over the past couple of years is absolutely amazing. For a huge number of games and gamers, Linux is so close to being considered a viable option.

The big problem is that the games that don't work now are for political / financial reasons more than technical reasons--notably incompatible anti-cheat systems or developer refusal to enable the Linux support for their chosen anti-cheat. And these aren't small titles either: PUBG Battlegrounds, Call of Duty Modern Warfare, Fortnite, Destiny 2, Genshin Impact, just to name a few.

I play a variety of games and I would love to boot back into my Arch system as my main daily driver. But, I'm sadly still forced to keep Windows around because my desire to get off of Windows isn't as strong as my desire to continue to play some of my favorite games.

bcrescimanno commented on COSMIC DE: Desktop environment created for Pop!_OS and other Linux distros blog.system76.com/post/co... · Posted by u/pantalaimon

dlivingston · 2 years ago

Can you provide any references on the DE being written with Rust + iced? That's huge news in my book. This would be, AFAIK, the first major production UI written with a Rust GUI framework.

bcrescimanno · 2 years ago

The public repo for the new version of Cosmic: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch

bcrescimanno commented on Cool, but obscure X11 tools (2019) cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11... · Posted by u/RalfWausE

em-bee · 2 years ago

how does xeyes help with that? does it fail to track the mouse on wayland apps? i can see that would be useful.

i actually have problems with XWayland, it frequently (every few days), goes to a 100% CPU and locks up the screen. then i have to remote login and kill it, at which point i see which apps die, so i know what is using XWayland from that. :-)

bcrescimanno · 2 years ago

> does it fail to track the mouse on wayland apps?

Exactly. It will work properly if the app is using XWayland and fail for native Wayland.

bcrescimanno commented on Why take a compiler course? (2010) blog.regehr.org/archives/... · Posted by u/signa11

havblue · 3 years ago

The Georgia Tech cs2130 class, languages and translation, the third required cs class for the major, was notorious as being a weeder course around 1999. The professor made it clear that there would be no partial credit for code that could be core dumped by the teaching assistants. If you weren't good at the class you should probably look forward to writing business applications for IBM, allegedly. So some people used to be hardcore on this subject.

bcrescimanno · 3 years ago

Always glad to see someone else who remembers that era at GT!

CS1311 - Data structures in pseudocode (or Scheme if you had the "X" class) CS1312 - Build the game "Risk" in Java CS2130 - Die a painful death at the hands of Jim Greenlee's compiler class.

bcrescimanno commented on Pickup Trucks: From Workhorse to Joyride axios.com/ford-pickup-tru... · Posted by u/throw0101a

rybosworld · 3 years ago

Mid-size trucks like the Tacoma and Ranger are fantastic imo. They are perfect for 95% of "truck stuff".

The full-size category has really become about excess, which I think this article is getting at.

bcrescimanno · 3 years ago

Per the article, the size of "mid-size" trucks today is about the same as full-size trucks were in the 1990s.

When the pandemic began and I started working from home, I gave up my car because it just didn't make sense to have two and I've continued to work from home and we've continued with only one car. I've decided that I want my next vehicle to be a pickup truck because, as a home owner, I often need to do minor hauling. The truck I have in mind is something like a late 90s Ranger or Tacoma; but, I don't want to buy a 25 year-old vehicle. Unfortunately, the modern alternatives are all so huge (and expensive) that it puts me off the idea almost entirely.

bcrescimanno commented on Switching to Fedora Silverblue yorickpeterse.com/article... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

coldblues · 3 years ago

>but, I've personally found that nothing destabilizes my system like adding a bunch of software from outside the package manager

That's why you should be creating your own PKGBUILD.

bcrescimanno · 3 years ago

It's so rarely an issue on Arch. Between the massive official repos and the incredibly comprehensive AUR, I've only needed to do it a couple of times.

My initial comment was about needing to do that on non-arch systems. I've created my own RPM and DEB packages in the past as well; but, at least when I did it years ago, it wasn't as effective as a PKGBUILD on arch.