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easytigeron Ask HN: Effective way to deal with mosquitoes?

For rooms with closed windows this stuff has in my experience a 100% success rate. (they always manage to get in somehow). Spray the room an hour before bedtime and it eradicates them. Guess it's similar to that stuff they spray on airlines.

It is not a repellent but seems to actively kill them/render them unable to fly [Metofluthrin (Pyrethroid)]

https://www.peacefulsleepsa.co.za/products/in-room-solutions...

easytigeron Covid Contrarians Are Wrong About Sweden

The article proves its own headline untrue. And a weak attempt at historical revisionism

easytigeron The Online Safety Act for forum and blog owners

However, I think the UK government is just trying to protect people (children in particular) from what it considers harmful content.

I can't come close to agreeing. The same minister pushing this, who is by his own admission semi literate and can't understand very basic concepts, has basically no understanding of technology (or indeed expertise in any area), has made no secret of the fact this is about censoring online speech he personally does not like[1]. He is a paid up yes man deep in the pockets of companies selling low effort AI solutions to governments for the purposes of enforcing speech[2] who wants, all said and done, to shut down twitter/X because people express opinions there he doesn't like. This has almost literally nothing to do with the old fashioned pearl clutching "think of the children". So much so he's going around holding anyone with reasonable opposition to this bill for child sexual assault, future, past and present[3]. This is obvious overcompensatory zeal. And it is week one.

What he has not done is engage earnestly with legitimate concerns about privacy and the bill. And he never will.

[1] https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/labour-peter-ky... | https://archive.is/Snw7y

[2] https://news.starknakedbrief.co.uk/p/we-need-to-talk-about-s...

[3] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgery3eeqzxo

easytigeron The Online Safety Act for forum and blog owners

> This law sucks for so many reasons, and is inane, but the risk to micro-bloggers of £18M+ fines is, in reality, nil.

A little naivety methinks. You should say rather

... the risk to micro-bloggers of £18M+ fines is, in reality, nil. ...should the bloggers not publish opinions contrary to the state and its current objectives.

easytigeron Solar panels to be fitted on all new-build homes in England by 2027

Obviously not all homes are suitable for this. Not all people buying a home will want the maintenance burden, the insurance risk is higher. I have a massive solar array on a house in a very sunny country and even in winter there the cost benefit is limit. In most of England it's nearly pointless. This doesn't mandate battery storage, making it almost literally pointless.

easytigeron Once lush Sahara was home to a surprisingly unique group of humans

I'll have to listen to the podcast later but what's the predicate for the determination of their age?

easytigeron ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia protests, lawyer says

I would hope so

easytigeron ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia protests, lawyer says

The title does not say that

easytigeron ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia protests, lawyer says

Making statements in support of or in support of the actions of a proscribed terrorist group.

easytigeron NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov't expunge advice to “use Apple encryption”

I've no idea who we is.

For a start the vector is very different. And I don't doubt there are unknown other attacks. But I'm discussing attacks we know about because they put them in policy papers and legislation.

Absurd discussion

easytigeron NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov't expunge advice to "use Apple encryption"

I genuinely have no idea what you are talking about.

Is there a particular reason you don't want to discuss the EU working group which is what I posted in response to your comment.

I didn't even dive in to how your original comment doesn't make sense to me. How do you think the DSA would help or change anything regarding either.

easytigeron NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov't expunge advice to "use Apple encryption"

How is an exploration of broad spectrum legislative attacks on all forms of encryption regardless of hosting and corporate ownership and data communication moot?

easytigeron NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov't expunge advice to "use Apple encryption"

The EU and the EUC are not your friend when it comes to privacy

https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/high-level-group-...

easytigeron German civil activists win victory in election case against X

Which half truths?

Define public data.

Which researchers will have access? Who decides upon them and what is their specific objective? Can I have access to it for my research?

> commercial meddling

What do you mean by this? Who is meddling and with what?

The user of social media has a personal engagement with that company. I don't think a government should be involved in that relationship. Why do you think it should?

easytigeron German civil activists win victory in election case against X

Which researchers, and why do they have such a "right"?

easytigeron German civil activists win victory in election case against Musk's X

It's data the user has agreed to share with the company at agreement with their terms. The data is not public if it is not made public. If it was, they wouldn't need to compel them to hand it over.

