Snowy 
🏳️🌈Look ma, I'm on phoronix!
| Pronouns | she/her |
| Website | https://www.gfxstrand.net/faith/ |
| GitLab | https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gfxstrand |
| GitHub | https://github.com/gfxstrand |
Faith Ekstrand
@gfxstrand@treehouse.systems
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Linux 3D graphics developer. Author of the NIR optimizing compiler core in Mesa as well as open-source Vulkan drivers for Intel and Nvidia GPUs. Engineering Fellow @Collabora. I enjoy good food, especially BBQ, tacos, and pizza.
Longhorn
Weltschmerz à GogoI guess if “They’ll come for you next” motivates people, then go for it. But damn, I really wish people could start from the assumption that the people they’re coming for *now* are also worth fighting for without any further explanation.
PhoronixMesa 25.2 Drops Legacy DRI2 Code With A Bonfire To Pre-DMABUF Winsys Support
A big merge today to Mesa Git ahead of next week's Mesa 25.2 code branching is removing the pre-DMA-BUF winsys support and as part of that clearing out all of the old DRI2 driver support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.2-Drops-DRI2-Bonfire
They also think that citing a single line from a 12-year-old blog post is sufficient justification of their totally uneducated takes.
Ah, yes. People in the Phoronix forums are quoting Grok as if that makes them an expert.
I can see things are going well over there...
Jasmine runningrandom reminder that ace people can have sex and non-binary people can have computers
Okay, after teaching CI to build newer Weston and XWayland from source, things are working again. We can now deprecate wl_drm. 🥳
I'm gonna try upgrading Weston. CI is currently using Weston 10 from debian stable. I'm pretty sure that Weston release is EOL so there aren't going to be any fixes to it.
Genderative AI