Is a bank a user-to-user service for the purposes of the Online Safety Act? I think it is.
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At @emf, I was handed the world's most over-engineered temperature and humidity sensor. It has a 110-page manual.
I've finally installed it at @limehouselabs, although I'm fairly sure my installation isn't intrinsically safe.
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Wait, how do I verify the age of a bot?
@neil
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On average as a UK citizen I have to fill in 4-5 incomprehensible IRS forms per year.
The US government apparently decided that dislike of the IRS was something that they could profitably export.
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To every American who's complaining about having to enforce UK laws, I'd like to introduce you to FATCA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance_Act
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@neil one more for your list https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/notice-georestriction-of-the-uk/16267
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Someone made exactly the hydroponics controller that I was planning to design but never got round to. Happy to cross that one off my todo list. Maybe I'll finally get some hydroponics monitoring going this year.
https://openhydroponics.com/hw/rootmaster
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I'm not sure where my life went wrong enough that I have an entire framework dedicated to parsing very particular Excel spreadsheets.
Another operator has an API! Very modern! But recently the JSON changed in such a way that completely gave away that it was just serving the contents of the same fucking spreadsheet.
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This python script is a memorial to the fact that this country's electricity system runs on horrific spreadsheets and they can't even publish them in a CONSISTENT FORMAT.
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Today I learned that you can search for a company on https://www.uktradeinfo.com and it shows you what categories of goods they imported/exported each month. Fairly coarse data, but still cool.
...it also shows the VAT "principal place of business" address which means my home address is on there several times. You're not allowed to use a virtual office address for that, and nowhere does it say it gets published.
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Decimal place error - even I thought surely it couldn't be 0.07%!
In freedom units, 66 billion litres is 53,500 acre-feet. Total irrigation water usage in the USA in 2023 was 80,937,415 acre-feet. (I do have a soft spot for the acre-foot.)
(What a document https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2022/Online_Resources/Farm_and_Ranch_Irrigation_Survey/iwms.pdf)
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66 billion litres, for the record, is equivalent to about 0.07% of the water used for crop irrigation in the USA, much of which is in significantly more water-stressed areas than datacenters.
I'm still confused why we're focusing on water rather than electricity. The article claims datacenters will be 6.7%-12% of the USA's total electricity demand by 2028.
https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/113780993859406115
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Due to budget cuts we regret that we could only provide 24 hours of False Spring. We now return you to your regularly scheduled winter weather.
[#]ukweather
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It would have been better if I wasn't tethered to the artnet node with an ethernet cable.
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Thanks to @themariday's code I managed to pretty accurately map the lights I rigged in Limehouse Town Hall on NYE using my macbook pro's webcam
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I pressed a button named "Preview" yesterday which instantly (and possibly irreparably) broke 12 LED panels.
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Tag yourself
(menus from terrible LED display controller software)
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A while back I stumbled across the spec for an equivalent system in England, where the generator has dedicated fibre to the local substation, where the data passes through a Modbus/TCP -> 4-20mA -> Modbus/TCP "firewall" before being allowed anywhere near the network's SCADA system.
The spec noted that this did seem a bit convoluted and they would hopefully find a better way of achieving comparable security soon...
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Another great talk from Congress:
Germany has a system for remotely controlling loads (streetlights, storage heating) over radio.
It's also used for controlling generation. Including 100MW+ solar plants.
It's completely unencrypted.
https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-blinkencity-radio-controlling-street-lamps-and-power-plants (talk currently starts ~16mins into the video)
[#]energy #38c3
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