Show threadFelix Palmen  May 23, 2024

Had an idea, pure genius 🙈: Just check how #Xft is doing it.

Well, turns out it's literally "just doing it":
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxft/-/blob/master/src/xftglyphs.c?ref_type=heads#L327

Maybe I should just do it ... 😅

#X11 #xcb #XRender #scaling #bitmap #font

src/xftglyphs.c · master · xorg / lib / libXft · GitLab

X FreeType library

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Mariette TimmerNov 3, 2023

Sam Bankman-Fried gambled on a trial and his parents lost by @elizabeth_lopatto

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/2/23944485/sam-bankman-fried-guilty-verdict-parents

#XFT #SBF

Sam Bankman-Fried gambled on a trial and his parents lost

Sam Bankman-Fried took a chance on a trial instead of entering a guilty plea for his role in FTX. Now a jury has convicted him of fraud, and his family is paying the price.

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mmu_manAug 24, 2023

Tip: you don't need to hack code and dig the (horrible) #X11 #Xft and #FontConfig APIs to disable antialising for a font in an application: you can append ":antialias=0" to the font name 😄

(you can also hack the .Xresources files probably but that's only X11)