Nelson ZagaloJul 24, 2023
David Gerard

BUYOUT NEWS: The beleaguered and heavily indebted social network formerly known as "Twitter" is acquired by the X Org Foundation, a 501(c)3 scientific charity

"Fixing Twitter will be easier than finishing Wayland," said a spokesdroid

Jul 24, 2023 at 1:00pmWeb
Show threadShoq 🌿Jul 24, 2023
@davidgerard Heh, last year, I proposed he donate the whole mess to Wikipedia foundation, write off what he could, and walk away.
Show threadnumber137Jul 24, 2023
@davidgerard damn! wayland.social has already been registered!
Show threadⓂ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌Jul 24, 2023
@davidgerard and cheaper 🤣
Show threadGilberto FicaraJul 24, 2023
@davidgerard tbh, Musk did most of the work toward "finishing" Twitter... 😂
Show threadMarc JacobsJul 24, 2023
@davidgerard Funniest thing I’ve read all morning. (I’m in PDT, it’s 0710 here)
Show threadSilicium Jul 24, 2023
@davidgerard @Nfoonf exactly what I tough when i saw the new logo
Show threadSimon LucyJul 24, 2023

@davidgerard

Any mention of Wayland provokes thinking of Weyland-Yutani, and then Oligarchs wishing to live forever or some such.

Being stuck in the Musk Universe instead is a bit tedious.

Show threadGianluca Baio 🛵Jul 24, 2023
@davidgerard 😂
Show thread🥥 Tucker Carlson's Nuts 🥥Jul 24, 2023
@davidgerard
🥥 #Linux afficionados see what you did there, David! 🥥
Show threadtorspediaJul 24, 2023
@davidgerard I'd believe that. 😂
Show threadErtainJul 24, 2023
@davidgerard "...Easier than finishing Wayland."😄
Show threadPuschyMTB 🚴‍♂️🚩Jul 24, 2023
@davidgerard

😆👍🏾
Show threadZem 🇪🇹 🇪🇺Jul 24, 2023
@davidgerard thank you i knew i was not the only one
Show threadForeverAndaDayJul 24, 2023
@davidgerard hmm, I wasn't aware that Wayland was made by the same people that made X11, interesting if true.
Show threadDavid GerardJul 24, 2023
@foreverandaday oh yeah - Høgsberg, Jackson, Stone, they'd just spent five years in the Xorg mines and they weren't happy
Show threadDavid GerardJul 24, 2023
@foreverandaday so it's a bit second-system
Show threadDavid GerardJul 24, 2023
@foreverandaday X11 basically is on emergency life support only now. Red Hat was the last paying developer and they consider it utterly legacy except XWayland.
Show threadsmy20011Jul 24, 2023
@davidgerard Fixing Twitter will be easier than finishing Wayland
Show thread[email protected]Jul 24, 2023
@davidgerard @glynmoody snort.
Show threadnantucketlitJul 24, 2023
@davidgerard That must have been one heck of a fundraising drive for X Org.
Show threadDavid GerardJul 25, 2023
@nantucketebooks oh elon didn't have to pay them very much at all
Show threadDarkRedmanJul 24, 2023
@davidgerard Haha I think it's the contrary in fact. 😅
Show threadMyFairJulieJul 25, 2023
@davidgerard Will startx still launch the graphial interface for Linux or will it soon open a social media client?
Show threadUT3UMS 🇺🇦Jul 26, 2023
@davidgerard tweets as framebuffer transport over Layer 7 OSI
Show threadDavid GerardJul 26, 2023
@UT3UMS needs a few more round trips in the protocol before it's properly X
Show threadUT3UMS 🇺🇦Jul 26, 2023
@davidgerard Babylonian glyphs as an encoding
Show threadSeán FenianSep 1, 2023
@davidgerard well. It looks like I should have found your home instance sooner. 😄