stsquad
@stsquad@lemmy.ml
FLOSS virtualization hacker, occasional brewer
- Comment on UK watchdog hits Imgur owner with fine as promised 1 week ago:
Imgur has been offline in the UK since the original investigation. Do they even want to be in the UK market?
- Comment on (UK) New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks 1 week 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 Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So 1 week ago:
There are a fair number of third party boards based on the RP2040/RP2050 silicon. Even esphome can target it even though it originally targeted the esp32.
The silicon itself is pretty nice although the original had done problems with deep sleep.
- Comment on Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So 1 week ago:
Are they as well supported? There are lots of SBCs out there but if they are only supported by vendor kernels and have no documentation then i’d rather pay the Pi premium.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
They are pretty good at summarisation. If I want to catch up with a long review thread on a patch series I’ve just started looking at I occasionally ask Gemini to outline the development so far and the remaining issues.
- Comment on Trump says UK handing over Chagos Islands sovereignty is act of 'great stupidity' 4 weeks 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 UK should consider expelling US forces from British bases, says Zack Polanski 4 weeks ago:
None of the major parties advocate it. Jeremy Corbyn wasn’t a fan but I suspect he’s less relevant now.
- Comment on RISC-V Hits 25% Market Penetration as Qualcomm and Meta Lead the Shift to Open-Source Silicon 5 weeks ago:
Now I’ve read the article it’s unnamed industry analysts and it’s written by an AI. For all I know the AI has hallucinated the number.
- Comment on RISC-V Hits 25% Market Penetration as Qualcomm and Meta Lead the Shift to Open-Source Silicon 5 weeks ago:
I assume microcontrollers. Most of those are invisible to consumers.
- 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 2 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 2 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 The important reason why we stopped running our food bank 2 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 Hong Kong legislature now an 'echo chamber', four years after shake-up 3 months ago:
When the transition from colonial rule happened there was a (naive?) belief that China needed Hong Kong’s dynamism in a rapidly globalising world. Time has proved that not to be the case and I guess Hong Kong just withers and is subsumed into the mainland while a brain drain of those that can leave continues.
- Comment on Is the Atari Jaguar worth playing in 2025 !? 3 months ago:
Did you ever play with the audio visualiser? I believe it was built in with the CD-ROM drive? What about Tempest 2000?
- Comment on Is the Atari Jaguar worth playing in 2025 !? 3 months ago:
I never got a Jaguar despite being a signed up Atari fan boy at the time. The hardware was ridiculously complex which made ports to it a hard sell and Atari just didn’t have the first party exclusive clout needed to sustain a console at launch.
I do wish I’d had a chance to play with some of Jeff Minter’s creations on it though. Apparently there was a nice audio visualiser that built on the trip-a-tron from the ST days as well as some reboots of classic arcade games like Tempest 2000.
- Comment on Just Stop Oil activists who attempted to spray paint Taylor Swift's private jet spared jail 3 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 3 months ago:
We can remember it for you wholesale?
- Comment on Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents 4 months ago:
Cost, the reason is cost.
- Comment on Britain’s ex-PM Sunak to take up roles at Microsoft, Anthropic 4 months ago:
I know people said he would, I didn’t realise he had. When did he move? He’s still an MP.
- Comment on Ethical artificial intelligence ? 4 months ago:
There are certainly open source models trained on public data sets that you can run locally.
- Comment on In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information 4 months ago:
I have paid for Newsblur ever since they cancelled Google Reader. I also use elfeed on various emacs instances for project and update feeds of various types.
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 4 months ago:
It’s all relative I guess. I can see why the original GPT’s used the Reddit corpus for training. However I’ve always been a little sceptical about the quality of the training set in any social media given how much it exaggerates the extremes of people’s behaviour.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
I don’t need to get through winter, I just need to get from dusk to when the cheap energy is gone. Currently that’s about 4kwh - or a small portion of my car battery before or recharges on the cheap rate.
- Comment on “China keeps the algorithm”: Critics attack Trump’s TikTok deal 5 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?
- Comment on Russia targets WhatsApp and pushes new 'super-app' as internet blackouts grow 5 months ago:
I wonder how much this will impact the economy in Russia? It seems they’re is not much point having a smart phone if all you are allowed to access is government controlled services.
Do the major phones get sold in Russia or are they all locally produced?
- Comment on UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action 5 months ago:
Your talking about their discretionary powers and that’s not going to be relevant on a protest enforcement action where their senior officer in command will have laid out exactly what the criteria to arrest is.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 5 months ago:
I’m similar - and my kids even more so. As they only watch YouTube on the main TV it’s a pain to get alternate frontends on it I also like the fact there are no ads. I think the creators get a bigger cut per premium view Vs ad views, especially if they get blocked.