Nick
@nick@shore.me.uk
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I just discovered how good MikroTik routers (all devices in general) are.
RouterOS 7 looks amazing and the web UI is clean, powerful, and fast. Can’t believe I wasted money on cheap TP-Link and Cudy routers that broke when I tried to install OpenWRT. MikroTik gives you real control, pro-level features, and solid firmware right out of the box.
Wish I knew about them earlier. 🥹
@nick Already using it. They also have a mobile app called Mikrotik Pro. It has the same features as the winbox app!
“People are the most annoying people.”
-Kemi @shitkemisays
The grid is bursting with green power this weekend, and you know what that means…Free Electricity Session Move any heavy power activity into that hour; be it laundry, tumbledryer, extra electric-heat. The power you'd typically use costs the same. If you’re an Read the
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The hastily crafted (without checking with the product team first 😇) GreyNoise IP checker tool — https://check.labs.greynoise.io/ — was received pretty well at work today, so I spiffied the CSS up a bit and gave it proper opengraph tags and dark mode support.
Shld be a friendly way for anyone, including non-cyber folks, to see if their home IP or work NAT IP was found in GreyNoise.
Might be a good idea to visit it when you're doing on-site family/friend IT support during the upcoming holiday season.
@Geri 🤞
@sodslawyer I watched #BbcQuestionTime last night. Mad Nads was representing #Reform. The audience was laughing at her.
It's that time of the year again, the National Trust AGM where council members are selected, and yet again, the right leaning Restore Trust have a selection of plausible candidates entered. Be warned, they do not have the best interests of the Trust in mind, more of a culture war. So again, I appeal to all Trust members in England and Wales to make sure you vote. Just go to the site and search for AGM. Enter your membership details. Safest bet is to use the block vote. Please boost.
Struggling with vibe coding? You just need to get better at prompting. Here is a six video series "course" to teach you how to write the most effective AI prompts and get the most out of vibe coding!
(Do you ever wonder what it would be like if there were some special language for giving commands to computers... a kind of prompting language so they would do *exactly* what you wanted? Maybe someone should invent that.)
@futurebird After reading this post, I've decided to flesh out the ideas a little. And I think I may have conceptualised the future of vibe coding!
First, the problem of inconsistencies in how AIs respond to prompts.
We need better predictability!
So let's create a standard syntax for prompts, so when you enter a given prompt in a particular way, the machine will always respond in a standard way.
We'll call these next-gen prompts "commands".
As long as you know this simple "language" of commands, the machine will always do what you want!
Now, on to the problem of needing complex prompts for complex vibe coding jobs.
Let's take away the guesswork.
Instead of trying to precisely enter one complicated long prompt, let's instead have a series of simpler commands that get executed one after the other.
A "program" of commands, if you will.
So you don't have to re-enter your program on prompts, let's invent a physical media for storing and loading these programs.
Now, the next big elephant in the AI room is resource use.
Let's solve this issue so that the command interpreter "AI" software runs with very few resources. I know this is a stretch goal, but perhaps even an 8-bit microcomputer with just 64K of RAM?
And to really make this catch on, let's make this AI vibe command programming language so simple, even an 8-year-old can understand it.
A "basic" programming language, if you will.
Now I know this "Basic" programming language AI vibe coding system sounds extraordinary.
But I promise you that for just $10 billion in VC funding and total indemnity against copyright infringement, I will happily deliver a 64K 8-bit microcomputer with the BASIC programming language preinstalled!
This is the future of AI folks! Feel the singularity approaching!
boostedHow big of a fuck-up is going to need to take place for people to realise that putting lots of things all in one place and nebulously labelling it as "the cloud" isn't the best way to architect an "inherently reliable" Internet, from an end-user's perspective.
I don't even begin to see the tide turning.
It didn't turn at any of the fuckups that happened at fastly, cloudflare, etc had.
It hasn't turned with any of the amazon ones.
There have been others.
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At no point do I see any movement towards "is this such a good idea? Should we, I don't know, mad idea, host our own shit?"
Because every time, the forgetfulness happens rapidly thereafter.
"Oh it's working again!"
"Well, let's not forget the outage!"
"What outage? It's working again!"
3/3
What I have seen is a possibly increasing number of home users no longer wishing to rely on the cloud; people bringing back in house their NAS, or their home automation. But this is niche/hobbyist folks mainly. I really don't feel the same is true of businesses, generally.
@bloor Leaving quite a few people around the world unable to do any work so far today. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5y8k7k6v1rt
@TimWardCam @bloor my opinion cloud is good for bursting or short lived workloads.
It still doesn't make sense for stuff running 24/7 at least not at hyper scaler pricing
@TimWardCam @bloor I can see the appeal of stuff like managed databases through if you don't have th expertise in house.
You will pay for the privilege of db as a service though
@bloor Then there are the "local systems" which won't allow you to do anything until after they have successfully checked for updates..Oh, the update server is AWOL? Good luck turning your lights on!
@rbairwell @bloor Several things I have owned have been bricked by the app disappearing from the app stores too.
BT Whole Home disks (the original white ones). lolll, update server is gone and the app won't talk to out of date discs nor will the discs update so are now unconfigurable.
Fancy car DAB / hybrid internet radio I had from RadioPlayerUK (obscure, I know).. lol can't control it and it's stuck on one radio station now because the app no longer exists.
@bloor This is certainly something I'm seriously considering.
I'm not quite on the geek/hobbyist scale, but it doesn't scare me either
You're not wrong, but the calculus for most companies comes down to:
- hosting our own shit is kinda expensive
- requires expertise we don't have (and which would be hella expensive).
Therefore:
- the occasional AWS outage is low risk (they're not actually that frequent).
- and (as far as we can tell) doesn't have that big an impact on our bottom line.
