stsquad
@stsquad@lemmy.ml
FLOSS virtualization hacker, occasional brewer
- Comment on Do reasonably priced non-Bluetooth headset exist? 1 day ago:
That depends on the codecs supported by the device. Even my cheap as headset brought in the last couple of years supports the high quality codecs these days.
- Comment on Russell Brand found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault 2 days ago:
Did his right wing grift drift align with getting dropped when the allegations first came out?
- Comment on No politik here 2 weeks ago:
So which of the 8 mentions of Zionism in the report is forcing it into the curriculum? Most of the instances are either surfacing comments from the consultation or exploring it’s definition for the purposes of the report. It even says:
Criticism of Zionism, advocacy for alternative models for resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict, or criticism of Israeli government policies may not, in themselves, be antisemitic.
although it does note there can be a cross over between anti-zionism being used as code for anti-Semitism. The closest I could find was:
Recommendation 12 The Department for Education, schools and colleges should address antisemitism through appropriate places in the curriculum, tutorial time and pastoral provision. To enable this: a. The Department for Education should ensure that citizenship education has sufficient opportunity to address contemporary antisemitism, alongside other forms of hatred and prejudice, within a coherent programme of learning. b. The Department for Education should ensure schools and colleges embed high-quality teaching on media literacy and online safety, helping learners to recognise and confront harmful online content, including antisemitism and conspiracy theories. c. Schools and colleges should make effective use of tutorial time, pastoral provision and wider learning opportunities to address contemporary antisemitism alongside other forms of hatred and prejudice. The Department for Education should develop, quality assure and publish practical resources and tools to support schools, colleges, academy trusts, college groups, and/or local authorities in addressing antisemitism and wider hatred and social cohesion issues. These resources should include guidance and materials to help all staff discuss controversial issues and respond to significant global events, particularly those relating to the Israel-Palestine conflict and contemporary antisemitism
which seems pretty reasonable to me given kids to the tools all sorts of prejudice when navigating a very contested information space.
- Comment on No politik here 2 weeks ago:
Are we gish-galloping to something else now? I guess I’ll bite - in what way are schools being forced to put Zionism in the curriculum. Do you have a source other than an out of context picture on someone’s Twitter post?
- Comment on No politik here 2 weeks ago:
So I actually did a reverse image search and found the picture if from a video promoting a UK-Ukrainian Schools Partnership to share the joy of reading across borders. It’s hardly indoctrination.
- Comment on No politik here 2 weeks ago:
Why do your think they are being indoctrinated into a particular ideology rather than for example celebrating the national day of some of their fellow students? What is the context of this picture?
- Comment on No politik here 2 weeks ago:
There is no evidence of students being brainwashed here - and certainly not enough in the image to confirm your supposition here.
Where I live we have a fair number of Ukrainian refuges in our town. A lot of them have been here so long they have even started putting down roots and starting businesses. As you might expect this has meant we have had several tranches of Ukrainian students coming through the school. Because we teach our kids empathy and understanding and we want to be welcoming we have school assemblies for some of their key national days, just like we celebrate other cultures and religious traditions. When we have Remembrance day in a few weeks I look forward to the local Ukrainian association laying down their wreath at the war memorial along with the numerous other local civic groupings who come together for the occasion. It’s called being welcoming and helping integration.
It’s certainly a far cry from mandating school books justifying agression which we actually have documented evidence of.
- Comment on No politik here 2 weeks ago:
Is that what you think is going on in the photo?
- Comment on No politik here 2 weeks ago:
Is that Lucy Powell? What’s the compliant? The education secretary has visited a school?
- Comment on No politik here 2 weeks ago:
Has anyone done the minimum like for example verify this is the banner image on their X account? I’m kinda surprised the education department is even on X.
- Comment on Andy Burnham launches campaign against ‘headphone dodgers’ on public transport 2 weeks ago:
May not be “important” but it sounds like it might be popular.
- Comment on GTA: Vice City's writing was "awful," Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says, but acting icon Ray Liotta "made it sound good" 3 weeks ago:
The main thing I remember from Vice City was the excellent sound track.
- Comment on Fandom won’t allow adblockers 3 weeks ago:
Nice, although I’m slightly suss about the extension wanting access to my Google data.
