Posts tagged: open-source
Why Your Display Is Stuck at 60Hz: The X11/VSync/Wayland Political War
X11 locks every app to 60Hz. Wayland fixes it but NVIDIA fought it for a decade. Here's the technical architecture and the corporate politics behind your laggy desktop.
Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The X11/Wayland War as a Case Study in Human Coordination Failure
It's 2026. We have AI agents that can debug code in minutes. Yet X11 and Wayland still can't coexist peacefully. Here's why the problem isn't technical — it's human, and it follows patterns from entropy to attention economics.
DeepSeek V4 Is Censored — And Open-Weight Is the Escape Hatch
DeepSeek V4 is open-weight under MIT license but censored at the API level. Self-hosting eliminates the safety layer. The data privacy and silent refusal problems are real.