Nintendo sues FOSS emulator, Nvidia thinks coding is dead, Plasma 6 is out: Linux & Open Source News

Summary

This Linux news video covers Nvidia's CEO commenting that kids should not learn coding due to AI advancement, the KDE Plasma 6 desktop release with UI improvements, Nintendo suing the Yuzu Switch emulator developers, and more. Other topics include issues with lack of funding for open source developers, AMD struggling get HDMI 2.1 Linux driver support, and updates on the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver bringing better performance.

Takeaways

• 👾 Nintendo is suing the creators of the open-source Switch emulator Yuzu
• 😡 Nvidia CEO said kids should not learn to code because AI will do it instead
• 🎉 Plasma 6 desktop environment released with improvements like desktop cube and touchpad gestures
• 😕 Lack of open HDMI 2.1 specs means no support for latest standards in open source AMD drivers on Linux
• 🤔 Blog post discusses funding issues for open source and argues all funding models have tradeoffs
• 💻 AMD working on open source kernel driver for HDMI 2.1 support but rejected by HDMI Forum
• 🔥 NVK Nvidia open source Vulkan driver now conformant to latest spec and enabled by default in Mesa
• 🚀 NVK driver gaining support for resizable BAR for better GPU memory access
• 🍷 Wine's Wayland driver adding basic OpenGL support
• 🏆 NVK + Linux kernel updates could make open source Nvidia stack performant enough to drop proprietary driver

Q & A

¿Qué demanda presentó Nintendo contra los creadores del emulador de Nintendo Switch Yuzu?

Nintendo presentó una demanda argumentando que no hay forma legal de usar Yuzu como emulador y que es ilegal en sí mismo. Dicen que el emulador necesita claves de descifrado obtenidas ilegalmente para funcionar.

¿Qué argumentos presenta el equipo de Yuzu en su defensa?

El equipo de Yuzu argumenta que el emulador también permite jugar juegos caseros no disponibles en Switch, lo cual es un uso legítimo. También permite jugar con el controlador que uno elija, lo cual es positivo para la accesibilidad.

¿Qué declaración hizo el CEO de Nvidia sobre aprender a programar?

El CEO de Nvidia, Jensen Huang, argumentó que codificar ya no es una habilidad que los niños deberían aprender, porque la IA hará toda la codificación cuando esos niños puedan encontrar trabajo.

¿Por qué es una declaración sin sentido de parte del CEO de Nvidia?

Es una declaración sin sentido porque la IA necesita código para funcionar, nadie argumentaría que ya alcanzamos el peak de codificación, se necesitan humanos para revisar y depurar el código de IA, y se necesitan desarrolladores para mejorar la propia IA.

¿Cuáles son los cambios principales en KDE Plasma 6?

Los cambios principales son: pasa completamente a Qt6 y Wayland por defecto, pequeñas mejoras en el tema, configuración reordenada, nuevo efecto de vista general como Actividades de GNOME, soporte de HDR y corrección de daltonismo, valores predeterminados más fáciles para nuevos usuarios, paneles flotantes mejorados, krunner más rápido y apps actualizadas.

¿Cuál es la principal preocupación sobre la financiación de software de código abierto según Jacob Kaplan-Moss?

La principal preocupación es que actualmente es muy difícil mantener proyectos de código abierto de forma sostenible. No tienen suficientes mantenedores pagados en comparación a la cantidad de usuarios que tienen. Se necesitan formas de que los desarrolladores puedan ganar dinero con el software libre.

¿Por qué AMD no ha podido agregar soporte para HDMI 2.1 en sus controladores de kernel de Linux?

El Foro HDMI, que controla la implementación del estándar HDMI, ha rechazado todos los esfuerzos de AMD. Esto se debe a que el acceso público a las especificaciones HDMI se cerró en 2021, lo que dificulta legalmente implementar nuevas características HDMI en controladores de código abierto.

¿Cuál es la gran noticia sobre el controlador Vulkan de código abierto nvk de NVIDIA?

El controlador nvk ahora es conforme a Vulkan 1.3, lo que significa que admite la última versión. Mesa 24.1 construirá este controlador de forma predeterminada y lo usará en lugar de marcarlo como experimental.

¿Cómo mejorará el rendimiento de nvk en Mesa 24.1?

Mesa 24.1 agregará soporte para rebar (barra redimensionable) en nvk. Esto permite al CPU acceder a toda la memoria de la GPU para reducir cuellos de botella y mejorar el rendimiento.

¿Cuál es el progreso reciente del controlador Wayland de Wine?

