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@stsquad@lemmy.ml
FLOSS virtualization hacker, occasional brewer
- Comment on Are there any documentaries on what government mental hospitals are like when a defendant is found Not Criminally Responsible/Insane/Not guilty on account of medical status? 5 days ago:
There have been a number of documentaries about HMP Broodmoore which is where our criminally insane prisoners tend to go.
- Comment on Where do British Christmas traditions really come from? 1 week ago:
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.
- Comment on Where do British Christmas traditions really come from? 1 week ago:
A lot of peoples have had some sort of festival in the depths of winter around the time of the solstice.
- Comment on NHS to pay 25% more for innovative drugs after UK–US zero-tariff deal 4 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 5 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on "Yes, Games Really Were Cooler Years Ago" 5 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on The important reason why we stopped running our food bank 1 month ago:
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.
- Comment on Just Stop Oil activists who attempted to spray paint Taylor Swift's private jet spared jail 2 months ago:
I assume the defendant had mentioned as way of mitigation?
- Comment on If you can’t afford a vacation, an AI app will sell you pictures of one 2 months ago:
We can remember it for you wholesale?
- Comment on Ethical artificial intelligence ? 2 months ago:
There are certainly open source models trained on public data sets that you can run locally.
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- Comment on “China keeps the algorithm”: Critics attack Trump’s TikTok deal 3 months ago:
Without algorithmic transparency how can you ensure it’s not a propaganda machine?
That said tilting the algorithm isn’t exclusively a TikTok problem, I would love to know how active the bots have been the last week on all the US owned social media platforms. Is there a push for division? How would we know?
- Comment on UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action 3 months ago:
Your talking about their discretionary powers and that’s not going to be relevant on a protest enforcement action where their senior officer in command will have laid out exactly what the criteria to arrest is.
- Comment on The Queen was the victim of an attempted indecent assault as a teenager, book claims 3 months ago:
I’m not surprised. My mum would tell me stories about dodging creepy old men on the train when going to school in the 50s. She seemed to accept it as just one of those things and I’m sitting there with my GenX sensibilities thinking yikes!
- Comment on [Stuff Made Here] It took 413 eggs to make this work 3 months ago:
Over engineering solutions that aren’t really needed is his whole channels thing.
- Comment on Is 4chan the Perfect 'Pirate Bay' Poster Child to Justify Wider UK Site-Blocking? 4 months ago:
I don’t know why we couldn’t have what we already have on mobile. My kids phones have isp enforced restrictions that prevent them stumbling onto most adult sites. At home I’ve got their devices fairly locked down but I’m fairly technical so know how it works. I don’t know why households couldn’t just have a setting with their ISP that allows them to opt in/out of blocking non-OSA compliment sites rather than doing a blanket censorship.
I get the reasoning behind the OSA - a lot of parents don’t know how to protect their kids online and defer to the government to sort it out. However the implementation has been a giant flustercuck.
- Comment on A UK government program to address obesity gets major funding from Eli Lilly, the maker of weight loss drug Mounjaro 4 months ago:
Looks like 🙂
On the actual topic I know a number of people getting injection privately and swearing by the results. There is a pretty aggressive referral campaign as well which considering the monthly cost is going up you can see why people will sing it’s praises.
- Comment on Large Language Models explained briefly 4 months ago:
I love 3brown1blues video explainers. His recent series on quantum computing is also worth watching.
- Comment on Trump administration accuses UK of failing to uphold human rights 4 months ago:
Not exactly complains about grannies being arrested are they?
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 4 months ago:
So a network version of an acoustic delay line?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Directors have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders and that includes a legal liability if they don’t do their job. That said if the chairman has a controlling majority of the shares they can run the company into the ground if they want to as it’s their money to waste.
Generally if you want to bring investment into a company it will come with strings attached like nominated seats on the board of directors to prevent this sort of thing. Voting shares can be different normal shares or there can be several share types with different levels of voting rights. However the structure of the shares will be disclosed to the board and for a publicly traded company this will be public.
- Comment on looks like the one 1% can't be everywhere. 5 months ago:
Down 6.5% year on year. …simpleviewcms.com/…/ES_May2025_ed1142ef-9992-4a3…
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 5 months ago:
Well Trump had a go on his first term but unsurprisingly didn’t get far.
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 5 months 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.
- Comment on Developer interview: my Q&A with a PC game 'repacker' 5 months ago:
So back in the days of the Atari ST we had compact disks (sic).
Most games shipped on a single floppy disk (so 720k or 1.4Mb) and rarely used compression given the base system only has 512k of RAM. The crackers would strip the protection, repack the data and patch the loading routines to handle that. Depending on the games they could fit 3 or 4 games on a single disk.
Nowadays the dynamics are different - games on consoles do use compression but they have to favour speed because they are streaming assets just in time. The PS5 even had dedicated decompression hardware to keep up with the data rate on it’s fast SSD.
- Comment on Majority of children will be overweight or obese in nine areas of England by 2035, study shows 6 months ago:
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.
- Comment on All babies in England to get DNA test to assess risk of diseases within 10 years 6 months ago:
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?
- Comment on All babies in England to get DNA test to assess risk of diseases within 10 years 6 months ago:
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.
- Comment on how do I stop being a sucker for alcoholic stuff on sale? 6 months ago:
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.
- Comment on Industrial Light & Magic's Chief Creative Promotes AI Slop During His TED Talk 7 months ago:
There were some AI pictures in the talks I saw last week. But they where put in to illustrates a point - I doubt otherwise the engineer would hire an artist for some bespoke art for their talk. It’s probably better than just copy and pasting off the internet without much attribution.