Notes and links from Thur 23 July

Status: Bit of an odd day. I think I might have made a decision. It’s probably a good one but I need to digest it a bit before writing about it. Reading: UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August — Hooray! It’s happening! I’ll probably hang on til the spring to see how the prices and options settle out but this is very exciting. Autistic meltdowns & shutdowns — A good explanation of the various forms they can take and how to go about managing them. I’ve never knowingly had the stereotypical meltdown but I’ve definitely had flavours over the decades. And my Long Covid / CFS definitely matches the Autistic Burnout description (which has been fun, jumping between those to models). Anyway, this might be useful to folks figuring this stuff out. A sobering account of how TheNumbers.com was taken down by AI scraping and AI-enabled hacking — The traffic numbers for AI companies hoovering up data from the open web are horrific. ‌"Anthropic crawls over 38,000…