Richard Kay
@copsewood.net
Done cyber, teaching, networking. Doing community currencies. Love worship music, country walks, and making wine, cider and beer. A list of my other social media profiles is here: https://copsewood.net/mastodon.html
If you want tasty salad tomatoes from October through to March, grow your own, harvest them slightly green or very green before the first frost, and put them on cardboard in a cool light medium dry place over winter, selecting the reddish ones for consumption twice a week.
January 15, 2026 at 11:12 PM
If you want tasty salad tomatoes from October through to March, grow your own, harvest them slightly green or very green before the first frost, and put them on cardboard in a cool light medium dry place over winter, selecting the reddish ones for consumption twice a week.
There are many small operators of services in the mobile phone business e.g. reselling capacity on networks they don't own. If selling network services can float your boat, renting your own cloud server starts very cheap for quite a powerful virtual host.
January 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
There are many small operators of services in the mobile phone business e.g. reselling capacity on networks they don't own. If selling network services can float your boat, renting your own cloud server starts very cheap for quite a powerful virtual host.
My Vestas shares lost more than half their value after I bought them. They've now mostly recovered. Sustainability means people can invest based on a long term expectation that risk is compensated by getting a little more than is obtained by leaving the money in the bank.
January 14, 2026 at 9:51 AM
My Vestas shares lost more than half their value after I bought them. They've now mostly recovered. Sustainability means people can invest based on a long term expectation that risk is compensated by getting a little more than is obtained by leaving the money in the bank.
I don't think OFCOM will be allowed to let this one drag on for as long as the "investigation" they started 2 and a half years ago concerning Virgin Media refusing customer demands to terminate service, and then continuing to bill ex customers, ignore their complaints and send debt collectors.
January 13, 2026 at 5:45 PM
I don't think OFCOM will be allowed to let this one drag on for as long as the "investigation" they started 2 and a half years ago concerning Virgin Media refusing customer demands to terminate service, and then continuing to bill ex customers, ignore their complaints and send debt collectors.
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Cartoon by Mike Luckovich
January 11, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Cartoon by Mike Luckovich
Is any major EV maker seeing declining sales apart from Tesla ? EVs seem increasingly popular. The Tesla CEO is not.
January 4, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Is any major EV maker seeing declining sales apart from Tesla ? EVs seem increasingly popular. The Tesla CEO is not.
Northern Europe is becoming increasingly well interconnected in order to make best use of renewable resources. Same applies to strengthening the UK grid and interconnecting to the Continent and Ireland, so less Scottish renewable electricity will be wasted.
January 4, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Northern Europe is becoming increasingly well interconnected in order to make best use of renewable resources. Same applies to strengthening the UK grid and interconnecting to the Continent and Ireland, so less Scottish renewable electricity will be wasted.
Did you look at the trophy carefully Robert ? If you didn't get it, have another look. I saw grasping clawing, greedy hands tearing the world apart. The artist who made it knew exactly what they were doing, knowing that all Trump would see was more golden bling.
Not artistically meaningless.
Not artistically meaningless.
January 3, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Did you look at the trophy carefully Robert ? If you didn't get it, have another look. I saw grasping clawing, greedy hands tearing the world apart. The artist who made it knew exactly what they were doing, knowing that all Trump would see was more golden bling.
Not artistically meaningless.
Not artistically meaningless.
New Linux users will gain more by learning how to customise any popular distro by installing packages and applications and changing default options (e.g. desktop manager), than if they waste time trying and comparing half a dozen different distros. Debian is a great medium-long term choice.
January 2, 2026 at 5:31 PM
New Linux users will gain more by learning how to customise any popular distro by installing packages and applications and changing default options (e.g. desktop manager), than if they waste time trying and comparing half a dozen different distros. Debian is a great medium-long term choice.
Linux was good for what I used it for by the mid nineties. I've used it ever since, now on a range of hardware from tiny embedded routers to desktops to cloud servers. Knowing Unix admin and programming by the time Linux was useful enabled this knowledge to be applied to much cheaper hardware.
January 2, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Linux was good for what I used it for by the mid nineties. I've used it ever since, now on a range of hardware from tiny embedded routers to desktops to cloud servers. Knowing Unix admin and programming by the time Linux was useful enabled this knowledge to be applied to much cheaper hardware.
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The bigger the flames, the greater the collateral damage to nearby infrastructure and the longer that takes to be repaired. The bigger the flames, the sooner their energy source is depleted.
December 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The bigger the flames, the greater the collateral damage to nearby infrastructure and the longer that takes to be repaired. The bigger the flames, the sooner their energy source is depleted.
