DamonHD

Also @DamonHD@twitter.com and Earth Notes (npub133l…cqld) ...
#renewables #energyEfficiency #OperationTuneup
#energymastodon
#founder #entrepreneur
#techie #distributedSystems
#PhD (passed probation/confirmation)
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#Yorkshireman (well disguised)

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Home: http://d.hd.org
ORCid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4744-8702
Earth Notes: https://www.earth.org.uk
GitHub: https://github.com/DamonHD/

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2026-04-09 09:48:19 UTC

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Now I *really* want to hear again the #Stranglers' #GoldenBrown as played through its synth chip!

2026-03-14 08:54:52 UTC

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I gave up using Ryanair many many years ago after - amongst other things - it just added invented (ie IMO fraudulent) FX charges to a flight billed to my payment card. As it happens I spent enough time in (a) banking and (b) payment cards to be able to definitively verify that the extra charge was bogus. I try to not to do business with those that lie to me systematically.

2026-03-10 10:08:15 UTC

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WebP is one of the most efficient image CODECs I know for lossy and lossless. I use it on my site in place of JPEG and PNG where the client says it will accept WebP. RS for FEC is interesting. Again, there are probably newer more efficient codes, depending on the error types commonly encountered in SSTV TX!

2026-03-10 09:53:38 UTC

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Sun Audio? A-law 4kbps?

2026-03-10 09:52:32 UTC

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I wonder how that would compare in bandwidth with (say WebP lossy encoding with 4:2:0 sampling then some sort of FEC sent digitally?

2026-03-10 09:25:12 UTC

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Hurrah, it arrived, thank you! First time I've seen an SSTV frame though I've theoretically known about it for decades! What's the bandwidth and encoding?
EDIT: Wikipedia suggests multichannel analogue ~2kHz...
EDIT2: Robot 36? YUV 36s frame, 256 luma, 64/64 chroma × 240 ?

2026-03-10 09:18:36 UTC

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It's coming though a bit slowly ... still ~50%!

2026-03-10 08:22:28 UTC

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https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/30/encoded_audio_starling_song/

2026-03-02 20:29:49 UTC

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Here is the obvious variant of it, with an actual minimalist button:
https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-106.html#2026-03-02

2026-02-12 15:04:26 UTC

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Oooo, oooo, and for those that also spout the idiotic "if you have nothing to hide (or have done nothing illegal) then you have nothing to fear (from #privacy violations)" ... insist that their bedrooms and toilets have CCTV livestreamed and on big screens outside their homes, 24x7!

2025-12-11 01:49:44 UTC

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any EU/UK visitors can scream GDPR at CBC...

2025-11-25 23:26:46 UTC

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Boo hiss. I used to be terrified of hail etc but 17 years in over several systems, bird poo remains a bigger menace...

2025-11-06 19:16:13 UTC

RE: https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115504324217337899
Recursion ahoy...
#note1lef…6vaw

2025-11-06 18:33:48 UTC

RE: https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115504126413486839
One two three ... non-testy quote testing!
#note1z4s…h977

2025-10-11 09:27:12 UTC

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In summer my incoming cold mains (London, UK) can be >>20°C:
https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-data-for-16WW-mains-water-inlet-temperature.html#Points
FWIW I run a pasteurisation cycle between about weekly and monthly, preferably by PV diversion, else in the small hours.

2025-10-03 10:38:21 UTC

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could that just be temporary overload with lots of LS users being asked to do the same thing at once?

2025-07-31 11:17:23 UTC

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Can we add to the menu the anticipation roulette for exit explosive 'earth', wind, and/or fire depending on which of the slightly-off, lentils-and-cabbage, or too-much-chili you include in the disaster forage? An all-you-can-regret-in-12h buffet?

2025-07-06 21:05:15 UTC

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I have pushed a couple of tiny updates, available if you force reload.

2025-07-06 20:52:20 UTC

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There's a little more here:
https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-97.html#2025-06-02

2025-07-06 20:44:35 UTC

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I've had one or two egregious big-name AI scrapers stopped by my emailing some combination of PR and investor relations and explicitly withdrawing all implied rights of access and noting that any further visits at all will be unauthorised and illegal under the (UK) Computer Misuse Act as amended. So yes, I think.

2025-06-29 16:50:50 UTC

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That's a bit of sweeping statement!
Strorage has long played a part in grids, eg hydro, and 'efficiency' does not in practice matter if either your are not constrained on input, or cannot otherwise deal with (say) generation outage from plant trips or dunklefauten.
(In my research I'm trying to stop engineers fixating on a particular measure of efficiency in another sector, which is causing them to miss the savings in the bigger picture.)

2025-06-29 15:35:55 UTC

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Paging @npub1pnw…qhcz !

2025-06-29 13:16:58 UTC

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The 'cheaper' is widely contested for a number of reasons, but indeed also not building any for decades and forgetting how to do it does not help!

2025-06-29 11:37:02 UTC

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One reason that nuclear is not a panacea as some zealots would like to believe, but in conjunction with (eg) solar and storage can still be v useful. I am in favour of new nukes, but not somehow instead of renewables.

