h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Taking Laughter Seriously at the US Supreme Court https://www.improbable.com/2020/09/07/taking-laughter-seriously-at-the-supreme-court-study-update/

What's The Difference Between DC, Servo & Stepper Motors?
https://thepihut.com/blogs/raspberry-pi-roundup/whats-the-difference-between-dc-servo-amp-stepper-motors

Asteroid Apophis and Friday 13 April 2029
https://www.planetary.org/articles/will-apophis-hit-earth #space

Let’s Rename the Pythagorean Theorem
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019/04/17/lets-rename-the-pythagorean-theorem/ #math

CO2 emissions on the web https://dannyvankooten.com/website-carbon-emissions/ #webdev

UK vaccination map https://russss.github.io/covidtracker/map.html#vaccine #covid #map

BBS-Revival setup at 36C3
https://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20200105-36c3-retronetworking/

Fixing Spectre by keeping websites isolated from each other - a set of HTTP headers
https://scotthelme.co.uk/coop-and-coep/ #webdev

TfL Freedom of Information https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2019/07/tfl-foi.html #london

In 2019, Microsoft added exFAT file-system code to Linux, after a long history of being proprietary https://lwn.net/Articles/797621/rss

Signed BGP routes (featuring an online checker) and preventing spoofed IP traffic
https://www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2021/04/30/teaching-our-network-some-manrs/ #networking

Killing off /dev/kmem https://lwn.net/Articles/851531/ #linux

Postgres database is extendable - you can write your own index implementation by implementing a few functions.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/gist-intro.html #db

Speeding Culture
https://therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2020/09/speeding-culture.html

How big can a fundamental particle be?
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/how-big-can-a-fundamental-particle-be #physics

Level of detail available on https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/ by region. What's wrong with North East England? Not enough volunteers gathering info? cc @democlub

Making vaccine out of viruses https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/04/28/brazil-rejects-the-gamaleya-vaccine

Just 6 days until local and regional elections in the UK. Find your local councillors at: https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/

Boring machines - Improbable Podcast https://www.improbable.com/2020/11/27/podcast-episode-1044-boring-machines/ #podcast