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About Us

graphic proclaiming No to AI Welcome to my web site! I'm Peter Garner, a retired software guy but still a full-time Geek. The site's hosted on a cheap VPS located somewhere in the UK and incorporates a very active Gopher server (see below). I also write a blog. This is primarily a technical site, but I do have other interests, such as beer, coffee, home-baked bread, walking/hiking and Paganism (Pantheism). I live in Calderdale, West Yorkshire with a hyperactive rescue Wire-haired Fox Terrier. Enjoy the site, and remember folks, this site is 100% human-created and maintained, with no AI slop to be found.

What I'm Up To, Right Now

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Blog Content

Our famed collection of technical and other ramblings is available in our blog. As is the norm here, there's an eclectic collection of articles that will inspire / amaze / offend / amuse you. Written by a human, AI-free.

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The Green Man, Paths and Beliefs

Quite some time ago, when I was neither young nor old, I experienced a life-changing event. Like many people who have been in that situation, I imagine, I decided to take a mental step back and re-evaluate my life. I figured that it was as good a time as any, and if it prepared me for the Road Ahead, then so much the better. I made a list of things to look at and maybe change if I needed to, and one of those things was what I actually believed in. Rather than fill this page, I've decided to write a blog entry, which you can read here.

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Computational Life: How Well-formed Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction (blaisea, jyrki, benl, moralex et al)
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Full JSON dump of each MAC prefix and going back to around 1998 (updated daily)
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CSV
Simplified CSV that maps each MAC prefix to the earliest registration record (updated daily)
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MMDB
An MMDB-compatible IP Geolocation database with ASN, country, and continent data (updated daily)
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Open Proxy List: HTTP/S (updated daily)
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Open Proxy List: SOCKS4 (updated daily)
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Open Proxy List: SOCKS5 (updated daily)
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Daily Sea Ice Extent Data Files (Antarctic)
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Daily Sea Ice Extent Data Files (Arctic)
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Sea Ice: Minimum and maximum extent values and dates for each month and year, with rankings
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Sea Ice: All daily (single day and five-day trailing average) extent values in one file
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UK Courts and Tribunals Bill – 2nd reading: A wide-ranging justice bill. Removes the right for defendants facing a likely sentence of three years or less to have their case heard by a jury in the Crown Court
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UK Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill – consideration of Lords amendments: Aims to remove barriers to opportunity in schools and make the education system more consistent for children
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Harris Hill - 2016 UK Charity Sector Salary Survey: CEO salaries and executive trends
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Harris Hill - 2017 UK Charity Sector Salary Survey: CEO salaries and executive trends
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Harris Hill - 2018 UK Charity Sector Salary Survey: CEO salaries and executive trends
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Harris Hill - 2023 UK Charity Sector Salary Survey: CEO salaries and executive trends
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Harris Hill - 2024 UK Charity Sector Salary Survey: CEO salaries and executive trends
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Harris Hill - 2019 UK Charity Sector Salary Survey: CEO salaries and executive trends
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Cybertech
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Prepping/Preparedness
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Phlogged
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Cambridge_Analytica_Files
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As at Mon Mar 9 14:00:01 2026:
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Access Our Gopherhole Via This Site

gopher icon Due to the changing needs of various visitors to the site, I've made the decision to open up the gopherhole content via this site. You'll now be able to access 99% of our 18Gb of content from the comfort of your browser!

The link is: https://petergarner.net/gopher

Monitoring Our Carbon Footprint

The whole point of this project is to run a useful, responsive web server that uses as few resources as possible. I'm attempting a design which balances form and function, and the carbon footprint of loading/viewing this, and other pages is low. This is normally just 0.01g of CO2/view and you can verify this by visiting Website Carbon and The Green Web Foundation.

Lately, I'm taking more of an interest (and therefore an active approach) to where Skircoat's electric power comes from, and a few days of research has resulted in an up-to-date breakdown of the power sources that are used to generate the region's power. There's an update every 30 minutes via the API provided by the ESO/National Grid.

Suffice to say that the continued heavy reliance on fossil fuels is extremely worrying. Yes, 'biomass' as used in Yorkshire's Drax is still a fossil fuel, and the situation is made worse by the fact that it's "mainly imported from the Southern USA (by sea!) but also from Europe, Canada and Southern America". according to Drax. I smell greenwashing, but read this and decide for yourself. Oh, and there's a recent article in the Independent (alt link) that lays bare more of the unpleasant facts...

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Skircoat Green Electricity Power Sources

See below for statistics, updated every 30 minutes.

Fuel sources for HX3, supplied by NG-ESO Region NPG Yorkshire

           
OK? Fuel Type Percentage Used
N Biomass48.3 %
? Imports1.7 %
N Gas37.3 %
Y Nuclear0.5 %
Y Solar3.4 %
Y Wind8.9 %
Fuel sources not used (0%) are excluded: Coal, Other, Hydro

Sample period  2026-03-09 14:00 UTC to 2026-03-09 14:30 UTC

Usage HIGH, CO2 forecast 205g CO2/kW-h

Carbon-zero Fuel Percentage 12.8% Fossil Fuel Percentage 85.6%

[Link to file]Download historical data from 2021-11-29 18:00 UTC to 2026-03-09 14:30 UTC.

[Link to file]Download last 8 hours data (X axis=types) to 2026-03-09 14:30 UTC.

[Link to file]Download last 8 hours data (Y axis=types) to 2026-03-09 14:30 UTC.

Data sourced from https://carbonintensity.org.uk E&OE


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