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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

When Boris (?) cut the Foreign office contribution to the world service I thought it was a terrible idea but good old Auntie kept it ticking. This cut compounds on those bad decisions when soft power is one of the few things we have in this world.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It used to be more common. Back in the 90s when I was working in an office we'd often head to the pub for Friday lunchtime and roll in later in the afternoon. Going along for a free lunch and a few beers with visiting sales reps was also pretty common.

I couldn't do it now - the thought of nursing a proto hangover before I've even got home seems insane in retrospect. God knows how much productivity used to be wasted due to work time tipples.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Fair.

Still enjoyed it more for not being a third act CGI slugfest.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 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?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 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?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 148 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 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.

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