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[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 13 minutes ago

From my recollection of the BTS in the special editions they built a lot of "bigitures".

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 minutes ago* (last edited 16 minutes ago)

Well Trump had a go in his first term but unsurprisingly didn't get far.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 18 minutes ago

Are you familiar with the Korean war? There was a massive conflict which got drawn out into a stalemate and everybody agreed a temporary ceasefire was preferable to even more destruction.

Trying to topple a regime that has nothing to lose and a highly indoctrinated population is not an easy ask. We can only hope that like most authoritarian regimes they eventually succumb to the weight of their own opression. It's better than torching the whole continent in the name of freedom.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 1 points 27 minutes ago

Instead, she pointed to a £25m package that will be allocated to councils to fit "cross-pavement gullies", to make it easier for people without driveways to charge an electric vehicle (EV), alongside £63m for charging infrastructure.

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

Public transport doesn't work everywhere. It's great in big urban areas but once you get out into lower density countryside it's hard to run something comprehensive.

If the choice is between a diesel or an EV then we should insentivise the EV. However direct subsidies for buying cars probably won't work as well as widening access to charging. I see they are trying to make the process of adapting pavements for curbside charging easier which I think will help more.

Charging from the socket is about a tenth the cost of public charging infrastructure and with solar it becomes functionality free.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

Whatever it shows it's always fuel for the disinfo fire. Apparently the fact years of underinvestment and poor servicing schedules could lead to a not quite up to scratch surveillance system is too unlikely for those drinking the disinfo firehose.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago

Sorry to hear that. Good luck finding a new gig without needing to interact with Teams again.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

I used to update my tickets from Emacs org-mode where I kept my working set off knowledge. The org export functions dealt with whatever format Jira expects. Nowadays I'm mostly tracking stuff so my comments are generally never more than a "thanks", 👍 or occasionally a link to the patch series or pull requests.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

Jira is alright, not great, not terrible. You need something to track projects and break down work and say least being ubiquitous a lot of people are familiar with it.

Teams is a dumpster fire of excrement though.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 hours ago

While they were younger the kids only had access to YouTube on the main TV. You can't underestimate the need to review and prune the watch history to keep it on track.

Interestingly I've noticed the recommendations tend to change depending on the time of day with more stuff appearing that grabs the whole families interest in the evenings when we are likely watching together or with one of the adults in charge of the remote.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I was so confused that episode - did Saw just recruit Will to safe crack a fuel line so he could huff more toxic fumes? Were all his crew down with this?

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I reckon he just enjoys showing what he has.

The adaptation of Cleon to the genetic dynasty was an interesting approach and certainly avoided the show becoming a confusing rotating cast as we barrel through the centuries.

 

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.

 
 

Are there any good recommendations for water control valves? I want to control a automatic watering system and need something to attach to the garden tap. Open firmware would be a bonus.

 

I found this post interesting for my layman's understanding of LLMs and some of the underlying architecture choices that are made.

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