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Keir Starmer alleged to have broken rules over party donor’s gifts to wife
  • In other reporting it did seem he was proactive in contacting the parliamentary authorities once he received advice on the donations. The spouse situation is tricky because his wife isn't an elected official or even a political operative. However I doubt the donations would have been made of she doesn't sometimes appear with her husband on official occasions.

    Also the pearl clutching by the Tories is hypocrisy of the highest order given some of the stuff their members got away with.

    Still it's not a good look and hopefully the party officials are making sure other ministers are up-to-date on all declarations. You don't want this to be the start of a string of stories.

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    What is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without?
  • Magic Wormhole - it's been around awhile but it's super useful for moving files from your internet connected server to your phone without going through multiple hops copying stuff to you local machine and finding a cable.

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    Shogun breaks record for Most Emmy wins in a Single Year
  • We are about two thirds of the way in and Disney's terrible colour space handling aside it's a banger of a show. I have vague memories of the original TV adaptation but certainly prefer the modern one.

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    Sixth-generation wire-maker blames Brexit for shredding its business
  • That was my thought at the time. There were multiple Brexit's being discussed during the referendum. It was a recipe for no one being happy with the result.

    If we ever decide to go back in I hope we've learnt our lesson and either make parliament make the deal and be accountable for it or a two stage referendum, in principle and then on the negotiated entrance terms.

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    Any idea how to pirate/play Minecraft on Linux?
  • You can play bedrock on Linux using either the mcpelauncher or setting up waydroid. Both require you to have purchased it via Google play.

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    How do we get "normies" to adopt the Fediverse?
  • Quite. Go to the big services that know how to moderate and maintain (and importantly pay for) a public square. But also encourage the interesting ones enable federation for wider coverage.

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    What made everyone move to Bluesky or Threads instead of Mastodon?
  • There are some advantages to algorithms for discovery - it's certainly is more user friendly. It's just a shame they tend to enshitify or become toxic. Bluesky seem to offer an API of sorts to plug in feeds you create. Perhaps open algorithms are more accountable?

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    Phone - Debian running in Qemu
  • QEMU is always going to focus on emulation fidelity first and there are few shortcuts. With floating point the differences aren't generally in the numbers but in how the NaNs and other edge cases are handled. If you want to execute FP heavy code you should be cross compiling anyway.

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    Phone - Debian running in Qemu
  • QEMU absolutely will use hardware floating point where it can but only when it will give the correct results. FEX and Box64 are user mode emulators which achieve their speed by avoiding emulation where they can buy thunking at API boundaries.

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    How Telegram's Founder Pavel Durov Became a Culture War Martyr
  • They won't directly support it because in their view the Google Play process is a more secure way of verifying they supplied the binaries than is possible of f-droid. If reproducible builds were possible maybe there could be some mechanism to verify a given binary is built from a given commit of the source tree.

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    arm64 / aarch64 compatibility
  • Pretty much. From v8.0 onwards all the extra features are indicated by id flags. Stuff that is relevant to kernel mode will generally be automatically handled by the kernel patching itself on booting up and in user space some libraries will select appropriately accelerated functions when the ISA extensions are probed. There are a bunch off advisory instructions encoded in the hint space that will be effectively NOPs on older hardware but will enhance execution if run on newer hardware.

    If you want to play with newer instructions have a look at QEMUs "max" CPU.

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    What are the biggest red flags when talking with a Trek "fan"?
  • I'm watching Voyager with my kids. Janeway is pretty bad ass given her position as the sole federation representative in the delta sector. We are however using a watchlist and skipping the filler episodes rather than going for the completionist approach.

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  • www.bbc.co.uk Hilary Cass: Weak evidence letting down children in gender care

    A landmark report says "toxicity" of debate is hampering medical research into gender services.

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

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    Are there any good recommendations for water control valves? I want to control a automatic watering system and need something to attach to the garden tap. Open firmware would be a bonus.

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    vgel.me How to make LLMs go fast

    Blog about linguistics, programming, and my projects

    I found this post interesting for my layman's understanding of LLMs and some of the underlying architecture choices that are made.

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    www.bennee.com A Systems Programmer's Perspectives on Generative AI

    Alex discusses his experience playing with the current crop of large language models and muses on the power of processors multiplying lots of numbers together.

    I wrote this as a layman's primer to the basics of LLMs and other generative AI. I'm still early on in my journey but hopefully it helps explain things to other newcomers even if it glosses over the details.

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    https:// traffic.megaphone.fm /GLT8781805084.mp3

    They covered a number of topics but for me the most terrifying was the examples of deep fakery that had already been used in elections.

    I wanted to ask the community if they had had any experience with deep fake media online? If so did you notice or did your need to be told it was? How much effort do you take to verify things you see online?

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