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Journalists in Lebanon have demanded an apology from a senior US envoy after he told them to “act civilized” and not be “animalistic”.

As reporters shouted questions after the US delegation’s meeting with the Lebanese president, Joseph Aoun, on Tuesday, Tom Barrack, the US ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria, stepped up to the podium in the packed room and said: “We’re going to have a different set of rules ... please be quiet for a moment.

“The moment that this starts becoming chaotic, like animalistic, we’re gone,” he said.

“Act civilised, act kind, act tolerant, because this is the problem with what’s happening in the region,” added Barrack, who has recently been leading talks with Lebanese officials.

In 2020, Apple released the M1 with a custom GPU. We got to work reverse-engineering the hardware and porting Linux. Today, you can run Linux on a range of M1 and M2 Macs, with almost all hardware working: wireless, audio, and full graphics acceleration.

Our story begins in December 2020, when Hector Martin kicked off Asahi Linux. I was working for Collabora working on Panfrost, the open source Mesa3D driver for Arm Mali GPUs. Hector put out a public call for guidance from upstream open source maintainers, and I bit. I just intended to give some quick pointers. Instead, I bought myself a Christmas present and got to work. In between my university coursework and Collabora work, I poked at the shader instruction set.

One thing led to another. Within a few weeks, I drew a triangle.

In 3D graphics, once you can draw a triangle, you can do anything.

Pretty soon, I started work on a shader compiler. After my final exams that semester, I took a few days off from Collabora to bring up an OpenGL driver capable of spinning gears with my new compiler.

Over the next year, I kept reverse-engineering and improving the driver until it could run 3D games on macOS.

Meanwhile, Asahi Lina wrote a kernel driver for the Apple GPU. My userspace OpenGL driver ran on macOS, leaving her kernel driver as the missing piece for an open source graphics stack. In December 2022, we shipped graphics acceleration in Asahi Linux.

In January 2023, I started my final semester in my Computer Science program at the University of Toronto. For years I juggled my courses with my part-time job and my hobby driver. I faced the same question as my peers: what will I do after graduation?

Maybe Panfrost? I started reverse-engineering of the Mali Midgard GPU back in 2017, when I was still in high school. That led to an internship at Collabora in 2019 once I graduated, turning into my job throughout four years of university. During that time, Panfrost grew from a kid’s pet project based on blackbox reverse-engineering, to a professional driver engineered by a team with Arm’s backing and hardware documentation. I did what I set out to do, and the project succeeded beyond my dreams. It was time to move on.

What did I want to do next?

• Finish what I started with the M1. Ship a great driver.
• Bring full, conformant OpenGL drivers to the M1. Apple’s drivers are not conformant, but we should strive for the industry standard.
• Bring full, conformant Vulkan to Apple platforms, disproving the myth that Vulkan isn’t suitable for Apple hardware.
• Bring Proton gaming to Asahi Linux. Thanks to Valve’s work for the Steam Deck, Windows games can run better on Linux than even on Windows. Why not reap those benefits on the M1?

Panfrost was my challenge until we “won”. My next challenge? Gaming on Linux on M1.

Once I finished my coursework, I started full-time on gaming on Linux. Within a month, we shipped OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux. A few weeks later, we passed official conformance for OpenGL ES 3.1. That put us at feature parity with Panfrost. I wanted to go further.

OpenGL (ES) 3.2 requires geometry shaders, a legacy feature not supported by either Arm or Apple hardware. The proprietary OpenGL drivers emulate geometry shaders with compute, but there was no open source prior art to borrow. Even though multiple Mesa drivers need geometry/tessellation emulation, nobody did the work to get there.

My early progress on OpenGL was fast thanks to the mature common code in Mesa. It was time to pay it forward. Over the rest of the year, I implemented geometry/tessellation shader emulation. And also the rest of the owl. In January 2024, I passed conformance for the full OpenGL 4.6 specification, finishing up OpenGL.

Vulkan wasn’t too bad, either. I polished the OpenGL driver for a few months, but once I started typing a Vulkan driver, I passed 1.3 conformance in a few weeks.

What remained was wiring up the geometry/tessellation emulation to my shiny new Vulkan driver, since those are required for Direct3D. Et voilà, Proton games.

