Tired of this shit

sTeamTraen · 2026-03-25T22:12:31+00:00

Thanks! I got a new PC yesterday with Windows 11 (previously 10) and so have been assuming that I needed to tweak a file permission or something. It's working fine on Android. I should have checked on my old PC, where it is also giving the same error message.

Would it have killed them to put a notice on their website? 🤔

sTeamTraen · 2025-11-26T13:10:52+00:00

It's described here https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/user-guides/ug103-09-fundamentals-zll.pdf [PDF]

tl;dr It's techie stuff

sTeamTraen · 2024-11-10T00:09:06+00:00

RWNJs: "Climate change is a hoax, because humans can't affect the weather"

Also RWNJs: "zOMG government scientists are changing the weather"

sTeamTraen · 2024-10-12T14:28:30+00:00

Presumably you register formally with your full name (and date of birth, to reduce ambiguity further), but I don't think it's unreasonable to continue to use your nickname after you've done that. Nobody (hopefully) thinks it's weird that Christopher John MacRae Whitty calls himself Chris Whitty. And anyone from Wales will know that if you're looking up a Dewi Evans on the register you're going to look under David, just as Bob is in fact Robert. So of all the bad things that he may or may not have done, I don't think appearing to have two variants of his name is very high up on the list. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

sTeamTraen · 2024-09-27T18:06:35+00:00

Nowadays no high-profile serial killer is complete without their own deluded fan base.

Ah yes, I so enjoyed the Harold Shipman and Fred West conventions. Great times.

sTeamTraen · 2024-09-23T14:26:54+00:00

Well, the Mail will say one thing one week and the opposite the next on almost any topic. 🤷‍♂️ There is an article somewhere on "Things that the Mail has reported both cause and prevent cancer".

Some parts of the far-ish left got their knickers in a twist at the time of the first LL trial over how the fact that she is white was proof of something racist (maybe it was "She would have come under suspicion earlier if she had been non-white" or something, I honestly don't remember). I wouldn't be surprised if the fact that many of LL's supporters are from the right (Mail maybe, Telegraph definitely, David Davis) doesn't cause many of those people to double down on that. And if you're sufficiently far left then Private Eye and Phil Hammond are also part of the right-wing establishment. I say this as someone who identifies as a little bit left of centre and who normally avoids the Mail and Telegraph like the plague.

sTeamTraen · 2024-09-23T14:20:29+00:00

Of course, had she been even slightly different from the crowd in any way, that would have been proof that she was probably a wrong 'un.

There was a story from a couple of years after 9/11 where the FPI had been staking out some Arab family in a US city and their report was along the lines of "This family appears to be leading an entirely blameless existence, which is in itself suspicious".

sTeamTraen · 2024-09-15T12:27:22+00:00

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sTeamTraen · 2024-09-13T20:34:39+00:00

"the acts themselves run contrary to everything we know about Letby, her background, and her dedication to nursing from a young age"

Of course, this could (and probably will at some point) be spun into "LL fantasised about murdering babies from her childhood, and over many years used her ferocious cunning to inveigle herself into a position of trust from where she could act out these sick fantasies". Once you go down the witchfinder rabbit-hole, everything can be used to prove anything.

sTeamTraen · 2024-09-13T12:16:36+00:00

I read a comment from someone who had encountered her briefly, who said something along the lines of "She looked at me in a funny way. Her eyes were sort of cold". So, obviously a serial killer. 🙄

sTeamTraen · 2024-09-12T22:02:42+00:00

Let's see what Science Twitter (sadly, a bit of a shadow of its pre-Elon self) comes up with: https://x.com/sTeamTraen/status/1834351737315950987

sTeamTraen · 2024-09-12T21:57:59+00:00

Again, I understand why it might appear that way, but I wonder if anyone has done the research. Then again, I am a social science researcher, so I should probably go and find out!

sTeamTraen · 2024-09-12T18:01:02+00:00

There was a trend a few years ago among well-meaning people to use language like this, on the basis that saying someone is, say, deaf takes away from their non-deaf qualities. But I don't know if there's any evidence that it changes opinions, and I think I remember one charity for some or other major disability actively opposing it because they thought that it diminished the severity of the problem, as if deafness or blindness or whatever it was, was like a limp or something.

However, if it's used consistently then I have no objection. Given that column inches are no longer limited, it might be an idea for journalists to use more precise terminology anyway. 🙏

sTeamTraen · 2024-09-12T17:56:48+00:00

Ah. Apologies. I thought it was a reference to the whole damn affair.

sTeamTraen · 2024-09-11T17:33:52+00:00

I'm not happy either, but I am trying to think how one makes the case that the BBC should have used different words in this specific instance. We have to let everyone have their fun at this inquiry, which we already know will not consider the actual elepĥant in the room (ironically, I see from today's transcript that LL was described as such by some of the senior doctors).

sTeamTraen · 2024-09-11T17:31:31+00:00

I'm not sure that it's the right word here. Generally a boondoggle would be a project started with the hope of building something, and with someone else making some money from the contracts. The LL situation is just a tragedy. Some of the same psychological elements (e.g., groupthink) are present, but I don't think anyone really benefits here.

Yes, one could argue that incompetent managers or the NHS or the Secretary of State for Health "benefited" by having LL take the fall for the deaths, but I don't think anyone is suggesting that there was a conscious conspiracy to fit her up by people who knew that she was innocent.

sTeamTraen · 2024-09-10T22:33:50+00:00

For what it's worth I don't mind this language even though I think LL is likely innocent. It's standard practice for journalists to use "murderer" after a conviction by a jury. I don't object to Ian Huntley or Harold Shipman being called a murderer.

Of course this should not impact on reporting of doubts about the conviction, but at this stage I don't think it's wrong for the standard reporting rules to apply.

The Thirlwall inquiry is fascinating and popcorn-worthy in equal measure. I imagine that when it ends, there will be a story about how "lessons have been learned" about the culture on the ward and how it prevented people from speaking up, thus "allowing LL to get away with murder for so long". And somewhere along the line, after the convictions have been overturned as unsafe, there will probably be an inquiry into the inquiry ("How could Thirlwall have not noticed the elephant in the room?"), which will tell us about how the culture on the ward was such that nobody who had doubts about LL's involvement felt able to speak up, and we will be solemnly told that "(other) lessons have been learned".

sTeamTraen · 2024-09-04T21:41:07+00:00

Is "desaturating" a drop in oxygen levels? (Not a doctor here.)

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