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ANIMAL FARM | Exclusive First Look in c/movies@lemm.ee

[–] moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Seth Rogen is playing Napoleon, the dad character in the scene.

But yeah, the tone doesn’t seem right based on that clip.

There should be a universal standard indicator for whether a comment chain should be read top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

[–] moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago

Depends on the function.

Forum comment chains should always be top to bottom within the same chain. But for live chat, both top to bottom and bottom to top are acceptable.

Now Ubuntu is Also Ditching Xorg Completely for Wayland! in c/linux@programming.dev

[–] moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They are display server communication protocols. Essentially, the computer clients give the display server information, and then the display server processes that information and sends it to the screen. For example, a game might say, “The player is controlling a red guy with a hat and mustache” and the display server draws a Mario on the screen.

X Server is 40 years old. It’s tried and tested, but is not built on modern coding standards. For example, it has not kept up with modern security, allowing a bad actor to tell X to draw a bit of malicious code that tricks the display server into giving it control of other programs. For this reason, the developers of X are sunsetting it and have designed Wayland to replace it.

Wayland is a rewrite of X from the ground up, and is much more secure. It keeps each program in its own bubble, so if a rogue app tries to gain control of programs outside its bubble, it can’t. However, such a large change requires other programs to buy in, creating s vicious cycle where developers don’t want to switch to Wayland until it’s mature, and Wayland is unable to mature without developers buying in. That’s why this “new” protocol has been in progress for the past 16 years, and yet linux users still disagree on whether it is mature enough for wide adoption.

GNOME desktop environment has been at the forefront of Wayland adoption, and has announced plans to stop using X in a future release. Ubuntu, which uses GNOME by default, has announced they are dropping X so they can see how it works in their short-term release before pushing it to their 2026 long-term release. Essentially, they are doing it when the timing works best for them rather than wait until GNOME forces them to drop it.