Unless i'm reading this wrong I'm pretty sure i already have this in the UK nad have done for years. What's the trial even for...

It’s not currently happening in the UK.

A lot of wind power is generated in Scotland, for example. The power conduits that transmit power along the country can often not deliver all of that power to the South on a windy day. There is an excess of power in the north but the wind farms cannot deliver it, they are not paid to generate power so they switch their wind turbines off, even though there is wind available to capture.

This new test means that wind farms will not switch off in such conditions and electricity prices will be allowed to fall to zero, but only for those in the local area.

Are you sure?

The Octopus subreddit seem pretty convinced they get negative pricing when its windy.

It’s not the same thing. Customers on some of Octopus’ tariffs get occasional zero or negative pricing to spur demand that can help balance the grid or reduce curtailment.

This trial is different. I think the real goal is to incentivise local communities to support the construction of wind farms. If you have a wind farm nearby, surplus generation is used to supply you with free power when otherwise the turbines would have been curtailed.

Economic rocket fuel lands in Dover most mornings, it'll balance out. - Ed Miliband 2026 (probably)

Factorio mega basing just found a new ceiling.

I'm curious to see if that is true. The maximum amount of cache addressable per core didn't increase after all.

Reminds me of Fitbit using heartrate to approximately guess calories used.

I'm told with a lengthy night on uppers can you can get your 24/hr burn up to the 7000-10000.

I was doing support for a fitness data aggregator where a partner reported an issue: a user logging 15k+ steps between 9pm and 4am with minimal location delta. Sadly I wasn't able to push a "stay hydrated" notification over our system to the user.

Billy Boy from the Island can use commercial satellites to map mud huts for his vaccine NGO, i'm sure any nation state can find a few quid to locate a war ship.

After bending over backwards for US media companies in the 2000s they thought it went both ways, turns out it doesn't.

Oh well, the uncensored web from my NL VPN still looks the same.

NL VPNs will bend the knee to EU regulation

One click its Algeria, or Singapore, or Canada.

We can move much faster then they can legislate.

First they came for the websites but I used vpns

Then they came for vpn clients but I used free software

Then they came for the payment methods but I used bitcoin

Then they blocked UDP at the isp but I used satelites doe linked elsewhere

Then they just came for me but nobody cared as nobody else was affected

I mean, IP meant a lot more in 2006 than in it does now in 2026. The IP economy has basically died, so of course IP/Data based trade deals no longer make sense.

Now you see, the only country to have used a nuclear weapon in anger also elected itself as world arbitrator of who gets energy and who doesn't, because reasons.

Every country should be speed running nuclear tech as fast as possible if only to scare the freedom fighters away...

META rumoured to be purging by Tuesday.

Calls locked in.

Is that the only reason they announced it early?

> As of early 2026, the minimum wage in the Philippines is set daily rather than hourly and varies by region, with a common daily minimum of approximately 695 PHP in some sectors, often equating to less than $2 USD per hour

Pretty much any Wagie job?

This is disappointing.... Last year i noticed large chunks of my life were being monitored via many spreadsheets and i endeavoured to bring them all together in to one Oracle DB. My plan was to eventually put some ui and graphing on top very similar to OP but seeing this is making me think twice.