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@ thehatfox @lemmy.world

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  • Sydney's car-brained candidate for Mayor

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  • The carbrained can’t see cycling as a form of transport, only as a type of exercise. In their minds people only cycle to cycle, not to fulfil other tasks. Only cars are for going places, like shopping.

  • OG dick pic

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  • With RFC 1149, this would still work now.

  • Yarr

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  • According to the internet, he did it at university, eating nothing but mince, chicken, and mayonnaise for about 2 months. He did so to annoy other students in his classes who were vegan or vegetarian.

    I’ve actually heard a few stories of uni students getting scurvy, although they were because they either didn’t know how to cook or couldn’t afford food.

  • Some basic info about USB

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  • The P and D symbol is the DisplayPort logo. I'm not sure when it was first used, but the DisplayPort standard itself is quite a bit older than USB Power Delivery.

    It's still confusing though regardless of which can lay the best claim to the letters P and D. I would have suggested Power Delivery could use some sort of lightning bolt symbol, but then I realised that would probably conflict with Thunderbolt, which also uses USB-C.

    It's almost as if having all these different features would be easier to differentiate if they had different physical shapes.

  • Term-time holiday fine rise won't stop us, say parents

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  • Having a holiday threshold sounds like a good idea. Allow a set amount of days and fine beyond that to discourage excessive absence.

    So long as it's not during exams or something I can't see the harm in allowing a 1-2 week holiday a year. It would be much fairer and more flexible for families, and less complicated than things like different areas having staggered term dates

  • Aqara joins Works with Home Assistant

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  • I haven't done any channel optimisation so far, I probably should do. I have the P version of the Sonoff Zigbee dongle, I haven't tried the E version.

    I've also been careful with picking router devices. I've tried to avoid router devices that have poor reported compatibility with Aqara. There is a page/thread somewhere online where people were compiling lists of devices that do or don't play nice with Aqara. IKEA devices apparently work very well with Aqara, I've been using their smart plugs wherever I can.

    My Zigbee network also improved a lot when I set up some IKEA plugs in the loft. My house also has thick walls, but it seems Zigbee signal can propagate more easily through ceilings/floors.

    Using quality brand batteries also seems to help a bit, at least from a battery life point of view.

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    Term-time holiday fine rise won't stop us, say parents

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/c5ykz4nr11no

  • Bots are running rampant. How do we stop them from ruining Lemmy?

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  • Creating a cost barrier to participation is possibly one of the better ways to deter bot activity.

    Charging money to register or even post on a platform is one method. There are administrative and ethical challenges to overcome though, especially for non-commercial platforms like Lemmy.

    CAPTCHA systems are another, which costs human labour to solve a puzzle before gaining access.

    There had been some attempts to use proof of work based systems to combat email spam in the past, which puts a computing resource cost in place. Crypto might have poisoned the well on that one though.

    All of these are still vulnerable to state level actors though, who have large pools of financial, human, and machine resources to spend on manipulation.

    Maybe instead the best way to protect communities from such attacks is just to remain small and insignificant enough to not attract attention in the first place.

  • Home Assistant 2024.9: Sections go BIG

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  • I'm happy to see untracked energy devices covered in the energy graphs. I'd been using a Grafana dashboard to display more detailed energy visualisations including consumption of untracked devices before.

  • Aqara joins Works with Home Assistant

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  • Still a win for Home Assistant to have a big brand like Aqara want to play ball at all.

    if they are supporting the current Matter/Thread devices hopefully they will do the same for future devices, especially (if and) when they start to deprecate their Zigbee devices.

  • Aqara joins Works with Home Assistant

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  • Aqara devices can be finicky with non-Aqara devices, especially router devices.

    I've personally also had much better results with Aqara devices since switching to Zigbee2MQTT and a Sonoff Zigbee stick, I had a lot more dropouts with ZHA and a Conbee II stick.

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    Home Assistant 2024.9: Sections go BIG

    www.home-assistant.io /blog/2024/09/04/release-20249/
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    Restrained and scared - the £100k schools failing vulnerable children

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/c4ge00wp9vgo

  • Used thinkpad ok for casual retro gaming?

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  • I have an X220 with an i5-2520M, I don't use it for gaming but I have briefly played Half-Life 2 with it and it was comfortably playable.

    So I would say mid-2000s titles and before will be fine. It really depends on the age the Thinkpad you want is, and the age of the games you want to play.

  • Fish and chips price rise tops UK takeaways

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  • It’s nearly the same for me, depending on what offers Dominos have that week.