El controlador Wayland de Wine está obteniendo soporte básico para OpenGL, lo que permitirá ejecutar aplicaciones de OpenGL nativamente bajo Wayland. Esto acerca más a la paridad de características con la implementación basada en X11.

Outlines

00:00

Nvidia CEO Makes Controversial Coding Comments

The Nvidia CEO argued that coding is a skill kids should not bother learning anymore because AI will handle all coding tasks in the future. This viewpoint is flawed because AI still requires human supervision, new programming languages continue to emerge, and fewer developers means less AI improvement.

05:00

KDE Plasma 6 Released

KDE Plasma 6 was released this week with a variety of improvements including an upgrade to Qt6 and Wayland by default, UI enhancements, better settings organization, a new overview effect similar to GNOME Activities, the return of the desktop cube effect, and upgrades to default apps.

10:02

The Challenges of Funding Open Source Software

Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote an interesting article discussing the lack of sustainable funding models for open source software maintainers. He argues that despite many users benefiting from open source projects, there are too few full-time paid developers working on them. He makes the case that any avenue for funding open source work should be viewed as positive progress in the current climate.

15:02

AMD Unable To Add Linux Support for Latest HDMI

AMD has tried unsuccessfully to add support in their open-source Linux graphics driver for the latest HDMI 2.1 specifications. This is due to the HDMI Forum rejecting their proposals and restricting public access to parts of the HDMI standards. As a result, Linux users with AMD GPUs are unable to utilize certain high resolution, high refresh rate capabilities available in the latest HDMI versions.

Progress on Open Source NVIDIA and Vulkan Drivers

The open-source Vulkan driver for Nvidia GPUs is now Vulkan 1.3 conformant and will build by default in upcoming Mesa releases. Work also continues on a common Vulkan runtime to reduce code duplication across Mesa drivers. Additionally, the Vulkan-based Wayland driver for Wine now enables some basic OpenGL support, bringing it closer to parity with the X11 version.

Keywords

💡Inteligencia Artificial (IA)

La Inteligencia Artificial (IA) se refiere a sistemas o máquinas que imitan la inteligencia humana para realizar tareas y pueden mejorar iterativamente basándose en la información que recogen. En el vídeo, se menciona una declaración del CEO de Nvidia que sugiere que los niños no deberían aprender a programar debido a que la IA realizará esa tarea en el futuro. Esta afirmación subraya el rápido desarrollo de la IA en el ámbito de la programación, aunque también genera debate sobre la importancia del aprendizaje humano en la codificación y el desarrollo de software.

💡Emulación

La emulación es el proceso de imitar el funcionamiento de una plataforma de software o hardware en otra. El vídeo discute el caso de Nintendo demandando a los creadores del emulador de Nintendo Switch de código abierto, Yuzu, destacando las complejidades legales de la emulación, especialmente en relación con la propiedad intelectual y los derechos de autor. La emulación permite a los usuarios jugar juegos en plataformas no originales, pero plantea preguntas sobre la legalidad de acceder y usar ROMs y software propietario.

💡Código abierto

El código abierto se refiere a software cuyo código fuente está disponible públicamente para ser utilizado, modificado y distribuido por cualquier persona. El vídeo menciona varios proyectos de código abierto, incluido el emulador Yuzu y KDE Plasma 6, resaltando la importancia del código abierto en la innovación tecnológica y la accesibilidad del software. También se toca el tema de la financiación de proyectos de código abierto, subrayando los desafíos que enfrentan los desarrolladores para mantener proyectos sostenibles.

💡KDE Plasma 6

KDE Plasma 6 es la última versión del entorno de escritorio KDE Plasma, conocido por su flexibilidad y opciones de personalización. Según el vídeo, esta versión se ha movido completamente a Qt 6 y se centra más en el uso de Wayland, con mejoras en la interfaz, accesibilidad y configuración. Este lanzamiento ilustra el continuo desarrollo y mejora de los entornos de escritorio de código abierto, ofreciendo a los usuarios experiencias más refinadas y eficientes.

💡Nintendo

Nintendo es una conocida empresa de videojuegos y hardware mencionada en el vídeo por su demanda contra los creadores del emulador Yuzu. Este caso destaca la postura de Nintendo sobre la protección de su propiedad intelectual y su historial de acciones legales contra la emulación y la distribución de sus juegos sin licencia. La situación pone de relieve el equilibrio entre los derechos de autor y la comunidad de código abierto, especialmente en lo que respecta a la accesibilidad y la preservación de los videojuegos.

