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Alex

@ stsquad @lemmy.ml

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FLOSS virtualization hacker, occasional brewer

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  • But little by little, they started asking Jay and the team for moderation tools, and to kick people off. And unfortunately they followed through with it.

    This bit I don't get. Even on Lemmy and Mastodon we need moderation tools and arguably the current provisions aren't fit for purpose. It's not something that can just be pushed to the individual users and most hobbyists who want to spin up public servers don't want to be spending their time wading through reports and CSAM. How to provide a safe environment for users is still an unsolved problem in the fediverse so it's no wonder people drift to corporate controlled servers which say least nominally have the resources to do something about it.

  • What opinions about the tech industry do you feel comfortable expressing here, but not in public/at work?

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  • Yes and no. A lot of the projects I work on the majority of the engineers are funded by companies which have very real commercial drivers to do so. However the fact the code itself is free (as in freedom) means that everyone benefits from the commons and as a result interesting contributions come up which aren't on the commercial roadmap. Look at git, a source control system Linus built because he needed something to maintain Linux in and he didn't like any of the alternatives. It solved his itch but is now the basis for a large industry of code forges with git at their heart.

    While we have roadmaps for features we want they still don't get merged until they are ready and acceptable to the upstream which makes for much more sustainable projects in the long run.

    Interestingly while we have had academic contributions there are a lot more research projects that use the public code as a base but the work is never upstreamed because the focus is on getting the paper/thesis done. Code can work and prove the thing they investigating but still need significant effort to get it merged.

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  • It's one of the reasons I enjoy working on open source. Sure the companies that pay the bills for that maintenance might not be the ones you would work for directly but I satisfy myself that we are improving a commons that everyone can take advantage of.

  • Feels bad to have nothing to show for it.

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  • KDE December Donations Graph

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  • Ah that will be it. Still grey on transparent isn't super accessible.

  • KDE December Donations Graph

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  • I'm not sure why it rendered so poorly in Lemmy. It's a terrible colour scheme but at least I could make out the bars when I followed the link.

  • The apocalypse that wasn’t: AI was everywhere in 2024’s elections, but deepfakes and misinformation were only part of the picture

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  • Low information voters?

  • RISC-V Changes For Linux 6.13 Deliver Pointer Masking In User-Space

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  • If you license a design from someone you'll still be paying something. Sure there are also free implementations but they are aimed at microcontrollers, you won't get any server class chips for free.

  • Only about 720,000 Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops sold since launch — under 0.8% of the total number of PCs shipped in Q3, or less than 1 out of every 125 devices

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  • My HA Instance is ready to take advantage of some very cheap energy.

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  • My tariff comes with smart charge but I've ended up turning it off and just triggering directly with home assistant. I have two buttons: one for smart night time charge and one to enable daytime charge once the solar has heated up the hot water. However my current export rate (15p/kWh) is twice as good as the night rate (7p/kWh) so it's better to bank the export and then have a steady charge over night.

    Looking at the rates the OP posted I wonder if the variable tariff would make more sense. I suspect the automation rules would be a bit more complex.

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  • There is a very large corpus of FLOSS software out there serving everything from individual itches to whole industries. Any project that is important to someone's bottom line is likely to have paid developers working on it but often alongside hobbyists.

    The project I predominately work on is about 90% paid developers but from lots of different companies and organisations. Practically though the developers don't care about the affiliation of the other developers they work with but the ideas and patches they bring to the project.

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  • We already do - and play it with them on our family creative and survival servers.

  • Matter 1.4 tries to set the smart home standard back on track

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  • I just want to buy home automation gadgets that don't need a bloody cloud account to work.

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  • I regret ever giving my kids access to Roblox. They haven't had any bad interactions as far as I know but the content mill of poor knock offs is just depressing. They learnt the highlights of Squid Game from "games" that went viral on the platform.

    My youngest wants to graduate to Fortnite and hyper-monetisation aside I've agreed they can have it on the family playstation if they drop Roblox.

  • [Opinion] I moved to Finland believing it was a progressive dream. It hasn't turned out that way | Mike Watson

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  • So the entire article basically comes down to democracy is messy and with PR you can't necessarily predict who you are going to get in coalitions.

  • Elon Musk Suddenly Realizes That Teslas With "Self-Driving" Computers May Never Be Able to Actually Self-Drive

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  • I think car automation peaked at adaptive cruise control. It's a simple tractable problem that's generally well confined and improves the drivers ability to concentrate on other road risks.

  • VirtIO-GPU Vulkan Support Approaching Upstream QEMU

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  • For portability Vulkan is the way (it also gets you GPU compute for free without needing vendor libraries). That said the ruttabaga encapsulation is useful for things like Wayland over virtio-gpu which is useful for some use cases.

  • VirtIO-GPU Vulkan Support Approaching Upstream QEMU

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  • It depends what they want to do. They can fork and take on the burden of maintaining the whole tree in which case good luck with that, linux is too much of a fire hose to enable a 3rd party to assemble something similar making different choices about what they merge. Otherwise they can maintain a re-based fork that tracks the Torvalds tree and then congratulations you've just invented a feature tree that can do contribution with extra steps.