h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Support a great cause, learn how to make dip pen nibs out of coke cans, and check out the @DoESLiverpool pen plotter - this Sunday afternoon at @future_yard in Birkenhead
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/calligraphy-and-pen-plotting-workshop-tickets-637239820457?aff=eand

"GENERATE A SECURE PASSWORD FROM THE LYRICS OF AMERICA’S GREATEST SINGER SONGWRITER"
https://www.kennylog-in.com

90% of seats on less than half the vote? That’s England’s local democracy.

We need proportional representation, not this outdated and unrepresentative nonsense.

#ElectoralReform #FirstPastThePost #FPTP #ProportionalRepresentation #STV #SingleTransferrableVote

https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/90-of-seats-on-less-than-half-the-vote-thats-englands-local-democracy/

A lad I work with built a thing called Donation Genie—a website that displays the items that are most needed at each specific food bank across the UK.

The BBC have very kindly done a nice write-up about what it is, why it’s needed, and what it hopes to achieve. If you are in the UK, please boost this to help get the link to those who need it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65574441

https://www.donation-genie.co.uk/

#DonationGenie #FoodBanks #TrussellTrust #ToriesOut

UK peeps: consider signing this government petition (to halt passage of the Online Safety Bill, which will gut end-to-end encryption including your online banking security, personal message privacy, and right to privacy in general): https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/634725

We are beyond thrilled to announce that Radia Perlman will be joining us at SharkFest'23 US to give a keynote speech.

Engineer and mathematician Radia Perlman was one of very few women involved in assembling the networks and technology that later became the internet. Her invention of the algorithm behind the Spanning Tree Protocol solved a challenging information routing problem and earned her the moniker “Mother of the Internet."

Join us next month in San Diego!
https://sharkfest.wireshark.org/sfus

The LED floor at Eurovision being used to mark out the stage layout during changeovers.

https://twitter.com/ThatPeterHayes/status/1657494088734613507
https://twitter.com/LukeDudley1/status/1657474695262879746

#eurovision

Good news! .zip and .mov are now TLDs, not just file extensions! So mentioning archive.zip in chat may now link to a phishing site or something.

Wait no, that's *bad* news...

Do you ever go like five years into the future on your calendar to remind yourself to renew a domain and wonder whether street cleaning is still going to be on the second friday of every month

Glass Cliff Theory holds that once the boys network have decided a CEO job is too hard or the company unsalvageable THEN they give it to a woman. And when she fails they blame it on her.

So if/when Space McAfee boasts about appointing a female CEO to Twitter, remember that.

More on Glass Cliff Theory from the university of Exeter here:

https://psychology.exeter.ac.uk/cic/about/theglasscliff/#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20glass%20cliff,Minister%20Teresa%20May%20and%20Brexit.

I spent the last week working with CBS News on their coverage of the coronation. I was tasked with getting their roving crews on air using the private 5G network made by BBC R&D and Neutral Wireless, with broadcast kit from LiveU.

This is how it went:

https://mattgrayyes.substack.com/p/using-a-private-5g-network-to-broadacst

I love Ordinary World at the best of times but that was a proper decent take on it. Nice lil thing to wrap things up after all of.. That
#Eurovision

If you have an 'old' Twitter account you don't want deleted for archive or impersonation reasons, then it's probably worth logging back in once and following Elon.

Bet you cash money the Twitter devs will write any delete queries in the next few months with an 'unless they follow Elon' clause.

Do YOU want to be the one explaining to the Narcissist-In-Chief why his follower count dropped?

(Also download the archive of your old tweets if there is good reason to preserve them for the future)