It’s too early to tell.

Rust has a killer feature and a tonne of buzz, but poor ergonomics.

Zig is developing into simple elegance and wonderful interop, but has more work to do before it will be widely usable.

It’s entirely possible that ideas and lessons taken from them will inspire another language that ends up eclipsing them both.

Isn’t exactly this kind of thing what is mostly responsible for the demise of Perl?

Perl died because better tools became available.

Indoctrinated fanatics scare me.

I think the WebView it uses on linux is webkit2gtk. I would expect that to be similar to Electron, but measurements would be better than guesses.

Does anyone know where to find unbiased, representative comparisons of memory usage between Tauri and Electron?

Source code mirrors, since the code is legal: (This is not a case of copyright infringement.)

https://git.naxdy.org/Mirror/Ryujinx

https://git.l7y.media/mirrors/Ryujinx

The commit hashes on both of these mirrors match the official ones at least until March 2024 (v1.1.1217). I can’t vouch for the more recent commits that extend through today (v1.1.1403), but the two mirrors do at least match each other. Another user has confirmed that these hashes match his clone of the official repo through 2024-09-24.

Warning: A zip file in the ryujinx_202410 subdir of https://archive.org/download/ claims to have the full git history, but the hashes do not match the original source repo. It’s possible that the mismatch is an artifact of some accident, rather than malice, but I would avoid it just in case.

I think it’s a bit of a stretch to describe games with loading screens of that kind (whether disguised as choke points or not) as open worlds. Sure, they might allow more freedom than a game that stays on rails for every step of the journey, but to me, “open world” suggests something more.

Continuity while exploring the landscape, unimpeded by artificial barriers or immersion-breaking interruptions, is a big part of it.

Almost as important is that the world be interesting and diverse enough that I would want to spend my time exploring it. This is one of Skyrim’s great strengths: It’s full of unique things to discover, most of which aren’t marked on the map (except sometimes when you’re already there), and some don’t even stay in the same place. It ensures that exploring the world and paying attention is rewarding and satisfying. The Witcher 3, on the other hand, is weak in this area: Its world is mostly open, but practically everything in it is a copy/paste instance of a handful of events, and clearly marked on the map. Exploration quickly becomes a tedious exercise in running from dot to dot, doing the same few things over and over again. It doesn’t deliver the satisfaction I expect from an open world game. In a world like that, I get bored fast.

Ironically, one game that’s handled open worlds a bit better is on a console less capable of handling them.

This is even more interesting when we consider that BotW was not developed for the Switch, but for an even less capable console: the Wii U.

Hardware limitations haven’t been a real barrier to open world continuity for a long time, if ever. (Seven Cities of Gold allowed you to sail from Europe to the New World, and then explore it over land, with no loading screens along the way. That was on 8-bit computers with 48KiB of RAM, loading data from some of the slowest floppy drives ever, back in 1984.) Doing it on lower-end machines does require some planning ahead, but the effort is worthwhile, IMHO.

Breath of the Wild uses it to promote exploring towards vantage points and then interesting sights.

Not only that, but to incorporate verticality into the game mechanics. Reaching things that are surrounded by hazards, or taming especially wild horses by gliding to them from a mountain, for example.

Reminds me of a recent Disney case:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jl0ekjr0go

It bothers me that we as a society continue to surrender our agency, our rights, and even our well-being to whatever restrictions a corporation makes up to benefit itself, just because they’re in a (practically unavoidable) terms & conditions document.

It’s getting so bad that people sometimes mistake corporate policies for law, crying “that’s illegal” if someone steps outside the bounds of a software license.

Adding insult to injury, enforcement of these things is paid for by us, through taxes.

Anything that emulates something else is an emulator. That something else could be hardware, or runtime behavior, or services, or a combination thereof. (It could even be a turtle, although we’re talking about computers in this case.)

Wine is an interesting example despite that silly backronym that was abandoned years ago, or perhaps because of it. It not only translates system and API calls, but also provides Windows work-alike services and copies Windows runtime behavior, including undocumented behavior. If it were just an API wrapper or “translation layer”, a lot of its functionality wouldn’t work.

