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Steve Scott

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UK based geek. Work in application networking. Interests: Photography (Film/Medium Format, Drone), Bike Rider, EV Driver, Home Assistant, Solar (GivEnergy) 🌉 bridged from ⁂ tooter.wishy.co.uk/@wishy, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Well, darling daughter (and also, floffy kitty) definitely isn't keen on this daylight savings nonsense...

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

So, how's cybersecurity awareness month going for everybody?.........

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

My Rolleiflex SL66 often ends up as the bridesmaid to my 6008i. Every so often, I take it out and am reminded that a focal plane shutter, bellows and tilt are rather fun to combo with odd bits of glass. In this case, a front doublet from an indifferent […] [Original post on tooter.wishy.co.uk]

How to describe?... It's a black and white photo of some foliage. Something is wrong, something is very wrong. Every bit of backlight flares like nothing else. While there is a focal point, there is no real focal plane - the plane is actually curved. Everything is very soft, everything is very bokehy, even when it should be in focus.

How to describe?... It's a black and white photo of a Hepworth sculpture. The backlighting flares, the image is soft.

The Hepworth itself is likely

Winged Figure
1961–2
Aluminium with aluminium rods and Isopon
587.5 × 254 × 159.5 cm
Presented by the artist’s daughters, Rachel Kidd and Sarah Bowness, through the Trustees of the Barbara Hepworth Estate and the Art Fund © Bowness.

In 1963 Hepworth’s Winged Figure was unveiled, mounted on the side of the John Lewis department store on Oxford Street in London. This full-scale prototype for the sculpture is nearly six metres tall and forms the centrepiece of the collection of working models gifted by the Hepworth family.

Hepworth was a great admirer of the socialist ethos of John Lewis, a shop that was collectively owned by its workers, and she was attracted by the prominence of the site. The design was praised for embodying ‘the idea of resurgence or aspiration… long associated with the Partnership’.

How to describe?... It's a black and white photo of a Hepworth sculpture. It's so incredibly soft, and vague. Backlighting is eating away at the image, the lens has little control for flare.

The Hepworth itself is likely Spring (Plaster) 1966
Plaster with strings
76.8 x 58.7 x 54.2 cm
Presented by the artist’s daughters, Rachel Kidd and Sarah Bowness, through the Trustees of the Barbara Hepworth Estate and the Art Fund © Bowness.

Spring was cast from an elmwood carving, Oval Form with Strings and Colour, that Hepworth had completed in 1965. Its rounded egg-like form is juxtaposed by the tense elements of the strings that cut through the centre. This contrast between hard and soft, curves and lines, solids and voids is a quintessential aspect of Hepworth’s abstraction.

A bronze version was cast from this plaster with a green-blue patina on the interior, while this work has a white interior that may have been smoothed down after casting.

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

A little oom-killer, as a treat

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

[9/11 Memories] Given it's going around... I was at college at the time, I had come home between lessons as there were long breaks. The announcement that the first tower had been hit came over IRC. I then turned on the Hauppauge TV card. 'well, I guess I can stop wondering how someone […]

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

[Vigil season 2] Well, this is certainly very accurate... Firstly, the best way to defend yourself from polar bears is a rifle with a good sight and a silencer... (In reality, most the guides are using a hunting rifle. No scope is required, you really want to shoot a bear as a last resort […]

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Watching Vigil Season 3. Other than the terrible mando, interesting seeing "Svalbard". They've made it look much less occupied than it is. They've CGI'ed a lot of the town of Longyearbyen out of the University shots, and been very careful with the camera angles for the cableway. "Failed to […]

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Slightly AI Obsessed colleague "You should try OpenJimmy, the responses are lightning fast" Well, technically the solution is somewhat impressive, Llama 3.1 8b burned into an ASIC. That has performance and power consumption benefits. The results, however […] [Original post on tooter.wishy.co.uk]

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Explain how to wire a UK plug

Chat Jimmy
Wiring a UK plug involves a few simple steps. Here's a step-by-step guide:

Important: Before starting, ensure you are familiar with the relevant safety guidelines and regulations for wiring a UK plug. It's always best to consult the original instruction manual or contact a professional if unsure.