- round of golf, and then drinks after...?
@rogerlipscombe @bloor I'm not at all convinced that the cloud is less expensive. I think there is the /feeling/ that on it's face it seems less expensive, like all outsourcing, but I don't know how many people actually honestly look at the cost and value after the fact ("it's too late now").
Used "wrongly" - which many do - the cloud will be more expensive and less reliable than a decent managed virtual machine or even dedicated server on a network that is not designed to be disposable.
@nick @rogerlipscombe @bloor we love Proxmox and supply and manage VMs for a number of customers on it, at least one of whom spends much more - by an order of magnitude at least - with Azure for markedly worse results.
Cloud trades heavily on turn-key-convenience but boy do they charge for that luxury.
@bloor I think a lot of the businesses are happy to deploy the someone else's problem field to the issue. Blaming Amazon for the outage and accepting this. I've seen this type of outage be a vehicle to get discounts on hosting costs going forward as well through sales channels.
@bloor my experience is if you tell modern software developers things like that they look at you strangely and shoo you into the corner... "OK, grandad, go play with your vintage computing or something whist we Run Fast And Break Things like proper software engineers".
Also: "But then we would have to pay someone to do that! That's so dumb."
looks at cloud computing bill that is higher than an OK salary for infrastructure I could manage with probably under 20% of my time (Not that I actually want to do that with my time TBF, but you could hire a whole competent full time person for less!)
Of course the killer argument is then: "but what if we need to scale to Facebook size overnight!?" 🤷
Cannot win.
@bloor 1/x
There's an element of 'no one gets fired for buying IBM' in this - AWS is a 'safe' default that most customers don't need you to justify using.
The managed services (the CDN, DNS, database, queues etc) are honestly quite solid and need a lot less in-house expertise than running your own.
Cost *is* more than some racks in a DC + hardware, but to do that you need someone to spec it, someone to install it, someone to look after it if drives die in the middle of the night, etc...
@bloor 2/2
It also means you don't need to plan capacity in advance or be trapped trying to run a service on limited resources until you can get hardware - and getting hardware isn't as predictable as we'd like these days either.
There *are* advantages to cloud, but I do agree that companies running their own hosting is overlooked these days.
@bloor I think more of a focus lately is how the Americans have proven conclusively - at great speed, no less - that they can no longer be relied upon, and so there is more interest - particularly among government bodies - to repatriate data away from US interests.
Part of that will hopefully include a reckoning about whether or not 'cheapest' is a wise purchasing decision, but I doubt it.
@bloor for a lot of companies their uptime on managed clouds is vastly higher than they could achieve locally. It also appeals to managers because if it breaks it's someone else's fault
@etchedpixels @bloor > for a lot of companies their uptime on managed clouds is vastly higher than they could achieve locally
That's a good point that I think is often missed in the criticism that follows incidents like this. Everything goes down for an hour or two at some point. If all the services affected today had gone down for twice as long but one at a time on different days, nobody would be talking about it.
A lot of skills for IT management/system administration in small to medium size companies in the UK have been lost, and very few of these companies are prepared to hire staff just to "look after computers" (many even baulk at getting maintenance contracts for the equipment they do have, just using commodity PCs and cloud services such as MS365 or similar)
@vfrmedia @mansr @bloor lost ? In many cases they never had them. Cobbled together IT held together by random people in the company who did computery stuff at home, and now and then bodged up by a consultant or two.
For a lot of businesses customer facing IT was always a non critical afterthought and always remotely hosted. It just moved from small co website/email hosting to big cloud aggregation.
And on a cost and returns basis totally rational not an underinvestment IMHO
For many its only recently become more critical due to the use of online banking and/or various types of cloud-based EPOS terminals as well as accounting software and staff scheduling services (which previously more often used to be run on local machines) - and its often not even that the business /couldn't/ go back to older methods, but they required more "slack" time away from the core business which smaller businesses no longer want to spare (especially as entry level jobs like office juniors have increasingly disappeared)
@penguin42 @beasts I would hazard a guess that the customers of @beasts are sufficiently clueful to not make them a single point of failure. The implicit rejection of big cloud and use of @beasts I think is a barometer of this.
@penguin42 @bloor most modern stuff seems to be engineered for MPOF (multiple points of failure). We once came across a static webpage that depended on five different CDNs for dynamically loaded resources.
@bloor I've never been in favor of having someone else manage my data. Call me possessive, but I put all of my important data on thumb drives.
@bloor I mean, solarwinds and crowdstrike are still commercially successful concerns, so clearly the threshold of business damage required to stop using a bad vendor is really, really, really high
okay i have to ask this. it has been driving me mad for so long now.
why is pizza in the UK so ridiculously expensive?
"pepperoni feast" at pizza hut UK (pickup): £20.99 (~A$42.50)
"pepperoni" at dominos australia (pickup): A$8 (~£4)
what could possibly cause this?? if you bought a pizza from dominos AU and shipped it internationally it'd probably cost about the same!
somebody will, of course, reply to tell me "ah, but there's coupons, you can get it for half price if you blah blah". sure. i accept that. however. that also exists in australia!! "you could get it for only £12" but you could get the aus one for only $4! (not factorial)
what is happening??? are the italians imposing a 300% pizza tariff on the UK as punishment for putting corn on pizza? is it thatcher's fault? is this why detective halligan has a pitzer tab? help
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pizza hut UK pricing. a medium pizza is £20.99; small is £17.99; large is £22.99. they do, however, dull the pain a little by putting an adorable little loop in the base of the pound character
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dominos australia pepperoni pizza for $8
Some time ago I posted my rules of DIY.
Rule 1 of DIY: if you're struggling, you're likely doing something wrong. Wrong tool, wrong method, wrong idea.
