h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Just 267 pieces but took us three days to finish this Big Bismuth puzzle from @nervous_jessica @nervous_jesse

https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/generativeProduct.php?code=411

The recording of my "Browsers biggest TLS Mistake" lightning talk at #37C3:

Tis the season to reflect on my 20% project from my Google days!

"Santa Tracker Tales: Nearly crashing Google's servers, Leaking Santa's data, and Angering an entire country"

https://blog.pamelafox.org/2023/12/santa-tracker-tales-nearly-crashing.html

🆕 blog! “Electricity That's Too Cheap To Meter”

Nuclear power was sold to the world as a safe, clean, and economically viable source of electricity. We were told that it would be "too cheap to meter"1. Even the most ardent proponent of nuclear power will have to admit that hasn't come to pass. Construction costs for nuclear power stations are dwarfed only by […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/12/electricity-thats-too-cheap-to-meter/
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#electricity #environment #solar

New boundaries have been published for the 2024 General Election. I've taken the Local Election results and applied that to the new boundaries https://dbatley.com/elections/2024/bce_final.html #BoundaryCommission #ukpol

Well this is a mess. I'm glad I haven't used my main email address for any apple related stuff, but I'm sure I have silently lost messages from people because I don't use messages on Mac at all
https://maya.land/monologues/2023/12/26/laptop-of-the-magi-apple-antitrust.html

#dialup over a #discord call because why the fuck not

Here's the poorly written blog thing about it

Enjoy

https://www.lilysthings.org/blog/discord-dialup/

YOUR CHRISTMAS MOVIE

MY INAUGURAL LECTURE

Open Science!

Huge Patient Datasets.... but with Privacy Protected!

Vast National Infrastructure Projects... but created by a Small Squadron of Vikings!

Epic Battles for Clinical Trials Transparency... but with Happy Endings!

Data... but with Mawkish Moving Stories about Colleagues and Family!

TELL YOUR FRIENDS!

https://youtu.be/_-eaV8SWdjQ?si=Xwj2jQD7Nf4iju9V

British wind turbines produced a record 21.81GW of power between 9:00am and 9:30am this morning. Over the past 24 hours wind turbines have supplied 61.7% of our electricity needs. Live data can be seen on my site at https://grid.iamkate.com.

Matt Gray is Trying: Line Marking

I knew this would require some skill and practice, but wow. The people who do this day in day out are so good!

Thanks to Total Line Marking for letting me come over and ruin their car park!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tClOUi-fJc

Please donate to @internetarchive to stand by your library.

100Petabytes and growing-- building a record of our time for us all to enjoy.

https://archive.org/donate

Today is the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. I only learned *this year* that the Great Bengali Famine of 1770 was a precipitating factor in the protest, and so I collaborated with my historian colleague, Dr. Robert Martello, to share the globe-spanning story of colonialism and corporate power that we think should be much more widely known.

https://tinyletter.com/metafoundry/letters/metafoundry-80-tea-and-famine

This is a 100% serious request: Does anyone have access to a ground-penetrating radar we could borrow?

We’ve just published a detailed analysis of how libel firm Carter-Ruck acted for OneCoin, a massive cryptocurrency fraud. The evidence is reasonably clear that Carter-Ruck were reckless in choosing to act for OneCoin and how they acted. They missed obvious signs of fraud. That had serious consequences.

https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/12/18/carter-ruck/

“[…] I don't think honestly I could do it, in my own words, without this machine; I'm hooked on it, now.”

the Rhetorizer, as envisioned by Philip K. Dick in 1964