• Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I don’t know, sounds like the voices won that round. You couldn’t even find them, how are you taking that as a win?

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      I… don’t think that’s insulation…

      It’s a really shit grainy picture but I’m pretty sure that’s a massive bee or wasp hive…

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        Pretty sure that’s just old insulation. Ripping the wallboard off would have torn open the nest and we’d be seeing a lot of angry or dead insects in this image. Too many straight edges where batting strips are fitted.

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    A listening device would need electricity and probably an antenna. Could be easy to use one wire for both. Clearly the light switch is the most obvious suspect. Maybe a screw is a microphone, the flat head crease hiding a micro mesh. This person clearly isn’t paranoid. They are just hiding holes they punched in the drywall.

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      It seems you haven’t heard about “the Thing”:

      The Thing, also known as the Great Seal bug, was one of the first covert listening devices (or “bugs”) to use passive techniques to transmit an audio signal. It was concealed inside a gift given by the Soviet Union to W. Averell Harriman, the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, on August 4, 1945. Because it was passive, needing electromagnetic energy from an outside source to become energized and active, it is considered a predecessor of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology

      So 80 years ago they had the technology to listen to you without electricity, it could be anywhere, even in the framing. I would just remove some sample from the frames, or maybe drill holes in it randomly to find my thing

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        Just wait until op finds out that with some conductive epoxy and a vacuum chamber you can do all sorts of fucked up things to electronics.

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    How is that “me-1”? You just destroyed your wallpaper and found nothing.
    Oh, it’s “-1” as in “minus one”. Makes sense.

    Next time, perhaps try checking what is on the other side of the wall.

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      A. It’s painted drywall, not wallpaper.

      B. The damage is obviously more extensive than just the surface layer. Do you even have eyes?

      C. It’s very likely the context given in the caption is a joke anyway and you’re taking things way too seriously.

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        Drywall is primarily made of gypsum, which is a mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, sandwiched between layers of paper or fiberglass.

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          Drywall is primarily made of gypsum, which is a mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, sandwiched between layers of paper or fiberglass.

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        C. It’s very likely the context given in the caption is a joke anyway and you’re taking things way too seriously.

        You gotta take bokeh-ing seriously.
        Did you know, the neighbour’s child go an A+ in their last joke-test?
        Now stop lazing around and get back to joking.

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        On the other hand, it could also mean:

        • Number of “me” = 1
        • Number of “voices” = 0

        Perhaps the voices went away, after getting rid of that pesky concealment, now that the wall is in debugging mode.