Bill Clinton was at the G8 in Birmingham UK in 1998 when I was at The Other Economic Summit - a parallel alternative economics event. Not known to me, he visited a local pub for a pint which I must have walked past close to when he was there on my way back to the railway station.
December 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Bill Clinton was at the G8 in Birmingham UK in 1998 when I was at The Other Economic Summit - a parallel alternative economics event. Not known to me, he visited a local pub for a pint which I must have walked past close to when he was there on my way back to the railway station.
For those who want to work on kernels or device drivers, or on small embedded systems which don't support higher level programming and where the programming needs to be closer to the iron, probably yes. Not a bad language if you want to develop efficient interpreters & compilers for other languages.
December 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
For those who want to work on kernels or device drivers, or on small embedded systems which don't support higher level programming and where the programming needs to be closer to the iron, probably yes. Not a bad language if you want to develop efficient interpreters & compilers for other languages.
A reason for not assassinating a head of government at war would concern the problem of who you negotiate with in a headless government. I think that argument is invalidated by Putin's unwillingness to negotiate anything other than Ukraine's surrender & his government collapse would end the war.
December 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A reason for not assassinating a head of government at war would concern the problem of who you negotiate with in a headless government. I think that argument is invalidated by Putin's unwillingness to negotiate anything other than Ukraine's surrender & his government collapse would end the war.
If you're a writer, musician or other content creator, don't sign away exclusive rights as effective until you receive the cleared funds negotiated.
December 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
If you're a writer, musician or other content creator, don't sign away exclusive rights as effective until you receive the cleared funds negotiated.
Half the electricity used to charge an EV is saved by not having to refine the fossil fuel.
December 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Half the electricity used to charge an EV is saved by not having to refine the fossil fuel.
I'd guess that's proportion of new vehicle sales, not yet proportion of cars on the road.
December 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I'd guess that's proportion of new vehicle sales, not yet proportion of cars on the road.
It's because EVs are moving from an expensive niche market to mass market. Similar things were happening in relation to resale values of computers which were expensive 12-18 months previously in the nineties for the same reasons - the newer ones are both better and cheaper.
December 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It's because EVs are moving from an expensive niche market to mass market. Similar things were happening in relation to resale values of computers which were expensive 12-18 months previously in the nineties for the same reasons - the newer ones are both better and cheaper.
You think the Federal $bond market would ride that one ?
December 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
You think the Federal $bond market would ride that one ?
The Coventry Motor Museum is relocating to larger premises by taking over the ex IKEA furniture warehouse. It's unlikely their already very large pre WW2 collection will expand much, but more post WW2 cars are being considered classic. Newer generations of enthusiasts for legacy transport enthuse.
December 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The Coventry Motor Museum is relocating to larger premises by taking over the ex IKEA furniture warehouse. It's unlikely their already very large pre WW2 collection will expand much, but more post WW2 cars are being considered classic. Newer generations of enthusiasts for legacy transport enthuse.
Should only be bookable only by provisional license holder using a reference given by a registered driving school or instructor asserting student will be at a suitable standard by the test date. Driving schools/instructors misusing too many assertions lose their registration.
December 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Should only be bookable only by provisional license holder using a reference given by a registered driving school or instructor asserting student will be at a suitable standard by the test date. Driving schools/instructors misusing too many assertions lose their registration.
It's an interesting trade off considering costs of district heating using combined thermal storage and hot water supply to individual homes, or provisioning homes with heat pumps individually. Some system thermal storage seems useful either way, as this enables use of renewable electricity peaks.
December 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
It's an interesting trade off considering costs of district heating using combined thermal storage and hot water supply to individual homes, or provisioning homes with heat pumps individually. Some system thermal storage seems useful either way, as this enables use of renewable electricity peaks.
Will anyone still want to buy new ICE vehicles by 2035, when there are as many EVs as ICE on the road, half the filling stations now open have closed, fuel prices increase without limit, and ULEZ are in all major urban areas ? Elimination of the horse and cart also resulted from market forces.
December 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Will anyone still want to buy new ICE vehicles by 2035, when there are as many EVs as ICE on the road, half the filling stations now open have closed, fuel prices increase without limit, and ULEZ are in all major urban areas ? Elimination of the horse and cart also resulted from market forces.
Even worse news for the US tourist industry already damaged by customers spending their money in more welcoming countries where they're less likely to be thrown into a foreign hell hole of a jail for weeks on arrival.
December 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Even worse news for the US tourist industry already damaged by customers spending their money in more welcoming countries where they're less likely to be thrown into a foreign hell hole of a jail for weeks on arrival.