Quantenna used 1.1.1.1 for RPC to their wifi chip in their SDK by default. Should not have been exposed to global routing but of course people screwed that up.

https://medium.com/@mrtcve/atts-misuse-of-cloudflare-dns-ip-...

I don't think there was ever a design to be one frame behind.

Compositing requires the GPU to do some extra work to draw the frame to be presented. This typically takes very little time (much less than a full frame period). Additionally, most wayland compositors will bypass that extra step if an application is full screen (wlroots calls it "direct scanout").

Also some wayland compositors keep track of timing and delay the final composition until right before it is time to present the frame in order to reduce latency.

It's generally a single checkbox to turn off compositing in X11, for precisely this reason.

Yes, but the same is true in Wayland and it's automatic as well. Full screen applications don't require compositing so they typically don't, and this was the case in MOST X11 compositors as well.

Turning off compositing before launching a game is maybe a bit misguided, sort of like turning on the "classic theme" in Windows 7 before launching a game. It might save some memory, sure, but latency should be identical.

> latency should be identical

Should be, but very clearly isn't.

The results show it's identical. Only XWayland suffered any significant degradation, and even then we're talking <5ms which is imperceptible.

Those results depend on having a 500hz monitor. There's a world of difference between a mildly-buggy rendering loop's 1-frame delay or missing a vsync deadline causing a 2ms delay vs a 16ms delay.

You can also disable compositing conditionally in KDE, such as when a game window is opened.

Not in Wayland, the whole point of Wayland is to make stuff the X server + compositor + various other bits into the window manager.

For full-screen applications, Wayland has a protocol to let it display frames at its own pace - meant mostly for games for this very reason.

With X11, you can disable composition for windowed apps as well.

I am tickled that OOM can mean "out of memory" in another context. You clearly meant "orders of magnitude".

Heh, unintentional. Another term shorter than spelling out "orders of magnitude" is "decades", but I figure that's less familiar and even more confusing here. "Memory price started out falling two decades per decade..."

Well if you underestimate your memory requirements by orders of magnitude you'll be out of memory for sure.

Probably only used the floppy to boot into a ramdisk.

Exactly.

Get your public IP from cloudflare over chaos dns: dig @1.1.1.1 ch txt whoami.cloudflare +short

That's not really true. Ffmpeg is a Swiss army knife for anything related to digital multimedia (old and new). It is broken into a few libraries but doesn't really have plugins.

Gstreamer has a different model, chaining together plugins. Lots of overlap, but I think Gstreamer only has real traction because some silicon vendors use it.

Seems to be Missing my favorite - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9STiQ8cCIo0 ("Unreal Super Hero 3" by Kenet & Rez)

You'll find it here: https://chiptune.app/?play=FwwaT5Rc

As mentioned in other comments, chiptune.app seems to be a better project and has been maintained for years (https://github.com/mmontag/chip-player-js).

Also available here: https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...

I tend to think this song is the magnum opus of keygen music. Always used to be associated with Sony Vegas tools which, when I was younger, was a big deal cracking.

> if solar panels drop another 90%, why not just slap them on earth?

Because you need batteries then.

I have been thinking of this for a few years! Nice, I will check it out.

Organic farming still uses pesticides.

See https://www.epa.gov/agriculture/organic-farming - "Pesticides derived from natural sources (such as biological pesticides) may be used in producing organically grown food"