thehatfox
@thehatfox@lemmy.world
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 2 days ago:
Quite a different result from what the polls were predicting.
- Comment on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office 1 week ago:
Well that’s something I thought I would never see.
- Comment on Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project 1 week ago:
BPAs have been shown to absorbed through the skin. Headphones are increasingly worn for long, continuous periods. Unlike other plastic objects which are handled for shorter periods.
I’m not entirely convinced of the danger myself (tinnitus seems a bigger worry for headphone use to me), but I thought it was a matter worthy of further discussion.
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- Comment on Passive RFIDs can now stream telemetry data from sensors 1 week ago:
Mostly Zigbee. Depending on the sensor, location and activity I’m getting between 6-18 months per battery, but I do have a lot of sensor, so there’s a regular churn of batteries.
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- Comment on Passive RFIDs can now stream telemetry data from sensors 1 week ago:
Having passive sensors for smart home use would save me lot of time and money changing batteries. Interesting to see where this goes.
- Comment on Why this school will ditch a shirt, tie and blazer from its uniform 1 week ago:
I didnt realise how rich some of my friends were until I went to their house. The uniform made us all equals in the classroom
Uniforms have never done that in my experience, because there are plenty of wealth signifiers outside of uniforms kids will still notice (pencil cases, bags, PE trainers, mobile phones etc), and even the uniforms themselves are not worn equally. The rich kids have clean uniforms that get regular replaced each term, the poor ones had dirty and ill fitting hand-me-downs.
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- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 3 weeks ago:
For a lot of people most of their content isn’t even 1080p. Plenty of people watching DVDs and many TV channels only broadcast in SD.
Display technology has long outpaced content delivery.
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- Comment on The most bizarre tech announced so far at CES 2026 1 month ago:
In a lot of cases “AI” is slapped on as marketing buzzword for anything with even a simple algorithm controlling it.
We got a new “AI” washing machine last month. As far as I can tell it the same as last years model just with some of the auto settings renamed to something AI.
- Comment on Thieves are starting to steal RAM now that it's as expensive as gold — a memory kit disappears in the snail mail at four in the morning with a bogus signature 2 months ago:
I remember there being a spate of robberies targeting memory chips in the 90s when prices were high then.
History repeating itself again I guess.
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- Comment on Cams, anyone? 3 months ago:
UniFi Protect now has limited ONVIF support allowing various 3rd party cameras to work with Protect.
UniFi cameras can have RTSP enabled also, but it requires UniFi Protect to enable the setting.
- Comment on Apparently homebox allows setting third-party label rendering through an HBOX_LABEL_MAKER_LABEL_SERVICE_URL env var 3 months ago:
What model of label printer is that?
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- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 3 months ago:
Oh look, yet another reason to use an ad blocker.
- Comment on Illustration from ‘Zen and the Art of the Macintosh - Discoveries on the Path to Computer Enlightenment’, Michael Green, 1988 4 months ago:
Neat.
Reminds me a bit of some of the work of artist Simon J Curd.
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- Comment on Keir Starmer says digital ID cards an ‘enormous opportunity’ for the UK 5 months ago:
An enormous opportunity for the state to surveil and control the populace that is.
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 5 months ago:
Many places have a “Challenge 30” policy or similar where they ask for ID if you look under 30.
If you still look youthful at 40 it’s possible to get ID’d.
- Comment on Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme 5 months ago:
I’ve heard rumours they are even going to call it the “Brit Card”.
Say no to Starmer Cards and the surveillance state.
- Comment on Keir Starmer expected to announce plans for digital ID cards 5 months ago:
Well, this will do nothing to hinder illegal migration. So the question is what do they want it for?
- Comment on 5 months ago:
An open source smart glasses platform would be a much better direction.
But that only provides security assurances for the wearer of the glasses. Anyone else interacting with them doesn’t know how they are configured, and what is being recorded and/or shared.