h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Other ways that spectre's incorrect branch prediction can cause problems - swapping the gs segment register at the wrong time. https://lwn.net/Articles/795637/ #cpu

Biological Lanthanides, Weirdly
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/05/02/biological-lanthanides-weirdly #chemistry

Running PowerTop tweaks every time you boot, using systemd https://dbatley.com/blog/2020/06/powertop-systemd.html

In celebration of #TauDay, here are a lot of ways to calculate 0.5 tau. https://youtu.be/UUH1wxwT9AE

Tomorrow, 6.28, is #TauDay - a day to celebrate all things circular! https://youtu.be/jG7vhMMXagQ

Undecimber is my favourite month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undecimber

"Is the user looking at this tab?" is a question answered by all the main web browsers. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Page_Visibility_API #webdev

The current state of carbon capture technology and other science-y topics from earlier this year. https://www.sciencefriday.com/episodes/january-3-2020/ #science #podcast

Running the datacenter hot https://www.katescomment.com/why-we-dont-need-icelandic-data-centres/ #server #hardware

A rock from the deep - mantle xenoliths
https://naturalhistorymuseum.blog/2019/01/14/a-rock-from-the-deepcurator-of-petrology/

Sharing a hard disk between multiple processes - without the long delays https://lwn.net/Articles/782876/ #linux

Websites can make a http request to other websites, so websites need to be sure that requests to "buy now" or "add comment" are genuine. https://scotthelme.co.uk/csrf-is-dead/ #webdev

Film recommendation: The Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin. A comedy with believable characters and big ideas. https://archive.org/details/Popcornarchive-theGreatDictator1940

A beautiful old church in north Essex
https://essexchurches.wordpress.com/2019/05/15/great-easton-st-john-and-st-giles/

How many bits are needed to describe a page of memory?
https://lwn.net/Articles/787338/ #linux

Earth's temperature over the last 20,000 years. https://xkcd.com/1732/

Qt5 custom build for armhf embedded development
http://www.enricozini.org/blog/2020/qt5/qt5-custom-build-for-armhf-embedded-development

The Government Data Graveyard: numbers we've stopped measuring
http://missingnumbers.org/introducing-the-government-data-graveyard/ #data

Who writes Linux?
https://zaitcev.livejournal.com/251795.html

The UK Government buys Google ads to prevent cybercrime https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/05/uk-ad-campaign-seeks-to-deter-cybercrime/