Not to be confused with the other Rule 1 of DIY: however long you think something will take you, bank on it taking at least twice as long.
And of course there's Rule 1 of DIY: some jobs are best left to professionals.
Now, I am not big on DIY, but I will engage in it when necessary. Also, my hobby has enough DIY aspects anyway, and I quite enjoy those. But I am fundamentally lazy, and that means when I do a job, I want to be able to do it with the least amount of friction and hassle.
So today, for no particular reason, I am going to add Rule 1 of DIY: look after your tools. Keep them clean and maintained. Otherwise they'll fail you when you most need them.
I've just received this text message. The names are correct and the sender's number matches the name, but the sender isn't somebody who would use this language/tone or even contact anybody this way at all - I don't believe this is anything other than a scam for a moment, but I'm struggling to see what the angle is here. What are the odds on me receiving another "please send money to..." or similar text shortly? Or does this scam work a different way?
![Hi all, my son and his Girlfriend had a really bad accident last week in their holiday in Portugal, [redacted] is bruised and battered and [redacted] is on life support after [redacted] pulled her from a burning car. Any help would be gratefully received as they have lost 90% of their belongings. I am with them in Portugal. If you could share this as wide as possible I would so appreciate it - thank you.](https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/115/378/120/099/307/737/original/27b45f5351067c79.jpeg "Hi all, my son and his Girlfriend had a really bad accident last week in their holiday in Portugal, [redacted] is bruised and battered and [redacted] is on life support after [redacted] pulled her from a burning car. Any help would be gratefully received as they have lost 90% of their belongings. I am with them in Portugal. If you could share this as wide as possible I would so appreciate it - thank you.")
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Hi all, my son and his Girlfriend had a really bad accident last week in their holiday in Portugal, [redacted] is bruised and battered and [redacted] is on life support after [redacted] pulled her from a burning car. Any help would be gratefully received as they have lost 90% of their belongings. I am with them in Portugal. If you could share this as wide as possible I would so appreciate it - thank you.
@NAB I suspect they're waiting for you to respond in some way
@CatherineFlick @Floppy You're both probably right, but if that's the case, it does mean that the scammers must have stolen my contact's phone - which would also explain how they knew the name of their son and his girlfriend. I've sent a message to their partner to make them aware... we'll see what happens.
@NAB
My guess (no more) is that you're right - a request for cash will quickly follow. And they've got your number.
Curious about the details though.
@NAB I reckon you'll only get the link if you reply... otherwise they'd have sent it straight away. There's probably some people who would fall for this and reply that *would* be alerted by the inclusion of the link.
Confirmed as a scam **SEE BELOW** (as if we didn't already know). Interestingly, it seems that my contact still has their phone, so I wonder if it's a dodgy app or something else...
**EDIT** Not confirmed as a scam. Not confirmed as anything yet.
@NAB so weird. Sometimes they're those scams that are just fishing for any response, seeing if they can get anyone to even reply.
Oh great. Texted my contact's partner, letting them know what was happening. They told me they'd let them know. Just received another message from my contact saying "It was from me". Clearly their partner has just texted them with my message. 🙄
@NAB Maybe I’m being paranoid, but would their partner not know and be able to confirm what had happened?
Now this is just getting weirder and weirder.
Probably don't need to redact as much info as I did before, so...
Just had a reply from my contact's husband (who is also the father of the son in the original message):
"Hi Nicholas, have just spoken with XXXX and she did send this message to her contacts on her phone, she has also put a post on FB"
So, he's the father of the man in the car crash, his wife has flown out to Portugal and he never thought to mention any of this before.
Plus I sent him the text of the original message and he's not commented on that either.
I'm still thinking scam, but this has become very very weird. Maybe his phone was stolen/compromised too.
@nick None that couldn't be controlled by their phones (WhatsApp, FB etc.)
@NAB If this was me (in the position of the initial message sender) I don't know why I would be messaging my contact list asking them to spread this sort of news far and wide?
Is it actual SMS text messages, or from some kind of messaging app? I don't recognise the UI (but also I haven't had an Android phone in a long time).
@missiongiraffe I agree. Text message. I thought the same, but the number for both her and her husband match what I've contacted them on before.
@NAB I'm really invested in this now. I hope it is a scam because the real situation sounds awful, but I don't understand what they are gaining from this, unless it's going to lead to some kind of 'gofundme' type link at some point?
I wouldn't be worrying about anyone's lost belongings though when someone is on life support in a foreign country!?
@missiongiraffe And guess what.... There's a GoFundMe link.
Tried calling him. Slight pause before it rings and after a few rings, AI "Sorry can't take your call" message. Suspect calls diverted elsewhere.
@NAB It’s a lot of effort to go to this isn’t it, crikey.
A friend of mind had something similar, someone took over her phone number, they think by going into the relevant phone shop and passing off ID, who didn’t follow checks properly.
I wonder how many members of the house of commons would be able to pass an A level in English...
@quixoticgeek Disablist as heck too. We already had to backtrack on forcing everyone to pass English and Maths GCSE before they were permitted to stop trying age 18 and leave education cos it just didn't work.
This is another spiteful dogwhistle way of blocking people bringing their families to the UK with them. It's vile.
@nick @NatalyaD @quixoticgeek right?! Really not equivalent. Unless there's an English-as-a-foreign-language A Level.
And do they mean a full 2 year A level? Or A1/AS (I'm old)?
B2 is really only a small step up from B1.
@quixoticgeek just read the article and it says B2. Um.
Yeah no. It's not A Level. If B1 is considered GCSE... I mean yes B2 is a step up but not that big! And there's a chasm of a difference between English subject A level and English as a foreign language A Level (not even sure that exists?).
I mean, I don't think the Spanish language A level is equivalent to an English A Level.