Tools and Materials:

UK plug wiring kit or a set of plug wiring terminals

Wire strippers (to remove insulation from the end of the wires)

Plier or wire strippers for twisting the wires

Socket or plug base

UK plug

Soldering iron and solder (if you're soldering the live and neutral wires together)

Step 1: Prepare the Wires

Remove a small amount of insulation from the end of each wire using wire strippers, leaving about 1-2 cm of bare wire at the end.

Twist the wires together using pliers or a wire stripper to form a neat loop at the end.

Step 2: Connect the Live Wire

Identify the live (brown or blue) wire, which is usually connected to the power source.

Connect the live wire to the live terminal on the plug base, ensuring it's securely fastened using a terminal screw.

If you're soldering the live and neutral wires together, do so carefully and securely using a soldering iron and solder.

Step 3: Connect the Neutral Wire

Identify the neutral (black or green/yellow) wire.

Connect the neutral wire to the neutral terminal on the plug base, ensuring it's securely fastened using a terminal screw.

If you're soldering the live and neutral wires together, do so carefully and securely using a soldering iron and solder.

Step 4: Connect the Earth Wire

Identify the earth (green/yellow) wire.

Connect the earth wire to the earth terminal on the plug base, ensuring it's securely fastened using a terminal screw.

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Swapped Unifi docker to Unifi OS Server. I hate the Unifi Flex Mini so much... Did not plan to spend 2+ hours tonight resetting the switch in the loft repeatedly...

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Good news, saw the Magino line today (Ouvrage Hackenberg, would recommend). Bad news, I have grease from the Magino line is on my jeans...

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

It has been many days since the null sector at #emfcamp, however I still have a rave remix of bob the builder as an earworm

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

#emfcamp the Tildagon badge market had some fun stuff

A Tildagon EMF badge, a tradition for hacker events. The Tildagon has modules which can be added. This one is fairly simple, it just side lights some perspex with a binface 'hope'

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

#emfspiders your hacking attempt shall not succeed. I will not let you connect to the world wide web

A tiny EMF spider on a laptop key

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

#EMFCamp parking crew

Inanimate Hobbes with a safety jacket sitting on a camp chair with a radio

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

Hobbes and Tooty are ready for #emfcamp Hobbes has his high vis on, just in case there are volunteering opportunities for a humble tiger

A large Mastodon plushie and a stuffed tiger, which looks very much like inanimate Hobbes from Calvin and Hobbes, wearing a crochet hi Vis jacket

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

AI says this is 98% Dog

A picture of a Ginger can with white paws. Around it is a box marked "dog, 98%, 14058"

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

UK conveyancing reforms "At the heart of the reforms is a shift from paper-dependent administration to a fully digital real-time infrastructure. The Government plans to back digital identity checks, electronic signatures, Al-assisted conveyancing, and secure digital property logbooks to […]

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

New Blog: A guide to EVs for prospective buyers and new owners. (UK focus) www.wishy.co.uk/blog/2026/06/02/a-g…

A guide to EVs (UK) | Steve's Blog

EVs have become popular, but there is quite a lot nobody tells you when you buy. I hope to fill some knowledge gaps and make your experience a little better

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

BBC Archive - 1999: Is BT Holding Back the Internet in Britain? (Newsnight) This is rather fun, we have proper beige box and a CRT monitor LAN parties, Quake, the price of ISDN, and discussions about big bills for being online 1-2 hours a day (as if this is a reasonable maximum) […]

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

Work fun. The E and R keys on my Dell precision workstation are sticky and it's getting on my nerves a little. We buy laptops which require dissemble of the entire laptop (Mainboard, battery, speakers, etc) to replace a service item like a keyboard. It's out of warranty, which means we can't […]

