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Are we XLibre yet?

X11 has been, and still is, a vital piece of technology at the core of professional Unix-like workstations since decades. It has a proven track record of supporting enterprise-grade applications with long-term protocol stability and platform compatibility. It has matured over decades. XLibre is an actively developed fork of the X.Org X11 server, initiated by the most active X.Org developer and supported by the open source community.

An incompatible alternative, Wayland, is being aggressively pushed by IBM = Red Hat = Gnome = Fedora = freedesktop.org. However, it is not ready to succeed X11 as it its governance model leads to never-ending discussions and prevents even the most essential functionality from existing. Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!

It is time that the open source community reclaims what was ours to begin with. This page lists distrib

@thenhnn
thenhnn / opencl.patch
Created March 8, 2025 19:35
mesa-asahi-edge on latest nixpkgs
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index c150bff74ff..37fa7f0531b 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1850,7 +1850,7 @@ endif
dep_clang = null_dep
if with_clc or with_gallium_clover
- llvm_libdir = dep_llvm.get_variable(cmake : 'LLVM_LIBRARY_DIR', configtool: 'libdir')
+ llvm_libdir = get_option('clang-libdir')
@SasLuca
SasLuca / app.cpp
Created December 26, 2024 17:15
How to use ANGLE with SDL3 on iOS
#define SDL_MAIN_USE_CALLBACKS 1
#include <SDL3/SDL_main.h>
#include <SDL3/SDL.h>
#include <EGL/egl.h>
#include <EGL/eglext.h>
#include <GLES2/gl2.h>
#include <GLES3/gl3.h>
struct AppState
@aamiaa
aamiaa / RevertNewLayout.md
Last active July 21, 2025 15:14
Revert New Discord Layout

The original snippet no longer works!

On 02/09/2024 at around 8pm UTC, Discord flipped an experiment (2023-09_mobile_redesign_override_toggles) which ignores the layout toggle that this script relied on.

If you want to continue using the old layout, you can either use a modded mobile client (such as Vendetta) to disable that experiment, or downgrade to an old version of the app.

Method 1 - Downgrading (Android)

Tip

Use this one if you want a fast, beginner-friendly solution and don't mind using a version from November 2023

  1. Download version 205.15 of Discord mobile app from ApkMirror
@andyfriesen
andyfriesen / BUCK
Created July 30, 2023 17:20
Trying to work out how to get a single mega-compilation-database out of Buck. This is a pretty naive approach, but I think it works?
# compdb/BUCK
python_bootstrap_binary(
name = "combine_compdbs",
main = "combine_compdbs.py",
visibility = ["PUBLIC"]
)
@Ce11an
Ce11an / surreal.py
Last active March 6, 2023 03:07
SurrealDB WebSocket Client
"""SurrealDB websocket client library."""
import enum
import json
from types import TracebackType
from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Type, Union
import pydantic
import websockets
@macshome
macshome / defang.md
Last active July 23, 2025 06:08
How to defang system protections on macOS

How to Defang macOS System Protections

If you want to change things on the root drive of a Mac you will need to take some steps to disable the built in security of the system. Most of these steps are the same regardless if you are on Intel or Apple Silicon. If there is a difference it is noted.

Note that all of these things put a Mac into an unsupported and less secure state.

Make sure you either perform these steps in a VM or that you reset the protections after you are done poking around

Protections and Terms

(This list is not exahustive on the details of each. Check the links at the end for more info.)

@Vogtinator
Vogtinator / README.md
Last active July 24, 2025 19:45
Run Win11 on ARM in QEMU

Guide updated to use the official installation .iso from Microsoft, which finally became available in Dec. 2024! For the VHDX disk image based guide check an earlier version of this gist.

When following this guide on a host not capable of aarch64 virtualization, replace -cpu host -accel kvm with -cpu max.

  1. Download the installation .iso from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11arm64. Win11_24H2_EnglishInternational_Arm64.iso is known to work.
  2. Download the the latest virtio-win.iso from https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/latest-virtio/.
  3. Create a disk image for the Windows installation: qemu-img create -f qcow2 win11.qcow2 25G
  4. Start the installation with generic (ramfb for display, usb-storage for .isos) as well as virtio (virtio-gpu-pci, virtio-block) devices: `qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -cpu host -accel kvm -m 4G -smp 4 -device ramfb -device virtio-gpu-pci -bios /usr/share/qemu/qemu-uefi-aarch64.bin -device qemu-xhci -device usb-kbd -dev
@shiryel
shiryel / nix_try_eval.patch
Last active May 29, 2024 22:51
Nixpkgs to JSON
diff --git a/src/libexpr/primops.cc b/src/libexpr/primops.cc
index bc253d0a3..e6c348d99 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/primops.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/primops.cc
@@ -867,7 +867,7 @@ static void prim_tryEval(EvalState & state, const PosIdx pos, Value * * args, Va
state.forceValue(*args[0], pos);
attrs.insert(state.sValue, args[0]);
attrs.alloc("success").mkBool(true);
- } catch (AssertionError & e) {
+ } catch (EvalError & e) {
@marler8997
marler8997 / signing.zig
Created July 9, 2022 22:35
Generate Keys, Sign and Verify files on linux with ED25119 and BLAKE3
const std = @import("std");
const Signer = std.crypto.sign.Ed25519;
// Blake3 : 1
// Blake2b512 : 1.3 x slower than Blake3
// Sha256 : 4 x slower than Blake3
//const Hasher = std.crypto.hash.sha2.Sha256;
//const Hasher = std.crypto.hash.blake2.Blake2b512;
const Hasher = std.crypto.hash.Blake3;