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@stsquad@lemmy.ml
FLOSS virtualization hacker, occasional brewer
- Comment on Is there a fast way to tell what episode of a series a video file is? 4 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Is the UK falling out of love with social media? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 5 weeks 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. 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Ah yes, found the drop down. Thanks.
- Comment on How a joke sound defined 90s rave 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Has this been dubbed into a different language?
- Comment on 2026 Computer Science Predictions | LaurieWired 1 month 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 2 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 2 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.
- Comment on Trump says UK handing over Chagos Islands sovereignty is act of 'great stupidity' 2 months ago:
I believe the stated reason was to avoid the possibility of the court ruling against the UK owning the islands leading to the base needing to be shut down. The agreement with Mauritius includes a 99 year lease to secure the base at Diego Garcia.
- 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? 3 months 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? 3 months 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? 3 months 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 months 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 4 months 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" 4 months 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 5 months 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 5 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 5 months ago:
We can remember it for you wholesale?
- Comment on Ethical artificial intelligence ? 6 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 6 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?
