stsquad
@stsquad@lemmy.ml
FLOSS virtualization hacker, occasional brewer
- Comment on Can I Live Off-Grid Using Littered Vapes & Solar? | Chris Doel 19 hours ago:
To be fair to him he certainly seems to have tried to be careful. I have no idea if he’s actually a qualified sparky.
- Comment on Has there ever been a game whose name was intentionally suffixed with "2" despite no original game? lol 1 day ago:
I thought Episode IV was in the initial crawl text.
- Comment on NHS to use AI on its app to direct patients to appropriate services 1 week ago:
AI used to cover a wide field of study, nowadays it seems to be all about the generative models. Oh how we’ve moved on since that original summer symposium.
- Comment on British police tries to arrest suspect 1 week ago:
They got him didn’t they?
- Comment on Ignore the miserabilists: Andy Burnham as PM is a moment when things really can get better 2 weeks ago:
Bless Polly’s optimism, hopefully not copium. Labour’s problem hasn’t been an uncharismatic leader but the very tight constraints they have set themselves for government. I’m not sure Burnham is willing to venture outside of them and start freestyling with the manifesto.
Hopefully he’s given this a lot of thought. I haven’t lived in Manchester for years but the mates I still have up there seem to think he’s alright. Mayor’s certainly can make a difference that local voters can feel. Hopefully he can replicate that in the top job.
- Comment on Five injured in suspected Islamophobic attacks as bare-chested man roams Edinburgh 3 weeks ago:
Well the mail and telegraph are shitty papers, I was confused because the article linked was a BBC one and their reporting at least tries to stick to impartial reporting guidelines.
- Comment on Five injured in suspected Islamophobic attacks as bare-chested man roams Edinburgh 3 weeks ago:
Who’s the usual lot? The BBC usually sticks to reporting the facts which will be how the police designate it. You’ll notice they don’t say terrorism for the Golders Green knife attack but just report what the suspect is charged with, even though the police declared it a potential terrorist incident at the time.
- Comment on Five injured in suspected Islamophobic attacks as bare-chested man roams Edinburgh 3 weeks ago:
Who do you want to declare it’s terrorism and how soon after the event?
The article says anti- terrorism police are involved in the investigation but I suspect the police will be saying as little as they can until they have all the facts. It’s only fairly recently they have started saying anything because of how quickly rumours about incidents spread on social media.
- Comment on Trick question 3 weeks ago:
Good luck with that - but entirely unrealistic. You have to deal with the demographics as they are and not with them at some arbitrary point in the past.
After you’ve solved Palistine are you going to have a crack at unwinding the effects of colonialism around the rest of the world?
- Comment on Steam Key Giveaway 1 month ago:
Rouge Waters looks like it might tickle my turn based and piratical interests.
- Comment on 'I've given up eating hot meals to pay for equipment to keep my son alive' 1 month ago:
Currently ~26-30p per kWh. Depending on your tariff night time can go down to 7p per kWh.
- Comment on The media smear campaign against Zack Polanski is working wonders 2 months ago:
I think Labour and Reform are also being crap here. However Zack has been riding the protest vote wave and as he gains popularity he gets more scrutiny. You might say it’s all the biased media’s fault but a politician complaining about scrutiny is a poor look.
He certainly spends a lot of time on social media happily clicking away. He should spend more time learning the basics of economics so he doesn’t complain about being ambushed on understanding the debt and the deficit.
- Comment on The media smear campaign against Zack Polanski is working wonders 2 months ago:
He’s making it easy by saying or doing stupid things.
- Comment on Is there a fast way to tell what episode of a series a video file is? 2 months ago:
If you are using MakeMKV when ripping you can override the filename template. So I name them for example “Show s01e04+” based on the disc I’m ripping. Then once encoded it’s relatively quick to rename the files with the full episode number. I personally use dired in Emacs because a macro makes short work of the renaming but I’m sure other solutions are possible.
- Comment on UK flying reaper drones above Lebanon from Cyprus base 2 months ago:
I didn’t say that they were only protesting the ban. That is what they were arrested for through.
- Comment on UK flying reaper drones above Lebanon from Cyprus base 2 months ago:
I’m not arguing about the designation, that’s up to the government. However the people that been arrested for holding up the signs knew exactly what they where doing and had been warned before their arrests. They were protesting the proscription of Palistine Action rather than generally supporting Palistine.
We will find out how it all plays out once the appeals process is completed.
- Comment on UK flying reaper drones above Lebanon from Cyprus base 2 months ago:
They’ll arrest you for supporting Palestine Action which has been designated a terrorist group by the government. You wouldn’t be arrested for peacefully protesting and supporting the Palistinian cause.
- Comment on Some cheeses are luminescent. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Is the UK falling out of love with social media? 3 months ago:
Mine has two, one which is very vanilla for local events and the like and has a strict no moaning policy. The other one is where the local gossip is and is as unhinged as you would expect.
- Comment on Is the UK falling out of love with social media? 3 months ago:
Every now and again I go back to Facebook to see what my more distant friends are doing. I spend about 10 minutes trying to fiddle with my ublock filters trying to hide all the algorithmic content and then give up.
I have private chat groups for various circles of friends and that’s a lot more useful for sharing stuff. We’ll see if they will be persuaded to Signal when the ads start appearing.
- Comment on It works better if you put it in your mouth first. 3 months ago:
It was worse than that. Our understanding of radiation took awhile. While Uranium glass is probably safe I wouldn’t go using it regularly. A lot of women (“radium girls”) suffered from cancers induced by licking their brushes when painting luminescing instruments. This comic looks like 50s era when post the bomb sci-fi was full of “atomics” as the stuff of the future.
- Comment on UK electronic music library is making the synthesiser accessible 3 months ago:
Maybe this year’s Eurovision entry will spark even more interest in synths.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 months ago:
I expect because it wasn’t a user - just a random passer by throwing stones on their own personal crusade. The project only has two major contributors who are now being harassed in the issues for the choices they make about how to run their project.
Someone might fork it and continue with pure artisanal human crafted code but such forks tend to die off in the long run.
- Comment on There’s a Class 100 semiconductor cleanroom inside this backyard shed. 4 months ago:
There was someone who wrote up a bootstrapping guide for technology assuming an apocalypse sent us back to sticks and stones. I think that guide went much further back on the level of lithography you could meaningfully get to while restarting tech.
I am curious what size features this guy can create in his lab.
- Comment on How a joke sound defined 90s rave 4 months ago:
Ah yes, found the drop down. Thanks.
- Comment on How a joke sound defined 90s rave 4 months ago:
Weird, opening in Pipe Pipe it seems to be some sort of Arabic. I wonder if I’m getting some weird auto-dub?
- Comment on How a joke sound defined 90s rave 4 months ago:
Has this been dubbed into a different language?
- Comment on 2026 Computer Science Predictions | LaurieWired 4 months ago:
I don’t think anyone will be shipping CHERI this year. However I suspect a lot of ideas from it will make it’s way into Arm and RISCV architecture enhancements.
- Comment on (UK) New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks 5 months ago:
I guess to would have to look at the suicide rates in other populations coming out of COVID.
COVID and the associated turmoil certainly did have an effect on the mental health of the country.
- Comment on More CUDA please 5 months ago:
a long time ago I wrote a program as part of my third year project to sort and rank potential hydrogen bonds in tRNA based on crystallography data. I wonder if my supervisor ever used it going forward.
