👨💻 Software Engineer working on the infrastructure for #Mesa / #Mesa3D, the open source Linux graphics driver, and CI-tron / #CI_tron & #boot2container, the CI & deployment infrastructure used by #Mesa, #postmarketOS, #Valve, and others.
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Last Notes npub1xg4zstj760e890cdzlv75nvr0suyn0a4vh9k5a24ve80lca8l0hq5g38sk Eric Engestrom 💙 @nprofile…re2d definitely! I had an "interesting" conversation a few years ago, trying to explain that "using less resources" is not the same thing as "doing more with the same resources" and being met with "but the resources are wasted if you don't use them!"… What if, hear me out, what if not everything has to be "consumed"? npub1xg4zstj760e890cdzlv75nvr0suyn0a4vh9k5a24ve80lca8l0hq5g38sk Eric Engestrom 💙 @nprofile…5x8e there's a quote I don't quite remember right now, about the fact that as soon as management starts caring about a metric it and make it a target becomes an anti target for developers npub1xg4zstj760e890cdzlv75nvr0suyn0a4vh9k5a24ve80lca8l0hq5g38sk Eric Engestrom 💙 With Firefox 148, Mozilla finally did what they should've done from the start: you can now disable all "AI" features in one click, including future ones. You can also add exceptions, like decide that translations are ok. npub1xg4zstj760e890cdzlv75nvr0suyn0a4vh9k5a24ve80lca8l0hq5g38sk Eric Engestrom 💙 @nprofile…50mt I can't find it again right now but someone has recently posted a webcam driver that takes dmabufs as input; look it up before you re-do some of the same work :) npub1xg4zstj760e890cdzlv75nvr0suyn0a4vh9k5a24ve80lca8l0hq5g38sk Eric Engestrom 💙 @nprofile…zrxk is this going to be x86 only, or do you want to support arm as well? I'm happy to test that it you'd like npub1xg4zstj760e890cdzlv75nvr0suyn0a4vh9k5a24ve80lca8l0hq5g38sk Eric Engestrom 💙 Old modem yells at cloud npub1xg4zstj760e890cdzlv75nvr0suyn0a4vh9k5a24ve80lca8l0hq5g38sk Eric Engestrom 💙 #xdc2025 at metalab npub1xg4zstj760e890cdzlv75nvr0suyn0a4vh9k5a24ve80lca8l0hq5g38sk Eric Engestrom 💙 @nprofile…ln70 a few of us at xdc last year found these (in Montréal). I didn't dare try it, I live in France now I don't know if they would let me back in npub1xg4zstj760e890cdzlv75nvr0suyn0a4vh9k5a24ve80lca8l0hq5g38sk Eric Engestrom 💙 @nprofile…ln70 @nprofile…zp5w yeah, I think we could go with "anyone who's Developer (or above) on any official FDo project (not user namespace projects)" as a starting point and discuss something better if/when an exception is asked for npub1xg4zstj760e890cdzlv75nvr0suyn0a4vh9k5a24ve80lca8l0hq5g38sk Eric Engestrom 💙 @nprofile…ln70 yeah I considered setting up an fdo instance a few years ago, but the potential moderation effort is what made me give up on the idea. Keep me in the loop though, I might change my mind 😊 npub1xg4zstj760e890cdzlv75nvr0suyn0a4vh9k5a24ve80lca8l0hq5g38sk Eric Engestrom 💙 Another excellent blog post from my colleague Tvrtko Ursulin on his work improving the GPU scheduler: npub1xg4zstj760e890cdzlv75nvr0suyn0a4vh9k5a24ve80lca8l0hq5g38sk Eric Engestrom 💙 Calling to anyone with nginx proxy experience: npub1xg4zstj760e890cdzlv75nvr0suyn0a4vh9k5a24ve80lca8l0hq5g38sk Eric Engestrom 💙 It hasn't been mentioned in a reply yet, but this article really hit the nail on the head, especially when it comes to the emotional impact this whole thing has had on me: npub1xg4zstj760e890cdzlv75nvr0suyn0a4vh9k5a24ve80lca8l0hq5g38sk Eric Engestrom 💙 I am looking for articles/etc. explaining the many kinds of problems with "AI"/genAI/LLMs to educate some colleagues that are apparently unaware, please send me everything you've seen :) npub1xg4zstj760e890cdzlv75nvr0suyn0a4vh9k5a24ve80lca8l0hq5g38sk Eric Engestrom 💙 @nprofile…ln70 @nprofile…e542 yeah, but they have that whole thing where when you die you actually don't die you just teleport to a land where milk and honey grows on trees or something npub1xg4zstj760e890cdzlv75nvr0suyn0a4vh9k5a24ve80lca8l0hq5g38sk Eric Engestrom 💙 @nprofile…ln70 @nprofile…e542 the next one… dying? 😱 npub1xg4zstj760e890cdzlv75nvr0suyn0a4vh9k5a24ve80lca8l0hq5g38sk Eric Engestrom 💙 I'm glad Hellwig is no longer blocking Rust development in the Linux kernel, but I feel like some of the posts I'm seeing about it are unnecessarily harsh: he did good work too, and I hope we can avoid driving him away from contributing altogether. npub1xg4zstj760e890cdzlv75nvr0suyn0a4vh9k5a24ve80lca8l0hq5g38sk Eric Engestrom 💙 @nprofile…ln70 not sure how to respond, I think this is all I got: 🫂 npub1xg4zstj760e890cdzlv75nvr0suyn0a4vh9k5a24ve80lca8l0hq5g38sk Eric Engestrom 💙 New threat model discovered: cat chews security key left on the desk overnight npub1xg4zstj760e890cdzlv75nvr0suyn0a4vh9k5a24ve80lca8l0hq5g38sk Eric Engestrom 💙 Another way to put it:
