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[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The amount of drama bait this caused over the last week was something to behold.

I like to think I'm reasonably technical and I do put network and some devices restrictions on their accounts. However stuff still gets through and I don't really want to play a cat and mouse IT admin game with my kids. If I as the root user could set the field on their PC's and that would allow them to access age appropriate services without having to hand over personal data to some age verification service then i'd consider that a useful feature.

When they get the keys to root they can set it to whatever they please.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

It was worse than that. Our understanding of radiation took awhile. While Uranium glass is probably safe I wouldn't go using it regularly. A lot of women ("radium girls") suffered from cancers induced by licking their brushes when painting luminescing instruments. This comic looks like 50s era when post the bomb sci-fi was full of "atomics" as the stuff of the future.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This horse with her fole I saw while walking the dogs yesterday.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Normally you try and cost reduce the BoM and split the difference. RAM seems to be out striping any cost savings you can normally make updating the hardware.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Maybe this year's Eurovision entry will spark even more interest in synths.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It seems the term AI is now synonymous with hallucinating Large Language Models in the general publics head. There is a whole field of machine learning where you can get statistically useful results with various techniques. Alpha Fold is a good example where real progress has been made on finding protein folding solutions that older brute force algorithms are just too inefficient to explore the state space.

This paper is taking about a new ML model for classifying planetary systems that out performs previous data processing pipelines. It's called statistical validation because it is inherently a numbers game. The paper goes into lots of details about how they calculate false positive rates and compare it to previous approaches. The point is not to definitely identify individual systems but to classify the distribution of system types in the large amounts of data the modern surveys are generating.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

What's your experience of British comedy like? Have you tried The thick of it?

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

It helps that every police related firearm discharge is automatically referred to the IOPC. About 0.02% of operations involving police firearms involve a discharge.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-use-of-firearms-statistics-april-2024-to-march-2025/police-use-of-firearms-statistics-april-2024-to-march-2025

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Who are the community employing? Why do they need consulting before code changes are made?

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 week ago (21 children)

What a pointless drama article this is. FLOSS software does stuff for legal compliance more often than you'd think. The whole point is people can contribute fly by patches and the maintainers make the decision to merge. It seems like being an optional field but potentially providing useful functionality is enough for systemd. If you don't like it I'm sure there are forks you could join or even use a different init system. No one's freedom is being oppressed here.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

The western nations had a similar problem with debathification in Iraq. When a system invades and takes over a state how do you keep things running while ripping it's influence out?

There's a scene at the end of Band of Brothers where the guy from Easy company is taking to a German who's recollecting the countries he's visited while at war. It's a reminder that not everyone in Germany was a Nazi but it was hard to sit it out in a nation committed to Total War. It might be easy to say you'd never sign up to the party but if the choice was between staying in the civil service or being shipped off into the meat grinder? Where else could you go?

We never really have the luxury of tearing down whole societies and rebuilding from scratch in a more prefect form. Generally the countries that have gone through such radical changes have paid for it with a lot of suffering.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by stsquad@lemmy.ml to c/localllama@sh.itjust.works
 

Watching #emacsconf today I was introduced to this open source project to act as an agent between #llm's and editors.

Has anyone played with this? Any experience in how one would sandbox an agent so it doesn't do anything outside the project directory?

 

This is depressing. I have relatives who are adopters and it seems this sort of behaviour of social workers is endemic in the system. The support is not there and when things break down they attack the parents to bully them into continuing at risk to themselves and their other kids.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by stsquad@lemmy.ml to c/videos@lemmy.world
 

A fairly deep dive about how you can cherry pick stats to push a narrative.

 

Perhaps the biggest libvirt related piece of work here has been to reworking of the QMP API docs to make them easier to navigate. QMP is how libvirt probes for functionality as well as handling things like introspection of the machines and dealing with things like hotplug.

 

Post Office paid £600m to continue using Horizon despite its broken state. Hopefully this should be a wake up call to government about how it goes about large software projects.

In my opinion anything written for government should come with a full license for the source code (preferably open source) so they have the ability to change suppliers if there are any issues.

 

For virtualization there are improvements for VirtIO, vfio and Loongarch CPU hotplug. On the emulation side additions for Arm, RiscV and even some speed ups for x86 string ops. On the documentation side a whole bunch of work has been done on QMP API to make it clearer and more navigable.

 

I was trying to add a Matter device from my phone but it kept saying I needed to install the companion app from the Play store even though I was in the companion app (from f-droid). I've installed the Bluetooth proxy app as well but it made note difference.

Does anyone know what's going on?

 

It always seemed to me that QAnon was some sort of online LARP on 4chan that got out of control and metastasized. It's left a trail of broken families and swept into the mainstream with branding and everything. After the predictions of Trump's return to power after Jan 6th it seems to have fizzled out. Did QAnon stop posting? Did their adherents just glom onto the next crazy theory? How many followers now disavow the theories of QAnon?

 

This is an interesting article of the fish shells journey of covering to rust which I found quite interesting. I'm especially interested because of projects I work with that are currently experimenting with rust.

 

The long awaited Cass report has been published looking at gender affirming care in the NHS.

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