@alwayscurious@infosec.exchange
Post #2444202
2026-05-07 22:39 UTC
@dalias@hachyderm.io @ska@social.treehouse.systems That makes sense if you don’t care about performance. I suspect that companies that pay developers of new kernel or graphics APIs generally do care.
Right now, I care a lot about software rendering, but as soon as the security problems with GPUs are solved I won’t care anymore.
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@dalias@hachyderm.io 2026-05-07 22:44
@alwayscurious@infosec.exchange @ska@social.treehouse.systems What I'm getting at is that they use this kind of "performance" machinery as excuses to expand resource consumption to make up for it. When we got GPUs, suddenly every desktop had to have transparency and shadows and animated transitions all over the place, making it impossible to get by without one and impossible to use simple software stacks. Things have settled down a little but it's still bad. io_uring is likely to do the same with gratuitous io all over the place. "Hey, it's fine if we do this because it's cheap now". 🤦