h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Nice small tool to wait for an application to open and close a file. Similar to inotifywait from inotify-tools, but filtered by process name.
https://www.enricozini.org/blog/2020/debian/wait-until-a-command-opened-a-file/

The world now produces more seafood from fish farms than wild catch
https://ourworldindata.org/rise-of-aquaculture

Making smaller particle accelerators by using plasma wakefield acceleration
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-potential-of-plasma-wakefield-acceleration #physics

Book: The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu. A sci-fi book from a Chinese perspective. #book

Privacy Badger from the EFF - automatically detects who tracks you, and blocks them https://privacybadger.org/

Music video includes soldering iron https://youtu.be/RaelLXKLlc8 #music

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