FLOSS virtualization hacker, occasional brewer

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  • Isn’t there already such a requirement? Last time I moved job I had to bring in my passport for HR’s records.

    I haven’t had a chance to review the current ID proposals and reports of it being a government “app” don’t inspire confidence. However the idea of a single digital proof of ID when it is required for interacting with government services isn’t the worst idea in the world. If it turned into a requirement for day to day life that in my mind would be unacceptable.







  • I helped with the initial Aarch64 emulation support for qemu as well as working with others to make multi-threaded system emulation a thing. I maintain a number of subsystems but perhaps the biggest impact was implementing the cross compilation support that enabled the TCG testing to be run by anyone including eventually the CI system. This is greatly helped by being a paid gig for the last 12 years.

    I’ve done a fair bit of other stuff over my many decades of using FLOSS including maintain a couple of moderately popular Emacs packages. I’ve got drive by patches in loads of projects as I like to fix things up as I go.






  • I think that’s rather reductive. There is plenty of corruption under authoritarian regimes and no recourse to the courts for the average citizen. Corruption is nominally illegal under most Western systems although economics does favour those with the money for their legal defense.

    It’s an interesting thesis if a planned economy would work better with today’s month information systems but even the Chinese have seen the benefit in letting private capital just get on with it.