The shape of a business envelope might not be an equilateral rectangle, but it is still a rectangle.

But go ahead and believe what you want. I’m not looking for an argument.

I think it happened more than a few years ago. US citizens might want to see about overturning Citizens United.

chuckle

Author apparently thinks hardware emulation is the only kind of emulation.

I continue to be impressed by how far we’ve come in algorithmically imitating forces of nature. If you like this stuff, have a look at the EmberGen demo clips

Even the Linux kernel / Linux Torvalds are moving towards Rust.

No, they aren’t. They are experimenting with it in certain new device drivers. No move is planned, and it’s too early to tell whether there will ever be one.

Exploitation involves sending a malicious UDP packet to port 631 on the target, directing it to an attacker-controlled IPP server.

Okay, so at least until this is patched, it would be a good idea to shut down any process that’s listening on port 631, and avoid interaction with untrusted or potentially compromised print servers.

Either of these commands will list any such processes:

$ sudo lsof -i :631

$ sudo fuser -v 631/tcp 631/udp

Whenever I see posts like this, I wonder if they cover manual loop unrolling, which these days is usually an optimization left to the compiler.

Control+F, Duff’s Device

Yep, this post mentions it. Good for them. :)

Good question. Please see my follow-up comment.

Not putting your WiFi password in would absolutely be reliable.

No, it would not.

I’d love to hear your ideas on how they’d remotely break into your WiFi Network

They wouldn’t, of course, nor did I say they would.

(Although since you mention it, we have already seen internet providers quietly using their CPE to create special-purpose wireless networks surrounding customers’ homes. These could obviously be made available to any company that paid the ISP for access, just as cellular networks have been made available to companies like OnStar. So a TV could do this with a business deal rather than breaking in to your normal WiFi.)

However, your network is not the only network in the world, and WiFi is not the only kind of link. Neighbors exist. Open guest networks exist. Drive-by and fly-by networks exist. Mesh networks exist (and are already created by devices like Amazon Echo). Power line networking exists. Bluetooth, LoRa, cellular, etc. etc. etc. Maybe you live on an isolated mountain top where these things are unlikely to reach you (at least until satellite links become a little smaller and cheaper) but even that is not absolute, and most of us don’t.

Unless you disassemble your TV and examine all the components within, and know what they do, it could have any number of these capabilities.

Also, partly due to how prevalent multi-network support is becoming in electronics integration, it is not unusual for related functionality to be dormant at first yet possible to activate later.

I’d love for you not to be adversarial, and to learn more about a topic before making bold claims about it in absolute terms.

Friendly reminder that gaming console monitors, computer monitors, projectors, dumb TVs, and commercial displays exist.

Yes, I could hack a smart TV to disable its networking capabilities. (Merely withholding my wifi password is not reliable.) But that would still be showing the manufacturers that I find spyware TVs acceptable, and supporting the production of those models.

Also, this would be a good time to pressure our legislators into criminalizing this nonsense.

It’s disappointing to see that a couple dozen people decided to hit your post with drive-by downvotes, rather than using their words to express themselves in a way that actually contributes to this community.

Your question is a legitimate one, and relevant at a time when Windows is increasingly bloated and invasive, spyware is out of control, and Linux is increasingly a viable alternative even in certain tough areas like games. I just wish you had elaborated on why you singled out Ubuntu when several other widely-supported Linux distributions exist.

If those were my only two options, I would pick Ubuntu over Windows, no contest. I would replace its default desktop with KDE Plasma (or just choose the Kubuntu variant in the first place), rip out as much of Snap as I could, update the kernel, and plan to migrate to a distro that I like better whenever I was able.

For what it’s worth, Debian Stable with a few hand-picked backports and flatpacks suits me well, mainly for gaming and software development. (I’m a bit of an outlier among Linux users who post on social media, though: Having my system be low-maintenance is more important to me than always having the latest features in every app, and I’ve been known to make my own debian packages and flatpaks when something I want isn’t ready-made.)

Linux Mint, Pop_OS, and Arch Linux are also popular. There are quite a few more.