h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Mozilla's Firefox is walling off each site's cookies from other sites, which is helpful for privacy. I block ALL third-party cookies and use add-ons that further protect me from the increasingly evil ad-tech industry's relentless spying.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie-protection-by-default-to-all-users-worldwide/

Slightly staggered to only just learn that west Africa has quietly installed a 3000km international electricity transmission grid over the last few years.

The CLSG and OMVG Interconnection projects have connected seven countries in total, including (I think) five which didn't already have a transmission network.

This will give huge areas reliable electricity for the first time.

My last word about the La Sombrita dustup in Los Angeles. https://humantransit.org/2023/05/la-sombrita-a-sculpture-about-the-absurdity-of-the-rules.html

A little bit of internet / government history here: the DirectGov page about identifying different types of wave

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20120405212659/http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Boatingandtravellingbywater/Keepingsafeatthecoast/DG_185489

English undergraduate loan costs will double for many students over their lifetime for new starters in September. None of this increased funding will go to pay for education, as universities face frozen fees with no inflation, which is a real terms cut every year. Students pay more and more but will get less and less. https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2023/05/martin-lewis-good-morning-britain-student-loans/

A lovely shot by Alex Pounds, on a London rooftop in 2010. Giving no instruction to the robot, just rolling the dice on adding a bottom half. Rooftop ocean! Dumb shoes!

Now that’s what I call an aperiodic monotile! https://aperiodical.com/2023/05/now-thats-what-i-call-an-aperiodic-monotile/

There is too much sun. The GB power grid is currently desperately paying NL/BE to stop sending us electricity. Please, no more. We have enough.

It doesn't help that Windows is hiding known file extensions by default. :D

File Archiver In The Browser | mr.d0x
"This article explores a phishing technique that emulates a file archiver software in the browser while using a .zip domain."

https://mrd0x.com/file-archiver-in-the-browser/
#zip #ziptld

#York groundsel blooms again in Britain’s first-ever de-extinction event
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/27/york-groundsel-bloom-again-britain-first-ever-de-extinction-event-natural-england

XP activation was cracked, heh. https://tinyapps.org/blog/202304230700_xp_wpa.html

A great infographic on how incoherent English policy geographies are from the Bennett Institute @ Cambridge (full report: https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/publications/devolving-english-government/)

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