h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

The search for magnetic monopoles
https://youtu.be/S3xH97Su-KY #science

Don't trust this sign, Beesworth does not exist https://www.roads.org.uk/blog/theres-no-such-thing-beesworth #roads

Which parts of the world have similar climates? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification #world

11 Geometry Puzzles That Drive Mathematicians to Madness
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2020/04/15/11-geometry-puzzles-that-drive-mathematicians-to-madness/ #math

How many people are…?
100 - 2x Bus
1,000 - Long train
10,000 - Local Gov ward
100,000 - UK Gov constituency
1,000,000 - Dublin urban area
10,000,000 - Greater London
100,000,000 - Germany
1,000,000,000 - N and S Americas

Singing one syllable out of sync https://youtu.be/Een_AKh7Nik

The UK's electric power consumption and what the sources are. Shows the current mix of gas turbines, wind farms, and imports from abroad. http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

It's normally a good idea to enable 2FA, such as requiring Google Authenticator codes, but which websites support it? And which websites don't take the security of your data seriously enough? https://twofactorauth.org/ #security

Sweetcorn #plants

The next UK census is less than a year away, with some new questions https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2019/09/census-2021.html

A nice little RPG game, but nothing groundbreaking. https://www.gog.com/game/ara_fell #game

An amazing housing estate
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2019/09/page-high.html #london

A look at the Linux scheduler
https://lwn.net/Articles/805317/ #linux

A private company will launch astronauts to the International Space Station tomorrow. This is the first manned launch from the US since 2011. http://www.planetary.org/blogs/crew-dragon-astro-flight.html #space

Inherited memory
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/06/19/unto-the-fourth-generation-in-nematodes #biology

IPv4 addresses are worth about $20, which is enough for people to try to steal them
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/the-great-50m-african-ip-address-heist/ #networking

Voting for government positions over the internet is still a bad idea: little or no secrecy, and a dubious chain of trust https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2020/05/20/emergency-motion-to-stop-internet-voting-in-nj/ #uspol

PingFS is the only true cloud storage. Computers respond to ping by repeating back whatever you sent. Your files are stored in ping packets, in-flight across the internet. Don't store any data, the internet will remind you. https://code.kryo.se/pingfs/ #networking