stsquad
@stsquad@lemmy.ml
FLOSS virtualization hacker, occasional brewer
- Comment on Houthi rebels shoot down 7 US military Reaper drones worth $334m, in recent weeks 4 days ago:
You would have thought for $33mil a pop they would have some countermeasures. I guess they are still several orders of magnitude cheaper than a jet with an expensive pilot so are more disposable?
- Comment on Houthi rebels shoot down 7 US military Reaper drones worth $334m, in recent weeks 4 days ago:
I assume you need fairly sophisticated SAM systems to take out these drones. Are they all coming from Iran? Is this a step up in their missile capability?
- Comment on Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says 1 week ago:
It’s probably cowardice.
I totally get why people are upset but the real question is what to do next. You can try lobbying the government with the massive majority by accusing them all of being bigots or form a new party (or join an existing one) with this reform at the top of their agenda.
Sadly while there may or no may not be a majority in the country who have sympathy with the plight of trans people I doubt there are enough where it is the top off their priorities when deciding who to vote for.
- Comment on Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says 1 week ago:
Urinals. Most restaurants and cafes have unisex cubicles. When you get to pubs and nightclubs you can get more pee draining space per square foot with a urinal.
As far as I understand it nothing stops an establishment just declaring all their toilets as unisex. I’ve certainly been in a number of drinking establishments where this has been the case.
- Comment on Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says 1 week ago:
“when looking at the Equality Act” is the key missing part off the quote. Would you expect an ex-barrister to contradict the ruling of the supreme court?
What’s actually needed is new clear primary legislation to address all these issues. Parliament still had primacy here but good luck getting MPs wading into such a toxic debate?
- Comment on Synology restricts choice of hard disks for new Plus NAS 1 week ago:
Does anyone know what the underlying filesystem is on DSM? The ability to easily replace disks with a degree of redundancy across the 4 bays is the biggest plus point for Synology although I have no doubt all the bits underneath are the Linux storage stack.
- Comment on Synology restricts choice of hard disks for new Plus NAS 1 week ago:
It’s a shame because I really like the point and click nature of DSM. Although I’m a happy Linux hacker I don’t want another Linux box to suck up my limited admin time just to store files.
- Comment on YouTube considers a daily timer for users looking to cut back on Shorts 2 weeks ago:
I migrated away from the mobile app to PipePipe just to avoid shorts and I pay for premium.
- Comment on Webb telescope documents alien planet's death plunge into a star 2 weeks ago:
Bold of you to assume we’ll make it that far. I’m not convinced that our current networked CO2 phase isn’t another great filter event.
- Comment on China’s push for chip independence continues with its first RISC-V server CPU 3 weeks ago:
Android gets a leg up from being built on a FLOSS base but I don’t think it was the community that pushed Android to where it is today. That’s taken a lot of money and resources from Google and it’s phone partners investing in the slightly more open platform than Apple.
- Comment on China’s push for chip independence continues with its first RISC-V server CPU 3 weeks ago:
That’s not really true. Yes avoiding complex instructions makes the front end easier to pipeline but there are lots of smarts in the backend to do prediction and scheduling to keep the execution units fed. The ISA might be free to use but no one is sharing their highly optimised server silicon architecture designs.
RISC-V’s challenge is can they standardise the software ecosystem enough that things just work across a multitude of chip providers or does everything devolve into specialist distributions taking advantage of each manufacturers “special sauce” custom instructions.
Gaining design wins over Arm’s microcontrollers for bespoke hardware was the easy bit. Replacing stuff in the server space is much harder and something that took Arm decades to make inroads into.
- Comment on Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. 4 weeks ago:
I pay for it so the TV and web experience is ad free. I use PipePipe on my phone because the native client won’t stop pushing shorts at you.
- Comment on Does Google scan yt videos to know what products appear in them? 4 weeks ago:
Do you think there is information YouTube wouldn’t collect about you even if they could be better at selling ads to people based on it?
Do you live somewhere with data protection laws? If so you could request a dump of all personally identifying data they hold on you.
- Comment on Google will develop the Android OS fully in private; Will continue open source releases. 4 weeks ago:
It’s not like Android is especially open to drive-by contributions anyway. I don’t think really changes much for the downstream consumers of the releases.
- Comment on DOJ renews call for Google to sell Chrome, and Android could be next 5 weeks ago:
We’ll go from Google sucking up all our data to another entity sucking up all our data and selling it to other people. How much funding does it take to keep Chrome running?
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 5 weeks 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 Microsoft has pulled back on over a gigawatt of planned data center capacity, suggesting that they do not think there is a growth future in generative AI 1 month ago:
Context is king which is why even the biggest models get tied in knots when I try them on my niche coding problems. I’ve been playing a bit with NotebookLM which promises to be interesting with enough reference material but unfortunately when I tried to add the Vulcan specs it complained it couldn’t accept them (copyright maybe?).
We have recently been given clearance to use the Gemini Pro tools with Google office at work. While we are still not using them for code generation I have found the transcription and meeting summary tools very useful and certainly a time saver.
- Comment on What ever happened to QAnon? 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
A corrupted Mrs Davies?
- Comment on Now that Trump is getting real chummy with Putin where does that leave China? 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
It didn’t work out for Littlefinger in the end.
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- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 2 months ago:
I don’t think Google drive supports encryption.
- Comment on WFH with privacy? 85% of Brit bosses are snooping on staff 2 months 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 DJI will no longer stop drones from flying over airports, wildfires, and the White House 3 months ago:
Ultimately it’s the drone operators responsibility to ensure they aren’t violating airspace rules.
- Comment on Deadline to record historic footpaths to be scrapped 3 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 Broadcom reverses controversial plan in effort to cull VMware migrations 4 months ago:
What exactly is the USP for VMware that makes it worth the premium? Is it just installed inertia?
- Comment on Roblox announces new measures to protect under-13s from other players 5 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 5 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 Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It's Too Late to Correct. 5 months ago:
I can see the argument that visible light should be enough given we humans can drive with just two eyes and a few mirrors. However that argument probably misses the millions of years of evolution of our neural networks have gone through while hunting and tracking threats that happens to make predicting where other cars might be mostly fine.
I have a feeling regulators aren’t going to be happy with a claim of driving better than the average human. FSD should be aiming to be at least 10x better than the best human drivers and we’re a long way off from that.