💡Financiación de código abierto

La financiación de código abierto se refiere a los modelos y estrategias económicas que apoyan el desarrollo de software de código abierto. El vídeo discute los desafíos que enfrentan los proyectos de código abierto para obtener financiación sostenible y cómo las reacciones negativas de la comunidad pueden dificultar los esfuerzos por monetizar o buscar apoyo financiero. Este tema es crucial para entender cómo los proyectos de código abierto pueden continuar desarrollándose y sirviendo a sus comunidades de usuarios.

💡HDMI 2.1

HDMI 2.1 es una versión del estándar de interfaz de audio y video digital de alta definición mencionada en el vídeo en el contexto de los esfuerzos de AMD para agregar soporte para esta tecnología en su controlador de kernel de código abierto para Linux. La discusión resalta las dificultades legales y técnicas para implementar características de estándares cerrados en software de código abierto, impactando la compatibilidad y la funcionalidad en sistemas Linux.

💡Nvk Driver

El nvk driver es un controlador de Vulkan de código abierto para tarjetas gráficas NVIDIA mencionado en el vídeo. Se destaca por alcanzar la conformidad con Vulkan 1.3, lo que representa un paso significativo en el desarrollo de controladores gráficos de código abierto competitivos. Este avance ilustra el progreso en la mejora del soporte de hardware en Linux y la importancia de la colaboración comunitaria y el desarrollo abierto.

💡Rebar

Rebar, o barra redimensionable, es una tecnología que permite al procesador acceder a toda la memoria de la GPU para mejorar el rendimiento, discutida en el contexto del driver nvk. El vídeo explica cómo esta característica puede reducir los cuellos de botella en la transferencia de datos entre la CPU y la GPU, destacando los avances tecnológicos que benefician a los usuarios de Linux y refuerzan el ecosistema de código abierto.

💡Wine Wayland Driver

El driver de Wine para Wayland, mencionado en el vídeo, permite que las aplicaciones de Windows se ejecuten en sistemas Linux que utilizan Wayland como su servidor de visualización. El desarrollo de soporte para OpenGL en este driver subraya los esfuerzos continuos para mejorar la compatibilidad y rendimiento de las aplicaciones de Windows en Linux, especialmente en el contexto de juegos y software que dependen de gráficos intensivos.

Highlights

Nintendo is suing the makers of the Yuzu Nintendo Switch emulator

Nvidia CEO said kids should not learn to code because AI will do all coding in the future

Plasma 6 released with a new desktop cube effect, HDR support, and other improvements

Open source developer argues all ways to fund open source work should be embraced

Transcripts

hey everyone and welcome back to your

Linux and open source news fix for this

week and this time we have Nvidia CEO

saying to kids that they basically

should not learn how to code because AI

will do that for us in the future we

also have the release of flasma 6 with

all of its goodies and work already

starting on what's coming next and we

have Nintendo suing the makers of the

Yuzu open-source Nintendo switch

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website so Nintendo decided to sue the

