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Hilary Cass: Weak evidence letting down children in gender care
  • From the foreword:

    "Throughout, the Review has focused on hearing a wide range of perspectives to better understand the challenges within the current system and aspirations for how these could be addressed. This report does not contain all that we have heard but summarises consistent themes, using direct quotes to illustrate points made, where appropriate."

    How heavily does she quote this group in the report? Because the report certainly doesn't recommend banning care for trans people.

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  • Buy games from indie developers on platforms like itch.io. You may have a negative view of the other people involved in funding and marketing a triple AAA game but they all contribute and get a share of the retail price. You don't get to pick and choose who deserves to get their slice.

  • Schools in England and Wales using ‘gender toolkit’ risk being sued by parents
  • Fine:

    https://metro.co.uk/2023/11/26/teacher-eloped-15-year-old-now-working-baker-19881223/amp/

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11390339/amp/RE-teacher-50-struck-leaving-wife-pupil-married-two-children-with.html

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/re-teacher-49-marries-ex-24590117.amp

    From the search page. But for a wider view of the times teachers have exerted undue influence over children in their care: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/jan/16/teachers-accused-relationship-pupils-five-years mentions 1000 teachers have been accused of undue influence over a five year period.

    I'm not saying the teachers in this case had any undue intentions (the court will be in a far better place to assess the facts than random internet commentators). However it should be clear that teachers can influence children to do something against the wishes of their parents, unless you posit in all these cases it was still somehow the parents fault.

  • What do you use Waydroid for?
  • This is the way 😉 although the Minecraft launcher is pretty good these days running under Waydroid is considerably less hacky as it's not having to thunk between android and Linux userspace.

  • Schools in England and Wales using ‘gender toolkit’ risk being sued by parents
  • You're reading a lot between the lines there. I would be concerned if I had a child with special needs whom I had discussed a plan with the school but they had just done something else anyway. Are you saying parents shouldn't be involved with discussions about their childs care? We can't know all the details here and jumping to conclusions about the parents motivation seems premature here.

  • FOSS Alternative to MakeMKV
  • Basically your only other option is to find the keys for each BluRay you own yourself. I did go through the hoops a while ago and wrote it up: https://www.bennee.com/~alex/blog/2011/04/18/playing-blu-ray-under-linux/#playing-blu-ray-under-linux

    However it's a pain sourcing the encryption keys you need for each disk. While I work hard to prefer FLOSS apps over their propriety equivalents in this case I'm happy to pay the small fee for a perpetual licence of MakeMKV.

  • Adult transgender clinics in England face inquiry into patient care
  • The lack of follow up and record keeping at Tavistock was shocking. I'm all for expanding the range of providers to tackle waiting lists but they have to bring a more professional approach to providing care and a more holistic view if the patients.

  • Kodi 21.0 "Omega" - Release
  • It works well enough with the rasbian OS derived from Debian. However pure Debian currently doesn't have all the user space components to take advantage of the video decoder needed to play things smoothly. Currently I have Bookworm installed on the system but I run Kodi out of a docker image: https://github.com/stsquad/dockerfiles/blob/master/distros/raspios-bullseye/Dockerfile

  • 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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    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.

    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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    FLOSS virtualization hacker, occasional brewer

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