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

[Travel] Thinking cold thoughts today. Getting a little up to speed with kdenlive, which seems perfectly useable. The video is from our trip to Svalbard youtu.be/752ra8c27QE?si=rW2fqwFzaIp…

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

HTTP/403 You have no authority here Jackie Weaver

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

New blog: I replaced my Nest Protect with Aico smoke detectors. Some details for those who need to replace the Nest Protect www.wishy.co.uk/blog/2026/05/05/rep…

Replacing Nest with Aico Smoke Alarms | Steve's Blog

Nest Protect have reached end of life. I've replaced mine with Aico

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

It's really difficult judging code competitions these days (Job related). I feel like the winner vs runners-up are basically just a function of how lucky they were with the LLM RNG and if it chose to do $sillything for them.

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

[Travel Photos - Landscapes] We got back from Svalbard a few weeks ago. (Where is that? Go to the North of Norway, then fly 1.5hrs further) It's quite the wilderness up there. While you'd struggle to go anywhere without a guide, it's wonderful having a […] [Original post on tooter.wishy.co.uk]

Here we have a snow filled landscape. There is a snow covered mountain in the distance, and some reds of sunset in the clouds behind it

Here we have a snow filled landscape. There is a snow covered mountain in the distance. The sun is visible through the thick clouds. It looks otherworldly

Here we have a snow filled landscape. In the distance you can see the remaining mine works (Soon to be removed, as the mine closed in 2025 and policy is to return nature to it's original state). You can also see two large dishes, which is part of the Kjell Henriksen Observatory

Here we have a snow filled landscape. There is a snow covered mountain in the distance, with some pinks of sunset in the background

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

After 7 years, the Schwalbe Marathon Plus finally met its match. Guess I'll have an unintended walking meeting... (The screw was all the way through to the metal)

A rear tyre on a very grubby Brompton with a screw right through the middle of one of the tyres

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

Regraded my @aaisp Openreach FTTP from 550/75 to 1000/115 last week. - Regrade requested on Sunday night, implemented in the early hours of Monday morning, 2 x 1 minute outages over 10 minutes - Speed to Speedtest is consistently gigabit - Speed to most other services not *hugely* improved - […]

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

Year three of Solar in review. - 3.95kw array, 9.5kwh battery. GivEnergy G2 3.6kw Inverter - PV Production -- MSC Prediction 3684 kWh -- Real world production 3722.5 kWh £120 from various incentive schemes £250/month bill down to £64, including running an EV The system is 50% paid back and […]

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026

OH: "I said it was idiotproof, not managerproof"

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

#SolarUK New blog: Adventures in Agile Outbound www.wishy.co.uk/blog/2026/04/12/agi…

Agile Outbound | Steve's Blog

Managing Agile Outbound with Predbat

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

And it looks like Givenergy has appointed administrators... Sigh...

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

[Travel, food (non veggie)] Well, made it to Svalbard without a hitch. We're warming up at what is almost certainly the most northerly Thai restaurant, which is far better than we have any right to expect given the location. Svalbard doesn't require […] [Original post on tooter.wishy.co.uk]

Yum Woon Sen, a Thai dish. The dish is fairly generous, plenty of mince and prawns

Lad Na, Crispy noodles with pork balls.

The Mamiya 6, a medium format range finder, warming up from the cold

View from the restaurant

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

[Travel] LGW-OSL-LYR London-Olso-Longyearbyen is an odd one. You don't need a visa for Longyearbyen, so as long as your baggage is checked through you ask at passport control and they get security to come collect you from a special door and rescan your hand baggage at what is basically a […]

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

Looks like Givenergy Solar are switching from free cloud management to a subscription. They've made mistakes and have lost momentum, so not a huge surprise. Thankfully local access remains available.

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026

A day in London today, went to the Science Museum, While I was a little disappointed with the Star Trek 60 exhibition*, the Water Pantanal Fire had some rather impressive photography, and was practically empty. The exhibition focuses on the wildfires the area (South America, Brazil, Bolivia and […]

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

Wow, LTT bought a private jet... lttjet.com

LTT Jet Tracker — Linus Tech Tips Private Jet C-FXOO

Linus Sebastian's Dassault Falcon 900 (C-FXOO) flight history, fuel costs, and carbon emissions. Operated by Linus Media Group / Influence Air.

