Martin Pugh

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Network guy, generally a good cook, home automation fan, IPv6 novice, OpenBSD, Ansible beginner, cat dad

Having just had a new #solar and #battery system installed at home, there's a high chance of stats and system updates being posted.

#HomeAssistant #IPv6 #ansible #OpenBSD #solar #battery #HomeBattery #ev #SelfHosted #LockSport #NoAI

Pronounshe/him/hay you
Bookwyrmhttps://ramblingreaders.org/user/pugmiester
Bloghttps://martin.hatstand.org.uk
Also available as@pugmiester

๐Ÿ’ก ๐—ค๐—จ๐—œ๐—–๐—ž ๐—›๐—” ๐—ง๐—œ๐—ฃ!
Trigger IDs will clean up your automations instantly!

๐——๐—ผ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ? ๐Ÿ‘‡

#homeassistant #smarthomejunkie #smarthome #techtip

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@ryanc/116535451629623982

TIL the term โ€œCrimeflareโ€ and I find it great 

In a meeting today IT's cloud fanboy manager announced that he had found a good way to reduce ballooning costs: move some services back in-house.

You know how hard it is to keep a straight face because the camera is on? ๐Ÿ˜‚

#cloud #FAFO

This trend is starting to break the link between gas and electricity prices, with gas setting the price of power roughly 25% less often in March/April 2026 than in 2022

More details in the article:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-wind-and-solar-have-saved-uk-from-gas-imports-worth-1-7bn-since-iran-war-began/
5/5

Analysis: Wind and solar have saved UK from gas imports worth ยฃ1.7bn since Iran war began - Carbon Brief

The UK has avoided the need for gas imports worth ยฃ1.7bn since the start of the Iran war, as a result of record electricity generation from wind and solar

Carbon Brief

Using AI chatbots for even just for 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on peopleโ€™s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Oxford, and UCLA.

https://ai-project-website.github.io/AI-assistance-reduces-persistence/

AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance

Causal evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and impairs unassisted performance across math reasoning and reading comprehension tasks.

Amount of AI I use at work: 0
Amount I am falling behind my peers: Also 0

Maybe AI is a thing for some people but not for me.

Hehehe :) โ€žThe contribution graph nobody asked for. Each red square is a day GitHub broke; the darker the square, the longer it stayed broken.โ€œ

https://red-squares.cian.lol

A binman in Turkeyโ€™s capital found a bag of thrown-away books on his rounds and couldnโ€™t bring himself to take it to the dump. He kept it. Other workers started doing the same. The pile has now grown into a public library of over 9,000 books, run by sanitation workers, in an old brick factory ๐Ÿ“š

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/15/europe/garbage-collectors-open-library-with-abandoned-books

#Books #Library

First time seeing a โ€œNO META GLASSESโ€ sign in the door of a shop! Iโ€™m not surprisedโ€ฆ and I expect we might see more of these kind of things in the years ahead.

#Meta #MetaGlasses #AR #privacy #surveillance #Vermont

Watched Angels & Demons (ยน) for the umpteenth time. Still enjoyable after many run throughs and the Hans Zimmer score is great.

1 - https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/13448-angels-demons

Angels & Demons

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati โ€“ a secret, underground organization โ€“ after four cardinals are kidnapped on the night of the papal conclave.

The Movie Database