creators of Yuzu The open- Source

emulator for the Nintendo switch the

company filed a lawsuit in the US

arguing that there is no legal way to

use Yuzu as an emulator and so that it

is in itself illegal emulation has been

a gray area in legal terms for a while

because technically emulating a game

isn't illegal if you own a copy of that

game yourself but but running downloaded

ROMs is piracy and sometimes you will

also need specific keys or bios files to

make those emulators run and obtaining

these could be downright impossible

without circumventing copyright

protections which might or might not be

fair Ed depending on where you live and

rulings that are generally on a caseby

Case basis so in the case of Yuzu

Nintendo argues that the emulator needs

to run illegally obtained decryption

Keys even if you grab them from your own

switch and so without these Keys no

games could be played they also say that

their license agreement doesn't give you

the right to play switch games on

anything other than a switch an argument

that is pretty weak as there are a bunch

of limitations on what license

agreements can impose on users Nintendo

also says that most websites that have

pirated copies of their games link to

Yuzu as the way to play them and that

Yuzu is profiting from this earning at

least $50,000 in what they call paid

downloads whatever that is in the case

of Yuzu and that also the team's patreon

earns them $30,000 per month so they're

asking for damages and for the courts to

shut down the project on yuzu's side

there's the fact that the emulator also

allows people to play home brew games

that aren't available on switch which is

definitely a legitimate use case for the

continued existence of the tool it's not

just to play pirated switch games

there's also the fact that Yuzu lets

people play games with a controller of

their choice which is a plus for

accessibility and could be another valid

reason to keep the tool around and no

one should be surprised right Nintendo

has always been one of the worst gaming

companies when it comes to legal action

and there's basically no chance that

this thing will go to trial Because

unless Yuzu has incredibly Deep Pockets

there's no way they can fight the army

of lawyers that Nintendo has so we'll

see how it goes they haven't made a

public response to Nintendo yet but

hopefully they could manage to win

something in this case so emulation will

be considered a bit safer than it is

right now because it's always been

pretty gray in terms of whether an

emulator will get attacked or not now in

the long series of stupid things Tech

CEO said this one might take the cake

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huong argued that

coding is no longer a skill that kids

should learn and that people should just

not bother anymore because AI will do

all the coding by the time that these

kids are able to find the job he instead

says that humans should focus on other

areas of work since anyone will be able

to code anything by just talking

normally with an AI and uh yeah that's

just complete nonsense first an AI needs

code to fit into its model I'm sure no

one would argue that we've reached the

peak of the code that could ever be

written that we could never make

anything better than than we already

have I'm sure no one would also argue

that no new programming language would

ever see the light of day so limiting

ourselves to the code that's already

created that serve to train our pretty

mediocre AIS for today is a very narrow

view second if no one knows how to code

who's checking the ai's code or

debugging it because the current code

produced by AI seem to point out that

they're not quite able to write well

optimized secure or bug free code and

third AIS need to be programmed as well

less developers means less people to

work on the actual AI so what Nvidia Co

is offering is a world where AIS write

code for humans without anyone to check

it and letting AIS learn how to improve

based on their own code not a very

enticing world and a pretty nonsensical

statement all around an AI will probably

never be able to completely create a

full program out of Scrat crash that

runs well and doesn't need any human

supervision an AI is a man-made system

it will always need humans in the

background to check it so KD plasma 6

was released this week and I already

have a dedicated video covering all the

changes on the channel but I'll still

give you the gist of it here so the

release moves entirely to cute 6 and

uses whand by default dros will do

whatever they want they could use X11

instead but Wayland is now the primary

focus and X11 will still get features

but only if they are doable on this

platform and they're not too timec

consuming on top of that base the

desktop saw small improvements to the

theme to make it less busy the settings

were reordered and streamlined with less

rows of buttons and less nested pages

and you get a new overview effect that

is basically exactly gnome's activities

with great touchpad gestures it's a

solid Improvement the desktop cube is

back as well the the desktop supports

HDR color profiles and color blindness

correction filters and the defaults were

made easier to grasp for newcomers with

single click by default tap to click on

touchpads a thumbnail Grid in the alt

tab switcher and floating panels by

default and these floating panels gained

a much better configuration interface to

actually place them on screen as well

krunner is much faster now and lets you

reorder elements around to have the

results you want first and most defa

apps received improvements as well it is

a very very good release on a brand new

install using the daily isos of Fedora

40 since the second release candidate I

experienced zero crashes and a very very

limited selection of bugs that didn't

break the experience other reports seem

to say that upgrading KD neon in place

might generate some issues so you're

probably better off waiting for your Dr

to give you the actual update with

actually well tested packages Jacob

Kaplan Moss one of the main developers

on D Jango wrote a very interesting blog

post on open- Source funding it was

prompted after he published a masteron

post denouncing the very usual reactions

that a lot of people have when someone

tries to make a living writing open-

Source software generally these

reactions amount to we want people to be

able to earn money through open source

why aren't more people maintaining open

source software but you should not use

VC funding you should not use commercial

features you should not use any form of

investment and you should not work for a

large tech company to fund the project

so Jacob basically says that currently

writing open source software is hardly

sustainable open source projects do not

have nearly enough paid maintainers

compared to the numbers of users they

have he cites the examples of python

used by millions of people with only a

