Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

"For 18 months, residents of a village in Wales have been mystified as to why their broadband internet crashed every morning.

Now engineers have finally identified the reason: A second-hand television that emitted a signal that interfered with the connection."

https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/ixlwdv/an_entire_village_lost_its_broadband_at_the_same/

#Facebook says it may quit #Europe over ban on sharing #data with #US | #Technology | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/sep/22/facebook-says-it-may-quit-europe-over-ban-on-sharing-data-with-us

#Privacy #DataProtection

Got a laptop running with Linux as primary OS? This might help improve your battery performance.

https://linrunner.de/tlp/index.html

The Isle of Arran was looking particularly beautiful this morning.

Man it always amazes me how little engineers really understand when you go beyond the points they were taught to parrot... Engineers need better science and theory background in almost every field...

Shocking state of #English #rivers revealed as all of them fail #pollution tests | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/17/rivers-in-england-fail-pollution-tests-due-to-sewage-and-chemicals

#Water #Wildlife #Ecology

If laziness was an Olympic discipline, I would probably come in fourth: can't be bothered climbing up that podium.

I lost 24 lbs in 35 days so far.. was stalled for about a week there but after increasing my water intake I shot down pretty quick and am back on track!

Just made some #Gazpacho soup for lunch. Luckily it’s a warm day and so it was just right. Adding a bit #cumin and #chilli added a bit of zest to it.

Shout out to @nina for the suggestion.

Cleaning the hackspace's doors with IPA to get rid of all the sticky residue... as one does on a Saturday night at 1am.