I took a B1 German test to get citizenship. I could have done B2, but I really didn't fancy risking not passing.
@quixoticgeek they mean equivalent fluency to an A-level in Spanish or German, not the English A-levels that native speakers take. None of the news articles mention this, though.
You can't even get an A-level in English as a second language, it's just based on CEFR equivalence.
@neil tata consulting will no doubt claim that they already are, and that what they built for jlr coop m&s etc already was and yet…. ????????
@nick @neil it’s usually much more stupid than this
Put things on the internet
Sack (sorry… “rightsize”) any in house expertise
Award ongoing management to cheapest bidder, who either don’t get told to do a full audit or get told it’s too expensive and that the documentation is “definitely up to date”
Don’t update things facing the Internet fast enough (or at all)
Get pwned
Make shocked pikachu face and ask for government help, I guess
Heat Pump Saga update.
Octopus are coming to cap off the gas and remove the gas meter today. This will save us approx £9 per month in standing charges.
Meanwhile recognising that this isn’t a particularly scientific comparison it is nonetheless interesting to note that we have averaged about 12kWh electricity per day for heating and hot water combined this prior week. Meanwhile if we look at gas usage for the same week last year we averaged nearer 100kWh per day.
As rough gross error checks go, I think that’s enough for me to say it’s somewhat working. Now of course financially a kWh of gas is 6p whereas a kWh of electricity is 22p. But still
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Heat pump energy usage graph
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Octopus energy gas usage graph for week of 6th oct 2024
@bloor 637Kwh per week? We use less than 300Kwh combined per month for our 3 bed/3 storey semi occupied 24/7... What eats up so much power?
@rbairwell I suspect some of these factors probably play into it :
* big house
* detatched house
* windy/hilltop location
* boiler that was condemned and (water) leaking
* 15+ year old (guess) rather inefficient boiler
@bloor I'm quite impressed with the savings compared to the same month the previous year. (My heat pump was installed in June this year).
boostedThis property no longer burns stuff.
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Gas meter gone. Gas disconnected.
@bloor Awesome! I did that a few years back - bar a solid fuel stove. It's fantastic. One odd side-effect is that my house is quieter.
@bloor Oh the earth link between your un-gas internal piping and the external gas pipe is interesting.
I realised I didn't put actual numbers around the two weekly values.
So on the new system, heating and hot water are using 12.44kWh electricity per day average.
On the old system, this time last year, we were using 91.08kWh gas per day average.
Saying again weather could be different for sure, that is still 13.7% of the energy used.
Electricity 21.89p/kWh
Gas 5.97p/kWh
12.44*0.2189 = £2.72 a day elec
91.08*0.0579 = £5.44 a day gas
BUT on a cost basis... weirdly, exactly half.
It feels mad and slightly indefensible that you can use 13% of the energy, and still pay 50% of the money. But the good news is that at some date in the not too distant future, I'll be able to either buy overnight, charge batteries and use during the day. Or, ultimately, a good chunk of the year, generate my own entirely.
I see Octopus's electricity rates are going up in the unit cost, but down in the standing charge. I am currently on a "fixed anytime rate" because we have EVs but don't do heaps of miles, and we have a heatpump which potters along all the time. And a hot tub of sorts.
Current kWh = 21.98p
Current standing = 62.22p
New kWh = 25.27p
New standing = 43.66p
Insanely irritatingly, i looked at the new gas pricing... 5.71p/kWh so gas is actually falling whilst electricity is getting more expensive.
HAHA and - I now can't see via the Octopus app what my gas tariff WAS because at midnight Octopus now longer shows gas (because it got disconnected today!).
Ofc I could look at old invoices from them, so there is that.
@bloor this is why I need my own data system. We changed suppliers and lost ALL of our historical usage data. 😳🤬
@bloor same moving house - I lost access to my historical consumption data for the old house. Thankfully Home Assistant remembers.
@bloor Octopus's historical prices for all electricity tariffs are available via their API to anybody, whether a customer or not. Haven't checked but I think gas prices are, too.
@bloor If you can sort your LiFePO4 batteries out you could use their ultra cheap rate (not sure what it is, but a mate of mine has PV and storage plus a heat pump and EV and he's rather chuffed).
@davep Yep!
Planning to do just that with Fogstar 32kWh and a VIctron Quattro 15K.
@davep The current 4 hours nighttime rate is just 8.5p a kWh.
So I could fill up my battery for a maximum of £2.55 a day at that rate. And ofc charge cars at the same time etc.
@davep I think the Quattro 15K and pull 41A peak off the 240v mains and shove it into the 48v battery side, meaning around 200A on the DC side. So in theory it should easily be able to fully charge a 32kWh battery pack from dead in under 4 hours.
@bloor Should be pretty easy, but you'd only want that in winter really if you risk losing extra daytime insolation (unless you can sell it for more).
@davep My notional plan is to do without solar, initially. So just have a battery storage type system, with grid and V2L inputs, and an output into my house/garage.
Then once that is working nicely and reliably, then find a solar installer who'll just do the roofwork/rails/panels to isolators in my loft, and let me hook it all up myself.
My theory is, if they see a well installed and reliable setup already, they may be more willing to add solar to it, piecemeal.
@bloor @davep Octopus Go is 5 hours. Eon Next drive is I think 6 or 7. When I did our maths both cosy and next drive beat the standard tariff without batteries for our use. Back then Eon was 7 at 7p or so, which with heating tending to be night biased and water tank and some load shifting was an easy win, though we went battery anyway.