- Comment on Palestine Action arrests make up 94% of all UK terrorism arrests, Home Office data shows 4 weeks ago:
Yep they are being arrested for supporting a proscribed organisation. They know what they are doing - it’s not like they accidently used that particular form of words.
- Comment on Are fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field during geomagnetic storms actually enough to cause stress on our cells and bodies, or am I encountering junk science? 4 weeks ago:
Not completely safe, you do for example have to take care there are no chunks of metal in you or attached to you.
- Comment on Palestine Action crowdfunder for UK supreme court challenge blocked due to US sanctions 5 weeks ago:
There are other groups protesting genocide that aren’t Palestine Action.
- Comment on Name me country which has better food than England 5 weeks ago:
It’s a nod to history and the speaker who had to defy the king.
- Comment on Article - How RAF Fairford 'bomb plot' narrative fell apart as US and UK made competing claims 5 weeks ago:
I think the first mistake was to think the Orange Man said anything worth listening too. The default assumption should be he’s lying unless there is corroborating evidence.
- Comment on Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in UK 5 weeks ago:
Not dynamic, but an EV rate so I get the overnight rate and a daytime rate and I also hand control of the car charger to my provider. It will usually charge overnight but if energy is cheap on the network at other times it will trigger the charge and my entire consumption during that time will be at the night rate.
There are also incentives to save energy at particular times, cut your usage below normal levels at high demand times and get “free” energy at other times in return. It helps the provider balance the grid with their wholesale input deals.
- Comment on Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in UK 5 weeks ago:
No public charging stations go by the commercial rate. That is not too say you can’t get discounts based on high energy days. Using my domestic energy supplier charging tag i sometimes get a discount if the wind is blowing out the sunshine is strong.
It will still be more than my overnight domestic rate though (7p/kwH).
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season Finale With 18 New Photos From “Tomorrow’s Enterprise” 1 month ago:
I really didn’t mind them although I can see the density of them might grate considering the short run of episodes. It’s not like TOS had some very campy episodes.
I really looked forward to the comedy X-Files episodes but there was never more than one a season and that was an old school 26 episode run.
- Comment on Reform given record-breaking £72m by two crypto billionaires 1 month ago:
They are very well funded for an “upstart” “insurgent” party fighting the “establishment”.
- Comment on UK recognises 'ethnic cleansing' in West Bank, sanctions settlements and declares Israeli occupation illegal 1 month ago:
I suspect it’s because it’s legally harder to argue the Gaza incursion is in service of land expansion rather than “self defence”. Have settlers started moving into Gaza?
- Comment on What time is it? (Pebble Time 2 Demo) 2 months ago:
Nice to see old school demo sensibilities on a “modern” smart watch.
- Comment on Blow up fossil fuel infrastructure 2 months ago:
Plastics, waxes, solvents, synthetic fibres and even pharmaceuticals. There are second order products from cracking like hydrogen which are important for things like fertilizer but that is rather carbon intensive.
You can use organic oils for some of these. However organic oils are more complex so need to be broken down into simpler building blocks which all takes energy and processing. Of course you also need to grow oil bearing plants which also tend to require a lot of fertilizer.
- Comment on Blow up fossil fuel infrastructure 2 months ago:
My first year Chemistry dissertation was about this. Of all the useful things you can do with hydrocarbons burning them is the most wasteful.
- Comment on Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language? 2 months ago:
I don’t begrudge peoples difficulties with English. It has some positives like not needing gendered conjugation for objects and a fairly wide cultural exposure. However it freely steals words from other languages making it a bit of a mongrel. Also the spelling and pronunciation is entirely non-regular so the usual answer to people looking for rules to work these things out is “just know”.
- Comment on Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language? 2 months ago:
Thanks. Are they related? I don’t understand any Asian languages myself but I do recognise difference in for example the Korean symbols and Japanese ones. But Japanese and Chinese ideograms look very similar to my ignorant eyes.
- Comment on Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language? 3 months ago:
It’s super common if it’s any sort of open source project because the collaborators can be anywhere and English is a good baseline.
IIRC one of the big tasks when Star Office became Open Office (later Libre Office) was translating a bunch of the German comments to make the code more accessible.
I’m sure I’ve seen some majority french code bases as well. There are certainly academic hypervisors out of China which have comments in Chinese kanji.
- Comment on Why do Britain get to send three teams to the World Cup? 3 months ago:
They have their own flags, languages, laws and legislative assemblies.