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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

“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?

Not just that - modern Androids compile apps in a VM these days to reduce the attack surface of the compiler. You can also push other services into VMs that support the main image. You could even push some vendor drivers into VMs and help keep the main kernel less of a vendor fork fest.

I think there is certainly a case for baring MPs from consultancy gigs where they are effectively being paid for influence. It gets trickier with some professions needing a certain number of hours to “stay current”. Who’s going to take a worse paid job which guarantees they can’t return to their old career if they lose the next election?

I’d prefer paying MPs and ministers more but with the same sort of anti corruption approaches they have in Singapore. Get paid well for an important job but get the book thrown at you if you do anything dodgy. I’d quite like to see professional ministers as well so MPs can concentrate on being MPs but I appreciate that would need some changes to the way parliament work.

A lot of the Emacs language modes have been replaced with tree-sitter equivalents now.

How many un-federated free speech micro-blogging sites can the market support? I’m surprised Truth Social is still going now Twitter will let anyone pay these days. Are Parler and Gab even profitable?

It’s not either/or - a lot of actors take training for action roles seriously and they work closely with the stunt team to get the best coverage possible.

I migrated away from the mobile app to PipePipe just to avoid shorts and I pay for premium.

Sure I don’t want ads pumped into my feed but some corporations can do social media well. I used to follow Yorkshire Tea on twitter who were generally pretty funny, I don’t drink even drink their teas.

FLOSS projects can only be sustainable if their are enough shared interests able to support it through contributions of all kinds. Fortunately the code is free so that constellation of support can change over time. It’s a shame this particular line of government funding is coming to an end but others can help.

I went into it not expecting anything great but I laughed several times. More importantly the kids loved it.

Android gets a leg up from being built on a FLOSS base but I don’t think it was the community that pushed Android to where it is today. That’s taken a lot of money and resources from Google and it’s phone partners investing in the slightly more open platform than Apple.

That’s not really true. Yes avoiding complex instructions makes the front end easier to pipeline but there are lots of smarts in the backend to do prediction and scheduling to keep the execution units fed. The ISA might be free to use but no one is sharing their highly optimised server silicon architecture designs.

RISC-V’s challenge is can they standardise the software ecosystem enough that things just work across a multitude of chip providers or does everything devolve into specialist distributions taking advantage of each manufacturers “special sauce” custom instructions.

Gaining design wins over Arm’s microcontrollers for bespoke hardware was the easy bit. Replacing stuff in the server space is much harder and something that took Arm decades to make inroads into.