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Latest Comments by jarfil
Microsoft president admits they were wrong on open source
16 May 2020 at 1:22 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Duncit's going to take a lot more than friendly words for me to trust Microsoft.
The beauty of FOSS, is that you don't need to trust anyone. You can, but you don't need to. So if you don't trust Microsoft, Google, Mozilla or GNU, that's all fine, you can decide to trust anyone else who's vetted their code... or even trust nobody and check the code for yourself. Or trust your distro's repo maintainers to check Microsoft's code, which is probably what most people will do.

Quoting: Luke_NukemSome of us are tentatively awaiting the "extend" phase.
That's going on right now, basing Edge on Chromium is an "extend". What they can never do is an "extinguish", when they don't own the exclusive copyright rights, and people can just fork and forget (see Oracle with their MySQL, Java, and so on).

SC Controller driver and UI version 0.4.5 is out, last release for a while
23 Sep 2018 at 4:32 pm UTC Likes: 5

No more sexual advances, trolling, harassment, doxxing or non-professional behavior...
If this guy thinks that's all the "fun in coding" there is, maybe he shouldn't be coding at all.

Oculus Has "Paused" Linux Development On The Rift VR Headset
16 May 2015 at 4:06 pm UTC Likes: 3

VR headsets should not have software/SDK support, but system support. A standard, open and free VR support that should work with any VR headset, no matter if it's the Oculus, the Steam one, or any other. Much like you wouldn't expect to install LG or Sony SDKs to make use of your monitor.

Valve's Newest Controller Design Looks Solid
8 Jan 2015 at 2:37 am UTC Likes: 3

My bet:
Those are grooves or ridges in the rubber of the left pad where the horizontal/vertical dead zone is, so you can easily move your finger in either a horizontal or vertical direction without affecting the other one. The right pad will probably still have the concentric ring ridges to help you locate center and border, but the left one will have a cross instead of a circle.


Positech's Cliffski Developer Of Democracy 3 On SteamDevDays
21 Jan 2014 at 3:32 pm UTC

"hand-coded directx engine" <- there's your problem

"I’ve used windows constantly since windows 3.11. I don’t know anything about Linux"
...so, no idea about POSIX? <- there's your other problem