The problem with all protest parties is it’s easy to oppose things but governing is about making hard choices. UKIP made progress in the polls until they got the Brexit they were after but haven’t exactly been able to point to the benefits since. We are seeing Reform suffer the same when they realise there aren’t piles of “woke” projects to DOGE away to fund local councils.

I’m sympathetic to the core Green mission but opposing the expansion of the grid we need to supply renewables is peek contraianism.

It’s not entirely unexpected, all the AI companies have been heavily subsidising inference to get customers.

I don’t use Codex but I’ve been experimenting with ECA and I can track my token API costs across Gemini and Anthropic. I’m mostly using Gemini and a heavy days usage would be £1.50 in API costs and I’m certainly not doing that every day. I have to wonder if these Codex users are conscious of how many tokens they are burning underneath or just YOLOing everything until the computer says no?

ECA allows you to mix and match models to sub-agents and I could certainly see me offloading some tasks like code exploration to a locally hosted models and saving the expensive reasoning tokens for planning.

I didn’t say that they were only protesting the ban. That is what they were arrested for through.

I’m not arguing about the designation, that’s up to the government. However the people that been arrested for holding up the signs knew exactly what they where doing and had been warned before their arrests. They were protesting the proscription of Palistine Action rather than generally supporting Palistine.

We will find out how it all plays out once the appeals process is completed.

They’ll arrest you for supporting Palestine Action which has been designated a terrorist group by the government. You wouldn’t be arrested for peacefully protesting and supporting the Palistinian cause.

I have a sneaking suspicion a lot of the posts there are just engagement bait anyway.

Especially useful on my TV’s anemic Sony browser when I’m trying to diagnose of my network is crapping out or the apps are just in a go slow.

So algorithms then?

LLMs have some interesting properties and certainly can do a good job sifting through large amounts of raw data. They are however a very brute force approach compared to say a network routing protocol. Sooner or later people will start to realise (again) that engineering is about trade offs and you need to work out what your constraints are and stop trying to solve every problem with massive amounts of multiplication.

I swear people have rose tinted glasses as to the state of the init system before the current generation of system management daemons.

If you really want to have Debian without systemd there is always Duvean but the Debian architects are free to choose the technologies that solve the very real system orchestration problems that exist.

Every now and again I go back to Facebook to see what my more distant friends are doing. I spend about 10 minutes trying to fiddle with my ublock filters trying to hide all the algorithmic content and then give up.

I have private chat groups for various circles of friends and that’s a lot more useful for sharing stuff. We’ll see if they will be persuaded to Signal when the ads start appearing.

I thought the whole “virgin” thing was an interpretation of the original Greek or Aramaic for “maid”, as in a young women of child rearing age.

Is that really the case? I work for a multi national FLOSS organisation but every additional country you want to hire from requires additional compliance overhead so in practice we generally hire from countries where we already have the legal setup to employee people.

How big an org is Signal?

Vampire Survivors is still my go-to as I only get a little time here and there and the 30min cap on a run fits nicely.

This horse with her fole I saw while walking the dogs yesterday.