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Home electricity – 1 year update

Sat 10 May 2025 peter Computing

A year or so ago I presented How to reduce your electricity bill to zero talk – it’s now been running for a year, so time to check progress. Unfortunately,[…]

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IPv4 and IPv6 addresses followup

Tue 15 Apr 2025 peter Computing

Firstly, thank you for your patience as we tried kmeet/jitsi. Whilst a lot of it did work, and it has a number of advantages over zoom, I think we can[…]

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How generative AI works – followup

Tue 18 Mar 2025 peter Computing

This month we look at Generative AI, including a bit of history, opening the pandoras box, how they work and how they compare. Will include a demo or two. If[…]

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Is it time to move to the fediverse – followup

Tue 18 Feb 2025 peter Computing

Regular social media has been a source of concern for many years, with specific concerns around data gathering, profiling and hidden algorithms used to sell more ads. In 2016 the[…]

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Tuya as a component in my Smart Home – followup

Tue 21 Jan 2025 peter Computing

In todays talk, Peter Weston will be taking us through how he uses Tuya devices in his smart home.  We will also cover some of the protocols used in home[…]

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Animal and bird spotting with Science and Technology – followup

Tue 15 Aug 2023 peter Computing

This is the followup post to the on-line meeting containing the materials used. Chaired by Peter Lord of Wokingham U3A we will start with a general discussion about expectations and[…]

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