h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

A Calculated Move: Calculators Now Emulated at Internet Archive.

https://blog.archive.org/2023/01/29/a-calculated-move-calculators-now-emulated-at-internet-archive/

..which is actually a stealth request that people consider joining the MAME Artwork efforts, which allow beautiful renderings of machines to be clickable on machines. It's more in the Art than Programming sphere, and it would be great if more people joined it.

New blog post (in over a year!)

"
Driver adventures for a 1999 webcam
"

In where I refuse to accept that a webcam that I remember from my childhood won't work anymore for Google Meet, and write a userspace USB driver to bring it back from the obsolete dead:

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/quickcam-usb-userspace-driver

In the late 1800s, when steam ships were replacing sailing cargo ships, one of the last roles for the sailing ships was to carry coal around the world to supply ports where steamships wanted to go. A clean technology was essential to enable the growth of a dirty technology. And even today, fossil fuels aren’t magically just everywhere. A gigantic *** 40% *** of global shipping is just moving fossil fuels. So eliminating fossil fuel also drastically cuts global shipping emissions. #climate #ships

i don't know if any web devs are aware but loading a skeleton of a page with like five loading throbbers inside it makes your website feel slower, not faster

Just when you think you're doing a good enough job of sowing benevolent chaos in the world, someone comes along and does it better https://mastodon.art/@jamdoodles/109300824619761745

@Floppy https://stopthetories.vote will let you download a poster once you postcode, although it doesn’t say much that you didn’t say in your toot :) On the other hand maybe simple is ok?

I used to do this every year on Twitter, but it’s time to bring this tradition to Mastodon! In 2020, I wrote about why I love these paste parties so much. https://waxy.org/2020/04/paste-parties-the-ephemeral-chaotic-joy-of-random-clipboards/

Up for Donating Books? try the @internetarchive new app to find out which ones will help fill out the collections (if you go through this, we can sometimes cover postage)

Randomly scanning your or friend's books to see if the Internet Archive already has it... Again, try the app. (I find it fun, but it might just be me)

Search for "donate books" in the apple or google app stores.

Pipelines with the substance tag set to hot_water, steam, wastewater, sewage, and a few others, are now rendered on the "Water" layer.

https://openinframap.org/#12.48/64.10234/-21.27396/L,P,W

It seems (from the search on https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/) that my blog ranks slightly higher than @MCQN_Ltd in Google's C4 dataset.

@DoESLiverpool is in the top 600k websites in there.

#weeknotes

Boy #3 showing off an important feature of the calculator he definitely needed for his A Level maths studies

If you installed a Linux system with disk encryption more than a couple of years ago, there's a decent chance it's using a weak key derivation function and someone who cares enough would be in a position to brute-force it. https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66429.html has more details and instructions on how to update to a better KDF.