few full-time developers or Jango used

by hundreds of thousands and they

apparently have less than two full-time

people working on it he also points said

that yes in an Ideal World governments

would recognize the crucial mission of

Open Source and the advantages for them

and they would fund open source software

instead of giving handouts to big

companies but he also says that we do

not live in that world and that in the

meantime simply pointing out that open

source should depend on Government

funding doesn't solve the problem he

concludes by saying that currently every

way someone can find to develop open

source software and get paid for that is

a good way and it's a win whether it's

by a ground by being employed by a big

tech company by raising capital or by

having paid features he acknowledges

that all of these Avenues of funding do

have strings attached but that in our

current world it's either that or no one

could ever make a living working on open

source which means less open source

software and abandoned projects it's a

very interesting read I left the link to

it in the description of the video as

with all articles I use to make these

videos and I just cannot disagree with

him like every time you try to bring

money into open source or Linux there's

always a bunch of people think that it's

going to taint the project no matter how

that money is obtained and no matter

that the code is open source and if

something weird happens it can always be

forked and used by someone else instead

and it looks like us Linux users just

cannot have nice things because of

stupid legal requirements AMD has been

trying for a while to add HDMI 2.1 plus

support to its open-source kernel driver

for Linux but apparently the HDMI Forum

being the organization that monitors and

controls all things related to the

implementations of the HDMI standard

where that HDMI Forum have rejected all

of amd's efforts and this lack of

support means that for example you can't

do 4K at 120 HZ or you can do 5K at 240

HZ on Linux with an AMD GPU those are

not the most common use cases but it

sucks that we can't do it and it's also

a very bad indication that future HDMI

progress will not be working on Linux

either and this is all linked to the

fact that the HDMI Forum closed public

access to the HDMI spec in 2021 meaning

that it's now legally complicated or

even impossible to implement new HDMI

features in open- Source drivers because

doing so would open the workings of the

standard to the public which the HDMI

Forum doesn't want AMD Engineers have

spent months working with their legal

team trying to come up with a solution

but every effort was turned down even

though they actually produced code to

try and satisfy the requirements of the

HDMI forum and uh yeah HDMI is basically

the standard everyone uses on every TV

monitor GPU or device you have something

that works with HDMI so not being able

to to implement the latest HDMI features

in open source drivers is a big big

problem so now if you want to be an

absolute open source supporter you need

to ditch HDMI and use display port which

is apparently a bit more open which is

dumb like come on it's a standard it

should be open to everyone but it's

probably a money related problem or

something linked to stupid DRM again

okay so let's finish this with the

gaming news and we're going to start

with the nvk driver this is the

open-source Vulcan driver for NVIDIA and

it is now Vulcan 1.3 conformant meaning

that it now supports the latest version

of Vulcan and with that Mesa 24.1 will

build that driver by default and use it

instead of flagging it as experimental

now to work properly it requires the

latest development snapshot of the Linux

kernel 6.8 but when a drro ships 6.8 and

Mesa 24.1 you will basically be using

nvo and nvk out of the box and that's

the first time in a very long while that

the open source driver stack for NVIDIA

will be good and actually usable on top

of that the nvk developers also started

work on a common Vulcan runtime for all

Mesa drivers the goal would be to have a

single implementation for stuff like

shaders and pipelines so every driver

doesn't have to redevelop all of that

stuff when they want to support Vulcan

and this is all really great news

congrats to the developers who have been

moving insanely fast on this new driver

and I cannot wait to get an updated

platform to try it out on my Nvidia GPU

and still on the topic of nvk in Mesa

24.1 they will support rebar or

resizable bar that's a feature that lets

the CPU access the entirety of the gpu's

memory to reduce the number of transfers

between the two and thus reduce any

bottleneck effect and improve

performance if you don't have have

support for that it means that the CPU

can only get data from the gpu's memory

in little chunks of 256 megabytes which

is obviously suboptimal when you know

that modern gpus tend to have at least 4

gigs of vram and can often have 68 or

even 12 gigs so nvk will now be aware of

whether your system supports rebar or

not because not all PCI implementations

support that and they will be able to

use it if it's available and this also

works in tandem with the necessary

interfaces in the novo driver that will

land in the kernel 6.8 and this should

bring way better performance for nvk on

relatively modern or recent systems that

have access to resizable bar and it also

means that maybe the performance of nvk

might be good enough that people would

consider just not bothering with the

proprietary driver you might lose 15%

performance but at least you don't have

any other weird issues around that and

finally the wine whan driver is getting

some more work done this time with

enabling basic open GL support a new

merge request will let Wine Run openg GL

apps under Wayland natively although

this support is far from complete for

now there's a lot of features still

needing to be implemented now the whand

driver for wine already supports Vulcan

which is arguably far more important

because Wine's primary use case these

days is for gaming and most Linux gaming

uses Vulcan but some games programs that

rely on openg GL will at least be usable

as well and hopefully that whand driver

can reach feature parody with the X11

based implementation of wine and will

have one less barrier for the adoption

of whand by most Linux users and that's

just great news if this driver can reach

feature parity with x1's implementation

for wine there's basically One Less

Reason to not use whan and actually it

looks like from some earlier testing

running a game with with wine on whand

natively performs better than running

that game with wine on X11 because

Wayland does deliver better latency and

better performance in general than that

old piece of junk that X11 is that was

never designed for modern displays and

modern gpus so it's good to see more

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