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  • You can, they are called canals. Look at the Nile delta and the network of irrigation trenches used to spread water from the river to the wider areas. There are a number of dam projects in Africa which are all about managing water flows.

    The principle problem is when your divert water it's usually at a cost to another area that was using it.

  • Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service
  • It's certainly a bad idea to rely on conscripts to make up the bulk of your fighting force. It's not a totally bad idea to have a population of fighting age citizens have had some basic military training and know which way to hold a gun. Countries like Finland or Switzerland have a more realistic view of what they may need to do if things ever got bad on their eastern front.

    For the UK we'd have probably resorted to our nuclear deterrent before we consider putting conscripts on the front line.

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  • Usually it's one of those things you do when your move house. Every now and again they will send a form to confirm the entries are correct and if nothing has changed you just tick there box and send it back (or reply online). People who move a lot or bounce between two addresses (e.g. students) are usually the ones that drop through the cracks.

  • Why FOSS projects are using proprietary, privacy invasive infrastructure?
  • Self hosting takes time and energy and most open source developers join projects because they are interested in the project not becoming admins. On top of that building a CI system is an expensive undertaking when a lot of hosting solutions provide a fair amount of compute for free to qualifying projects.

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  • It's a web of trust. If the package maintainer is doing due diligence they should at least be aware how the upstream community runs. If it's a one person passion project then it's probably possible to give the changelog and diffstata once over because things don't change that fast. Otherwise they are relying on the upstream not shipping broken stuff.

  • British tech firm Raspberry Pi lines up £500m float
  • There are lots of SBCs out there but the difference really comes down to documentation and how upstreamable everything is. The Pi might not be perfect but it's a much more reliable design to build something with than many of the other options.

  • British tech firm Raspberry Pi lines up £500m float
  • They are both. There is a non profit foundation which funds the educational side and the main company which operates for a profit. I suspect the bulk of their revenue comes from the industrial side of things where the Pi makes a much better base than a lot of the half assed hacked together SBC's out in the market.

    There have certainly been mis-steps asking the way but all in all I consider the Pi to be a British success story. I guess it remains to be seen how much of the valuation goes to the founders and employees and how much is invested into their next phase of growth.

  • Using Tailscale to access Home Assistant from everywhere
  • I tried all sorts of port forwarding tricks to get wireguard working on the VM that runs my HA instance to no avail. The trailscale solution works really well. The only real problem I had was magic DNS conflicts with DNS66 on my phone (which I use for ad blocking). In the end I just used a hardwired VPN IP for my HA connection.

  • Linux for Kids?
  • I just installed Ubuntu for my 11 year old and they could use it fine. Didn't bother with any parental controls on the device itself (although I can ssh in if needed) because the network deals with filtering at a DNS level.

  • NVIDIA Developer Opens Feature Pull Request For Open-Source NVK Driver
  • Slowly the hold outs are realising open source drivers are here to stay. I don't think propriety divers are ever going to go away but now you can have a fully open stack for all the main GPU stacks out there. I suspect more designs are insisting on open drivers and Nvidia doesn't want to be ruled out at the start.

  • Hilary Cass: Weak evidence letting down children in gender care
    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.

    Hilary Cass: Weak evidence letting down children in gender care

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

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    Controllable water valves?

    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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    How to make LLMs go fast
    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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    A Systems Programmer's Perspectives on Generative AI
    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.

    A Systems Programmer's Perspectives on Generative AI

    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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    The Rest Is Politics: 179 discussing the dangers of deep fakes.

    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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