Mark Deakin
@markdeakin
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Love Technology. Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer
Reading, UK
Joined February 2009
Automations setup for #FreeElectricity hour (and two hours tomorrow) with @OctopusEnergy . Home Assistant will switch on the car, charge the house battery and switch in the immersion. Even exported some of the battery a few hours before to make space :)
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Miles has now crossed 220k Never broken down Original brakes, paint, glass. No squeaks, no rattles, drives perfectly. 6 sets of tyres. 2 sets wiper blades, 2 cabin filters, 1x front pair and 1x rear suspension bushes is the maintenance so far Boot strut O ring replaced.
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MINISTRY OF SOUND CLASSICAL with PAUL OAKENFOLD, DAVID MORALES, JUDGE JULES & FISH56OCTAGON. Englefield Estate, near Reading on Fri 18th July 2025!:
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If you need some content to share with customers about 'todays' Cyber Security threat, it might be worth taking a look at the MSP Threat Report below. https://t.co/adNNNDHsdM
#cybersecurity #MSPThreatReport #MSP #ConnectWise #AI #Cybersecurity #MSPCommunity #MSPPlatform
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Thanks to @Telegraph for publishing my letter last week - correcting the record for Matthew Lynn after his column yesterday said “sales of EVs have stalled” Once more for those at the back: sales have grown, not stalled. Here’s the evidence 🧵 https://t.co/ZuECEHH9LB
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This is crazy. The energy system needs reform so this sort of thing doesn’t happen. While we are at it, let’s remove the connect between energy production bids and gas
We need market reform to stop relentless price cap rises. It cost billpayers £100m to turn off wind farms in the last week. No wonder generators don't want locational pricing. This isn't Octopus vs incumbents, it's consumers vs producers. https://t.co/IxVWM0911Y
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Looks like @HalifaxBank give you cash back on a heat pump if you have a mortgage with them. Quite tempted to move from @NatWest_Help who don’t have anything like this! Worth looking into for anyone looking to make their house greener
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Headline... "Going green cost more than they bargained for" Facts: 1. It was a schedule 30mins wrong (poss hardware issue) 2. THE TOTAL COST DIFFERENCE WAS £1.47 and refunded immediately 3. In 3 months, total cost £100 vs £300 on std tariff 4. IT'S 6x CHEAPER THAN PETROL
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Microsoft, starting this month, are requiring all admin accounts to have MFA when access an admin portal. I am most partners have this in place, but here is one way you can check,
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Automate Microsoft 365 data backup, restore & migration. Protect cloud workloads with trusted SaaS data protection tools.
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Another ‘free electric’ hour tomorrow from @OctopusEnergy. It’s gonna be windy so we don’t want @neso_energy asking paying people to switch off the wind turbines!
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Thread of the most epic moments from SpaceX Starship’s launches 🧵 1. Starship’s 33 Raptor engines in full power
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Sounds as if their may be less DFS (Demand Flexibility Service) opportunities this year :(
To help the energy industry plan ahead, we’ve published our Winter Outlook report for 2024/25. Margins are expected to be adequate this winter, and the highest forecast since 2019/20, largely from new interconnection, battery storage capacity and increased generation connected
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Oh nice. My @ShellyUK_com energy monitors now integrate with my @getlametric sitting in the kitchen. I was using @home_assistant as a middle man but native is better!
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Take control of your energy production and consumption with our innovative app, designed to transform your LaMetric device into a real-time energy monitoring hub. Seamlessly display live energy data...
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Keep Calm and Carry On – Enabling Business Continuity with new Cross-User Restorations for SkyKick Cloud Backup https://t.co/DG4qnChXFD > Now you can restore all of a users data when they leave into another users mailbox, OneDrive etc
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Automate Microsoft 365 data backup, restore & migration. Protect cloud workloads with trusted SaaS data protection tools.
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The day our reliance on coal for electricity generation ended after 142 years!
This is the moment Ratcliffe power station came off the electricity system for the final time, marking the end of 142 years of coal generating electricity in Great Britain!
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This is the moment Ratcliffe power station came off the electricity system for the final time, marking the end of 142 years of coal generating electricity in Great Britain!
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The UK says goodbye to coal production https://t.co/7sMywydbfm > Some of you might know I am a bit of a ‘national grid nerd’. This is quite an big moment for the UK energy mix.
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The UK opened the world's first coal power plant nearly 150 years ago.
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Just sponsored @BottlecapDave because I use his @OctopusEnergy Home Assistant integration. It's quite simply epic!
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Support the open source work for BottlecapDave
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Manage to secure £2.39 of #FreeElectricity with @OctopusEnergy on Thursday 15th of August. Surplus production meant it would 'go to waste' I.e curtailed. Car charging and Battery charging helped me make the most of it.
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