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jocanib

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  • Adding insulation to an old house.

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  • Cork insulation would usually be skimmed over with plaster. You could have a look at insulatiing plaster too, but I think that needs to be thicker than cork to work well. Less munchable by critters though.

    In an old building, you need to use breathable insulation, breathable plaster, and breathable paint (and breathable mortar, if you're repointing the outside). The moisture needs an escape route.

  • ‘It is a time of witch hunts in Israel’: teacher held in solitary confinement for posting concern about Gaza deaths

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  • Jewish fascism, not Nazism.

    Nazism is, in part, defined by its anti-semitism and, while many of Israel's supporters are anti-semitic (notably Christian Zionists but also those who insist that 'real' Jews support Israel regardless) it's just not appropriate to identify Nazism as the form of fascism practiced by Israel. It is authoritarian and supremacist but it is not specifically Nazi.

    Ur-Fascism is a good read.

  • This startup is bringing a 'voice frequency absorber' to CES 2024 | TechCrunch

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  • Executives likely to use such a device aren’t using public transit.

    Yes they are. Probably not in the country that calls it transit, mind. And lots of people would like to be able to have more private conversations in public, whether or not they're travelling at the time.

    Plus, I've seen a lot of threads over the years from gamers, or the people who have to live with them, looking for something exactly like this.

  • Adopting rightwing policies ‘does not help centre-left win votes’

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  • What are some things that windows can't do, but Linux can?

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  • Install HP Smart without permission.

    I checked when I saw this story a few days ago, and there it was. I uninstalled it. Today it asked for permission to install itself again. I suppose at least this time it asked and could be refused.

  • Feds charge eBay over employees who sent live spiders and cockroaches to couple; company to pay $3M

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  • Stochastic terrorism is spreading hatred and fear that is likely to make someone, somewhere, commit a violent act against the targets (or individuals within the targeted demographic). In this case, specific eBay employees were told to target this specific couple to shut them up. I don't know how precise the instructions were but the targets, and the people told to target them, were not random.

  • Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whistleblower

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  • The fact that there was invisibilised third party access to the accounts used as the basis for prosecutions is important in and of itself. But I'm not seeing much about the underlying reasons for it.

    Fujitsu knew that Horizon didn't work properly before it was rolled out to the Post Office. They were told by their own engineers that parts of it had to be rewitten because they were so shoddy. They chose, instead, to have a team of people correcting errors in the background, without disclosing this to subpostmasters or, apparently, the Post Office.

    The concern is not that Fujitsu's trouble-shooters might be deliberately falsifying accounts, there is no obvious motive for them to do so. But it does make it clear that the ramshackle system did not work properly, that Fujitsu knew that it did not work properly, and that the only errors which could be corrected were the ones that got picked up centrally, with the process for correcting them creating the potential for more human error.

    Fujitsu bosses knew about Post Office Horizon IT flaws, says insider

    There's an interesting report on the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance site also: Origins of a disaster (and long form version).

    It is well-documented that the Post Office’s Legacy Horizon was a reconfigured version of a disastrously flawed parent project, the Benefits Payment Card. The impression given by three Secretaries of State to a Parliamentary Select Committee in July 1999 was that, once the BPC was thought to be irredeemably faulty by autumn 1998, all efforts were then focused on the reconfiguration into the Horizon project as we know it. But their evidence was far from complete. In late 1998 the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, who had been warned of the system’s instability, was asked to decide the future of Horizon. The No.10 Policy Unit had advised on cancelling the BPC and the Law Officers had given a clear view on how the public sector might terminate the project. Blair’s steer, however, paid no heed.

    Many extremely well-paid heads need to roll.

  • eBay pays $3m fine in blogger harassment case

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  • Thank you! Surprised the report didn't mention that (I was too lazy to do a search).

  • Could Superman cook a batch of chilli so spicy that he couldn't eat it?

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  • If he were said to be omnipotent, this would be an interesting conundrum. But he isn't so it doesn't really work?

  • Starmer says he didn't know about Horizon cases - BBC News

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  • It does not matter whether he personally knew. The prosecutions were “so egregious as to make the prosecution of any of the “Horizon cases” an affront to the conscience of the court”.

    The CPS are responsible for the vast majority of prosecutions in this country and they brought at least three "egregious" Horizon cases. It raises into question how they proceed against other defendants, most of whom are not sympathetic, middle-class pillars of the community and have even less chance of fighting it that the subpostmasters did.

