Scored 10.35p/kwh this last month woot!
Peter Adamson
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Rod HiltonI have some insider knowledge here that I wanted to share.
This is not happening because Google scrapes Twitter and is now unable to. Google has been a paying customer (with a special negotiated rate) of the Firehose API for nearly a decade. Presumably, that deal was still in effect, barring API rate changes having an impact.
So this decision is solely because the results can no longer be viewed by non-logged-in users.
TendarUkrainian forces widened their control at Lobkove/P'yatykhatky and reached the outskirts of Robotyne.
Furthermore, Russians have deployed their reserves to stop the Ukrainian advance while Ukrainians still haven't deployed their main force.
Peter StefanovicIf this Government’s outright onslaught on British liberties - restricting our right to protest, robbing millions of workers of their right to strike & stripping back human rights doesn’t terrify you it damn well should! If you watch just one thing today please make it this!
The Government’s onslaught on British liberties, including human rights, should terrify us all
It's worth just mentioning that the price for electricity in the UK today is going to hit an all time low of -20p/kwh (well 19.something).
So octopus energy will pay people on the agile tarrif to use electricity.
It's due to the number of wind turbines going up, being a summer month so demand is less and it being a windy day.
The real significance is that it's a price signal to grid storage companies.
With an increase in frequency of these events, the viability of grid storage increases.
Twatter status report: still stuffed.
SheldonThis is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.
The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.
In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.
The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.
This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.
Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.
#TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS
Missing The PointExcited to start my first day as publicist for the Dilbert comic! Just going to take a big swig of coffee and read the news from over the weekend.