Rogue
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- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 2 days ago:
That’s not semantic versioning…
- Comment on Raid on Quaker Meeting House, mass arrests by London Metropolitan Police of Youth Demand members 6 days ago:
Police made six arrests of women attendees during the raid, on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance, and a further five Youth Demand supporters at other locations, mostly their homes, on Friday. In total the police conducted 12 house raids within 20 hours.
suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance
That has to be the most dystopian crime possible.
- Comment on What's easier to shoot, a bow or a firearm? 5 weeks ago:
Of all the weapons in the vast Soviet arsenal nothing was more profitable than Avtomat Kalashnikova model of 1947, more commonly known as the AK-47, or Kalashnikov.
It’s the world’s most popular assault rifle, a weapon all fighters love. An elegantly simple nine pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood, it doesn’t break, jam, or overheat. It will shoot whether it’s covered in mud or filled with sand. It’s so easy even a child can use it, and they do.
The Soviets put the gun on a coin, Mozambique put it on their flag. Since the end of the Cold War, the Kalashnikov has become the Russian people’s greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists. One thing is for sure; no one was lining up to buy their cars. ~ Lord of War
- Comment on Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents 1 month ago:
This really just shows how inefficient human communication is.
This could have been done with a single email:
Hi, I’m looking to book a wedding ceremony and reception at your hotel on Saturday 16th March. Ideally the ceremony will be outside but may need alternative indoor accommodation in case of inclement weather. The ceremony will have 75 guests, two of whom require wheelchair accessible spaces. 150 guests will attend the dinner, ideally seated on 15 tables of 10. Can you let us know your catering options? 300 guests will attend the even reception. Can you accommodate this? Thanks,
- Comment on I said what I said 1 month ago:
If you want to be taken seriously you should re-word your issue and the title.
Be explicit about:
- what icon you prefer,
- include a, graphical example
- highlight the issues with the current icon,
- include an example of the icon you disagree with.
The issue you’ve linked is literally just a complaint with zero context.
- Comment on Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout 1 month ago:
They’re completely irrelevant to the average person.
If you want absolute perfection then sure, stick with Chrome but implying Firefox on GrapheneOS is insecure is misinformation.
- Comment on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater teases new announcement with countdown 1 month ago:
Pretty sure it’s 3rd April
- Comment on The UK could be at the forefront of the climate revolution. Here’s how. 1 month ago:
It’s not going to happen. Labour need to put funds towards fixing the NHS and other state services systems that have been systematically dismantled by the conservatives.
With America isolating itself times are uncertain so funding has to be set aside to deal with inevitable turmoil.
Finally, European nations need to decide whether to accept America handing Ukraine over to Russia or if they continue to support Ukraine. Even if Europe withdraws resources from Ukraine there needs to be a reassessment of military spending because NATO doesn’t look particularly reliable right now.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds Would Reportedly Merge Rust Kernel Code Over Maintainer Objections 1 month ago:
The essays these people write are absolutely tedious. But every time I read one it does change my perspective.
The conclusion ultimately seems to be:
- We should give rust a go because its memory safety and other features will make life simpler
- However the codebase is vast so change isn’t easy
- We should contain the Rust experiment as much as possible so it doesn’t overcomplicate multiple areas
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
OP wants to store all of their porn collection in RAM
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 1 month ago:
I’m honestly surprised it hasn’t already become rampant.
- Comment on SkyNews | The number of people on NHS waiting lists in England has fallen for the fourth month in a row, new figures show. 1 month ago:
I somehow replied to the wrong post. Here’s what I meant to say:
But calling wait lists pointless is also pointless.
This is going to be ultra pedantic but in case I was misunderstood: I’m saying that using wait times as a target is pointless. Obvs we do need wait lists themselves…
What would you propose as a method for measuring NHS effectivness.
First I know I’m not qualified in any way to answer this and there will be people with knowledge who can provide a far better answer. But if you do want my opinion then I’d say a reasonable place to start would be to simply ask the patient. The written answers will be subjective but you can collate all the [yes/no] answers together to see objective patterns of whether patient satisfaction is improving or getting worse.
