[-] stsquad@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

Was it explained? There was a comment that Klingons don't like to talk about it but no explanation I remember.

My personal head canon was something went wrong during the DISCO timeline and somehow the process that gave us Tyler ends up infecting the rest of the Klingons who spend the next 50 or so years as swarthy humans before eventually being restored by scientists to the TNG/TOS films ridges we all know and love.

[-] stsquad@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago

When it comes to export controls and sanctioned entities it doesn't really matter what Red Hat would like to do - they have to comply with the law in the jurisdictions they work in. Even if it was purely a community project individual contributors face a similar liability if based in those jurisdictions.

When it comes to sanction lists there is a fair amount of commonalty between the US and Europe. This is really something to complain to government about.

[-] stsquad@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 days ago

Imgur has been offline in the UK since the original investigation. Do they even want to be in the UK market?

[-] stsquad@lemmy.ml 122 points 3 weeks ago

If you have ever read the "thought" process on some of the reasoning models you can catch them going into loops of circular reasoning just slowly burning tokens. I'm not even sure this isn't by design.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by stsquad@lemmy.ml to c/localllama@sh.itjust.works

Watching #emacsconf today I was introduced to this open source project to act as an agent between #llm's and editors.

Has anyone played with this? Any experience in how one would sandbox an agent so it doesn't do anything outside the project directory?

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by stsquad@lemmy.ml to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

This is depressing. I have relatives who are adopters and it seems this sort of behaviour of social workers is endemic in the system. The support is not there and when things break down they attack the parents to bully them into continuing at risk to themselves and their other kids.

[-] stsquad@lemmy.ml 90 points 4 months ago

What ever happend to the classic "reticulating splines"?

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by stsquad@lemmy.ml to c/videos@lemmy.world

A fairly deep dive about how you can cherry pick stats to push a narrative.

[-] stsquad@lemmy.ml 135 points 6 months ago

Because OpenVPN is fiddly to set up and modern Wireguard setups seem to scale well enough.

[-] stsquad@lemmy.ml 54 points 6 months ago

In my first interview they put me in a room with a PC with Borland C and a copy of K&R and a sheet with a simple problem to solve and some extra enhancements if I had time. They said they would be back in half an hour and left me to it. That I passed fine.

Some twenty-ish years later I was asked to write a C function to reverse a string on a white board and I failed because I'd misformatted the for loop. I don't think it was because I've become a worse C coder in the intervening years.

When I'm actually coding I'm sat with my editor configured Just So with completion, compilation and unit tests at my finger tips. My favourite coding music blasting my speakers and a handy browser window for looking up anything in unsure of. This is my most productive setting and expecting the same performance in a stressful interview setting is foolish in my opinion.

Working through problems on a white board can work well but you are looking for the problem solving approach, not an encyclopedic knowledge of regex syntax. Those same problems get immeasurably harder when explained over a phone call.

My personal preference when evaluating candidates ability to code is reading their actual production code, the break down of commits, the commit messages and the sort of unit tests they add with a feature. The interview is more focused on their soft skills, what about the work excites them and what they are looking to get out of the role.

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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.

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submitted 9 months ago by stsquad@lemmy.ml to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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 149 points 9 months ago

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

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submitted 9 months ago by stsquad@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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.

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submitted 10 months ago by stsquad@lemmy.ml to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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?

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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?

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submitted 1 year ago by stsquad@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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.

[-] stsquad@lemmy.ml 86 points 1 year ago

I just want to buy home automation gadgets that don't need a bloody cloud account to work.

[-] stsquad@lemmy.ml 80 points 1 year ago

I think car automation peaked at adaptive cruise control. It's a simple tractable problem that's generally well confined and improves the drivers ability to concentrate on other road risks.

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submitted 2 years ago by stsquad@lemmy.ml to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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

[-] stsquad@lemmy.ml 187 points 2 years ago

Don't be too hard on Collin. Looking back on the threads it's fairly clear he's been the victim of a social engineering attack on an overworked maintainer. People were pressuring him to hand over maintainership while expressing disappointment at the slow pace of development. The off-list contact by Jia must have seemed like a helpful enthusiastic solution to a burnt out developer.

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[-] stsquad@lemmy.ml 60 points 2 years ago

It's looking more like a long game to compromise an upstream.

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