New rule: you are not allowed to say a TV show or movie is “bad” unless you can also clearly specify “for whom/what” and “based on what specific criteria”. Still allowed/encouraged: You may say “I don’t like it” or “It’s not for me” and you don’t have to give any reason whatsoever. There are […]

I have been thinking about a career change for a number of years, but without much direction. I have worked in the UK finance sector for over 20 years, and within finance teams doing various roles for over 25. I'm a maker at heart, but also technical and would like some way to balance these more […]

Our #grid #loadprofile by quarter for last year (one representative month shown for each):

My day off #today turned into just an extra day to do chores. On the plus side, cleaning and grocery shopping is done for the week and I made am amazing potato, kale and bean soup for dinner. It was perfect after our evening walk in the chilly weather.

1F. Put coffee on, back to bed. Mark and Murray will be off on a shortish walk soon. My pic is out of the living room window this morning because my usual trick of opening the bathroom window is a no go: frozen. #puremichigan #january2026 #today #winter

Good morning. Still bitter cold. Still morning. Still. #Photography #Today #Chicago #Winter

#today I prepared the agenda for my #phd #supervision meeting tomorrow, and will be in an #sses webinar this afternoon. Currently listening to #psytrance https://soundcloud.com/user-753621319/sets/psy-trance-tekno

Given my physics teacher (35 years ago) said repeatedly that girls couldn't do physics, I feel like this is a slight improvement 🙄 #sigh #historyrepeating https://fediscience.org/@freyablekman/115921698028403685 freyablekman - I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one […]

#today is two days before we go to the beach. Go to see a friend of my wife’s in Sihanoukville. It takes the van all day to get there and some blogging too. But now it’s earlier. Now I sit at a favored coffee spot for the wonderful warmed almond croissant […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

#today met a friend for lunch, will take weekly meter readings this evening, and I'm back on the recreational optimisation task at the moment!

When I was a child in the USA, I was told that any of us could grow up to be president. It wasn't until 1998 that I realized that it had been a threat. It wasn't until 2025 that I realized that it was an existential threat.

#today I did some recreational code #parallelisation (hey, that's what I did a MSc in, kinda, before it was fashionable), recovering from the #nightclubbing! https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-104.html#2026-01-18

Woooooo #clubbing 3am and LOUD!

Republicans tried to force a coal plant to keep polluting. Washington Democrats instead followed the laws they passed. A state law enacted in 2011 required the Centralia plant to shut down by Dec. 31, while a 2019 law prohibits utilities from selling coal-based power in the state after 2025. 🔌💡

#fedihire_de #FediHire Halp! My company goes south and there is unemployment looming on the horizon. I am looking for a remote job or on-site in Dresden ( Germany) I can do: Architecture ( dotnet, Microservices, kritis, team lead for up to 6 people) DevOps ( observability - grafana Stack […]

Wooot! Mod synth acid done for tonight, goth clubbing tomorrow

Me, casting about for new short-lived but intense interest

"A US regulator ruled on Thursday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company had acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power massive data centers in Tennessee" Not only is Xai designing software that causes massive harm in form of generated abuse, it's hurting communities

#today I have done two meetings' admin (quietly extending the scope of one of the meetings by agreement), and am off for a rave* in the evening in town. *Jazz Café: Test Pressing Live: Ceephax Acid Crew + Dream 2 Science

[Physical health moaning] I am feeling really quite unwell today. The upset stomach sorted itself out by midnight, but the cough has got a lot worse. There's still a bit of a scratchy throat and runny nose, but they've eased off. I was sweating in the night. I'm struggling to find energy to do […]

Making these things un-turn-off-able is an extremely fundamental core component of the entire industry. It is the same reason you cannot choose between buying yoghurt with single-use plastic or without it. You cannot fabricate demand for a wasteful, harmful thing without making it mandatory

@ketanjoshi.co Also you can't turn off the garbage in cars, eg the "features" that randomly try to wrench the steering wheel out of your hands. Or, if you can turn them off, they turn themselves back on next time you start the car. (After you've downloaded the manual to find out how to start the […]

ActivityPub standardization is back! The #w3c just announced a new Working Group to evolve #activitypub and #activitystream and related standards! This is extremely good news. It's not like all the world's federated social media protocol problems were already solved! […]

