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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some slow acting poisons?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It used to slowly drive haters insane, hence mad haters. There was a theory Napoleon was exposed to excess levels of Arsenic over time although that might have well been background exposure. Nevertheless over time it’s not good for you. Neither is lead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What ever happened to QAnon?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t doubt the a MAGA crowd leant into the Q conspiracy and were happy to co-opt it’s adherents into it’s electoral base. However is there any evidence that links its genesis to the like of Banon? Most of what I heard (from across the pond, indirectly) was more traditional wedge issues like anti-DEI and anti-trans rhetoric.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What ever happened to QAnon?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A corrupted Mrs Davies?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that Trump is getting real chummy with Putin where does that leave China?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to pair 1984 with Huxley’s Brave New World to see where we actually ended up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the exact ramifications and consequences of the recent meeting with Zelenskyy and Trump/JD?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It didn’t work out for Littlefinger in the end.

• What ever happened to QAnon?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Nye The Science Guy on Climate Change⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a bit he did for Last Week Tonight if I remember correctly. Definitely post watershed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think Google drive supports encryption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you consider the 3 greatest movies ever made?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair those aren’t bad choices. I would certainly recommend the Shawshank redemption, I’ve seen it many times and it hasn’t gotten old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beautifully written video about Language, AI and Human Connection⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Very mediative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excellent explanation of the mid air collision in DC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m usually wary of hot takes of developing situations but he obviously knows his stuff. Very clear explanation, very professional response from the controllers who must be in shock in the moments after.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WFH with privacy? 85% of Brit bosses are snooping on staff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just spec a machine up to the defined limit and then buy it, install and claim back on expenses. I’m fact “do I have root on my machine” is one of my standard interview questions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any movie you are looking forward to?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I fancy a bit of Star Trek but it didn’t look like I have long to wait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'The Brutalist' criticised for its use of AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the most interesting applications of AI I’ve seen for film recently is the ability to re-dub actors with their own voice in different languages while maintaining lip synch. That’s something that could have a positive effect on accessibility to the medium without the language barrier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This video by Corridor Crew explains the LA fire situation really well. Plus all revenue from ads in it goes to charity benefiting victims of the fire so watch it on YouTube, yeah?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It really made me appreciate the scale of LA. And kudos to them for not busting out the drones unlike some others have been doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you save, we will charge you more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My UK rates are about £0.26/kWh for the day rate, £0.07/kWh for the night rate which is when things like car charging is done. Excess solar generation makes me £0.15/kWh I send back to the grid although not much of that going on in the winter ;-)

  We also pay a daily standing charge for the grid connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IEEE 754⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Writing floating point emulation code?

  I’d pretty much avoided learning about floating point until we decided to refactor the softfloat code in QEMU to support additional formats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xemu v0.8.0 released (31 Dez 2024) - A Xbox emulator⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how much of the core has been changed to prevent rebasing onto a note recent QEMU. We’ve done a bunch of cleanups and additions too the x86 emulation since 7.2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deadline to record historic footpaths to be scrapped⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I’ve been updating open street map I’ve also taken the time to report right off way violations via my councils web portal. The problem is most of the paths around here are permissive national park paths and there is no canonical catalog available digitally to cross check against. I don’t know if they should also be registered as a right of way?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Takes Two developer's next project name and release date leaks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More passion, more energy…

  It was a nice couch co-op game to play with my wife and kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox announces new measures to protect under-13s from other players⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox announces new measures to protect under-13s from other players⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In all DRM devices there are private signed certificates that can be used to establish a secure authenticated connection. To get at them you need to crack/hack/file the top of the chip to exfiltrate the certificate. More modern “Trusted Computing” like platforms include verified boot chains so even if you extract the certificate you couldn’t use it because you also need to sign the boot chain to ensure no code has been altered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely - modern pirates are extracting the digital streams with the DRM removed. However they closely guard the methods of operation because once the exploits or compromised keys are known they can be revoked and they have to start cracking again. They likely have hardware with reverse engineered firmware which won’t honour key revocation but still needs to be kept upto date with recent-ish keys.

  For example the Blu-Ray encryption protocols are well enough known you can get things working if you have the volume keys. However getting hold of them is tricky and you have to be careful your Blu-Ray doesn’t read a disk that revokes the old keys.

  For streaming things are a little easier because if you get the right side of the DRM you can simply copy the stream. However things like HDCP and moving DRM into secure enclaves are trying to ensure that the decryption process cannot be watched from the outside. I’m sure their are compromised HDCP devices but again once their keys get leaked they will no longer be able to accept a digital stream of data (or may negotiate down to a sub-HD rate).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alien: Romulus is getting a VHS release⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember programming the VCR when VHS was first a thing and I’m definitely not nostalgic for it. It was the best most people could afford at the time but it certainly wasn’t good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alien: Romulus is getting a VHS release⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When did people get nostalgic for the crappy analogue definition that was VHS? What’s next betamax special editions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Church of England? They are pretty vanilla and low key in my experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a reason the US is sending 100 of our people to Israel?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As I understand it is to operate the defensive missile battery they have just shipped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people impressed with SpaceX?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are pretty focused on reducing the cost of launches by aggressively re-using components that would normally crash into the sea. Previous launches landed on floating sea platforms but yesterday’s heavy was so big it needed a more stable landing zone. So after boosting the Star Liner the rocket returned down the trajectory it had followed up and then hovered briefly before being caught by two pincers on the very launch pad it had left five minutes before. That’s pretty cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asahi Linux: AAA Gaming Emulation on Apple Silicon⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  FEX redirects graphics library calls to their native equivalents. This substantially reduces the amount of translated code you need to execute.

  slp did a nice demo at KVM Forum last month. …qemu.org/…/The_many_faces_of_virtio-gpu_F4XtKDi.… andhttps://youtu.be/10Ztv0UI5I0?si=19KPcA6wGbXM3I…