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Fedora moving forward with UKIs, bootc and composefs
Pipewire, Wayland, Matrix.
JPEG-XL (someone already mentioned it as .jxl below) image files.
- competitive with AVIF compression levels
- not recycling video compression, so you get benefits like progressive loading
- JPEG transcoding - can take existing JPEG files (so much of the existing images online) and shrink their size by ~20% with literally no change to the presented image, and this is easily reverable. The amount of data this would shrink without risk of altering the data is HUGE.
There are a ton of other benefits but those are the three I’m most excited about.
ActivityPub, I’m sick of corporate social media
RISC-V
I want open-source hardware
some good news on that front https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/XiangShan
Is there a good resource out there for wrapping my head around RISC-V? Last time I read a wiki my head hurt haha. Seems cool, though.
In principle it’s just “slimmer ARM”. RISC-V is also extremely dedicated to using memory mapped IO rather than older style IO x86_64 supports.
Think lots of registers, a fun zero register that is always zero, and memory mapped IO.
ARM is also reduced-instruction set but I don’t know how they differ. Is the instruction set somehow more reduced?
Aren’t they more like a hybrid instruction set and architecture?
I for one think we need a register for each unsigned integer, why is zero so special? :P
Or if we can’t get that, at least every power of 2 and power of 2 minus 1.
Maybe I can submit a proposal for risc-VI 🤣
Maybe I can submit a proposal for risc-VI 🤣
No need! You can make your own custom extension! If the silicon doesn’t support it, then you can provide firmware to emulate it.
I think a register for each of the primes should be enough.
Wayland
37.5 hour work week
Here I am working 35h as full time in Canada. Same for my brother who works in the government. Some jobs/countries in Europe do 32h/full time.
We have 38h in Belgium, but if you work 40, you get 12 extra full days of holiday during the year (what I do).
A 32 hour work week with no salary cut will never happen, but that would be a dream
First thing that comes to mind is RISCV. Although it’s not new, it is gaining traction in consumer computing
The Solid protocol specification or anything similar (it doesn’t have to be that specific protocol).
For example, registering to a website or service actually creates a local secure database/bucket/pod where that website/service organizes/sort/manipulates our data and stores all generated modified data/metadata within our local personnal server, every time we interact with that same external website/service it gets access to the database/bucket previously created. (Ideally) no personnal data should be stored on external servers/machines outside our control and without our explicit consent.
I hope this works out so much. Tim Berners-Lee even endorsed it! Unfortunately, a lot of these super cool ideas come with the limitation of needing a personal server. I think if we really want this stuff to happen, someone needs to start selling modem/router combos with a home server built in. You could add Solid, local media share, etc. by default, and it would be a great place to install Home Assistant or run a Minecraft server from.
Maybe HDR on linux? I’m fairly clueless about how it all works under the hood, but I’m currently on debian 12 and I’m hoping that by the time 13 comes around it will just work without me needing to do any manual system tweaks. As I understand it, it’s currently semi-working or fully-working in KDE6, but I’m still on KDE5 until debian 13 comes out.
I’ve recently switched to Fedora KDE running version 6 and HDR looks great. Well worth the wait.
Obligatory https://xkcd.com/927/