99% of smart home crap just feels like why is it connected to the internet? so it can get updates why does it need updates? because it's connected to the internet

Meanwhile, we have now added 4 lines of code for every line of code still remaining in #curl This means that on average, every single line of production code has been touched four times. Written once, then updated three more times. And yeah, some lines of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#today I have to select a paper for Journal Club and re-recreate the group invitation which seems to have partly rotted within the Exchange server. Also I will do some extra tests on the data gathered yesterday, since fixing now will be much easier than in a month. And catch up with the […]

RE: https://solar.bots.edent.tel/posts/6967c1f7-5778-2a65-8917-531bc9ef72fd.json Pretty decent solar generation today! Cold temperatures and mostly clear skies.

What could the answer possibly be!?!

I'm helping an elderly person with a patient portal, and wow, there are about 4 different problems ranging from unclear instructions to pages that don't work well when the phone is zoomed in enough for an older person to actually read the text. Plus, the iPhone keeps popping up unhelpful gunk […]

#today I have downloaded, converted and eyeballed ~21 million data points (temperatures and humidity from around my home over one year)! Charts appearing on the page soon... I hope to publish this as an open data set and/or refer to it from a new paper […]

Hello World The Disease is now into cough territory - which is making my throat hurt. Despite that I slept fairly well but had some very strange dreams (not work related for a change). Sacha seems a fair bit better, although certainly not recovered. Kit the Cat is getting more accepting of her […]

Yesterday I lost a client. And I couldn't be happier about it. It's a long-standing client, but the management changed a few months ago. On Monday, they requested an emergency intervention, which I handled immediately. On Tuesday (yesterday, evening), they asked for a non-urgent enhancement to […]

It’s time I crank up the search for new work to 11, because wow I really need it. Bottom line: you bring me aboard your web publishing or software team because there are many fires vying for your attention and I figure out which ones to put out first. My CV: https://jaredwhite.com/cv/ My biz […]

#today various bits of admin including starting with this year's sustainability hackathon at uni, and very slowly and carefully* fetching and processing the extra 2025 house heating data set again (I'll do most tomorrow). *Automation, I've heard of it! But it didn't work out so well last time […]

I take it as a sign of growing interest in transitioning into agrivoltaics that a lawyer has written a blog post on legal considerations to consider for developers. #EnergySky www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/sh...

#Today I’m enjoying this morning at my long time favorite Lalatte coffee. A nice walk from home. Comfy couches. Nice music. Feeling I am sitting both inside and out. The big yellow building is an accounting and finance school. They keep the coffee shop busy […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

Good morning everyone. Just be nice to everyone today please. #goodmorning #today

This all reminds me very much of the data centre issue, whereby - People dismiss absurd over-projections of data centre energy use as unrealistic (which is true) - But there is still a force towards over-consumption and new fossil fuel use - So the net effect is still a massive worsening

Simon's walk through is useful to get a sense for the kinds of nonsense media perpetuate on net zero, but there's a broader lesson: If we count all societal costs, as we should, net zero will SAVE SOCIETY MONEY! A zero emissions world will be a better world, full stop.

I'm getting reports from people in Britain about MX record issues causing email to our textuality.com addresses (Google Workspace) to fail delivery. Anyone else seeing this kind of thing?

Flash animations from the 2006 version of whatisnuclear dot com, made by yours truly. "This is what they stole from us" 😂

Good morning This cold isn't getting any better. I've been waking in the night with an extremely scratchy throat. This morning my head is swimming. Sacha has decided to cancel her exercise classes today and tomorrow because she's still coughing. I fear it's going to be another day of mooching […]

Good morning. First coloring gig in the new digs while waiting for the movers. #Photography #Today

Prof Rachel Oliver has now upped the ante by writing to Paul Nurse, the President of the Royal Society, arguing that the failure to act on Elon Musk heightens the risk of sexual and other harassment of women in academia and STEM more widely. The letter can be […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Does heat pump still save CO2 in a cold and snowy Belgian week, with record fossil gas power generation? Turns out it does. 🔌💡 Anecdotal but real life data from our Vaillant air-to-water heat pump. 1/n

#RepairReuseRecycle #repaircafe #repair #garmin #running another Fenix 5x on the bench today, battery change and button repair. These are the smallest y type screws I’ve encountered. 0.6mm bit. #aberdeenshire #scotland #myphoto #fixit