Notices by Simon Phipps (webmink@meshed.cloud), page 2

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@Edent
Mine took several days.

Whatever you do, don't say Lizz Truss "crashed the economy" as she claims saying it harms her reputation. Whatever that is...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/09/liz-truss-sends-legal-letter-ordering-starmer-to-stop-saying-she-crashed-economy

@Edent Are you a member at https://forum.octopus.energy/ yet?

@Edent For example, https://api.octopus.energy/v1/products/AGILE-BB-24-10-01/electricity-tariffs/E-1R-AGILE-BB-24-10-01-H/standard-unit-rates/ seems to track the same prices as the tariff the API reports for us.

@Edent Try:
curl -u "sk_live_Your_API_Key" "https://api.octopus.energy/v1/accounts/A-YourAcctNumber/" with the obvious substitutions.

This will return JSON with all your location details - look for the active tariff in the result.

@kcoyle I don't believe there is, not least because organisations like ETSI and OASIS flourish without it. But ISO and the rest of the national standards organisation hierarchy take it as given.

Note that, like the equally dodgy example of academic publishing, the funding of de jure standards development is not connected with the funding of the publication mechanism. I suspect this is the thing that's about to have to be brought blinking into the daylight.

@carlmalamud

@carlmalamud I have sensed no appetite for voluntary compromise of any kind, and the lawsuit signals that. That attitude mirrors the view among SEP-dependent legacy corporations (who also seem to support ISO's view) that any accommodation of open source is a step too far. Heck, if you can read the standards for free you might want to implement them for free too.

@carlmalamud It's excellent timing as the EU is currently deciding whether regulation 1025/2012 needs revision. This case makes it exceptionally clear that, whatever the outcome of the case, a change is definitely needed to ensure harmonised standards are freely available as the law requires.

@daniel No, the Unit Rates URL on https://octopus.energy/dashboard/new/accounts/personal-details/api-access is showing the wrong tariff code - I gather Octopus now know and will fix it.

@daniel They are, I think they are using the account API to get the tariff.

I found discussion of the problem on the #Octopus forum: https://forum.octopus.energy/t/agile-api-prices-very-late-today/11338/20

@daniel OK, I had a reply from Phil at #Octopus who tells me we are on tariff BB-24-04-03 and that the info at https://octopus.energy/dashboard/new/accounts/personal-details/api-access is actually wrong!

@daniel I may be wrong of course - my API page still shows the old tariff - but I did not find it listed at https://api.octopus.energy/v1/products/ so picked the most likely suspect and found the prices matched the ones in the Octopus Android app...

@daniel As far as I can tell #Octopus has silently changed the tariff to AGILE-24-10-01 so I have changed my displays to use https://api.octopus.energy/v1/products/AGILE-24-10-01/electricity-tariffs/E-1R-AGILE-24-10-01-H/standard-unit-rates/

No reply from Octopus themselves yet though.

Do I have any UK followers who use #Octopus energy, are on the Agile tariff and access it via the REST API? It seems to be returning no new data since 11pm last night...

https://api.octopus.energy/v1/products/AGILE-FLEX-22-11-25/electricity-tariffs/E-1R-AGILE-FLEX-22-11-25-H/standard-unit-rates/?period_from=2025-01-02T00:00Z&period_to=2025-01-03T00:00Z

From today, consumer electronics sold in #Europe must use USB-C connectors

https://commission.europa.eu/news/eu-common-charger-rules-power-all-your-devices-single-charger-2024-12-28_en

Thanks @EUCommission - now time to fix the inherent patent problems in rules like this

https://opensource.org/blog/standards-and-the-presumption-of-conformity

#Standards #Policy

Great to see all the improvements @CollaboraOffice are putting into the @libreoffice project.

https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/what-we-achieved-together-in-2024/

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #LibreOffice

Our team is growing, that’s why the Sovereign Tech Agency is looking for a public interest technologist to join the Tech & Investments team:

https://www.sovereign.tech/jobs/technologist

Still sad for the loss of Bob Lee but at least his murderer has been convicted.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/us/nima-momeni-verdict-bob-lee-killing.html

#Java

If you would like to join the Expert Group advising the @EUCommission on the .eu domain, see this document. Deadline is Jan 14.

https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/core/api/front/calls-application/112178/download