A lot of what they want to do and do in fact do wouldn't be possible at a smaller size. Their new lab uses equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars a piece.
The old subreddit r/bestof was great for finding niche communities on Reddit. Maybe a Lemmy version could exist, but aimed specifically at highlighting niche communities and their content?
You don't have to fake docs to create a false uproar. All it takes is painting things in a bad light and hoping your audience doesn't dig deeper. EG the part I stopped reading at is when he put 'cis' in quotation marks and said the linked person was hating on cisgendered white people, when in reality the link they provided only showed the person saying that cisgendered folks are generally better off in the workplace.
That is because it's an open standard, not open source. You can read the documentation and implement a driver for a new platform, but you're not porting vulkan to it. Likewise, there is tons of windows only open source code that will never work anywhere else because they target windows specific code.
No, its not. With open source software you, a regular person, can feasibly get a change included into the code base. That is NOT true with an open standard. You, or more accurately a very large and powerful company you work with or for, have to have significant pull to even hope to get a change in. Even then, those changes take a lot of time to proliferate.
With open source code that change can happen as soon as you write it, you don't even have to wait for the maintainer to merge it; just fork the software. You can't really "fork" Vulkan as a normal dev; no one will follow your spec. You don't have enough pull as a single dev to get billion dollar companies to follow it. But you can relatively easily get those same companies to use your fork of an open source software.
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