Interesting Links for 03-10-2020

[andrewducker]

Why Australia's offshore asylum processing was so awful

(tags:asylum australia OhForFucksSake )

Users of the Covid trace app on iOS in Scotland (and Northern Ireland) can get confusing notifications. This explains which ones to ignore.

(tags:pandemic iPhone apps OhForFucksSake )

First new deep coalmine in UK for 30 years gets go ahead

(tags:coal mining UK )

Inside the World's Most Popular Vibrator

(tags:technology orgasm )

Comments

Users of the Covid trace app on iOS in Scotland (and Northern Ireland) can get confusing notificatio

[jack]

Agh! Showing you of how many people you've been near at all is actually really useful[1] but that's a very unhelpful way to do it!

[1] Well, unless it's just "yes, all my household". Not sure if there's a way to avoid that.

Re: Users of the Covid trace app on iOS in Scotland (and Northern Ireland) can get confusing notific

[andrewducker]

Nope, because the app is entirely anonymous.

Re: Users of the Covid trace app on iOS in Scotland (and Northern Ireland) can get confusing notific

[jack]

But it still might be useful -- if it says "you have contacted two people today" and you're pretty sure one of them was your nesting partner, you know roughly how many other people.

[threemeninaboat]

....it's difficult to justify replacing my 20yo hitachi but CORDLESS.

[andrewducker]

I assume the battery life and power are both acceptable?

[threemeninaboat]

I'm sure they are fine!
3 hours would have been an issue 20 years ago, but I'm middle aged now, and tired.

Then I had to go make a post about all the things that still work around here after 20 years!

[andrewducker]

I'm totally inspiring!

Hitachi

[channelpenguin]

The review author doubts a crimped connection rather than solder on a vibrating device - but on boats, crimp connectors (ideally with a shrink wrap cover) is standardly recommended in preference to solder precisely because of the extra jolting and jerking a boat gets. Solder is thought to be more rigid and more brittle, therefore more likely to break. (Plus a crimp connection can be repaired without needing a soldering iron or the need to keep eveything so steady - e.g. in bumpy seas, but that would be a niche market for a vibrator!).

Re: Hitachi

[channelpenguin]

Oddly, the author does mention solder's brittleness in connection with the redesigned buttons. The Doxy has similar buttons - reassuringly still working fine after 6+ years.