STEM Events – October 2025
Exeter Pi Jam, Exeter Library. Sat 4th October 2025 10am to 12 FSF 40 years – October 4, 2025 Windows 10 End of Life October 14th 2025 Tinkerers – Saturday 25th October 2025
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Torbay Tinkerers Meeting Saturday 27th September 2025
9:30 am to 12:00
STEAM Café & Discovery Centre, 13 Torbay Road, Paignton, Devon
There is a page for this on my new website
I am in the DCLUG Matrix room, I can answer questions there, I will then reply when I see the message.
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STEM Events – September 2025
- Women's Rugby world cup 22nd August- 27th September
- Exeter Pi Jam, Exeter Library. Sat 6th September 2024 10am to 12
- Software Freedom Day, Saturday 20th September 2025
- Tinkerers – Saturday 27th September 2025
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Weather logging data sets
I am going to just run this script at weekends, so all the data is uploaded as soon as I can after collection. Once transferred to the gopher server, the data is deleted from the Raspberry Pi.
gopher://gopher.vern.cc/1/~zleap
[42] Weather data June 9th 2025
[43] Weather data June 10th 2025
[44] Weather data July 5th 2025
[45] Weather data July 6th 2025
[46] Weather data July 12th 2025
[47] Weather data July 13th 2025
As previously stated, all this is provided 'as is'. I have no intention, at this present time, of sharing by other means.
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Lions vs First Nations & Pasifika XV
22/07/2025 First Nations & Pasifika XV v The Lions Melbourne Marvel Stadium 8:00pm 11:00am
Lions 24 19 First Nations & Pasifika XV
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UEFA Women's Euro 2025
England 2-1 Italy 20:00 Tuesday 22nd July
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#Soccer,#Womens,#Euro25,#SemiFinal
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Tinkerers Meeting – July 2025
The next meeting of the Tor bay Tinkerers group will be on Saturday 26th July 2025 from 9:30am
We meet at:-
STEAM Café & Discovery Centre 13 Torbay Road, Paignton.
Last meeting we spent some time looking at the Lego Robots, which are located in what was the Hyperspace Café in Victoria Square. (2 mins walk from the STEAM Café). By the time of this meeting they should be good to go with the space set up for the planned events, or at least early stages of that.
So time will probably be split between STEAM and the other venue. You will need to ASK at the counter, as we will let staff know we intend to go.
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Lions vs Wallabies
19/07/2025 Wallabies 19-27 The Lions Brisbane, Suncorp Stadium
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#Sport,#RugbyUnion,#Lions,#Tour
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Weather logging
So been experimenting with some of the options for ansiweather, partly as schools need to teach data logging as part of the national curriculum computing, however not all schools have the kit required.
As I have this running on a Raspberry Pi, I thought it may be possible to set one up to log just the location and temperature.
ansiweather -l paignton -p false -h false -w false -i false >temponly.txt
so the above will display the location and temperature, but exclude pressure, humidity, wind and UV index.
now=$(date +"%m_%d_%Y")
echo "Filename : /nas/backup_$weather.csv"
echo $(date "+ %D, %T"), $(ansiweather -l Paignton -a false) >> weather_$now.csv
Control what is sent to stdout.
now=$(date +"%m_%d_%Y")
echo "Filename : /nas/backup_$weather.csv"
echo $(date "+ %D, %T"), $(ansiweather -l torquay -p false -h false -w false -i false) >> torquay_$now.csv
Final script
now=$(date +"%m_%d_%Y")
echo "Filename : /nas/backup_$weather.csv"
echo $(date "+ %D, %T"), $(ansiweather -l torquay -p false -h false -w false -i false) >> torquay_$now.csv
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#Bash,#BashScripting,#Logging,#Data
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Localhost tracking
This seems to be the latest tactic META are using to track users without their consent. Potentially a violation of at least 3 laws in the EU.
“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.
GDPR, DMA, and DSA protect different legal interests, so the penalties under each can be imposed cumulatively.*
Update, well sort of, Meta is now going to use unpublished photos to train AI.
So as the article states, check the terms and conditions and keep checking back.
Update 16/7/2025
Now ask your self, are your WhatsApp messages really private. Critical thinking ftw.
There are alternatives.
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#Tracking,#Meta,#GDPR,#DSA,#DMA,#Privacy,#AITraining
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