It’s not really a bait and switch, I mentioned it here

Huh? Lost and confused sorry.

My mum had a phonecall with the energy company where they both agreed to what was happening. Then the company put her on a completely different plan.

you basically got caught signing up right in the middle of plan updates when prices are changing and it looks like the energy made easy website hasn’t been updated yet

They told my mum the new July 1 prices over the phone. Then they emailed her to tell her she was put on a completely different plan with completely different prices.

+/-1 least significant digit at a minimum.

“I’m sorry frog, but you might actually weigh 0”. Little buddy noooo

Adorable fella :)

His front legs look like how mine feel getting up in the morning. We’re here for you bud.

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Yeah Bruce we’re gonna need to double-check that boundary, put the totalstation over on that rock. Nah mate they can’t have the macadamia, that’s ours.

FWIW there are dozens of university ranking systems and every university says “look how well we rank in X!”. It’s been 10 years since I looked, but I think I recall some of them being funded by unis too.

Nonetheless I agree they’re doing stupid stuff that’s not in the interests of students, staff, the country, humanity and education in general. Alas it takes them many years to feel the bad effects of bad decisions.

pungent oder of RTV gasket maker

Just if you’re interested: there are a tonne of different silicone chemistries.

Single part curing (no mixing needed, cure when exposed to air):

• Acetoxy (emit acetic acid)
• Alkoxy (emit methanol)
• Acetone
• Ketoxime (don’t know if this one smells)

Two-part curing (you have to mix the two components, then it starts setting):

• Condensation cure (tin catalyst) cheaper
• Addition cure (platinum catalyst) basically better in every way but more expensive

Yes it looks like it’s adjusting the port length. (In plain english: some speaker boxes have an intentional hole in them, if you adjust the length of the pathway that sound takes to exit the box through this hole then you adjust how bassy it sounds).

To add a hollow cavity into the plastic part would immensely complicate the design of the moulds (assuming you try and implement the cavity in the same style & orientation of what gluing that bit of wood in achieves). The plastic shells of this speaker look like they’ve been designed for two-part moulds, which is the cheapest and simplest way of designing a mould. Any internal cavities of the part would require bits of steel mould to be in the cavity during injection, those pieces then have to be removed somehow and that would be a nightmare. Two part moulds can just be clamped & separated over and over again without snagging on anything.

For the walls of a speaker to reflect sound they need to have a density that is very different to the air inside the chamber. As it turns out basically anything fulfills this criteria, even cardboard makes fine speakers (just don’t get it wet or poke holes in it). Plastic vs MDF wouldn’t matter here acoustically, both are fine.

Bits of particle board can easily be cut and glued by unskilled workers. For business reasons the injection moulding might be getting done at a different place to the final assembly, and the product manager who wants the speakers properly ported might only be in charge of the latter. IDK.

glue applied likely by a machine

I suspect this would be all human assembly. They’ll probably have motorised torque-limited screwdrivers and jigs to hold the parts on during assembly, but still human arms doing the work.

In particular: stuffing the white polyester wadding in would be a PITA for an automated assembly machine. Humans are tolerant of variation and bits of wadding blowing away, pre-programmed movement robots are not.

Really, Penfold.

Thankyou border force for keeping this nuclear threat away from our shores. I hate to think what a growing market of periodic table and sample collectors could do to our great country.

The headline and text of this article were amended on 24 March 2025 after the Guardian was notified of a significant calculation error in the Queensland Conservation Council research. An earlier version said the dams that supply the proposed Callide and Tarong nuclear plants “could not access enough water” to cool them in the event of a meltdown; our article has been amended in line with the organisation’s revised analysis.

Source: bottom of amended article.

The 5.3V is from your computer, that’s not the fault of the USB UART.

3.2V is perfectly acceptable for a 3.3V rail.

The 3.9V is a bit weird. Can you post a photo of your USB UART board? Maybe the main chip has an inbuilt 3.3V regulator separate to the external one.

Stand back, I’m carrying a budgie smuggler.

I swear that I read that white lead oxide is water soluble, thus happily sticks to your fingers and then gets on your food. I must be misremembering.

Maybe it was something about the solid lead object turning into an (oxide) powder that can then be easily ported as tiny particles on greasy hands? Hearsay science and safety information from me today :)

The fun thing about Pb is it’s relatively safe in pure form. Unfortunately the oxides that appear on its surface are water soluble and love entering our bodies.

Just looked this up, apparently I’m completely wrong. Maybe I was thinking about lipid compatibility? Not sure now.

Welcome to security news theatre :(

I don’t think espressif would bother suing, these kind of misshapen claims get constantly made against popular projects all of the time. It’s just unusual to see so much coverage about this particular one.

Not so say that externally attackable vulnerabilities in an ESP32 don’t exist, they might. Bluetooth devices have an awful track record. But making them up doesn’t help the world.

I happily ran THUGPRO under wine, so I assume rethawed would be the same. Dunno.

Where am I even supposed to buy it if I wanted to, which I don’t really,

Looks like it’s abandonware. Yeah, publisher dropped the ball.

Bleepingcomputer’s title and article are very misleading, the presentation did NOT reveal a backdoor into an ESP32. It looks like Bleepingcomputer completely misunderstood what was presented (EDIT: and tarlogic isn’t helping with the first sentence on their site).

Instead the presentation was about using an ESP32 as a tool to attack other devices. Additionally they discovered some undocumented commands that you can send from the ESP32 processor to the ESP32 radio peripheral that let you take control of it and potentially send some extra forms of traffic that could be useful. They did NOT present anything about the ESP32 bluetooth radio being externally attackable.

Another perspective that might help: imagine you have a cheap bluetooth chipset that is open source and well documented. That would give you more than what the presentation just found. Would Bleepingcomputer then be reporting it’s a backdoor threatening millions of devices?

Changing virtual desktops works for me, no patches needed. I have to use it often because of how many games don’t understand multiple monitors.

Technically they have some differences, but the biggest from a user’s perspective is how they are delivered and by whom. Wine is manually installed by you from your distro’s package repo. Proton is provided by steam when you install a windows game on a Linux steam instance. If one breaks then you complain to the relevant party.