Who are the researchers and what thesis are they exploring?

easytigeron German civil activists win victory in election case against X

So the people have a right to have access to other individuals personal data?

easytigeron NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive orders

It really shouldn't be easy for ideologues to spend other peoples money. There are entire parallel structures in government, academia and now in business not contributing one iota of effort towards whatever the directed goal of their organisations are principally for.

https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/dcl-social-behavio...

easytigeron Tesla Reported Zero Federal Income Tax on $2B of U.S. Income in 2024

> These titles don't exactly sound communist to me...

Then we have a very different understanding. And yes the post war heist that destroyed long term economic common sense all over the western world turned into a permanent ongoing shakedown

easytigeron Meta Goes Mask-Off

> For someone to enjoy expressing themself with custom themes doesn't mean that custom themes are what gives their life meaning.

The article laments their removal as a tragedy and a removal of agency from the aggrieved party. If someone is "expressing themselves" they are communicating to others the things they consider meaningful in their life beyond an aesthetic choice.

> think the primary underlying motivation tying these changes together is aligning with the incoming administration.

Why were such policies implemented in the first place?

easytigeron Meta Goes Mask-Off

The childish leverage over speech we have allowed to the people who think like this had to end. We cannot have a www if every comment on it has to be policed by the minority view. You cannot have a www if every comment on it by a user is a civil or criminal liability for the person running the webserver.

> “I know these examples are difficult to read — they sure are for me,”

Assumed victimhood is a cancer of modernity. And more cancerous is the benefit of that assumed victimhood to the people who make new people who encourage the adoption of niche identities learned from intersectional academia for their personal enrichment.

> One way Meta previously gave queer and nonbinary people a voice was to offer them custom themes for their Messenger chats.

If this gives your life meaning, you are worth ignoring.

Most people disagree with this deconstructivist view, therefore it is bad for business for a start. The enclosure of speech during the histrionics of covid NPIs was bad for society - a lot of which this policy is an admission of. People having an opinion on you coaching children to adopt gender roles so you can complain on the internet is bad for no one, except you.

easytigeron Cheating alleged after men's world conker champion found with steel chestnut

> I'm almost 50, and to me the image of boys playing conkers only comes from books or TV based in early 1900s UK. I've never actually seen anyone play it.

Extremely common for kids to play this at least into the mid 2000s where i'm from, i moved away so i don't know if they still do

easytigeron Show HN: SuperCraft – Turn industrial design sketches to 3D renders

I can't speak to it's utility, but a decent implementation of an idea that i suspect will have a lot of potential. The simplicity is the sales pitch here for me. Iterating within the UI by mere conversation.

edit: can you not iterate design off a "Prototype 2d" node? it seems typing the "enrich" box makes a new adjacent node - i'd expect to beable to iterate off a design infinitely by creating child nodes. I can freely arrange the designs so i can write my narrative that way. Maybe at least have the iterative prompt recorded?

edit 2: sharing doesn't work - the url gives an empty workspace

My design: https://supercraft.ai/public_board?boardId=66c7de41614fe5ecb...

easytigeron Why We Shut Down

> The world is complex, and doing good is difficult.

And for the most part interventions in Africa have caused cascading problems that ultimately lead to more human suffering. A complete failure to understand what and who Africa is.

Even Albert Schweitzer by the end had lost hope that it could survive at all without constant intervention.

easytigeron 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

Indeed, despite efforts to keep them there. There is a reason a passport was impossible (now just very difficult) to get. The place would be empty.

easytigeron 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

Go to Cuba, you'll see why that take is absolutely silly.

easytigeron CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

Survived this long without such convenience. anything worth protecting lives behind a firewall anyway

easytigeron CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

In most appreciations of risk around upgrades in environments with which i am familiar, changing config/static data etc counts as a systemic update and is controlled in the same way

easytigeron Nearly 2M metric tons of wild fish used to feed Norwegian farmed salmon annually

Then you clearly didn't read the comment i replied to

easytigeron CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

I wonder if the move to hybrid estates (virtual + on prem + issued laptops etc) is the cause. Having worked in only on prem highly secure businesses no patches would be rolled out intra week without a testing cycle on a variety of hardware.

I consider it genuinely insane to allow direct updated from vendors like this on large estates. If you are behind a corporate firewall there is also a limit to the impact of discovered security flaws and thus reduced urgency in their dissemination anyway.