How long were you waiting? [Number of weeks] (Would be very interesting to compare this subjective answer to the actual recorded data)
Was the wait time acceptable? [Yes/No/I don’t know]
-> Did your condition deteriorate as a result of the delay? [Yes/No/I don’t know]
-> How did you condition deteriorate? [Answer in as many words as you like, or possibly a tree of yes/no questions]
Did you receive treatment? [Yes/No/I don’t know]
-> Did the treatment improve your condition? [Yes/No/I don’t know]
-> Why didn’t the treatment help with your condition? [Answer in as many words as you like, or possibly a tree of yes/no questions]
Were you referred to another service? [Yes/No/I don’t know]
-> Do you agree with the decision to refer you elsewhere? [Yes/No/I don’t know]
-> Why don’t you believe the referral is correct? [Answer in as many words as you like, or possibly a tree of yes/no questions]
Overall how satisfied were you satisfied? [0-10]
-> How could we improve? [Answer in as many words as you like, or possibly a tree of yes/no questions]
- Comment on SkyNews | The number of people on NHS waiting lists in England has fallen for the fourth month in a row, new figures show. 1 month ago:
But calling wait lists pointless is also pointless.
This is going to be ultra pedantic but in case I was misunderstood: I’m saying that using wait times as a target is pointless. Obvs we do need wait lists themselves…
What would you propose as a method for measuring NHS effectivness.
First I know I’m not qualified in any way to answer this and there will be people with knowledge who can provide a far better answer. But if you do want my opinion then I’d say a reasonable place to start would be to simply ask the patient. The written answers will be subjective but you can collate all the [yes/no] answers together to see objective patterns of whether patient satisfaction is improving or getting worse.
How long were you waiting? (Number of weeks) (Would be very interesting to compare this subjective answer to the actual recorded data) Was the wait time acceptable? [Yes/No/I don’t know] -> Did your condition deteriorate as a result of the delay? [Yes/No/I don’t know] -> How did you condition deteriorate? [Answer in as many words as you like, or possibly a tree of yes/no questions]
Did you receive treatment? [Yes/No/I don’t know] -> Did the treatment improve your condition? [Yes/No/I don’t know] -> Why didn’t the treatment help with your condition? [Answer in as many words as you like, or possibly a tree of yes/no questions]
Were you referred to another service? [Yes/No/I don’t know] -> Do you agree with the decision to refer you elsewhere? [Yes/No/I don’t know] -> Why don’t you believe the referral is correct? [Answer in as many words as you like, or possibly a tree of yes/no questions]
Overall how satisfied were you satisfied? [0-10] -> How could we improve? [Answer in as many words as you like, or possibly a tree of yes/no questions]
- Comment on SkyNews | The number of people on NHS waiting lists in England has fallen for the fourth month in a row, new figures show. 1 month ago:
Waiting lists are a fucking pointless target.
It simply encourages organisations not to add you to the wait list or to find any excuse to remove you from them.
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Speech and language therapists will remove patients from their wait list because the patient did not answer or return phone calls. Its an absolutely ridiculous system that will penalise patients with speech impediments for being unable to handle phone calls.
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Mental health services will insist patients see a trainee in order to meet their wait list target. Then if the patient is not satisfied with the trainee’s competence the patient is added back to the wait list. However because the patient has technically been seen the target is met and the patient will end up waiting indefinitely because the service prioritises other patients in order to meet the wait list target.
The system is absolutely corrupt. Targets are fucking pointless.
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- Comment on ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off 1 month ago:
If everyone puts wind turbines on the balconies they might end up blowing the building over
- Comment on Report: Unity continues mass layoffs with 'abrupt' communications and 5am emails 1 month ago:
Bevy is damn impressive. I can understand why it’s not suitable for large projects yet but for anyone tinkering or projects willing to adapt to a rapidly iterate ecosystem is well worth a look.
