h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

You'll have to work out how to tactically vote in your area, obviously. https://stopthetories.vote can help with that.

Before WiFi, Ethernet was the best way to connect your computer to the network. This Fujitsu Ethernet chip from the 1980s was used in network cards. 🧵

This bank holiday, make a plan to #vote 🗳️

Local elections are happening in 230 English councils on 4 May (this Thursday!).

Don't know where to go? Find your polling station: http://wheredoivote.co.uk/

Want to know your options? View your ballot paper: https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/

#UKpolitics #LocalElections

A bank holiday reminder that you can watch old episodes of Time Team entirely legitimately on YouTube #history #histodons https://www.youtube.com/TimeTeamClassics

🆕 blog! “How I became the #1 mapper in New Zealand”

I hate leaderboards. I think competition tends to corrupt the incentives people have to contribute to a goal. Yet, at the same time, I was delighted to see that I was the top mapper in the whole of Aotearoa New Zealand. For one specific week in December. They say golf is a good walk spoiled. […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/01/how-i-became-the-1-mapper-in-new-zealand/
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#OpenStreetMap

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/