[HN Gopher] X.org Server Clears Out Remnants for Supporting Old ...
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       X.org Server Clears Out Remnants for Supporting Old Compilers
        
       Author : WhyUVoteGarbage
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2024-02-20 13:03 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.phoronix.com)
        
       | lokar wrote:
       | Auto play video ad with sound? Seriously?
        
       | Jasper_ wrote:
       | The context here is that someone new randomly showed up on the
       | xorg-devel mailing list, and started asking a ton of questions
       | about the codebase, which has lead to a couple of cleanups. I
       | wouldn't read too much into it.
       | 
       | https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2024-February/thread...
        
         | jcranmer wrote:
         | I was going to say the name was somehow familiar. Then I went
         | searching through the Mozilla bug tracker and found this
         | comment:
         | https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58308#c90.
        
           | bravura wrote:
           | I understand your frustration with the heady enthusiasm of
           | the poster but:
           | 
           | Isn't it true that Thunderbird sixteen years later still
           | lacks complete and first-class maildir support?
        
           | ahi wrote:
           | https://www.neowin.net/news/linus-torvalds-asks-covid-
           | vaccin...
        
         | pests wrote:
         | I like this one
         | 
         | https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2024-February/059137...
         | 
         | Huge block of code just sitting around for 16 years completely
         | unused.
        
       | sdan wrote:
       | Unrelated but that looks almost like Twitter took this logo and
       | flipped it horizontally
        
         | jbverschoor wrote:
         | X is a server for every client app
        
           | CyberDildonics wrote:
           | Did you mean to reply somewhere else? This doesn't seem to
           | relate to what they said.
        
         | TheRealPomax wrote:
         | When in reality they just went "oh hey, double struck
         | mathematical operators? Cool", typed "&1D54F;"[1], scrolled
         | through their font picker, and then sent the invoice.
         | 
         | [1]
         | https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1D54F/index.ht...
        
           | lenerdenator wrote:
           | What're the odds that invoice has been paid?
        
             | GuB-42 wrote:
             | Presumably, Elon Musk did it himself. Which isn't hard to
             | believe considering his fascination for the letter "X" and
             | that it is a common Unicode symbol.
             | 
             | The story doesn't tell if he paid himself to do that.
        
           | happytiger wrote:
           | It truly is the most mid, uninspired corporate logo I've seen
           | in a while.
        
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