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matthewmacleod

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Director of Robotics at Ocean Infinity - building the future of autonomous marine platforms. matt@matt-m.co.uk / https://matt-m.co.uk / https://oceaninfinity.com
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matthewmacleod··on Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)
It is not at all infeasible. Many cities do this successfully.
matthewmacleod··on I dumped Apple’s word list
This is an opt-in feature that implements content restrictions (for e.g. parental control).
matthewmacleod··on Cloudflare Quick Tunnels
No, it’s not. It handles the keys, provisioning, DNS, NAT traversal, and a bunch of other stuff. WireGuard is a great technology - Tailscale is like a usability layer on top of it.
matthewmacleod··on German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol
Zenoh (https://zenoh.io/) is a good alternative to DDS in many cases - it scales down to microcontrollers with most features still intact, but scales up to a routed hybrid mesh if needed.

It does move the schema enforcement out of the middleware layer, so it’s a bit different. But it’s now a first-class alternative middleware implementation for ROS2 as an alternative to DDS.

matthewmacleod··on The Dutch are filling gas wells with cement
Well, it's not like the idea of the UK being a "major producer of oil and gas" is a feasible long-term strategy anyway.
matthewmacleod··on New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study
So in other words… it’s not a solved problem. What point are you trying to make?
matthewmacleod··on New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study
Any solution to a public health problem that involves moralising about how groups should change their behaviour is not only doomed, it’s actively counterproductive.

And doxycycline is a PEP treatment, not a PrEP treatment; respectfully you should probably take a step back from conversations where you obviously aren’t informed about the basics.

matthewmacleod··on New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study
Is someone irresponsible enough to pursue causal, unprotected sex with random partners also likely to be responsible enough to visit a doctor proactively and comply with a prep regimen?

Anecdotally, very much so - at least among the gay/MSM community.

The thing is, people generally quite like having sex. That comes with some level of risk, which can be mitigated in various different ways - and PrEP is one of those tools.

All humans engage in some level of risky behaviour; evidence suggests that moralising about “responsible behaviour” or “self control” is rarely effective at mitigating that risk.

matthewmacleod··on New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study
The evidence I’m aware of suggests that this method (on-demand or event-based PrEP) is broadly as effective as daily PrEP (though it’s not suitable for vaginal sex). I believe adherence rates are generally lower though, as people can find the instructions confusing, and it’s obviously easier to mis-dose than a daily regimen.
matthewmacleod··on LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
That was exactly the point OP was making.
matthewmacleod··on Mac gaming is finally getting the overpowered upgrade it deserves
Isn’t the point that significantly reducing the effort required changes the “is it worth it” equation?
matthewmacleod··on Count Binface
Nigel Farage is (was) the MP (Member of Parliament) for the Clacton area. He is currently under investigation by the parliament's standards watchdog after reports that he failed to declare some donations and benefits.

If he’s found to have broken the rules, it’s possible he’d be suspended from parliament and subject to a recall election. However, he has resigned from this position himself instead, which means there will be a by-election for that seat.

It’s widely perceived that he has done this to distract from the investigation, with the view being that if he runs, then wins, a parliamentary suspension looks like a coordinated attack on someone who has just proven he has local support.

The major UK parties have decided not to field candidates in this election, claiming it is a distraction tactic and a waste of resources. This will leave Farage campaigning head-to-head with a man dressed as a bin, neutering any claims that this is a “real” election win (as well as generating plenty of entertaining news footage over the next few weeks).

matthewmacleod··on Federal agents track down woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE
I don't think this is actually your view, though. I can't imagine that you think harassment or violent threats are things that should have no repercussions.
matthewmacleod··on Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter
But this is a Pi Pico, which is a microcontroller and not a Linux system.
matthewmacleod··on Claude Fable 5
Why did you choose to lie about this today? I'm genuinely interesting – this is trivially obviously not true, so what motivated this?
matthewmacleod··on Claude Fable 5
In the UK you get thrown in prison for making a slightly unfriendly tweet. Freedom of speech simply does not exist.

"These days if you say you're English you'll be arrested and you'll be thrown in jail."

It's just not true. Where are you getting this nonsense from?

matthewmacleod··on GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS
This isn't true – why did you come here and choose to lie about this?
matthewmacleod··on GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS
To quote – I don't know how to explain to you that you should care about other people.
matthewmacleod··on GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS
This is not true – the police cannot "simply ask anyone for their passwords", and your oversimplification has resulted in this becoming a lie. I would really strongly recommend that you educate yourself first – by doing this, you contribute to the misinformation that is currently making much of the world an unpleasant place to be.
matthewmacleod··on Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots
There is plenty of money to be made selling home layouts to police

Is there?

matthewmacleod··on New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
No, you were merely wrong.
matthewmacleod··on Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
Apple's obsession over reinventing the wheel with Metal

Bold of them to reinvent something that hadn't been invented yet.

matthewmacleod··on NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers
The other, very often just ‘pink,’ is predominantly a light red. A quick and sloppy way to describe this is a light grey with a raised red component.

While that’s true, it’s also still not monochromatic in the electromagnetic sense.

matthewmacleod··on EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime
I'm afraid you didn't read my message – this is to be expected, since you've clearly decided on your opinion in advance.

But it's really simple:

- The "let's leave the EU" side won in the UK, no question - The UK entered a period where it struggled to figure out what "Get Brexit done" meant - Eventually they figured that out, it was pretty much the shape that was expected, and did it.

What you have described as "threats" are clearly examples of what you would expect the impact of leaving an integrated union would be. That includes negotiating the terms of the departure, and the EU was obviously in the interests of the EU.

I'm honestly just baffled that you think otherwise. The UK chose to leave the EU – fine. The EU acted to protect its interests in that exit – also fine. Weird to get so threatened by things that turned out to be obviously true.

matthewmacleod··on UK total wind generation record beaten today
Poor research then, as end user prices are unfortunately not correlated with the cost of renewables.
matthewmacleod··on EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime
The EU made UK elections into single-issue ones? Obviously that didn't happen.

I think you're just projecting, to be honest. The "leave the EU" side won; unexpectedly, with no clear vision of what that involved. And then the UK's internal inability to agree resulted in a tumultuous period of internal politics, the result of which is pretty much the outcome we'd've all expected.

Time to get over it, I think.

matthewmacleod··on EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime
This didn’t happen. I know you have a fantasy it will be hard to disabuse you of, but that was an issue all of the UK’s own making.
matthewmacleod··on EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime
Of course leaving the EU is hard. Membership has a significant effect on regulation and governance. The fact that something is hard also doesn’t mean you aren’t free to do it.

It being “fought” or countries being “penalised” is a matter of opinion but not one I share.

matthewmacleod··on EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime
That obviously makes no sense. A club isn’t a sovereign entity just because it has rules. Hungary is free to leave the EU and set a border policy that conflict with EU law if it wishes - but if it wants to remain part of that organisation, particularly one that has open borders thorough The Schengen area, then of course it needs to follow the rules.
matthewmacleod··on Banned in California
It isn't even information – it's noise.

I'm actually quite surprised by the number of people who have fallen for this. There aren't even any concrete claims here – just the vague assertion that some things are "impossible".

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