h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

The trouble with 64-bit DMA
https://lwn.net/Articles/904210/

Measuring Worth calculates inflation if you want to know the value of commodities, the percentage of the economy, or the cost of labour of a price from the past.
https://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/ukcompare/

Today is Anti-Pancake Day, the tuesday 6 months on from Pancake Day. You can celebrate Anti-Pancake Day by eating pancakes again. Why eat pancakes just once a year?

Vending machines
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/14/a-day-in-the-life-of-almost-every-vending-machine-in-the-world

The rest of the story: the bird flu worries from April have reduced to the stage where restrictions are being lifted. Chickens will be allowed outdoors again (the free range ones, anyway). https://www.gov.uk/guidance/avian-influenza-bird-flu

A look at git hashes, including why the hash of a blob isn't the sha1sum of the original file. https://dbatley.com/blog/2022/08/how-git-works.html

Amazing star map Stellarium has an online web version https://stellarium-web.org/

The history of modem sounds https://youtu.be/ckc6XSSh52w

The sentient Google AI story certainly reads like the first chapter in a Charles Stross novel ... Or is it just optimized to give the responses the creator wants to hear?
https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917

Xylothek — GM Word of the Week
https://www.gmwordoftheweek.com/home/xylothek

This guy really loves locks - and this Fichet 450 is a lovely lock https://youtu.be/bbeiGJAnxXA

"no one is interested in RTT controllers" 🔥

Museum cafés: how much is a cup of tea? https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2022/07/museum-tea.html

Firefox does the hard work to stop websites tracking people online. Preventing websites sharing cookies is easy - but doing that without breaking lots of websites is hard.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie-protection-by-default-to-all-users-worldwide/

New series of university quiz show The 3rd Degree is on Radio 4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01d0q86

earlyoom - an out of memory (oom) killer for linux https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom #linux

Nasal decongestants and illegal drugs https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/uselessness-phenylephrine

Want to bet on whether we'll be able to communicate with alternate timelines/dimensions? And have it adjudicated in the year 2700? Let me introduce the Long Now Foundation https://longbets.org/860/

Local elections this Thursday. Find out who's standing in your area: https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/