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  • To what extent is this accurate?

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  • To some extent it is accurate. Only a finite amount of knowledge can be applied to a task and excess experience doesn't bring any additional benefit on its own.

  • What are some consumer electronics you probably shouldn't tinker with?

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  • The coating on the inside of the tube can behave like a Leyden jar caps can accumulate charge over time even without an obvious power source.

  • France's Ubisoft faces three day strike as unions protest over remote work decision.

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  • Some awful app needed to start the game that always needs a protracted update using administrator privileges every time I run it, (on top of Steam which does pretty much the same thing), doesn't really draw me back to their products either.

  • Ship packed with explosive Russian fertiliser floating off Kent

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  • why isn't it ok? why????

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  • USB-C is an absolute shit-show. Half a dozen types of identical looking cables all with different performance and compatability. They can be power only, USB-2 only, USB 3, 3.1, 5gb, 10gb. Some can carry 5A, others only 3A. Some may support thunderbolt. Cable sellers and manufacturers can/will claim anything.

    For people selling USB-C devices it's a massive support problem. It looks like the device is defective, but someone may just have swapped out the cable for their phone charger cable and there's no way of telling.

  • What web browser extensions would you highly recommend to others?

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  • For Firefox: uBlock origin (of course)

    Privacy Badger - controls which sites are allowed to use cookies

    Mind the time - tracks time spent on various Web sites

    Video DownloadHelper - detects media and allows you to download and transcode it.

    Bitwarden - password manager

  • Reform UK under pressure to prove all its candidates were real people

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  • Electoral law should at least demand the same levels of identification for the candidates as it does for the voters. Candidates should be on the electoral register (somewhere) and they should've presented one of the recognised forms of photo ID.

  • MAGA pastor says Ten Commandments in schools will stop teachers from "raping" kids

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  • I had an extremely religious teacher in secondary school. He had a habit of threatening other staff, tradesmen, drivers in front of his pupils with "I know taekwando", then relising what he'd just done and repenting/distracting with "let us pray". One morning we came into the classroom to find him in a huddle with his union rep. Turned out he'd spent the night in jail after being arrested affray (fighting).

    For almost all religious people their faith provides guidance and comfort, but you don't want to encourage the nuts.

  • Confound you, WSUS!

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  • It might be that the default for Windows is to sleep rather than do a full shutdown. Whenever Linux looks at a Windows partition it looks corrupted. When windows starts up again it's inconsistent as some of the data was in the sleep image.

  • What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?

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  • Car engine injector cleaner and almost any add-it-yourself fuel additive.

  • Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city, is being forced to dim lights and cut sanitation services due to bankruptcy

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  • I don't know how valid this is, but I heard county and district councils use government bonds to secure more favourable loan terms. When Liz Truss upset the UK bond market the cost of borrowing rose as the value of their bond assets dropped. The county council where I live is now spending as much on servicing debt as it is on fixing roads. (Roads, although not the most important responsibility of local government, are a visible indicator of their capability.)

  • Denmark recalls South Korean Samyang noodles for being too spicy - CNA

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  • I've given the 3x noodles a go. Although banning them seems ridiculous, in the words of Big Clive, "why do they even say chicken" https://youtu.be/FH5vp-VyZFU "So spicy they're banned in Denmark" would look good on the packet though.

  • A year after Titan sub implosion, an Ohio billionaire says he wants to make his own voyage to Titanic wreckage

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  • This billionaire, rather than trying to wing-it and design his own submarine, is enlisting the services of a company that has already designed, built, and used a number of record setting deep-sea manned submarines.

  • Falklands dispute may last decades - Argentina president

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  • This seems like a playbook answer to a question about a subject that's of little immediate importance to his administration, but of some importance to a minority in both Argentina and Britain. Basically saying to his electorate "we haven't forgotten" and to Britain "we're not going to do anything".

  • AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing | Ars Technica

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  • AM radio costs nothing to implement, that's not why it's absent from me cars. Many modern cars use some form of brushless motor in the power train. The inverters for these motors work at a frequency that interferes with AM radio reception at close range. Manufacturers can add it back to cars (probably by an over the air software update as many radios are SDR), but it'll just pick up whistling when the car's moving.

  • YouTube's anti-adblock rollout has finally arrived for Firefox users

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  • I wonder what made youTube decide to fix this loophole? These days the vast majority of people use phone apps or smart TVs to watch. The number of people using Firefox plus ad blockers must be quite small and it'll be a constant effort to keep updating their anti ad block algorithms.

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