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may talk too much about my power. May be migrating over to BlueSky @elyob.com ...

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Yay, finally, got a real booking on the hotel site. Of course that meant 5 hours investigating and fixing real world code issues. But, apart from that. Yay.
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bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/l0… central-core.com/ I’m glad this is getting coverage, I’ve built it already.

Dementia Diagnosis Expected To Rise By 40% By 2040

Hundreds of families are taking part in a study involving the latest technology for caring at home, aiming to cut care home and hospital admissions.

bbc.co.uk
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The police repeatedly going for the lowest hanging fruit with over powered bike conversions. They did this with e-scooters and just piss off a lot of people who behave responsibly on them. The hire scooters I tried were in dangerous condition compared to my last one.
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Oh, bollocks, might have to talk to people in the pub now.
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Years ago I ran Lenny, the 2011 scambait bot, on a Raspberry Pi wired to my landline. He died the day I ditched the home phone.Now he's back — answering my mobile, wasting scammers' time, and laughing in Hindi when they lose their temper. ghost.elyob.com/i-built-an-a…
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O2 just called r.e. my SIM. Told them to delete my number, as they are scammers and I won't be scammed by an Indian call centre. "We are in Fife Rd, Edinburgh". Like f*ck you are. "F*ck you motherf*cker". Pretty sure it wasn't O2.
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Is there a reason Andy Burnham has been redacted from the Great North Run results? Hardly a security threat, in fact was mostly a photo op. Even his number 10 is redacted. Just odd.
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5 Sur-rons riding though Surbiton tonight through red lights, no number plates, in a dangerous manner. Quick call to 999, got redirected to 101, wait 10 minutes, hang up. 2 hours later get a call back. Pointless. Nah, I won't bother in future. Ordering a Sur-ron.
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LH@localhotelcom
Sep 10
England's mayors are getting an uncapped tourist tax. It's charged on the room, not the reason you're there: a night near a hospital pays like a holiday. And people in hotels because they've nowhere else pay first, then claim it back. Fix that first. local-hotel.com/notes/touris…

England's uncapped visitor levy, and who really pays it

English mayors are to get an uncapped tourist tax, charged on the room whoever is in it. What that means for anyone selling rooms — and for guests who are not.

local-hotel.com
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Live flight updates from my garden. ghost.elyob.com/a-box-in-my-…

A Box in My Garden Watched the Sky Go Quiet

A home ADS-B receiver in my back garden — an old Pi in a waterproof box — wired into Home Assistant, caught the 8 September NATS air-traffic outage in…

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elyob retweeted
LH@localhotelcom
Sep 8
local-hotel.com/notes/when-t…

When the sky went quiet: the NATS outage, seen from a rooftop

What one home receiver logged during the 8 September 2026 air traffic control failure, and why a hotel site watches the sky.

local-hotel.com
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It went a bit shit ... AI fixed it ... ghost.elyob.com/my-three-ais…

My Three AIs Argued All Night, and Fixed Everything

One tile on my solar page said zero. Fixing it took two minutes; working out why the fix wouldn't show took three AI assistants an evening of arguing and…

ghost.elyob.com
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A testing phase for my planner software…
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There are good days ahead, hopefully solar may be better than today.
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Well, it's nice and quiet where I live.
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I no longer code YAML in Home Assistant. ghost.elyob.com/i-dont-write…

I Describe the Idea. My Flat Builds It.

I stopped writing my flat's Home Assistant code and started describing ideas instead — and Claude builds them, rewrites years of cruft in an evening, and…

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An article about plug in solar made me look at my own greenness in my solar project. ghost.elyob.com/how-many-tre…

Half a Megawatt-Hour, in Trees

My panels just crossed half a megawatt-hour — 510.9 kWh, ~61.1 kg of CO2 avoided. Net that against the whole kit's carbon — panels, battery, shipping —…

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FFS, some fucking people.
Yeah But Cyclists@but_cyclists
Sep 5
Cyclist should have given way. Pedestrians have priority at all times.
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Planner is working perfectly during a good roll, kept my head above water during bad times ...
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Getting Claude to monitor my washing machine during the Octopus Plunge ... made some improvements to Home Assistant card.
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