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Faith Ekstrand 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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Linux 3D graphics developer. Engineering Fellow @Collabora. I enjoy good food, especially BBQ, tacos, and pizza. 🏳️‍⚧️ (she/her)

At the risk of sounding like one of those open-source crazies... Mesa drivers will NEVER do this to you.

We argue over whether or not having an app hacks system in a fully open driver is sufficiently transparent. Don't want that driver hacking around games behind your back!

The notion of scraping your web history in a GPU driver would never even occur to us. If someone ever proposed it, it'd get NAK'd so hard they'd be feeling it for a year.

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/intels-gpu-drivers-now-collect-telemetry-including-how-you-use-your-computer

NVK just landed in Mesa! 🥳

This been a long time coming... We've been developing NVK in a branch for over a year now but a few minutes ago we finally landed the new driver int he main Mesa repo. We're not conformant yet but being upstream is still a huge milestone. 😁

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/nvk-has-landed.html