thehatfox @ thehatfox @lemmy.world

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I think it’s about more than just the conflict in Ukraine, would could itself become a wider European conflict. There’s also spiralling conflict in the Middle East, the situation with Taiwan, and potential wars brewing elsewhere in Africa, Asia, and South America. That’s before considering the longer term conflicts that could be triggered by climate change.

We’ve been living through a period of relative stability, but now the world is swinging towards instability and perhaps we really aren’t prepared for it. Post Cold War politics have seen the military as something that could be cut back on. Maybe we should reconsider that, and before we have to consider ideas like national conscription.

I also have an oil boiler, and a tank in the garden. The tank was fitting with an Apollo Ultrasonic oil level sensor, which sends a signal to base station with a very basic LCD display in the house via 433Mhz radio.

I use an RTL-SDR USB radio dongle, a cheap 433MHz antenna and the rtl_433 software to monitor the signals from the ultrasonic sensor, which transits roughly once an hour. The level measurement transmitted is a fairly accurate centimetre value (I compared it with manual measurements with a dip stick for a few months).

The base station only showed a vague level indication with 10 bars, but now I have more a more precise smart display of the tank level, without any extra modification to the tank system.

I have a similar setup but with an ultrasonic sensor instead of a float sensor. rtl_433 had support for the sensor, and I could get a good signal reception with an RTL-SDR and cheap 433MHz antenna. I can even pick up signals from a neighbours tank that is some distance away.

That's one of the big problems with maths teaching in the UK, it's almost actively hostile to giving any sort of context.

When a subject is reduced to a chore done for its own sake it's no wonder most students don't develop a passion or interest in it.

Or the lack of good public transport.

There are towns in my area I would visit more if there was a reliable bus or train line that hadn't been axed.

Clothing is a common one, people like to see, feel and try on clothes in person. Ordering online then having to handle loads of returns can be a faff for some.

But what if you are privacy conscious and poor?

Once I had devices that replaced entities with new ones with a different ID after a firmware update. It happened to some ESPHome devices I had after upgrading the firmware. Have you checked the device the entity belongs to?

Printing a Roman dodecahedron seems like an interesting torture test for a 3D printer, plenty of overhangs.

My theory is that they had no practical purpose, they were just a trendy knickknack that eventually fell out of fashion. A Roman equivalent of a fidget spinner or something.

In a few thousand years whatever has become of humanity will be digging up fidget spinners and wondering about them in the same way we do with dodecahedrons. It's not as if anyone will have been preserving fidget spinner media for millennia to explain them.

No reason we can't do both. Dog owners should have to hold more legal responsibility for their dogs (and the same for all animal keepers really), especially when they cause actual harm. Banning breeds bred specifically for aggression is also sensible when they are identified.

It's just sadism at this point.

The powers that be seem to have no interest in actually policing the borders, but are always eager to inflict more needles cruelty on those who cross them.

Those voters who would shift to the Conservatives with age did so because they had accumulate assets that they would want to protect. Fewer and fewer people are getting the chance to accumulate such assets now, so there would be no reason for their politics to shift.

I agree the governance of the UK is in need of reform, and I would say voting reform would be the place to start.

Creating the website is more or less a solved problem, but they have to keep coming up with new ways to exploit the website's visitors for profit. The demand for infinite growth is never satiated.

eBay’s revenue in the last financial year was over $10 billion, I’m sure that $3 million fine will make sure they never terrorise innocents again.

The amount of smoke and mirrors in this project is insane, and there is probably more that was yet to come out of the woodwork.

I doubt any of the decision makes will face really consequences though, those are only for the little people.

My ancient washing machine already has a notification system, no smart features needed. When it’s making an awful noise it’s still washing, when I can hear myself think again it’s finished.

The energy induced cost of living crisis is not helping, but many people would be able to better endure it if they lived in more energy efficient housing that was properly maintained and insulated. Which doesn't happen when so much housing stock is controlled by rent seeking private landlords.

The country has failed to ensure adequate investment in housing and is now reaping the results of that.

Making the rules tougher doesn't help when there is little to no ability to enforce them. Unless there is going to be a lot more resources made for housing inspection this will go nowhere.

Seeing Andy Burnham simping of landlords doesn't fill me with much hope this will improve post election either.

Yeah there were some wacky keyboard shortcut buttons in the 90s, particularly during the dot com bubble. Perhaps we could bring back the pizza key!