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Alex

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FLOSS virtualization hacker, occasional brewer

  • Do you prefer FOSS over proprietary software? How much do you use it?

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  • 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?

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  • 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?

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  • 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?

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

  • Smart Lock

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  • 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?

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  • 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?

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  • Was that Donald Glover in one of the scenes?

  • Muslim hero tackles Bondi Beach gunman - yet Netanyahu claimed he was Jewish

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  • 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.

  • What will all the computing infrastructure be used for when companies admit commercial AI isn't cost-effective?

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  • The demand for LLM inference will drop off when people finally realise it is not the road to AGI. However there is still plenty of things GPU compute can be applied to and maybe spot prices will come down again.

  • My two favorite talks so far from Emacsconf

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  • Thanks for that. I shall have to try out Reader.

    I did watch the two LLM related talks and tried out editor-code-assistant as a result. It's really nice being able to play with the powerful agent based workflow directly in my favourite (only) editor.

  • I really dislike LLMs/AI but.......

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  • Once we summit the peak of inflated expectations and the bubble bursts hopefully we'll get back to evaluating the technology on its merits.

    LLM's definitely have some interesting properties but they are not universal problem solvers. They are great at parsing and summarizing language. There ability to vibe code is entirely based on how closely your needs match the (vast) training data. They can synthesise tutorials and stack overflow answers much faster than you can. But if you are writing something new or specialised the limits of their "reasoning" soon show up in dead ends and sycophantic "you are absolutely right, I missed that" responses.

    More than the technology the social context is a challenge. We are already seeing humans form dangerous parasocial relationships with token predictors with some tragic results. If you abdicate your learning to an LLM you are not really learning and that could have profound impacts on the current cohort of learners who might be assuming they no longer need to learn as the computer can do it for them.

    We are certainly experiencing a very fast technological disruption event and it's hard to predict where the next few years will take us.

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    Overview - ECA - Editor Code Assistant

    eca.dev

  • NHS to pay 25% more for innovative drugs after UK–US zero-tariff deal

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  • The main thing I got from that is drug pricing is complicated. At least the extra expenditure comes from widening the pool of available drugs rather than just the prices of existing treatments being put up.

  • words to live by 🙏

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  • One of the things I like about Horizon Zero Dawn is they introduced cosmetics so you didn't have to compromise your visual style for the right set of numbers for your current opponents.

  • TIL that right-wing commentator Jeremy Hambly's (AKA The Quartering) first Youtube channel was about claw machines

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  • The term I've heard is the "right wing grift drift". Even the left leaning Russell Brand went through the drift when he got cancelled after SA accusations.

  • Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support

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  • Modern machines have TPM so we can do attested boot and validate a system hasn't been tampered with. They don't need third party kernel modules to test that.

  • "Yes, Games Really Were Cooler Years Ago" | f4mi

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  • Well that looks fascinating. The first thing I thought was the Colin Mcray coders night have been ex-demo scene or at least aficionados of it.

  • Valve employee Pierre-Loup Griffais talks more about anti-cheat support for Linux/SteamOS on FPS Podcast #83

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  • Fundamentally the reason they want to use kernel modules is to observe the system for other executables interfering with the game. This is a hacky solution at best

    The TPM hardware can support attested boot so you can verify with the hardware nothing but the verified kernel and userspace is running. That gives you the same guarantees but without letting third parties mess with your kernel.

  • Helping Valve to Power Up Steam Devices | Igalia

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  • It's nice to see Valve and Igalia see the benefit of open GPU drivers for Proton and FEX utilise.

  • The important reason why we stopped running our food bank

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  • It's an interesting model they have moved to (heavily discounted food Vs donations). There is probably more work to do on wages and energy costs as time to cook is the greatest reason people don't make healthy food.

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    This Autism stat makes no sense

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    QEMU version 10.0.0 released

    www.qemu.org /2025/04/23/qemu-10-0-0/
  • Free Software @lemmy.zip
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    QEMU version 10.0.0 released

    www.qemu.org /2025/04/23/qemu-10-0-0/
  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Can't add matter devices with f-droid companion app

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    What ever happened to QAnon?

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Fish 4.0: The Fish Of Theseus

    fishshell.com /blog/rustport/
  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    Soldier of FORTRAN :ReBoot:​ (@mainframed767@infosec.exchange)

    infosec.exchange /users/mainframed767/statuses/112180749990584294
  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    A week of fprintfs has me wanting to code rust next week

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Controllable water valves?