Pure Wayland KDE is achievable & bootifool on FreeBSD

Thanks to FreeBSD this has been a nice little project to complete.

Compiled x11-wm/plasma6-kwin without X11, launched KDE manually via a script, and voila - a true Wayland KDE.

Ain't nobody got time for X11.

It really is a thing of beauty how everything on FreeBSD just comes together.

There are several little things that are missing when you extirpate X11 from KDE wayland compositor.

  1. There's no restoring windows between sessions because KDE people are still using an archaic purely X11 ksmserver to save window state between sessions.
  2. I don't believe you can use startplasma-wayland to start KDE, you have to set up the environment yourself, launch several KDE services yourself and then start plasmashell.
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u/TristanMeads — 5 days ago

Pure Wayland KDE is achievable & bootifool on FreeBSD

Thanks to FreeBSD this has been a nice little project to complete.

Compiled x11-wm/plasma6-kwin without X11, launched KDE manually via a script, and voila - a true Wayland KDE.

Ain't nobody got time for X11.

It really is a thing of beauty how everything on FreeBSD just comes together.

There are several little things that are missing when you extirpate X11 from KDE wayland compositor.

  1. There's no restoring windows between sessions because KDE people are still using an archaic purely X11 ksmserver to save window state between sessions.

  2. I don't believe you can use startplasma-wayland to start KDE, you have to set up the environment yourself, launch several KDE services yourself and then start plasmashell.

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u/TristanMeads — 6 days ago

Ask AI what FreeBSD does wrong?

So we have all these news coming out of AI successfully assisting in finding all sorts of vulnerabilities in OSes. That's people questioning about weaknesses in existing designs.

But did anyone (who has money and paid subscriptions) ask the powerful models whether the particular OS is designed well and securely? That's asking if there's something that FreeBSD is doing wrong in terms of the design from the ground up.

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u/TristanMeads — 2 months ago
▲ 42 r/neuroscience+1 crossposts

New unknown neural representation mechanism - circuit-based!

UC Berkeley research uncovers a completely new unknown mechanism for neural representation - population of visual neurons can switch their encoding system on the fly!

It's purely fundamentally circuit-based, on the timescale of 120ms - based on recurrent network dynamics via a population-wide shift on the order of 20 ms. The switch is highly content-specific.

First pass - recognize broad category, second pass - analyze fine-grained identity (all using the same cells). Feedforward sweep (broad features) --> top-down/recurrent loop (coordinated network shift) --> inhibitory gating (fine identity).

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u/Radiant-Rain2636 — 3 months ago