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Alex

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FLOSS virtualization hacker, occasional brewer

  • Which one are you?

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  • I guess somewhere between 6 and 7....urm 6/7 👐 (and my kids say I don't understand memes 😅).

  • Brandon Sanderson’s Literary Fantasy Universe ‘Cosmere’ Picked Up by Apple TV

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  • I've heard of him from his contributions to Wheel of Time but I don't think I've read any of his other stuff. He sounds quite prolific given this "universe" seems to encompas multiple series of books.

  • UK to create its own FBI in biggest police reform in nearly 200 years

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  • MI5 aren't a law enforcement agency but a intelligence organisation. They do work with the police though.

  • UK to create its own FBI in biggest police reform in nearly 200 years

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  • somehow I’m angrier about this than you guys.

    Perhaps your news sources are giving a slightly biased view of what's going on in the UK?

    It's certainly not illegal to protest in the UK - but there have always been public safety concerns. The right to protest doesn't give protesters free reign to cause massive disruption as some of the more controversial tactics of "Extinction Rebellion" had. While Magna Carta was an important document in our history its not an inviolable constitution - for one things most of us are not Baron's. We've always had magistrates and non-jury Judge trails - the current proposals don't abolish them but do change the boundaries of what will automatically be a jury based trial. We shall see if they get through the legislature unopposed.

  • UK to create its own FBI in biggest police reform in nearly 200 years

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  • I was mostly thinking of things like county lines gangs who exploit our current fragmented police system to fall between the cracks.

    I'm upset by the recent PA arrests but i have some sympathy for the police here. They have been put in this situation by the government proscribing the org and they have to enforce the law. The protesters know this of course - almost any other formulation of the words "action", "support" and "Palestine" would be fine.

  • UK to create its own FBI in biggest police reform in nearly 200 years

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  • I'm not sure who is referring to them as the British FBI - it seems to be an unattributed quote.

  • UK to create its own FBI in biggest police reform in nearly 200 years

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  • I think this is less to do with emulating the US and more to do with dealing with crime that crosses county lines without having to involve London.

  • Lavalamp too hot

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  • If you have ever read the "thought" process on some of the reasoning models you can catch them going into loops of circular reasoning just slowly burning tokens. I'm not even sure this isn't by design.

  • Electric Vehicles @slrpnk.net
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    Why it has not been so easy being green for the white van in the UK

    www.theguardian.com /environment/2026/jan/24/electric-van-fleets-uk

  • Starfleet Academy is Anti-Star Trek [NERD RANT]

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  • I'm on the fence about SFA. The third episode was quite funny but I get the feeling the trials and tribulations of horny zoomer students at Star Fleet 90210 might not be aimed at my demographic.

    There are plenty of deep cut references to the lore though and production values are much higher than when I started watching Trek.

  • check & mate

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  • I thought they were also blood relations?

  • Trump says UK handing over Chagos Islands sovereignty is act of 'great stupidity'

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  • I believe the stated reason was to avoid the possibility of the court ruling against the UK owning the islands leading to the base needing to be shut down. The agreement with Mauritius includes a 99 year lease to secure the base at Diego Garcia.

  • UK should consider expelling US forces from British bases, says Zack Polanski

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  • None of the major parties advocate it. Jeremy Corbyn wasn't a fan but I suspect he's less relevant now.

  • One in 10 teens seeking mental health support from headspace cite social media ban as an issue

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  • Not if the social in social media was actually referring to keeping in contact with friends and mutual support.

    I'm ambivalent on social media bans as they seem rather blunt approach to the problem of algorithmic dopamine triggers. My kids don't have access to tiktok or Instagram but they are starting to get interested in joining discord communities around their interests. Online predators aside this seems a good thing. Having access to the net in the nineties is when I started to see fellow hobbyists from around the world discussing things in newsgroups. It expanded my world view.

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    What was a weird thing your friend did, or that you partook in with them?

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  • Please tell me they went in to become a lumberjack?

  • You Are All On The Hobbyists Maintainers’ Turf Now

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  • I think the OP's analysis might have made a bit of a jump from overall levels of hobbyist maintainers to what percentage of shipping code is maintained by people in their spare time.

    While the experiences of OpenSSL and xz should certainly drive us find better ways of funding underlying infrastructure you do see a higher participation rates of paid maintainers where the returns are more obvious. The silicon vendors get involved in the kernel because it's in their underlying interests to do so - and the kernel benefits as a result.

    I maintain a couple of hobbyist packages on my spare time but it will never be a funded gig because comparatively fewer people use them compared to DAYJOB's project which can make a difference to companies bottom lines.

  • When someone points out a detail in Starfleet Academy I missed after two viewings.

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  • I was confused because the gif isn't from SFA, is it DISCO?

  • Linux Desktop Renaissance

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  • 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

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  • 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

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

  • LocalLLaMA @sh.itjust.works
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    Overview - ECA - Editor Code Assistant

    eca.dev
  • 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?