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  @csara@vmst.io @beasts@social.mythic-beasts.com for all your hosting needs. Non US, Reasonably priced, meaningful support, no silly price rises, no venture capital.

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  HTTP/403 You have no authority here Jackie Weaver

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  @neil that's a fun one, I don't really extract language from music, and even with subtitles there is generally too much metaphor and subtext for me to get on well with musicals. Wonder if there are other citizens of the fedi with similar brains...

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  New blog: I replaced my Nest Protect with Aico smoke detectors. Some details for those who need to replace the Nest Protect https://www.wishy.co.uk/blog/2026/05/05/replacing-nest-with-aico-smoke-alarms/

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  Regraded my @aaisp Openreach FTTP from 550/75 to 1000/115 last week. - Regrade requested on Sunday night, implemented in the early hours of Monday morning, 2 x 1 minute outages over 10 minutes - Download Speed to Speedtest is consistently gigabit - Download Speed to most other services not *hugely* improved - Upload improvement (Main reason I regraded) noticeable 550 is probably the sweet spot TBH. To be clear, A&A provide some decent guidance and set expectation. I'm very happ...

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  After 7 years, the Schwalbe Marathon Plus finally met its match. Guess I'll have an unintended walking meeting... (The screw was all the way through to the metal)

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  We got back from Svalbard a few weeks ago. (Where is that? Go to the North of Norway, then fly 1.5hrs further) It's quite the wilderness . While you'd struggle to go anywhere without a guide, it's wonderful having a small group of you as the only people for many Km in any direction, and a mostly unspoiled land. It is rather cold, -20 on days, although we reached 2c when we left. The sun is effectively 24 hours, but there is still a "sunset" in April...

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  It's really difficult judging code competitions these days (Job related). I feel like the winner vs runners-up are basically just a function of how lucky they were with the LLM RNG and if it chose to do $sillything for them.

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  @whynothugo Dutch banks creating Dutch specific payment systems which are a pain in the arse for anybody else to use? Never seen that before... *cough* Chipknip *cough*

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  OH: "I said it was idiotproof, not managerproof"

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  Wow, LTT bought a private jet... https://lttjet.com/

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  A day in London today, went to the Science Museum, While I was a little disappointed with the Star Trek 60 exhibition*, the Water Pantanal Fire had some rather impressive photography, and was practically empty. The exhibition focuses on the wildfires the area (South America, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay) is experiencing, the impact on the landscape and wildlife. Would recommend (Probably 15-20 mins) https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/water-pantanal-fire *A few cabinets setup like a...

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  @neil Symmetric as well, sexy! (I rarely worry about download speed these days, but upload speeds on standard GPON aren't great)

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  Looks like Givenergy Solar are switching from free cloud management to a subscription. They've made mistakes and have lost momentum, so not a huge surprise. Thankfully local access remains available.

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  @neil because big fat margins on that coffee?

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  LGW-OSL-LYR London-Olso-Longyearbyen is an odd one. You don't need a visa for Longyearbyen, so as long as your baggage is checked through you ask at passport control and they get security to come collect you from a special door and rescan your hand baggage at what is basically a private security station. Last night will be the last night we will see for a week and a bit, and it looks like we're in for -12 when we arrive. Let's go to Svalbard he said, it'll be...

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  Well, made it to Svalbard without a hitch. We're warming up at what is almost certainly the most northerly Thai restaurant, which is far better than we have any right to expect given the location. Svalbard doesn't require visas for travel (although you need to have a job to get accomodation), and there is now a large south east Asian community.

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  @neil I shall mostly be looking sexy.

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  And it looks like Givenergy has appointed administrators... Sigh...

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  #SolarUK New blog: Adventures in Agile Outbound https://www.wishy.co.uk/blog/2026/04/12/agile-outbound/

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  Yay, EMF tickets bought. There are benefits to volunteering!

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  Blog: I've been using a self-hosted instance of LanguageTool to make my written language more readable. A short write-up https://www.wishy.co.uk/blog/2026/03/06/languagetool-self-hosted-grammar-plugin/

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  Energy rates are high right now, so I'm experimenting with Agile Outgoing, which has been higher than fixed rate pretty much all day for the past week. Predbat has picked up the tarrif changes, and now it has plans for my little solar setup: Export directly in the morning when the rates are good, leaving the battery idle. At lunch, when the rates drop a little, we're going to charge the battery and then discharge it at peak rates, getting to the end of the day with a 15% buff...