2025-06-26 16:40:17 UTC

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I have no solar gains, no wind, rain, etc, and when I put in the partitions I replaced the single heating system with one for each zone.
But thank you for helping me think it through!

2025-06-26 08:35:50 UTC

#today working through the #NewScientist article backlog in my open tabs right now (the articles snuck out early this week!). And working on two parts of my #research: prep for the July house-in-a-lab time, and progress on the #modelling.
Anyone want to help me with a head scratcher? https://unmethours.com/question/102055/adding-internal-partitions-reduces-heatflow-to-outside-why/

2025-06-10 07:26:01 UTC

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Today's nominee is Emil @npub1pnw…qhcz
https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-97.html#2025-06-10
#Junited2025

2025-06-09 08:45:39 UTC

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Updated with a link to the excellent Michael de Podesta blog, though not on heating this time!
https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-97.html#2025-06-09
@npub1g7d…t846
#Junited2025

2025-06-08 10:50:20 UTC

#today I have caved to massive peer pressure* and started up a #Junited2025 thang at
https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-97.html
Else I'm taking a gentle day, still lounging in bed... Yesterday afternoonn was quite a big session after #RepairCafe
*This is a lie.

2025-05-24 20:54:40 UTC

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I think PS round-trip efficiency is more like 75%, which is very close to my battery system at home at first blush...
See eg: https://atb.nrel.gov/electricity/2022/pumped_storage_hydropower
Hydrogen-based storage via electrolysis and turbine combustion likely << 50% RTE...

2025-03-07 08:57:39 UTC

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The monkey could see 5 moves ahead (which makes it a darn good player), realised it would win, and feared being hit again...

2025-02-21 16:11:30 UTC

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I see. I'm sticking with my take for now. But in any case it was stupid of UK.gov to put them in this position in the first place...

2025-02-21 15:50:55 UTC

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I read this as Apple being prepared to take a hit on behalf of its customers in terms of bad publicity and probably lost sales.

2025-01-13 18:28:39 UTC

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Pass some along here too, please!
I'm having difficulty imagining exactly what this combination would taste like - but I'm confident that it is good!

2024-12-31 15:55:03 UTC

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All I know here is that this hype-driven 'AI' is not helping.
(I have an AI degree, have released product containing AI, and make use of sensible AI stuff often.)

2024-12-31 15:49:14 UTC

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I'm more bothered about the implied huge #carbon footprint of generating those unsolicited and usually-wrong '#AI' answers given that my life is spent trying to fix #climateChange, so I have been largely boycotting Google search until I have a way in my Google account settings to disable that misfeature.
@npub1wfy…me4u

2024-12-24 12:04:52 UTC

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brotli zopfli?

2024-12-22 21:28:45 UTC

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RFC 733 has it, so it existed in 1977.

2024-12-11 09:08:55 UTC

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Your marks seemed to fairly reliably falling, so good save!

2024-12-08 13:23:45 UTC

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Which of us has not mulled those?

2024-12-01 10:50:42 UTC

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And over the last couple of weeks with Patreon I have trimmed my memberships with them watching until they paid attention. So someone in marketing and/or IT got some direct negative feedback that cost real revenue until they stopped doing a bad annoying thing that probably violated UK and EU GDPR for all their members there. We do have some analogue levers to pull.

2024-12-01 10:47:56 UTC

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RyanAir lost me as a customer after my first journeys with them many many years ago, ripping me off with entirely ficticious FX charges (with some added irony attached), and I minimised my purchases from anther site the other day after dark patterns galore (including a 'now emotionally committed' one) just the other day. It may not be binary, but a self-inflicted war of attrition.

2024-11-16 10:44:53 UTC

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was having minor nightmares about one #FOSDEM proposal, and several other talks it turns out!

2024-11-05 20:35:15 UTC

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FWIW I usually do (cheap-ish) Friday afternoon or evening out from London, back Sunday evening.
@npub1c6u…c2rn You may be in a different country this time...?

2024-11-03 11:36:55 UTC

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Twitter used to be wrongly over-sensitive to details such as the ordering of attributes in the OG head tags, so would ignore some completely correct arrangements without warning.

2024-10-28 09:13:52 UTC

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Well, it is tax free which makes a difference (I assume that NMW allows a tax and NI haircut).
As as I am paying some thousands a year to do a self-funded PhD that could be a bargain... %-P

2024-10-27 20:57:46 UTC

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Your beard is better! B^>

2024-10-21 18:04:23 UTC

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"floor loss" - even worse with tiny tiny surface-mount electronic components which can make grains of rice look big...
#SMD #floorLoss

2024-10-17 19:13:48 UTC

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Sadly this doesn't mean immediately turning off unsolicted AI SPAM in organic G search results I guess... So, I'm still sticking to DDG et al for now.
@npub1kca…c3gc

2024-10-12 13:28:26 UTC

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1) @npub1x59…gect and others have reported on such panels.
2) Do not expect to get much coverage for your space heating from your solar.