@nick need a compatible car or charger though, which I won’t have
@etchedpixels @davep my strategy is going to be to call roofers who can do solar rather than solar companies
@bloor I am on Tracker for gas, and the rates are usually pretty low - I think it would be hard to make a heat pump work for me financially. Which is a big problem - IMHO the charges that aren't directly related to electricity production/distribution should be moved onto just the gas supply to make electric heating a more clear cut choice. Some of this might improve as gas is removed from the generation mix I suppose, but that feels like an unnecessary delay.
@bloor I think it's fair; you're paying for a lot more infrastructure with the electric; for the gas it's just being pumped to you; for elec if it's gas burning it's being burnt somewhere and running through the turbine (loses a big chunk, so more gas goes in to get you that elec energy out), then also their is payment for the wind/solar infrastructure, and cablling and pylons and the supply of blue smoke.
@penguin42 hmmmmmm I guess so … intuitively though it just feels like gas infra is so much more of an ongoing infra liability. But you are right, it probably isn’t.
@bloor @penguin42 they’re putting new gas mains in on the street next to ours, right now.
Very defensible for people to stay on gas for the foreseeable future. More houses going onto gas than coming off, still in 2025 in the UK. Meanwhile, our gas heating was double the carbon of our beef consumption last year, which itself was 2.5x the carbon of our total ICEV miles. Our leccy was 1/10th the carbon of our gas heating, or zero with our Ripple.
@bloor Our only remaining gas usage is for cooking. At £9 a month it'll take 15 years or so for the cumulative standing charge to exceed the cost of a new cooker (it's an 1100mm double oven range).
Or is it the other way round, that it'll take 15 years or so for the cost of a new cooker to be amortised against the removed standing charge?
There's probably a sunk cost fallacy and some false economy in there somewhere.
Anyway, I'll probably be dead before then either way!
Ticket prices for next year’s #MikroTik Professionals Conference are reduced until October 31st. Early birds really do catch the worm as space is also limited for the VIP Dinner so please make sure you book your tickets early rather than at the last minute and find we’re sold out. See https://mtpc.world for more info. Also we’re now calling for presenters for MikroTik related tech talks. Got a great solution using their gear? Tell us about it and you could be presenting it in March! 😀 #MTPC
Was served a YouTube ad for some kind of small plug-in room heater – i.e. the heater is kind of built right onto the plug, like a wifi booster – that will apparently be in every home in the UK by next year and thought, hm, that seems unlikely, and a ten second research revealed that yes, they’re illegal and will probably burn your house down! If you don’t have a suspicious nature online, how the fuck do you survive?
This is a tad special of @jlcpcb - they altered placement for one of my parts.
What did they change? Well, they do not say, but there is a clue here - if you look closely this is not "straight", it is a few degrees off. I can assure you my placement was at 0 degrees rotation, dead straight. Looking the other side you can see the alignment pegs are not centre of holes - what I uploaded was, exactly.
So WTF did they change it to be "off" like this? I'm assuming it will end up straight.
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The image features a close-up of a circuit board with a prominent blue rectangular component overlay. Various labeled pins and markings, such as "DAT0," "DAT1," "CMD," and "CLK," are visible near the edges of the component.
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The image displays a circuit board labeled "Audio Recorder." It features various electronic components, including capacitors and connectors, with visible traces in blue and pink colors. The design emphasizes the layout for audio recording functionality.
@jlcpcb Ooh, and another clue.
They moved the component bottom right in first picture slightly (they don't say how much or why and it is tiny). They normally do that if too close to another component. Well it was not.
But having turned the SD card holder slightly, it may now be too close. That is mental!
@jlcpcb I am pretty much having to use crayons now to explain.
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Image of a circuit board labeled "Recorder" with annotations indicating specific components: "U1," "Exactly centre," and "As I ordered." Various connection points and design elements are visible in the background.
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An image of a printed circuit board (PCB) featuring a microcontroller. Annotations highlight that the component is rotated, no longer centered, and indicate reference points labeled as "on centre" and "image from DFM".
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A close-up of a circuit board showcasing labeled components. Key text highlights include "Recorder" and "No longer in centre," with additional annotations indicating "DFM image." The image includes various electronic elements and connections.
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An electronic circuit board featuring a white connector labeled "J4." There are pink dots indicating connection points, along with text stating, "The file I uploaded as shown on your order page."
I feel like randomly promoting a really amazing Free Software project:
Yes. Invidious is a self-hosted YouTube frontend. It provides a web interface for you to search/watch YouTube videos.
You can run it yourself, or use a public instance.
I installed *my own* private instance, on my network. It's working great.
Your browser won't run all the YouTube bloat. Invidious still has to run Youtube's challenge.
Really, really great project. Way better than YouTube Premium.
@libreleah YouTube Premium does have the benefit of giving each video's creator more money per view, if I remember correctly.
@krans donate $1 to the creator directly. that's more money than they'll ever get from youtube, if all their viewers did that. and not one cent goes to google.
@libreleah Serious question: have you tried doing that yourself?
@krans yes.
@krans when i like something enough, i pay.
@libreleah Okay, yes, I pay a number of people via Patreon, but I think that, “The recommender algorithm suggested this mini documentary about sinkholes in Dorset and I learned something,” level of videos also deserve financial support.
“Track down the PayPal of everyone whose video you watch,” is not a thing anyone can do in practice. Therefore I can only conclude that (1) using Invidious will deprive people of income for their work and that (2) you're fine with this.
@krans i think your central thesis, that invidious takes money away from creators, is ultimately wrong, and the same kind of moral panic argument used for decades against such technologies. you also miss the point entirely, that this is about taking control away from google. google gives creators peanuts. almost all the revenue goes to google. if we take your argument to its extreme, then you're basically saying we should watch youtube.com with ads turned on, or pay for premium. no thank you.
