h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

ALL I WANT IS 3 CHANNELS, 4 WAVEFORMS AND EVO64 🔥 #livingthedream

Ran into a neat app on F-Droid that makes it super easy to add data to OpenStreetMap wherever you go, called StreetComplete. Pull up the app, and it asks you simple questions about the features around you. Answer it, and it pushes the edit to OSM automatically via your user account. Wonderful!

#openstreetmap

https://streetcomplete.app
@streetcomplete

Built a map, wrote a report! 📰 https://www.publicinterestnews.org.uk/map

🏜️ 4.1m people in the UK in news deserts
🐪 Millions more in news 'drylands' with less than one news outlet per 100,000 residents
🎡 London appears particularly badly served

Let’s ban the advertising of SUVs as an easy first step then let’s start working on regulating them out of existence. The emissions and child deaths are unacceptable and these aren’t the handy farm vehicles people pretend.

Step 1) sign this petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/640775

DELIGHTED to see the BMJ @bmj_latest saying today that they will require papers to share their code.
https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p1609

HUGE milestone for reproducibility, quality, and efficiency.

Here's our BMJ editorial on why code sharing matters, from 2019:

https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6365?ijkey=8ee17da43af8132af29e52b299d9d576483dc532&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha

Dug out this late-90s-vintage Brother GeoBook from my work archive, after reading https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/06/o-brother-geobook-lets-get-thou-back-on.html?lr=1

We (at STNC) wrote the IP stack and web browser libraries (maybe email too?).

There's only the tiniest bit, if any, of my code on this - I did a few weeks on it when I started at STNC but then switched to the Psion Series 5 web browser.

#Brother #GeoBook #STNC #retrocomputing

The tories want to close almost every railway ticket office in England.

Here’s @JenOnTheMove and friends laying down why it will absolutely wreck our railways, and why its about much more than just tickets. 😡

https://youtu.be/uZwcZ9EjZpQ

Our IdenTrust cross-sign is set to expire on September 30 of next year. This will affect any Android devices still running old versions of the OS (currently 7.5% of all). Learn more in our blog post: https://letsencrypt.org/2023/07/10/cross-sign-expiration.html

- Will you print these three pages for me?
> I cannot. For there has been An Error.
- Oh no, what was it?
> An Error.
- Can you accept a new print order for the three pages?
> Of course! I will get to that after the job that's already pending.
- Please delete that first job?
> It is important that you want to delete it, but it is more important that it has An Error, so no.
- What if I shut my computer all the way off and come back tomorrow?
> Oh! In that case you may have all six pages.

I've made a thing that helps you to make a printable template for a hexaflexagon, with your choice of pictures on each of the three faces: https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/hexaflexagon/

You can take a photo with your camera, or upload a file.

#hexaflexagon #math #RecreationalMath

I've shared this before but it's been a while and probably was on twitter, so it's worth a re-share

A lot of people don't know that `diff` (and `git diff`) have a several algorithms to choose from

They have various tradeoffs, mostly around performance vs readability & semantic accuracy vs overall diff size

For manual/visual diffing, I generally prefer 'histogram’, as it tends to be a closer representation of what *actually changed*

Here's a nice writeup

https://luppeng.wordpress.com/2020/10/10/when-to-use-each-of-the-git-diff-algorithms/

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