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A tale of being hacked

What a night. Last night I had a notification from Microsoft that my youngest son (nearly 15 years old) "is no longer in your family group", an hour or so before id received notification he had installed the Canon printing app (not a surprise as…

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Fake SSD's, still a hidden bargain?

So there is a great charity shop near me called "Newlife Plus", they seem to mostly sell amazon/retailer returns, imperfects and end of line products. They sell most items at one of a few price points £1.99, £2.49, £3.49 and £4.99. They do various multi-buy…

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PFSense, Dynamic DNS and Gandi

I had been using DuckDNS, to provide dynamic DNS access to my home network, however thanks to a notification I missed (or did not receive) I found out that Reddit withdrew the ability to sign in to DuckDNS with their API last year, and I…

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Energy Prices in the UK

Yup, the UK is going through a energy cost crisis, my provider (octopus energy) has always been pretty good, and is still the 'cheapest' at least based on the median of the past 5 years of usage My cost for the last few years has…

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