@libreleah @krans @neil for those starting out (who have reached the payout threshold) YT creation does rather depend on the model of “each viewer earns me something”. Youtube appears to have started not counting adblocked views as well, so now there is an algorithmic penalty for the creator. For all of G/YTs many faults, if “manually send money to things you like” worked at scale as a compensation model, more FOSS projects would be fully funded. 2c
@interpipes @krans @neil all of this is yet more evidence of why google is bad. they keep piling shit on users and expecting them to tolerate it. ads (read: spyware in your browser) should be removed from the internet, in their entirety. and should upload their videos to a peertube account, preferably self-hosted. the centralisation of the web is precisely what people like myself wish to avoid.
if a few people profit from google's abusive practises, the risk is theirs. nothing to do with me.
@libreleah @krans @neil sorry, but for me this comes out to “to take some $ out of Gs pocket, I’m ok with doing the same to a person who’s video I watched but didn’t like enough to pay for and it’s their fault because they didn’t have the resources/time/tech chops to pay up front for hosting their video even though it offers no compensation, dramatically hurts their discoverability & audience size, all while I admit YT has utility in using this shim”
@libreleah @krans @neil it’s fine to be idealistic about how you want the world to be but you cannot pretend this is consequence free in the world that exists for the people for whom youtube is probably the best way to get started because that is where the audience is
@nick aiui marketing like that is mostly about saturation / familiarity, so that when you see it later during an “opportunity to purchase”, it is not alien to you
Nothing demonstrates more clearly the unfortunate state of science teaching, and the broader public understanding of science, like watching people who have got smartmeters suddenly panicking about what various appliances draw, all from a misunderstanding about the difference between “power” and “energy”.
Imagine owning a 3kW kettle then being shocked when your metering shows it uses….. 3kW. And almost implicitly blaming the meter.
You can’t, can you?
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A thread screenshot of someone worrying about their 3kW kettle using 3kW and blaming the meter, almost.
I almost wonder if this is a part cause of “heat pump hatred”. You do often hear of people saying “it costs a fortune to run”. Mine I have seen using over 5kW….for a few mins, whist it recharges the hot water tank. Then it backs right off. Could this be a possible explanation in some cases I wonder.
@bloor Given a large number of people fail to understand how a thermostat operates, smart meters were always going to be a challenge 😎
@ReCyclist @bloor I know I'm going to regret asking this, but.. how do people fail to understand how a thermostat operates? Not, "surely people can't misunderstand", but, what are the actual failure-modes/mistakes?
@dwm @ReCyclist @bloor I know people who will turn to max temp when cold and min temp when hot, basically using the thermometer as a manual on/off switch, totally missing the point. And no matter how many times I explain, they still do not get it.
That and, of course, people who think it will heat up quicker if you set a higher target temperature.
@revk @dwm @ReCyclist @bloor if you don't know they work, that does make sense though - from an intuitive "if I've got farther to go, I try and travel quicker" way.
boosted@SonOfSunTzu @revk @dwm @ReCyclist @bloor as an engineer who wants to make good things that people will successfully and happily use, I wonder how the thermostat UI could be improved to take account of this? Perhaps people struggle to pick a numerical temperature. Perhaps we just need buttons labelled "I'm way too cold, I'm a bit cold, I'm ok, I'm a bit hot, I'm way too hot".
@kitten_tech @SonOfSunTzu @revk @dwm @ReCyclist @bloor
That's an interesting take on it. I've always been the other way as I dislike that the thermostat is 20 ish degrees, or 20 and a bit. My #homeassistant one lets me set 20.0 or 20.1 which is far more satisfying :)
Not for my wife of course
@kitten_tech @revk @dwm @ReCyclist @bloor I like the idea, but I wonder if showing "current temp" and "desired temp" side by side, with buttons clearly on the side of the desired temp, would be enough?
And another indicator showing that the heating is on or off, like a switch, with no implication of being more "on", is the way to go?
( bearing in mind I've a very simple "set desired temp, then display flicks to show current temp" thermostat, your tech might be better )
@SonOfSunTzu @revk @dwm @ReCyclist @bloor perhaps people struggle with temperature readouts and targets because the temperature at some arbitrary point (the sensor) is only partially connected with how hot/cold you feel - because temperature varies around a home, and of you've just come in from the cold you'll want to be extra hot for a bit to warm up, etc
@kitten_tech @SonOfSunTzu @dwm @ReCyclist @bloor Now that is where Faikin comes in - allows me to pin point where I want temp setting to be measured - i.e. on my bed head, or front of my desk.
@revk @dwm @ReCyclist @bloor in some cases requesting a higher temperature may cause things to heat up quicker.
It depends if the boiler/whatever its controlling is a simple on off or can vary its output power.
If you are already near the target temp on some systems they won't run at full power output to reduce the risk of overshooting the target
@dwm @ReCyclist @bloor they think putting their heating thermostat up to 30degreesC will heat up the house quicker than putting it to the temperature they desire.
boosted@CenturyAvocado @dwm @ReCyclist @bloor That said, the split aircon in living room ramps fan up more if there's a bigger ΔT from current temp to setpoint, so it *appears* to throw more heat out if you "turn up the temperature". Yes, this is probably my fault for using auto fan speed. Or because it's got a #faikin inside :-)
@Elwell @CenturyAvocado @dwm @ReCyclist @bloor Irony is the Faikin wants to turn it on/off, and has to overcome the internal hysteresis in the A/C itself, to the Faikin does set way higher and way lower that target to turn on/off. It obviously does this to try and get to the required target though.
@ReCyclist @bloor
I had a customer repeatedly complain that the radiators weren't hot. I went round three times to find them all working before I worked out that he meant that "Once the rooms are warm the radiators go cold."
Yes, that's what the bloody thermostatic valves are meant to do.
He wanted it to be like his friend's house where the radiators were hot all the time ... because the radiators were undersized and never got the rooms up to the set temperature.