2024-10-11 20:36:58 UTC

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It's certainly got an odd notion of 'yesterday' and 'today' even on UK (GMT/+1) time...

2024-09-22 08:05:33 UTC

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You should leave a note, maybe a URL for your blog or a longer-lived URI...

2024-09-16 16:11:54 UTC

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Toilets don't work.

2024-09-16 10:53:45 UTC

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I'd still do the image resizing under more controlled conditions, so that that doesn't become the next reason for it all to fall over!

2024-09-14 07:42:10 UTC

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FWIW I don't do any of that stuff dynamically: I statically create alternate images for srcset (and alternative image types such as WEBP to serve to clients that can accept them). Thus there is near zero danger of my 1GB RPi3B running out of memory serving my sites.

2024-09-14 06:49:45 UTC

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some of those early errors (such as the rewrite:error) look like they could be malicious.

2024-09-08 10:39:50 UTC

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"sats"? "stats"? I'm failing even to parse the word!

2024-09-05 10:09:45 UTC

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If I put a spare UK barcoded stamp in the SAE will that do as some sort of cryptocurrency substitute?

2024-09-05 10:03:49 UTC

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I find your views intertesting. May I join your cult and subscribe to your newsletter/RSS/feed?
(Oh, wait, job partly done already.)

2024-09-02 10:54:43 UTC

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I kinda had that thought ~40Y ago, and kinda raised a little money partly on the back of it! Any time now...

2024-08-28 15:36:55 UTC

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I am putting together an arXiv paper (I promise, really, any month now!) based on my link above, and I'd be very interested to hear of the things that you have to do to work round those broken feeds, to show a balanced picture!

2024-08-28 15:29:25 UTC

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(Some feeds *will* be broken, and not do conditional GETs properly, and you may want to remember those and stick with your current also for them!)

2024-08-28 15:15:28 UTC

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If you have IMS and/or ETag and the feed hasn't changed and you do a GET with IMS / ETag then you won't be sent a body unless it has changed, and which point you actually want it? Or am I still being dense?
The overheads per operation are significant, so I prefer just to get conditional GETs and no HEADs at all as a baseline. https://www.earth.org.uk/RSS-efficiency.html

2024-08-28 14:50:39 UTC

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I may still not be understanding! Other than feeds that you know to be broken, why not just do a conditional GET only?

2024-08-28 13:43:43 UTC

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Why do a HEAD and then a GET, especially if you have IMS/ETag? That doubles the request/hit load for a client.

2024-08-28 13:37:05 UTC

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Do you poll slower when Cache-Control max-age indicates to, or skip polls entirely on skipHours and skipDays? Asking for a friend! B^>

2024-08-19 20:45:13 UTC

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Q: what TTL did you typically have on your A records?

2024-08-19 20:33:11 UTC

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I worked my back up the thread because I read "microcache" as "microfiche" ... ahem!
Interesting stuff even if you stuck to current-century tech, thank you!

2024-08-18 15:04:38 UTC

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The Rheology of Cats https://www.science20.com/the_conversation/the_rheology_of_cats_are_they_liquid_or_solid_the_deborah_number_and_how_it_won_an_ig_nobel_prize-237875

2024-08-18 13:58:20 UTC

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maybe you should add Google eyes and occasional random noises that they used to make ...

2024-08-18 11:00:18 UTC

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Woot!

2024-08-18 10:15:09 UTC

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Ah, neat! Is that fully standards supported? Because I very much try to keep my Render Critical Path (eg the head) short but would like to introduce more CSS below the fold for compactness of representation of new stuff, eg tabular, there...

2024-08-17 10:57:09 UTC

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marginally: well-written code is often readable and understandable even if the source language is not well known or at all to the reader. Sometimes flagging the exact language variant may be critical, eg when describing semantic incompatibilities between on C-family variant and another.

2024-08-16 11:01:15 UTC

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I know nothing about it but is some part of the the issue SVN the version control system? (I use SVN for all my local me-only repos, though git for many other things.)

2024-08-16 07:29:27 UTC

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I have used schema.org when wanting to clearly indicate that a bigger fragment is code:
<div itemprop="hasPart" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/SoftwareSourceCode"><pre itemprop="text">
...
</pre></div>
maybe with a
<span itemprop="programmingLanguage">C++</span>
but it has beem clumsy enough that I haven't done it much...

2024-08-15 12:21:17 UTC

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Whatever the theory, I either get lumps of cash when selling bits of my businesses, and being put of the market is generally the worst plan, or I trickle in money every month so that I (a) forget it and (b) don't spend it on beer. Not quite fitting the orthodoxy, but both work!

2024-08-15 11:41:35 UTC

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a somewhat fairer comparison would be dropping the the yearly lump in the middle of the year, else some of the difference is effectively the lost interest that you could have been earning on the cash even in a savings account. (Speaking as someone who spent many years working in the City on derivatives desks!)

2024-08-09 08:52:18 UTC

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Usually remove the link but sometimes put some explanatory text in its place. I may also keep the URL in a comment in case it comes back somehow.
To mitigate this problem I now try to quote just enough text locally that if the link dies that value/meaning is preserved.