- Comment on Laws only matter if you're not rich. 1 month ago:
This is the first post I’ve seen where my app (Boost) has condensed the vote score because it exceeded 1k.
Congrats guys. Lemmy is growing
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 1 month ago:
Is it definitely the MP3 format at fault here? Was your MP3 from an official source or could it have been from a faulty source or improperly transcoded?
- Comment on Is Civilization 7 not fun? 1 month ago:
The game itself is cheaper than that. I suspect they chose to pay for a deluxe edition
- Comment on Why are energy bills going up, if there is more green power? - BBC News 1 month ago:
Capitalism. If the market is able to pay more then the company will demand more
- Comment on Rackspace moving some of its own workloads off VMware 1 month ago:
The article specifically states rackspace are only moving 50 VMs.
The client moving 40,000 is unnamed.
- Comment on Rackspace moving some of its own workloads off VMware 1 month ago:
Why would a company have 40,000 VMs?! The scale of computing resources always sounds astronomically different to what I think a service would need.
- Comment on Are mods usually confusing as hell or am I just an idiot? 2 months ago:
I decided to not even bother with a significant number of mods because they just seemed mind numbingly confusing to set up.
I’m not complaining, I’m just wondering if I’m missing some trick or something.
I think you made the right choice here.
There’s no quality control in modding communities so I’d say the effort the developer puts into the install instructions is going to be a reasonable indicator of the quality of the mod itself.
- Comment on UK seeks smoother trade with EU but customs union is ‘red line’, Cooper says 2 months ago:
Close ties between the UK and the EU is of interest to both parties. However, there’s a very loud minority of the UK populace supported by a lot of the right wing press, who will have a hissy fit if the government shows any indication of collaborating with the EU.
Therefore what your suggesting just isn’t possible. What is possible is a bespoke deal. It doesn’t have to provide unique benefits, that other countries don’t enjoy, it just has to be labelled sufficiently different to quash the overreaction of the right.
Basically, it has to be “special” and “privileged” but only in the sense of wrapping right wing snowflakes in cotton wool. In reality it’ll be a worse deal than the UK once enjoyed, and worse than if the UK rejoined, but at least it would be better than the fuck all we have now.
- Comment on WH Smith in secret talks to sell historic high street arm 2 months ago:
Unfortunately they have a monopoly in quite a few service stations so there’s no alternative at times.
- Comment on WH Smith in secret talks to sell historic high street arm 2 months ago:
WHSmith was the first business to adopt enshittification as a business model.
Back when a 500 ml drink was typically £1 or £1.20 in most stores they’d be marked up to £2 in WHSmith and you’d be conned into thinking±buying 2 for £3 thinking it was a good deal.
Then the sales desk would be littered with giant bars of shitty chocolate that the cashier had to suggest you buy.
Such a shitty store. Wish it had failed a long time ago.
- Comment on Strongest storm in generations predicted as Éowyn to hit UK and Ireland 2 months ago:
I’m far enough that I think it’s inappropriate to have issued it to my area.
It’s a very invasive system. The phone screams at you with a siren noise even on silent. And very boldly declared itself a RED warning.
If they are expanding it to account for travel distances I think they should have more accurate wording.
I’m happy to have these alerts enabled if they’re used appropriately but if they start to make a habit of it I’ll end up disabling them.
- Comment on Strongest storm in generations predicted as Éowyn to hit UK and Ireland 2 months ago:
The government have kicked their emergency red alert system into action causing my phone to shrill at me.
In the true fashion of government competence I’m not even located in the red warning area.
- Comment on Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’ 2 months ago:
I might consider using it if it was an open data format, or a download to Google Wallet, Apple Wallet etc but it’s a proprietary app.
Why the fuck does it need to be an app?
Why would anyone want to send telemetry directly to the government, it’s insane.
- Comment on Suspect in UnitedHealthCare CEO shooting used fake ID and traveled by bus to New York, sources say 3 months ago:
And bicycles too