h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Machine Learning Deserves Better Than This
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/06/02/machine-learning-deserves-better-than-this

Printers should "just work" on Linux, and CUPS has a plan. https://lwn.net/Articles/857502/ #linux

Coral Reefs https://ourworldindata.org/coral-reefs #world

What are the carbon opportunity costs of our food?
https://ourworldindata.org/carbon-opportunity-costs-food

Lightning on Jupiter
https://www.planetary.org/articles/lightning-on-jupiter-unsolved-mysteries #space

How long before it starts raining? Do I go now, or wait 10 mins? These are the weather questions that Dark Sky answers. https://darksky.net/forecast/51.4849,-3.1796/uk212/en

Badly configured vote scanning machinea
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2021/04/05/expert-analysis-of-antrim-county-michigan/

Level crossings
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2021/06/public-footpath-level-crossings.html #london

The upside down Moon https://www.planetary.org/articles/can-the-moon-be-upside-down #space

I love all Catherine Fisher books, and The Relic Master is no exception. An exciting sci-fi/fantasy adventure story, which is easy to read and hard to put down. #book

Insulting rises in state benefits, while pensioners continue to get a free ride https://paullewismoney.blogspot.com/2021/04/for-whose-benefit.html #ukpol

A tale of two libcs
https://drewdevault.com/2020/09/25/2020-09-25-A-story-of-two-libcs.html

Big dark matter detector vs old rocks https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/dark-matters-signature-could-be-written-in-stone #physics

Museum collections used to show our oceans are more acidic than 140 years ago
https://naturalhistorymuseum.blog/2020/07/23/museum-collections-used-to-show-our-oceans-are-more-acidic-than-140-years-ago-curator-of-micropaleontology/

Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/

Dichromatism and pumpkin seed oil https://youtu.be/0-fELMbunyk

Processes per tab on Firefox
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/05/introducing-firefox-new-site-isolation-security-architecture/

As a non-chemist, I just look at the pretty diagrams
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/05/28/weird-natural-product-time-again #chemisty

JSON looks simple, but is very ambiguous
https://labs.bishopfox.com/tech-blog/an-exploration-of-json-interoperability-vulnerabilities #webdev

How You Make an Adenovirus Vaccine
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/08/how-you-make-an-adenovirus-vaccine