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[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Care needs to be taken with big orgs like the NHS to not try and boil the ocean with massive IT systems. Concentrating on open interoperability standards allows for smaller more flexible contracts and the ability to swap out components when needed.

Open source licences would be the ideal default although at a minimum the purchasing org should have a licence that allows them (or subcontractors) to make fixes without being tied to the original vendor.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 22 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Why? Do Ferrari drivers really need to cycle through sound effects to feel as though they are doing it right?

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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?

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 months ago

The other option is to use VirtIO with Native Context support as a software based partitioning scheme that is relatively lightweight compared to the mdev approach.

 

Perhaps the biggest libvirt related piece of work here has been to reworking of the QMP API docs to make them easier to navigate. QMP is how libvirt probes for functionality as well as handling things like introspection of the machines and dealing with things like hotplug.

 

Post Office paid £600m to continue using Horizon despite its broken state. Hopefully this should be a wake up call to government about how it goes about large software projects.

In my opinion anything written for government should come with a full license for the source code (preferably open source) so they have the ability to change suppliers if there are any issues.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks for that - I forgot that it's not as well known as other few software despite being the default virtualization software on most free software distros.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 145 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The kernel on GitHub is just a mirror - the primary source is on kernel.org

 

For virtualization there are improvements for VirtIO, vfio and Loongarch CPU hotplug. On the emulation side additions for Arm, RiscV and even some speed ups for x86 string ops. On the documentation side a whole bunch of work has been done on QMP API to make it clearer and more navigable.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

I really enjoyed GoT so I'm tempted by this. Once you get the hang of the combat it's very satisfying.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

PipePipe seems to work with my login to play age restricted stuff. I do generally have to trigger a login through settings and then research the video through.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months 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.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months 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.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

"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?

 

I was trying to add a Matter device from my phone but it kept saying I needed to install the companion app from the Play store even though I was in the companion app (from f-droid). I've installed the Bluetooth proxy app as well but it made note difference.

Does anyone know what's going on?

 

It always seemed to me that QAnon was some sort of online LARP on 4chan that got out of control and metastasized. It's left a trail of broken families and swept into the mainstream with branding and everything. After the predictions of Trump's return to power after Jan 6th it seems to have fizzled out. Did QAnon stop posting? Did their adherents just glom onto the next crazy theory? How many followers now disavow the theories of QAnon?

 

This is an interesting article of the fish shells journey of covering to rust which I found quite interesting. I'm especially interested because of projects I work with that are currently experimenting with rust.

 

The long awaited Cass report has been published looking at gender affirming care in the NHS.

 
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