    Starmer headed up the CPS and he was responsible for prosecutorial conduct at the time. He cannot claim ignorance as a defence. He should be committing to finding out what the hell went wrong and making sure it can never happen again, to anybody.

  • eBay pays $3m fine in blogger harassment case

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  • The subhead misses out the worst stuff. How on earth?

    Criminal charges still in the works, I would hope.

  • Mouse secretly filmed tidying man’s shed every night

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  • "Secretly"

  • Antenna TV is pretty cool, actually

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  • Is this another thing that the rest of the world didn't know the US doesn't have?

  • School absences: The school picking kids up from home to boost attendance

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  • In primary school?

  • US national collegiate champion Jake Boykin killed in hit-and-run

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  • The drivers in these two cases were 60 and 23, respectively. I'm not sure why this rant fits here?

    Every driver was once a new driver. They all have to learn to drive on real roads. There's no way around that. The stickers are intended to encourage other cars to not harass them in situations they may already be finding stressful. They exist precisely because not-new drivers are often impatient and are prone to making the situation worse because of it. If the stickers raise your blood pressure, take a step back and give yourself a good talking to.

    Driver training should be better, of course. A compulsory 1000 miles by bicycle and another 2000 on a motorbike before being allowed behind the wheel would be the simplest place to start. Cyclists and motorcyclists make safer drivers.

  • Is Wealth University job application process a scam?

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  • I'm not sure it's ever legit for the job-hunter to be paying the recruiters. It would normally be the employer.

    A % commission doesn't give that much incentive to find you the very best job as opposed to the first one that will do. You're paying them a percentage but they're looking at the return per hour of work they put in. You'll come under a lot of pressure to accept the first job on offer simply because that job gives them the best return even if it is a smaller cash amount than the best job they could possibly find (if they put the time in).

    Their incentives do not align well with your incentives. So best avoided, IMO.

  • Trump edges out Biden 51-42 in head-to-head matchup: POLL

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  • I'm not telling you to lose hope. I'm asking people to avoid the same lazy complacency that handed Trump the presidency in 2016. Trump fans will vote. Dems have got to get the turnout to beat them.

  • The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon Over an Economy-Wide "Hidden Tax"

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  • Trump edges out Biden 51-42 in head-to-head matchup: POLL

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  • Your entire post is supporting complacency.

  • UK Politics @feddit.uk
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    The Crooked House: Fire rips through famed 'wonky' pub

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/uk-england-birmingham-66421163
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Letters from the lawyers: Musk threatens CCDH with brazen attempt to silence honest criticism. — Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH

    counterhate.com /blog/letters-from-the-lawyers-musk-threatens-ccdh-with-brazen-attempt-to-silence-honest-criticism/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media

    www.bbc.co.uk /rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Fewer than 20 Black women physicists in the U.S. have earned tenure. This scholar just joined the club.

    19thnews.org /2023/07/chanda-prescod-weinstein-physicist-tenure-rare-feat/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t

    erinkissane.com /mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Tesla’s Dieselgate

    pluralistic.net /2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Grandma refused bus ride suffered horror injuries

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/uk-england-tyne-66318718
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Police called on boy with autism and mum using toilet in anti-trans incident

    www.thepinknews.com /2023/07/27/cinemark-trans-toilet-police-called/
  • UK Politics @feddit.uk
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    School leaders frustrated by ‘squabble’ over Sunak’s promised transgender guidance

    www.theguardian.com /society/2023/jul/19/school-leaders-frustrated-by-squabble-over-sunaks-promised-transgender-guidance
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Why AI detectors think the US Constitution was written by AI

    arstechnica.com /information-technology/2023/07/why-ai-detectors-think-the-us-constitution-was-written-by-ai/
  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
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    The Crisis Over American Manhood Is Really Code for Something Else

    www.politico.com /news/magazine/2023/07/14/josh-hawley-masculinity-crisis-00105436
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    We have 2-3 months to compile a Threads block list

    www.timothychambers.net /2023/06/23/project-and-the.html
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/world-europe-66113460
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    If you'd like to draw some conclusions about ActivityPub from this, it should not be that a network should disallow supernodes ...

    cosocial.ca /@evan/110685705680608213
  • science @lemmy.world
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    Disinformation researchers under investigation: what’s happening and why

    www.nature.com /articles/d41586-023-02195-3
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Are there any plans for a Block Party type initiative (see link for details) to assist with moderating Threads (and others)?

    www.theverge.com /2021/10/14/22726988/block-party-availble-now-block-lists-subscription