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75epy1… - "Parking machines removed as car parks go cashless" The ring go transaction fee is not a convenience fee if it's the only payment option!

Parking machines removed in Slough as car parks go cashless

The removal of parking payment machines across Slough begins at the end of March.

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

Energy rates are high right now, so I'm experimenting with Agile Outgoing, which has been higher than fixed rate pretty much all day for the past week. Predbat has picked up the tarrif changes, and now it has plans for my little solar setup: Export […] [Original post on tooter.wishy.co.uk]

A predbat plan. There is a chart which shows the expected energy use, the predicted solar and the resulting State of Charge for the battery. I've explained the plan itself in the main toot

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026

Blog: I've been using a self-hosted instance of LanguageTool to make my written language more readable. A short write-up www.wishy.co.uk/blog/2026/03/06/lan…

LanguageTool - Self Hosted Grammar plugin | Steve's Blog

LanguageTool offers multilingual spelling and grammar checking, and can be self-hosted

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026

Yay, EMF tickets bought. There are benefits to volunteering!

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

If you have GivEnergy, Fox or Sigenergy #solar #PV kit, Axle VPP has been working pretty well for the last month, and I feel reasonably confident recommending it. www.wishy.co.uk/blog/2026/02/01/axl…

Axle Virtual Power Plant | Steve's Blog

Discussion of the Axle VPP system for home battery owners

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

Today I learned about the Sigenergy "Safe Operation Mode", whereby the system will restrict the battery depth of discharge (You can use only 10-90%) if the system doesn't connect to the Sig cloud after 90 days. I'll bet you they've not tested that properly, and the BMS SoC calculation ends up […]

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025

Well, first time I've hosed by Linux install as a Linux desktop user. Mint Timeshift got me back running without drama or dataloss.

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025

Decided to upgrade one of my Proxmox nodes to a shiny kaby lake i7 because I'm unlikely to feel that I can justify buying 64gb-96gb of DDR5 any time, and 64g of DDR4 on a quad is enough to survive for a week if the bigger Ultra 5 265k goes pop... Love how easy it is to shut down a node in my 2 […]

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

We need a pick new names for the meeting rooms in our UK offices of a US company. Good ideas seem hard to come by (it'll likely be something generic). But *bad* ideas, now those we could have fun with - Famous UK trains (By BR TOPS number only) - UK Soaps (Rikki and Bianca to be placed next to […]

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 08/12/2025

RIP Martin Parr :( www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/20… (UK Centric) "I am Martin Parr" is on iPlayer, and is well worth a watch www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002j…

I Am Martin Parr

Discover the maverick behind some of the most iconic images of the past century on an intimate and exclusive road trip with a photographer whose work has revolutionised contemporary photography.

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2025

It's funny how you expect trouble with some things because that's just what you're used to. Today I needed to connect to a box via console. I normally do that from my work windows machine, and it's an arseache of drivers which aren't signed, oh that model only supports windows 7 and soforth […]

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 29/11/2025

So, ordered a Home Assistant ZWA-2 and ZBT-2 controller to replace a Aeotec Z-StickGen5+ and ZBT-1 Respectively. ZBT-2: Replacement was dead easy. We now have all of the Zigbee nodes accessible directly from the controller, and I'm hoping this significantly improves responsiveness and […]

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

@revk spotted this on Reddit, is this actually you, just surprised that you'd build a page and not reference it on GitHub. And the au domain feels weird...

Reddit advert for falkin.au

Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 20/11/2025

Well, it took about 3 weeks to notice that a Debian Bookworm update broke IPv4 outbound from my DMZ. IPv6 is getting there I guess! (net.ipv4.ip_forward seemed to revert to 0 on my reverse proxy VM)