Network Tech consultant based in Northern Ireland - likes Wi-Fi, walking and playing the synths - normal, innocent man, not actually a chatbot
Very much my own views etc… Toots don't last forever, nothing does.
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I see the farmers of Northern Ireland have money and time to burn on unnecessary journeys in heavy machinery aimed at inconveniencing everyone else. Great job
I have been using email for 40 years. It used to work.
As an (independent) academic researcher, I need to contact new people, primarily in universities, to ask questions.
I refuse to use Google, Microsoft or the other American IT giants.
But they are increasingly preventing refuseniks from sending email at all.
I know what RFC, DNS, MX, SPF and DMARC mean. My email goes through small British companies with intelligent, friendly and helpful staff.
mxtoolbox.com says that I must have DMARC to send email to M$. So I set it up. I now get a dozen copies of the same report from G or M$ for each email that I send out.
They show that my email gets to G and M$ sites, but then it is marked as spam.
The stupid senior management of numerous universities has surrendered their staff email to M$.
Web searches and AIs preach about spam. I don't send spam - I want to contact my colleagues.
Rumour has it that previously unknown senders are treated with suspicion and their emails are sent to spam. In other words, it is impossible to **initiate** communication with someone.
Let's be blunt about this. They are a mafia that is enforcing an **oligopoly**. It's got nothing to do with reducing spam --- I have no doubt that they let through emails from "trusted partners", ie companies that bribe them enough to send their spam.
The result of this is that it will only be possible to send emails by paying M$ to do it, and then it will only be allowed to express "approved" opinions.
What can we do about this?
At the very least, those of you with senior positions in universities can tell your management to revert to competent standards-based email systems hosted on Linux systems.
When oil was cheap it didn’t make financial sense to replace a working system with a heat pump. Now those who can afford the capital outlay would be mad not to.
It doesn’t make financial sense to replace a gas boiler with a get pump. But it will. Meanwhile people are having gas pipelines installed because of the oil price. 🤦
When I tell people what we paid for electricity over the last year (about £1500) they’re astounded how cheap our heat pump is to run. Then I point out that includes driving around 10,000 miles and all our cooking.
I was able to say this to a guy who popped round for some free concrete blocks and asked about the heat pump. Fair to say he was aghast…. Given what he’d just been quoted for a tank of heating oil. #heatpump #oilprice #domesticenergy #solar
Interesting.
There’s been an interesting tender review process. 2 of the bidders fell at the first stage because it was obvious the bid was written or assisted with AI, and the panel all independently spotted it and determined it significantly reduced the credibility of the bid.
Neither bidder has made the next stage.
This is a very interesting comparison for Australia 🇦🇺, which uses real-time petrol prices and Amber’s electricity prices, and makes the most of EV smart charging, to compare the running costs of popular combustion-engine cars with those of electric models
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