Blog ≫ 2026 ≫ I think the heating came on today

I think it got cold enough for the thermostat to kick in and turn our heating on. Otherwise hackers have got into our fridge! This was a popular gag in our work stand-up this morning, unless people were just being polite.

There's been another hack of fridges, much food spoiled.

Hundreds of stores were targeted by the overnight hack, which spoiled fresh and frozen food estimated to be worth millions of euros.

Those attacks exploited vulnerabilities in some systems used to remotely control and manage cold refrigeration units that had been surfaced by cyber-security researchers months prior.

Horne told the BBC on Tuesday that it was still "too early to say" who was behind the hacks.

Too early to say who was behind it, but at least we know who wasn't behind it - Richard E Grant. If he was he would have told us by now.

Our fridges are not online. Our tumble dryer is though I will have to watch out for that.

Light rain and a moderate breeze, 7 - 12℃.

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Paulʼs blog - I live in Hythe in the deep South. Married + dad to two, I'm a full-stack web engineer, + I do js / nodejs, some ruby, python, php etc. I like pubs, parkrun, eating, home automation 🤖 and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, TV, squirrels, pirates ☠️, lego, and TIME TRAVEL.

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