    We tend to mostly get Chinese takeaways now because it comes out at almost the same price as fish and chips but with a lot more variety. Even just a portion of chips from the chippy is pricey now.

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    NHS referrals for anxiety in children more than double pre-Covid levels

    www.theguardian.com /society/article/2024/aug/27/nhs-referrals-for-anxiety-in-children-more-than-double-pre-covid-levels-england

  • Hundreds of Brits used website to look for ‘suicide partner’

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  • Reducing suicide is always approached as trying to block pathways to death, rather than by improving life.

    As always with this country it’s putting a plaster over the symptoms rather than addressing the cause.

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    Energy price cap: Typical household to pay £149 more a year from October

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/c9qgy11w5dyo

  • Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.

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  • This is the inevitable path for nearly all proprietary smart devices. There’s a handful of manufacturers that will see privacy as a marketable feature, but most won’t be able to resist the sweet taste of data.

    It’s a shame there are no “dumb” TVs left, except for expensive industrial options.

  • Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.

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  • Isolate the smart TV in restricted VLAN in your home network that can access your local media server but doesn’t allow internet access.

    Segmenting a home network like this is also a good idea for smart home/IoT devices.

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    Public rights of way applications backlog concerns campaigners

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/c1k3719g0p4o

  • Outrage as librarians reveal schools banning LGBT+ books after parents’ complaints

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  • Schools should not be giving in to bigots and banning books. The content of school libraries should have the same protections as the curriculum itself.

    Many of these bans seem very knee jerk also, if books are being removed after single complaints.

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    England prison overcrowding emergency measures come into force

    www.theguardian.com /society/article/2024/aug/19/england-prison-overcrowding-emergency-measures-come-into-force
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    More than 200 pharmacies closed in 2024 - and funding crisis could shutter more

    inews.co.uk /news/pharmacies-closed-2024-more-funding-crisis-3229199
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    Inflation set to rise back above 2% Bank of England target this week

    inews.co.uk /inews-lifestyle/money/inflation-rise-above-2-bank-england-target-3218019
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    Cannabis: Drug production booming in UK's empty high streets

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/c2x0x6ypgneo

  • Elon Musk shares fake news about England rioters being sent to Falklands

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  • Melon really has a bee in his bonnet about Britain at the moment.

  • Far-right disorder in England is at ‘turning point’ after arrests, say police

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  • The police response is does seem to be working, getting the key agitators off the streets and dissuading the hangers on.

    But I think the public reaction has also been important. The public at large have rejected the mob, showing them this is not the popular “uprising” they might have thought it was.

    I wonder how this period will shift political undercurrents in the longer term though, for better or worse.

  • Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now

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  • I don't remember much problem with the connectivity with SCART. I do remember wasting many hours dealing with cheaply made cables that didn't even wire all the pins however.

    Which come to think of it is now becoming an issue with USB-C cables. At least with SCART the connector could be easily opened for inspection, which became a habit of many an AV tech.

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    ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network

    www.theregister.com /2024/08/08/dot_internal_ratified/
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    ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network

    www.theregister.com /2024/08/08/dot_internal_ratified/
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    Home Assistant 2024.8: Beautiful badges!

    www.home-assistant.io /blog/2024/08/07/release-20248/
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    Royal Mint opens factory in south Wales to recover gold from e-waste

    www.theguardian.com /uk-news/article/2024/aug/07/royal-mint-opens-factory-in-south-wales-to-recover-gold-from-e-waste
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    Police officers injured in Plymouth and disorder in Belfast as violence spreads

    www.theguardian.com /uk-news/article/2024/aug/06/police-officers-injured-in-plymouth-and-disorder-in-belfast-as-violence-spreads
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    UK protests: No 10 to hold Cobra meeting over escalating violence

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/cpwddpzyxpzo
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    More than 100 arrested in London as violence flares after Southport stabbings

    www.theguardian.com /uk-news/article/2024/aug/01/southport-uk-stabbings-arrests-london-protests
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    5G mobile rollout faces delays across UK due to disputes over masts

    inews.co.uk /news/5g-mobile-rollout-delays-uk-mast-disputes-3197359
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    Rachel Reeves paves way for cuts and tax rises to fill shortfall left by Tories

    www.theguardian.com /society/article/2024/jul/28/rachel-reeves-to-set-out-plans-to-fill-the-shortfall-in-public-finances-left-by-tories
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    NHS and care regulator 'not fit for purpose'

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/cjk3p4jnnl6o