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Alex

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FLOSS virtualization hacker, occasional brewer

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  • Seems fair enough, these things cost money and the #BBC is in a race to diversify it's income in preparation for the license fee going away. The dynamic description sounds like they want to preserve the casual visitors experience of an open site.

    I get ads on my BBC podcasts when I'm abroad. I assume that's all part of it.

  • Majority of children will be overweight or obese in nine areas of England by 2035, study shows

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  • My eldest understands the need for good diet and exercise. They exercise at home doing various aerobic exercises and crunches to keep in shape. They hate sports at school and there doesn't seem to be any effort to find the a sport they might enjoy or even just focus on improving their personal exercise regime.

    I get teaching time is limited but the impression I get is the kids that want to be in the school teams get the most out of sport and the rest just go through the motions because it's a compulsory subject.

  • All babies in England to get DNA test to assess risk of diseases within 10 years

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  • You don't think having a full genome and medical history of everyone who'd been in contact with the NHS would be useful to researchers?

  • All babies in England to get DNA test to assess risk of diseases within 10 years

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  • One of the things we did during the pandemic was significantly scale up or ability to sequence genomes. We were literally watching the virus evolve near real-time because a large chunk of samples could be sequenced and processed.

    While they're are obviously data privacy concerns, for which the UK has a fairly long history of legislating for, having a full sequence for every newborn could allow for all sorts of cheaper early interventions. I'm sure the dataset would also be very useful for researchers as well.

  • libxml2 maintainer ends embargoed vulnerability reports, citing unsustainable burden

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  • I'd be wary of switching to a non-free license. The freedom to use for whatever is fairly core to the four freedoms. However all the main licenses specify the code is as-is and it's perfectly fair for the maintainer not to take on the unpaid burden on behalf of others making money with their work.

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  • I think the first proper internet I had was downloading files from FTP servers at university. The first time I had it from home was over a modem to Demon ISP running some cobbled together TCP/IP stack for my Atari Falcon.

    It was wild back then, I think even on windows you needed to install an IP stack before you could do anything because Windows didn't have one but default because why would you?

  • Philippines ex-leader Duterte seeks interim release from ICC

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  • I remember when this guy came to power and the allegations of extra-judicial executions as part of his war on drugs. I didn't realise the ICC had caught up with him.

  • macOS 26 introduces the Containerization Framework: "enables developers to create, download, or run Linux container images directly on Mac"

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  • VirtIO was originally developed as a device para-virtualization as part of KVM but it is now an OASIS standard: https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.3/virtio-v1.3.html which a number of hypervisors/VMM's support.

    The line between what a hypervisor (like KVM) does and what is delegated to a Virtual Machine Monitor - VMM (like QEMU) is fairly blurry. There is always an additional cost to leaving the hypervisor to the VMM so it tends to be for configuration and lifetime management. However VirtIO is fairly well designed so the bulk of VirtIO data transactions can be processed by a dedicated thread which just gets nudged by the kernel when it needs to do stuff leaving the VM cores to just continue running.

    I should add HVF tends to delegate most things to the VMM rather than deal with things in the hypervisor. It makes for a simpler hypervisor interface although not quite as performance tuned as KVM can be for big servers.

  • macOS 26 introduces the Containerization Framework: "enables developers to create, download, or run Linux container images directly on Mac"

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  • No the Apple hypervisor is called hvf, but projects like rust-vmm and QEMU can control and service guests run on that hypervisor. No KVM required.

  • macOS 26 introduces the Containerization Framework: "enables developers to create, download, or run Linux container images directly on Mac"

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  • Very expensive and still slower than an hard coded ASIC.

  • YouTube’s Deliberate Indifference Exposes Kids to disgusting Content

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  • Sure if they needed to bypass ads I can introduce them to Free tube or whatever but for all it's sins they need moderated exposure to the YouTube experience so they're equipped enough not to go totally wild when they finally have unfettered access.

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  • I thought my youngest was all about watching hour long Minecraft playthroughs but really they are quite interested in game mechanics and speed running. They are just a lot more tolerant of watching hours of videos around a particular game.

    I don't overly police their content consumption (although we do talk about limiting shorts). The main thing is at the weekend to kick them off the TV after the morning to go and do something more interactive.

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  • When we first let the kids watch YouTube it was on the main TV with it's own account. We have consistently monitored it and actively prune recommendations while slowly introducing them to the concept of "the algorithm". From secondary school they pretty much need YouTube on their own PC's for homework reasons and it's harder to totally lock down - we use the family link controls to limit it a little but if they tried to get around them they could. The hope is we've at least prepared them a little before they have totally unfettered access to the internet.

    We did try YouTube kids a little but it was such a garbage experience we just blocked the app everywhere.

  • Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism

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  • The article says it only applied to apps requesting certain permissions. I agree I'm an ideal world it would be nice to get f-droid directly from the Play store but at least according to the article the ability to install it isn't being blocked here.

  • Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism

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  • From the article it sounds like the limitations come for some app types downloaded directly from a browser. I think this doesn't affect alternate app stores like f-droid where you are effectively delegating approval to their process.

    I have come across the other limitations mentioned with the Home Assistant companion app which I could only get matter registration to work with the version downloaded from the Play store.

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  • Did Wordpress ever fork our have people just been migrating to alternatives?

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    how do I stop being a sucker for alcoholic stuff on sale?

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  • I can second the alcohol free beers. The modern ones have excellent taste and hit the refreshing hoppy spot for me and are much better than juice or sodas when it comes to calories. I'm not totally dry, I drink 2-3 units a week, but I'm certainly feeling better for not having alcohol every day.

  • Those of you that back your vehicle into parking spots, why do you do it?

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  • I'm forever telling my children to pay attention in car parks because they are full of moving cars.