DamonHD

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by DamonHD 4mo ago
Happy note: just had a sensible interaction with my bank where it called me back but the caller understood why NOT to ask data that could be used to access my account, and we managed to resolve the issue that I was having (which, I think, w
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by DamonHD 4mo ago
> you also know for sure when you're going to leave it Well, about that... There is a thing called a Compulsory Purchase Order in the UK, with equivalent in the US for example. Guess which freehold home owner with two thumbs can exp
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by DamonHD 4mo ago
A few of the bank people that I spoke to during the last caper were pretty senior and those did understand the issue that I raised but found themselves constrained by their rules, though one or two got creative with me in a good way. (Pret
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by DamonHD 4mo ago
This is very much my experience. I generally say at some point before terminating the call "you should not train your customers to give out account access credentials to strangers" and the caller usually has no clue what I mean.
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by DamonHD 4mo ago
Banking example: trying to move some savings from one UK bank to another - back to where the money had originally come from, and that had just purchased the first bank too. It took 8h on the phone over a week or so to get the money back, w
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by DamonHD 4mo ago
Unfortunately my UK banks (and others) DO regularly make calls to me unannounced and demand my ID to 'prove who I am'. They are not scam calls and the callers cannot understand what they are doing wrong. If I'd had more str
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Big batteries took a bite out of gas generators' evening peak party(reneweconomy.com.au)
4 points by DamonHD 4mo ago|0 comments
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Thoughts on ALS(energydon.fi)
2 points by DamonHD 5mo ago|0 comments
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Wind and solar have saved UK from gas imports worth £1.7B since Iran war began(carbonbrief.org)
4 points by DamonHD 5mo ago|0 comments
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Men, masculinities, and the planet at the end of (M)Anthropocene(tandfonline.com)
3 points by DamonHD 5mo ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 5mo ago
Maybe add a non-Twitter link so that people who don't have logins (or dislike X) can see it. Your Masto post link should work... https://fosstodon.org/@robhawkes/116515573163883147
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Decoding a decade of rising global light pollution(darkskyconsulting.com)
2 points by DamonHD 5mo ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 5mo ago
Wasn't paywalled when I posted it a few days ago - would not have posted if it had been!
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NCSC: Leave passwords in the past – passkeys are the future(ncsc.gov.uk)
2 points by DamonHD 5mo ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 5mo ago
I backed out as soon as I was prompted by the browser to allow sharing my location information. I may well be a little paranoid, and I think I saw, while backing away, why it was requested, but please don't scrape data without asking
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The [UK] Green Party is STILL bad at being green(takes.jamesomalley.co.uk)
2 points by DamonHD 5mo ago|0 comments
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The great Scouse pasty war(livpost.co.uk)
56 points by DamonHD 5mo ago|28 comments
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by DamonHD 5mo ago
Scrap metal? Because of all the metal theft (eg stealing cables) that old-style scrap metal dealers facilitated, you may find laws and reputational risk against you.
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Nuke Engineer Rants(nukerants.fi)
4 points by DamonHD 5mo ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 5mo ago
I used to edit an HPC trade rag in the early 90s, so this was an interesting read!
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Open Letter to UK Energy Suppliers: Standing Charges Must Be Transparent(jonathantracey.com)
4 points by DamonHD 6mo ago|0 comments
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Apache 2.4, ETag values, and (HTTP) response compression(utcc.utoronto.ca)
2 points by DamonHD 6mo ago|0 comments
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From Coal Tip to Clean Energy: Turning UK Coal Mines into Renewable Powerhouses(bylinetimes.com)
2 points by DamonHD 6mo ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 6mo ago
I had to selectively stop carrying parts of USENET (I ran what was briefly a fairly important node globally) because of the volume of the binaries, and various sex and bestiality groups (probably still including some badly-scanned ASCII-ren
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by DamonHD 6mo ago
Seems to have patchy coverage in the places I was looking, and date range search wasn't working for me. OTOH, I think I found some posts not archived by Google...
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by DamonHD 6mo ago
Similar! And for a while my back bedroom in London was one of the world's top USENET 'transit' nodes, getting as high as ~#6 IIRC!
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GB Renewables Map(renewables-map.robinhawkes.com)
1 points by DamonHD 6mo ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 6mo ago
https://www.networkworld.com/article/4151880/amazon-waives-e...
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by DamonHD 6mo ago
It is not "ideological" to explore if, given the last year or so of US "FA" behaviour, the UK should decouple from it...
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by DamonHD 6mo ago
https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-EU-US-supergrid-interconnec...

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