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One small downside…

This is not in FlatHub and it is not an official part of the VirtualBox KVM project from Cyberos Technology (the folks that make VirtualBox KVM).

This is a project from GitHub user tulilirockz

This is awesome. I use the KVM version of VirtualBox all the time. Not only is it a great UI with good driver support but VirtualBox itself is cross platform while KVM and its various front-ends are not.

I do demos and create documentation that shows VirtualBox in screenshots. The audience are people who will almost all be using Windows and macOS. With VirtualBox, we can all use the same UI with me enjoying better performance from KVM on my Linux boxes.

VirtualBox KVM does not need kernel modules so kernel upgrades are not a hassle. Before now though, I have been having to compile VirtualBox KVM itself which is a bit of a beast.

I cannot wait to try this.

As this uses the KVM backend, they are all essentially alternative UI for the same hypervisor.

Sure. But spending it in the US on equipment that they remotely control (F35) is even worse.

I will take that bet.

There are already other core utils to choose from. The BSD utils are arguably better than the GNU ones for the use case you mentioned (and permissively licensed obviously). Has anybody “forked” the BSD utils and “taken them proprietary”?

I mean, people can use the code but that does not take away freedom from anybody (at least not in my view).

I am quite happy to go on record and disagree with your prediction. Time will tell.

How has nobody said Fabrice Bellard?

QEMU, FFMPEG, TCC, TinyGL, QuickJS, and TSAC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard

They are just saying “why don’t we all just start murdering people”. This is a common trick when you do not have strong arguments for your moral position. You just switch to defending the most extreme position and act like any move away from the point you have chosen is a vote for murder.

You don’t agree with me? Well, I guess it is safe to assume you are an enthusiastic murderer.

Two actors from the movie Cammando.

The guy in the right was super elite. The guy on the left, not so much.

Have there been problems since 25.10 released? Real question. I have not seen those articles. I thought it had gone well.

Yes you can.

Regardless of who you owe it to, a lot of it has a date that it needs to be paid back. The normal process is that governments reborrow to pay off old debt. But if nobody will lend it to you, you are fucked.

Of course, what happens first is that they will lend it to you but for much higher interest. So, you have to borrow even more to pay that. And then your interest goes up again. Repeat.

But at some point, nobody will lend it to you.

“Printing money” just means borrowing it from yourself. It just crashes the currency.

The US has been somewhat immune to all of this because it is a reserve currency and “the safest economy”. But it is doing its best to change both those things.

I seem to disagree with almost everybody here.

Canada is a natural place to locate huge data centres because it is cold. A huge expense for these data centres is cooling. They need less cooling in northern climates. They can be air cooled instead of liquid cooled. This means northern data centres are not only less expensive to operate but less expensive to build and also quite a lot simpler which means more reliable.

Let me pause here and say something to the environmentalists. They are going to build these data centres. Would you rather they build them somewhere hot where they need to consume far more energy? Why exactly? I do not understand that logic. And it is not just power. Water consumption is a massive problem in hotter climates as well? If we want to help the earth, build these in the north.

BC is a source of inexpensive renewable energy and plentiful water. It is the reason we have an aluminum industry even though we do not have the ore.

Finally, we have A LOT of space. We could have the worlds biggest data center and nobody would even know it was there.

So northern BC is an attractive place to build data centres.

Data centres are not huge job creators but they have other spinoff benefits.

But the real reason to want them is precisely that they demand so much electricity. Electricity is a product. That is taxable. We should build out our renewable energy capacity and sell it to them. We do not have to subsidize the electricity to be an attractive location (see above). We can make money.

We understand that money underlies all our other priorities right? You cannot think of something you would like funded?

And we could require or advantage the use of Canadian technology (which this demand could advance). Doesn’t Tenstorrent make their LLM cards in Quebec? Their R&D Center is in Toronto. Having big customers in Canada could bring more of that North.

And we should really have sovereign infrastructure to boot. I for one do not want all this information being shipped, processed, and managed abroad. We should keep it here.

This post is too long to have this argument but LLMs are also critical to a functioning economy and basic scientific research moving forward. People who think AI means “shitty chat bots” have no idea what they are talking about. Medical science has already been massively advanced as an example. We do not want these discoveries coming out of UBC?

Honestly, I just don’t get this thread at all. But if this is what people think, I guess it makes sense for the government to feed off that.

But this seems like seems like it is really about mining and natural gas. Hard to argue that makes this decision pro-climate. I mean, if you want to sell more natural gas, I am sure natural gas electricity generation for power hungry data centers is a good plan for that. Win win?

But let me sneak in that I certainly do not want to see rates go up for electricity in BC. I just don’t see why it has to. Increase our capacity. Charge the data centers for what the use. If anything, that will allow us to move to more renewable sources overall which should actually bring rates down for everybody.

I know you are pointing out the irony.

However, the US associates kings with tyrants as that was the basis for the US revolution but Canada does not.

Canadians do not learn about a point in Canadian history where the tyranny of the throne was a problem. In modern times, the monarchy has mostly been viewed favourably. In the fight against modern tyrants (eg. Donald Trump), the English crown is seen as an ally. Canada invites the King to speak on behalf of the Canadian government (throne speech).

So Canada has no problem with kings. Canada takes issue with tyranny though. So there is no “dissonance” as your other comment implies.

In the US, King George III is remembered as a tyrant that the US successfully defeated and declared independence from in 1776.

When Canadians think of the same period in history (the reign of King George III), they think “that is when we successfully fought off the Americans and burned down the White House.”

Those are two pretty different perspectives.

Ironically, the modern US is mostly positive about the Brittish monarchy. Princess Diana was loved in the US. President Trump is a big fan of Ling Charles.