@bloor I think basic maths failure has a lot to answer for. 3kW for what, 5 mins while you make a brew vs say 45 mins for oven pre-heating and cycling while you bake a cake vs ~4h of straight 3kW resistive heating of hot tub. I know which in our house uses most energy, but one of those is timed to coincide with peak PV output and us typically not using it for anything else. Lack of understanding what a kWh unit actually means (power * time)?
@bloor the CEO of our DNO still thinks that a 12kW heat pump uses 12kW of electricity. To the point where they want to make everyone have 3-phase so that the heat pump can have its own phase. 🤯🤦♂️
@bloor i think most of the "heat pump hate" is based on what the tech was like in the 70s and 80s. and in places where the norm was boilers, it's based on "that's not what i know"
@bloor tangential, are you planning track your energy bill will heat pump this year vs energy bill with gas last year? After getting solar we are using more electricity but net electricity cost has been £48/- from Feb this year. Still I wonder what heat pump cost outlay will be like specially since we have a leaky home.
@bloor showed this to my partner and the response was that they’re going to think it’s a faulty kettle and end up buying another 😂🤣
@bloor the whole "get a smart meter to save energy" nonsense that even my (trained scientific, if somewhat technophobic) sister got to the stage of asking me "but surely it can't do that, unless you change what energy you use?"
Multiple of her friends had got one, changed nothing, and been outraged that their bills hadn't dropped
@ahnlak yeah I think the industry has been really misleading too. And for a long time I was dead against smartmeters, not because of the metrology but because of the remote contactor. Having moved to a property with them already fitted, I guess I am stuck with it, and once I have whole house UPS and solar I won’t care much about the remote contactor either.
@bloor ahh, I couldn't bring myself to pay the extra > grand to have grid independence so when the grid goes so does my battery. Not ideal but the critical stuff is on short-term UPSes at least
@bloor Hi, smart meter expert here. This isn't funny! Smart meters only do this when they're in extreme distress.
@bloor Anything with a heating element makes my smart meter show its red light, but since most of the time it's something that's only using it for a few minutes, like the kettle, or the washing machine when its heating the water, it only costs a couple of or a few pence. So if I boil the kettle one time in an hour, I use around the same amount of power that the fridge would use if it was running for an hour. I'm not exactly a scientist, but I could figure that one out!
@bloor I put it down to the same thing I always do; people fucking love attention on social media and hoover that shit up like crack.
See also: your post the other day about everyone simultaneously jumping on the bandwagon of "omg the gov installed an app on my phone". Since that day, I haven't seen one of those posts once, because maybe they've all coordinated a move onto whinging about smart meters for attention instead.
@bloor Watching from the US, wishing that I had access to utility meters alerts. Local electricity, water and natural gas meters are read remotely. Discovered a water leak when the monthly bill arrived, $500 higher than normal $80 irrigation summer use.
@bloor
The suggestion that it's somehow British Gas's fault that they've now got a smart meter, when universal smart metering of domestic supplies has been Government policy for a decade or more, tells you that we're not dealing with a well-informed individual.
@bloor I've seen supposedly reputable magazines recommend smaller electric heaters in reviews because that one was cheaper to run....
Heat pumps there is a pattern IMHO. Most people who say it's expensive to run don't own one. Just like EV haters and solar haters.
@etchedpixels @bloor people who say heat pumps are expensive to run clearly have never had to run their heating on LPG :-)
Am I allowed to say… refrigerator? 🙂
A complicating factor at least here is that energy utility companies (I believe are required to) charge a power tariff, in addition to the actual energy transfer tariff. And naturally they all do it differently. Meaning it can get a lot more expensive if you have a steady let's say 1 kW usage with a single brief peak 5 kW usage; than if you have a steady 2 kW usage with a few peaks to 2.5 kW. That hurts.
@bloor my wife in her petrol car turns it up to get warmer quicker whereas I in my electric have it warm already. On old cars like Morris Minors was to shut the heater (no thermostat) down to zero , let the engine warm faster because of that then open the heater valve up
@bloor We have always been mostly stupid, but in this era, stupidity has become enfranchised. They're PROUD of it. They'll kill to maintain their "right" to be complete effing morons.
In principle I have nothing against a digital ID card.
In practice I know it will be abused more than it is used. The lessons of history tell us this.
I have no confidence in the security of such a product. I have no confidence in the suppliers picked to deliver it.
I have no confidence that future governments will abuse the information, just look at how councils abuse RIPA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Powers_Act_2000#Controversy)
It's how easy it is to abuse that makes me have an issue with ID cards.
Here is a small recommendation when someone messages you on LinkedIn having done (to be charitable) RUDIMENTARY research on your firm. Whenever they use a bit of bullshit bingo buzzwordery, ask them what it means.
Today someone pushing a cloud based load of tosh I couldn't give a fuck about asked me if A&A had developed our own OSS/BSS. Context gave me a clue as to what it probably meant. And yes we have.
But I made him spell it out.
@bloor I haven't updated my LinkedIn since I worked at the ODI, where my job title was Head Of Robots. So now I get shit like this:
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> Linkedin Inbox 93 new Head openings at Wayman Recruitment Group
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LinkedIn Inbox 1 new Head openings at Republic London
@pikesley "Head Openings"
Alt...
A comic panel of a smiling boy (Bode from Locke & Key), arms outstretched, with the top of his head missing, showing a black void inside his head. There's a key protruding from a keyhole on the back of his neck, He's saying "SO awesome".
