Hacker News: shmerl

New comment by shmerl in "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"

shmerl — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:19:51 +0000

I'd say it's deserved, not FUD. Nvidia did improve in some ways, but it's still way too heavy into blob even in case you plan to use it in the future with nvk. Nouveau / nova developers explained that Nvidia pushed a lot more into their firmware than AMD, turning the kernel driver into more of a shim than an actual driver. That's already a big downside.

New comment by shmerl in "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"

shmerl — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:59:45 +0000

> A lot of people still use X11 over Wayland because Wayland is said to have much worse input lag

Wayland is fine. People should use AMD and KDE Plasma.

I'd avoid Nvidia to begin with.

New comment by shmerl in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

shmerl — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:55:45 +0000

Exactly. Let them sell games on GOG DRM-free. You buy it, it's yours as long as you back it up. No one stops you from storing it on any physical media you want. Just use an HDD.

When things on the other are presented as rent only, it's very bad.

New comment by shmerl in "Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo"

shmerl — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:56:51 +0000

Why not on floppy disks.

New comment by shmerl in "Free the Icons"

shmerl — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:32:51 +0000

Apple will never care about what users want, they only do what Apple want. If you want to free anything, don't use Apple. It's an obvious lesson that should have been learned a long time ago.

New comment by shmerl in "Show HN: DRM-Free Books"

shmerl — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:40:42 +0000

Nice. Good to know that Tor books are DRM-free.

New comment by shmerl in "Jolla Phone (October 2026)"

shmerl — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:32:50 +0000

Does it work with US networks?

New comment by shmerl in "10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module"

shmerl — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:14:49 +0000

To make it less hot, just use fiber optics.

New comment by shmerl in "The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games"

shmerl — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:01:42 +0000

Releasing source code for games (including server part) should help.

New comment by shmerl in "Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things"

shmerl — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:01:00 +0000

I don't care much what it says as in "fix", "chore" etc, but for me the main benefit is breaking changes indicated with "!", something like "feat!: ... ".

This makes neovim plugin manager highlight the change differently which brings attention to it when you update stuff.

So please do use it instead of complaining!

I do like the suggestion of

scope!: ...

if it will be treated the same way with breaking changes reactions.

New comment by shmerl in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

shmerl — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:35:48 +0000

+ Long live Linux Desktop!

New comment by shmerl in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

shmerl — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:38:08 +0000

Ban on software patent is more than warranted, only trolls themselves don't like such idea obviously.

But what also needed is persecution these patent trolls for racket like any mob racketeers. There were attempts of persecuting them this way in the past, but they should be renewed.

New comment by shmerl in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

shmerl — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:09:02 +0000

I wouldn't trust it to have good upstream support. It's Nvidia. So not really interested.

New comment by shmerl in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

shmerl — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:41:50 +0000

It's pretty much the modus operandi of any patent troll or in more general case - of any racketeer. Nothing new about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz0_r4PDyCs&t=1m30s

New comment by shmerl in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

shmerl — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:09:01 +0000

There should be a stronger push to fight these trolls. AOM has enough resources to bust their garbage patents and make them pay damages for patent racketeering. At least until software patents are banned for good.

New comment by shmerl in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

shmerl — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:03:25 +0000

No one can predict patent trolls - they can surface at any time randomly. But there should be a more organized fight against them. I assume AOM should be backing that.

New comment by shmerl in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

shmerl — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:08:29 +0000

Because they have nothing to do with AV1, they simply want to leech on it. It's fitting to call them a patent troll.

New comment by shmerl in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

shmerl — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:06:27 +0000

I'd classify any patent racketeer as a troll. Dolby has nothing to do with AV1, they just want a parasitic rent on it. Whether the troll actually does anything else besides the trolling part isn't really relevant.

New comment by shmerl in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

shmerl — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:05:48 +0000

AMD added AV1 encoding only in later SoCs though. Next Steam Deck will have both.

New comment by shmerl in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

shmerl — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:30:31 +0000

Even better, software patents should not be allowed in the first place.