Along the way, Karol Herbst passed OpenCL 3.0 conformance on the M1, running my compiler atop his “rusticl” frontend.

Meanwhile, when the Vulkan 1.4 specification was published, we were ready and shipped a conformant implementation on the same day.

After that, I implemented sparse texture support, unlocking Direct3D 12 via Proton.

…Now what?

• Ship a great driver? Check.
• Conformant OpenGL 4.6, OpenGL ES 3.2, and OpenCL 3.0? Check.
• Conformant Vulkan 1.4? Check.
• Proton gaming? Check.

That’s a wrap.

We’ve succeeded beyond my dreams. The challenges I chased, I have tackled. The drivers are fully upstream in Mesa. Performance isn’t too bad. With the Vulkan on Apple myth busted, conformant Vulkan is now coming to macOS via LunarG’s KosmicKrisp project building on my work.

Satisfied, I am now stepping away from the Apple ecosystem. My friends in the Asahi Linux orbit will carry the torch from here. As for me?

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Spelthorne borough Council Public Space Protection Order

Spelthorne borough Council introduced a new Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) to help tackle anti-social behaviour across the borough

The PSPO grants new powers to the police and council to address the issues involved.

1. Anti-social use of, bycycles, e-bikes, skateboards, e-scooters, hoverboards, and similar devices.

2. Use of face coverings such as masks, balaclava's and scarves, in ways which cause alarm.

3. Possesson of catapults, slingshots and or similar items without a legitimate reason.

As per the lastest "Independent group for Spelthorne borough council"

The older folk in the borough are going to love this.

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who decides what the "ways in which cause alarm" are?

what is an anti-social use of a bycycle or skateboard?

who decides what the "anti-social use of a bycycle " is?

The agenda is clear in this older person borough, that children and teenagers are not welcome.

The Anti-social use of, bycycles, and skateboards in particular is an attack on all young people

People never ask why the younger generations started to wear masks, whereas, my generation did not wear masks.

The masks are a response to the constant monitoring and CCTV camera usage in society.

The panopticon!

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Spelthorne borough Council

Following the 2023 election and subsequent by-elections and changes of allegiance up to June 2025, the composition of the council is:

Conservative 14 Liberal Democrats 10 Labour 7 Independent 5 Green 2 Ind. Conservative 1

Five of the independent councillors sit together as the 'Independent Spelthorne Group', the other sits with the Conservatives.

for me that makes 20 tory councillors.

sit where they like, they are still ex tories and besties.

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This borough has been in the hands of the conservatives since 1974. Once threatened with the loss of power, and in desperation, the conservatives changed tack and moved to being Independent councillors. claiming they oppposed government tory policies.

They are not as independent as we might like to think. If it acts like a tory it is a tory.

The borough has a large population of elderly, exceedingly wealthy people, living in multi-million pound properties, on the banks of the river thames and surrounding areas.

On 27 February 2024, Spelthorne Borough Council unveiled their Corporate Plan for 2024-2028, highlighting their key priorities for the next few years.

Clearly more interested in developing Spelthorne Borough Council as a business, rather than working for the people and charging wealthy home owners more council tax.

As of 2023, the council had £1.1 billion in borrowing, with the highest borrowing to income ratio of any council in England.

How on earth are a council allowed to borrow £1.1 billion when services are at an all time low?

Again. choosing not to charge those with the most money more council tax.

Most recent MP's:

1987 David Wilshire Conservative

2010 Kwasi Kwarteng Conservative

2024 Lincoln Jopp Conservative

the rogues gallery of failed Tory MP's.

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You may not know this, but Spelthorne Borough Council charges those on benefits council tax.

Other Boroughs like Hounslow and many other councils choose not to charge those on benfits council tax.

Spelthorne Borough Council combine the universal credit/pip payment and the housing costs/rent payment as one benefit payment, when they are paid as two seperate payments.

Spelthorne Borough Council adds the housing costs/rent money to your benefit payments, and uses that as your total disposable income, to assess your eligibilty to pay council tax. Enabling them to charge council tax on the poor.

So if you receive £400.14 a month basic universal credit payment and receive £500 rent payment. you are assessed on the full £900.14 as an income and not on the £400.14 a month basic universal credit payment.

What a scam

In Spelthorne Borough Council those on benefits have always paid more.

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