Tim Panton

Corners of the internet are still strangely wonderful.

Late last night I joined @susankayequinn@wandering.shop 's "solar punk book club" meeting and had a lovely time discussing "The Ministry Of The Future" with a range of folks from around the world.

I'd seen that it was happening here on the fediverse and decided to read the book and join.

To cap it, we used jitsi.org - written in part by my friend @s@fedi.saghul.net .

None of this would have been possible 15 years ago.

10 years ago, I bought a second hand ev. It was 4 years old and had massively depreciated. I planned to use it as a runabout, for trips to the airport, shops etc for a year or two until the battery gave out.

Yesterday 3 of us did a comfortable air conditioned 35 mile trip in it, parked it on a charger, did our errands, had lunch and tootled back an additional 35 motorway miles.

The range is 20% down on what it was when I got it, but still useful.

One of my best investments :-)

I just checked in * on one of our prototype cameras - to find it is traveling at 303km/h in southern France whilst streaming 1080p video.

* From my Berlin sofa - with a coffee.
It's a funny old world.

I have a 'smart' power socket which switches a single thing on and off once a day.

I set it up by pairing it to a temporary wifi access point that _isn't_ shared with anything else (partly because I don't trust it and partly because it sits on the very edge of wifi).

Every now and then it forgets what it is doing and switches on at a 'random' time.

I suspect it is sulking because it can't talk to the mothership (or NTP?).

Anyone else experienced this ?

#internetofshit

Rabbert the (vegan) chocolate rabbit (correctly) fears the worst....

https://www.hotelchocolat.com/uk/vegan-rabbert-hollow-tiddly-pot.html