Exciting times: new bed coming tomorrow!

If the CEO of NVIDIA has had multiple affairs with officers of far eastern intelligence services, is this an example of Chinese five spies?

If the UK government does proceed with a ban on children under 16 using online shopping sites like eBay - which might entail age verification for everyone in the UK for eBay - then those who feared that UK online safety policy was the start of a slippery slope would seem to be correct.

I can't imagine anyone proposing, with a straight face, that children should be banned from markets, car boot sales, or second hand shops.

#OnlineSafetyAct

Who wants a blogpost on the new subscription rules, which are due - unless plans change - to come into force in the UK on 1 January 2027?

New rights to cancel, a requirement to be able to terminate online-originated subscriptions online (i.e. not having to phone to cancel!), and more.

Don't all clamour at once.

New blogpost:

"Automating renewal of Let's Encrypt certificates with Home Assistant OS"

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/11/automating-renewal-of-let-s-encrypt-certificates-with-home-assistant-os/

#HomeAssistant #HAOS #selfhosting

It looks like Github is having a moment...

Sandra has just spotted The Mouse in the kitchen.

I thought that it had moved on.

Traps (humane) are deployed.

Let's see if I am successful with my mouse catching tonight...

I always thought of Nerf as a running-around-in-the-garden kind of thing.

Today, I met some people with some properly cool Nerf gear, aimed at adults / more serious players. High pressure air blasters, magazine-fed semi and full automatic blasters and the like.

I'd rather like to give it a go some point!

The Cybertruck is no longer for sale?

What will I do if I ever want a car which looks like a metal doorstop?!

I am baffled by our heat pump, and why it is heating even though it is not a time that it should be heating, and that it is already hotter than the temperature to which it should be heating.

Tomorrow, I need to read some manuals, and work out what is going on.

It looks like a Shelly 1, fitted into a ceiling lamp, has popped :(

(At least, it is no longer addressable over IP.)

Aargh.

It doesn't matter that you've had sex with them before.

It doesn't matter that they came back to your place.

It doesn't matter that they agreed to something else.

It doesn't matter how they are dressed.

It doesn't matter that they previously agreed to that specific thing.

It doesn't matter that you are in the midst of something consensual and they changed their mind.

It doesn't matter that their "no" isn't forceful or violent or accompanied by them leaving.

Clear, enthusiastic, ongoing consent is both sexy and vital.

I fear that there will be some *dreadful* takes on consent (elsewhere) following Brand's conviction.