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Linux Desktop Renaissance in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The year of Linux on the desktop is whatever year you personally switched over.

RISC-V Hits 25% Market Penetration as Qualcomm and Meta Lead the Shift to Open-Source Silicon in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 days ago

Now I've read the article it's unnamed industry analysts and it's written by an AI. For all I know the AI has hallucinated the number.

RISC-V Hits 25% Market Penetration as Qualcomm and Meta Lead the Shift to Open-Source Silicon in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 24 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I assume microcontrollers. Most of those are invisible to consumers.

What are some useful things to create with a typical 3D printer? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I recently joined the ranks of 3d printer owners. The first thing I printed where a pair of risers for mounting some hall effect sensors on my garage door mechanism. Very simple shapes but super handy.

Do you prefer FOSS over proprietary software? How much do you use it? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Absolutely. Linux on the desktop, f-droid on my Android phone. The fact if something irritates me enough I can download the code and fix it.

I'm lucky I have a job working with FLOSS software. I don't think I could go back to hacking on propriety code.

Are there any documentaries on what government mental hospitals are like for defendants found Not Criminally Responsible/Insane/Not guilty on account of medical status? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There have been a number of documentaries about HMP Broodmoor which is where our criminally insane prisoners tend to go.

Where do British Christmas traditions really come from? in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

We are essentially a mongrel nation that's been built with waves of migration to our shores. Our language is a testament to our diversity with it's many loan words and other idiosyncratic traits.

Where do British Christmas traditions really come from? in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A lot of peoples have had some sort of festival in the depths of winter around the time of the solstice.

Smart Lock in c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I would not want anything that requires a cloud connection to be responsible for securing my house. The security record of these smart locks also isn't great.

The final question you need to ask yourself is how they fail safe? There have been Tesla owners trapped in burning cars. If, god forbid, your house caught fire can you get out of your door secured with a smart lock?

What was a time when you drank the kool aid? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago

Someone was telling me it was Kool Aids competitor which they did such a good job discrediting that eventually the Kool Aid brand got the association.

What's your favorite OLD Youtube video? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Was that Donald Glover in one of the scenes?

Muslim hero tackles Bondi Beach gunman - yet Netanyahu claimed he was Jewish in c/fediverse_vs_disinfo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If he had fired there is a very real chance the police might have mistaken him for an active shooter. He was brave and/or foolish to tackle the terrorist but having disarmed him I think he did the right thing.

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Overview - ECA - Editor Code Assistant (eca.dev)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by stsquad@lemmy.ml to c/localllama@sh.itjust.works
1 comments fedilink
 

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?

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Parents threatened by authorities as 1,000 adopted children returned to care (www.bbc.co.uk)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by stsquad@lemmy.ml to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk
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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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This Autism stat makes no sense (www.youtube.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by stsquad@lemmy.ml to c/videos@lemmy.world
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A fairly deep dive about how you can cherry pick stats to push a narrative.

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QEMU version 10.0.0 released - QEMU (www.qemu.org)
 

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.

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Why the Post Office paid £600m to stay shackled to the faulty Horizon system (www.bbc.com)
 

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.

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QEMU version 10.0.0 released (www.qemu.org)
 

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.

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QEMU version 10.0.0 released (www.qemu.org)
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Can't add matter devices with f-droid companion app (lemmy.ml)
 

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?

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What ever happened to QAnon? (lemmy.ml)
 

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?

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Fish 4.0: The Fish Of Theseus (fishshell.com)
 

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.

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Hilary Cass: Weak evidence letting down children in gender care (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

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

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Soldier of FORTRAN :ReBoot: (@mainframed767@infosec.exchange) (infosec.exchange)
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