I can't keep up with reality, it's clearly beyond satire and taking the piss now: Palantir, whose UK CEO is the grandson of the notorious fascist founder of the British Union of Fascists, and whose Trump-adjacent leader has the knives out for democracy, backs away from key Starmer policy on digital ID cards, fearing *reputational damage* from being associated with something "Too Evil even for Palantir":
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/starmer-hit-major-blow-tech-36013892
@cstross
Well can you really blame them? Just too risky.
https://this.weekinsecurity.com/discord-says-users-government-ids-used-for-age-checks-stolen-by-hackers
@rochelimit @AlisonW You might think that, but I promise you that's not where HMG wants to go with this digital ID proposal.
@cstross
This proposal has been in the works for several years, has been developed in house by the civil service to build on the One Login system, and storing various docs on the gov.uk wallet was due to be rolled out this Autumn. It was announced in the spring to include helpful docs such as driving licences, right to work, right to rent, veterans cards. No complaints from anyone.
Starmer rebrands a digital doc wallet as BritCard Digital ID, says it will be compulsory, and all hell breaks loose. The thing is, it can't be made universal, as the programme already explains. Those not working or renting, or those with no phones, make alternative processes essential.
Starmer is an idiot. He's blown up a perfectly good planned service, by adding expectations he can't have, now the Wallet programme is tainted by association.
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/office-for-digital-identities-and-attributes
@rochelimit @cstross @AlisonW The existing .gov portals are actually quite good (just to include one that most folks won’t be aware of, linking farm owners and animal controllers to the stock identity and movement tagging system).
This is sure to polarise everything and blow them up.
@BashStKid @rochelimit @cstross @AlisonW and the general premise most civil servants work to is not to mandate stuff, but to make the digital services so good that people want to use them.
It was the tagline for the Government Digital Service in the 'teens when I was working with them.
@themself @BashStKid @rochelimit @cstross
When a project has a clearly defined task to computerise it's fine. The gov.uk problem tends to be massive scope creep resulting in not meeting any desired outcome.
@AlisonW @BashStKid @rochelimit @cstross in my experience (I've built UK gov digital services) it works best when you look at the user needs and not the current paper process.
That way you build services that do what people need, and make them easy to use for the entire user base.
That's easier to do when you have an outcome based approach that gives you wiggle room, and not a tightly defined spec.
@themself I have always found .gov websites exemplary in terms of clarity and functionality on almost any device
A very rare thing now
@OliverNoble there's a lot of people that have worked hard to make it so.
@themself
They have done a great job
I always leave comments in survey if its offered
I really do appreciate how good they are especially as I find some other sites unusable without enormous frustration or help
So many thanks to everyone who works on the .gov sites
@OliverNoble @themself Earlier in the year I swapped a registration mark from one car to another via DVLA digital services - whole thing completed in one week, and other than the insurers the DVLA updated everything some days quicker than any private sector organisations (such as the vehicle warranty provider and the breakdown cover services) could.
At the same time, I'd rather not use a "Britcard" linked to my driving licence for reporting potholes or other such stuff, I'm wary of pissing off a Council worker to the extent they put my car on a shitlist and I get stung for parking too near a corner of my street (even though its not an unsafe position its not strictly allowed, but I sometimes have to do that due to the parking situation where I live)
People who have written pieces predicting how AI is magical and wonderful and how anyone who doubts the wisdom of this are losers who don’t understand tech (despite some of us having been computer-ing professionally for decades being told this by generalist business/policy journos)… and they’ve seamlessly switched without any mea culpa to “we are in a giant bubble that’s gonna pop any day now”.
Wild.
Having gigabit fibre is less useful if you're having to route half your traffic through Tor to bypass OSA blocks.
I should probably set up a Wireshark link to one of my EU boxes and route stuff through there instead.
@james very tempted to do something similar, it's becoming tiring having to try work around it all the time
App that has a map of the grocery store you are about to go into and it will show you where to go. Using the map, you can easily find your grocery list items without distractions and guessing games.
Great idea to help people with memory issues, hard time finding items with changing isles, anxiety about shopping in a new store, and could also include when the shops have the most shoppers for those who'd like to avoid crowds.
@nick
If it was kept updated and informed by the store, then it could help people even after those changes.
Our local store just decided to do full renovation overhaul and it has been weeks of confusion thanks to it... can't find anything. (=_=)
People who shit the bed about an individual using AI to generate a few images really need to get in the sea.
The reality is that energy usage due to AI is now massive, and nearly all of it is out of your control now.
Nearly every Google or Bing search now results in an AI response.
All the research that's going on.
All the training on datasets they probably shouldn't have.
I'll take living car free over avoiding ChatGPT, thanks.
https://andymasley.substack.com/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-bad-for
@cybergibbons I don't have an opinion about this but I'm happy to see you posting here!
@ryanc I've been meaning to come back for a while! Twitter really is dead eh
@cybergibbons It's Elon Musk's blog and comments section now.
@ryanc I logged in earlier to see a tweet... and yeah, it's got much worse over the last month.
@cybergibbons how is it still getting worse? 🤮
@ryanc the accounts posting amusing but fake facts seem to have given up...
@cybergibbons counter argument is that open AI are opening massive datacentres as a result of their current mindshare. It's unsustainable (https://www.wheresyoured.at/openai-onetrillion/) but also "AI hyperscaler" datacentres slated for UK which will likely one gas power station per hyperscaler DC to satisfy the 1200MW power requirements each. Also AI images are cringe.
@foobarry Yeah, I'd agree they are on a path that is not sustainable, but whatever I do is unlikely to stop that now.
@nick @cybergibbons some have been in the works for a while e.g. Blyth and Waltham abbey. Blyth will take about ten years for the full site to come online with capacity ramping over time(same power draw as sizewell B produces). But big pressure from Jensen Huang and others saying UK will need power asap to meet demand and if fossil fuels then so be it. Yes we are wrecking net zero and water supply for cloud datacentres that won't benefit us at all. Just hoping the AI bubble bursts quickly.
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