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New comment by jhasse in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

jhasse — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:16:49 +0000

You mean OpenSL ES? Is anyone actually using that on desktop? On Android there's https://github.com/google/oboe.

While Mesa has OpenGL ES it wasn't always available (for example not all drivers are using Mesa).

New comment by jhasse in "Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed"

jhasse — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:18:44 +0000

Good point. I think it would be fixable by using the Change Time instead of the Modify Time, because that changes when moving the copy over the original.

New comment by jhasse in "Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed"

jhasse — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:16:20 +0000

Good news, I've been working an adding file content hashing to Ninja: https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/pull/2735

That will fix the "switch branches back and forward" case :)

New comment by jhasse in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

jhasse — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:16:10 +0000

Audio APIs on Android are completely different than on GNU/Linux.

3D was also different (OpenGL ES vs OpenGL mess), only now it's starting to become kinda the same with Vulkan.

New comment by jhasse in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

jhasse — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:46:30 +0000

Well if it's GPL without CLA and they accept outside contributions, they can't relicense / make it propriatary. Unlike with MIT.

New comment by jhasse in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

jhasse — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:32:14 +0000

> Multiple citizens faced police raids, investigations, fines, or suspended sentences (jail risk if violated) for online posts calling Green politician Robert Habeck derogatory names like "idiot" or "moron," or sharing mocking memes [...]

The police raids were done because of the posted Nazi images, NOT because of the Habeck insults.

New comment by jhasse in "Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution"

jhasse — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:28:25 +0000

Sure thing, as long as it doesn't require any permissions. I have installed multiple apks on my phone from unknown people. Note that Google's requirement is also for completely permissionless apps like games.

New comment by jhasse in "Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution"

jhasse — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:25:07 +0000

Did your users really consider your app if it wasn't in the Play Store?

New comment by jhasse in "Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution"

jhasse — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:20:27 +0000

Fairphone 6 with /e/OS for example.

New comment by jhasse in "Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution"

jhasse — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:17:48 +0000

We can also do both, right? :)

New comment by jhasse in "Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution"

jhasse — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:15:24 +0000

Even more reason to use these forks (and support them), right?

New comment by jhasse in "Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution"

jhasse — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:13:13 +0000

Have yoz really checked for GrapheneOS? Which country?

New comment by jhasse in "Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution"

jhasse — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:00:54 +0000

Only require Developer Registration for apps with READ_SMS then.

New comment by jhasse in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

jhasse — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:59:19 +0000

You can lock the bootloader again with GrapheneOS and many banking apps work.

New comment by jhasse in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

jhasse — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 08:18:08 +0000

> A similar spec Android costs about the same but usually has a flimsy plastic build and will become unsupported in 2-4 years

Maybe 10 years ago, but this couldn't be further from the truth today.

New comment by jhasse in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

jhasse — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:20:34 +0000

Shouldn't sales reduce inflation because they increase supply?

New comment by jhasse in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

jhasse — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:18:35 +0000

A wealth tax would be like 5% of the $100k, nothing to do with the gains.

New comment by jhasse in "Banned C++ features in Chromium"

jhasse — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:15:05 +0000

You're right, sorry.

Good point, so maybe the standard should just add some functions that take std::string_view. Definitely not add a whole new class like std::u8string ...

New comment by jhasse in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

jhasse — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:23:47 +0000

I'm using KDE with Wayland and 2 non-standard DPI monitors (one at 100% the other at 150% scale). No workarounds needed, nothing is blurry. I think your experience comes from GNOME which lacks behind in this regard.

New comment by jhasse in "Banned C++ features in Chromium"

jhasse — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:20:40 +0000

I never said always. Just add some new methods for which it has to be UTF-8. All current functions that need an encoding (e.g. text IO) also switch to UTF-8. Of course you could still save arbitrary binary data in it.