h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

How do you leak an OEM private key for a trusted boot system. What kind of incompetence leads to that key ever being in a place where it can leak. And if that key can leak, what secret keys aren’t going to leak?

I’ve recently learned of a different way of limiting corporate travel, and I think it’s brilliant.

Every company travel policy I’d heard of until yesterday has been a variation on the same theme:

There’s an annual a travel budget. Management may or may not have priority and there may be limitations on who can travel together, but in the end the true limit is the amount of money in the budget.

The policy I learned of yesterday is almost, but not quite, unlike the others. The budget isn’t about money. It’s about CO2 emissions. Each department gets a specific amount of CO2 emissions for travel for the year.

The implications are interesting:

Travel within Europe has become train first as a natural consequence. Intercontinental travel has been reduced by a significant amount.

It’s an absolutely amazing policy and it should be the standard corporate travel policy everywhere.

ME: Tell me you play Warhammer without telling me you play Warhammer
PENNY MORDAUNT:

Don’t forget to vote today UK folks. https://stopthetories.vote

democracy! at the verified dog friendly New Venture Theatre polling station 💜

#dogfriendly #brighton #vote #dogsatpollingstations

🏛️ 230 councils.
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✍️ 28 million voters.
🗳️ 18,400 polling places.

Polls are open 7am-10pm in today's English local elections!

Find your polling station at http://WhereDoIVote.co.uk!

#localelections #UKpolitics #democracy

GPS jammers have been installed in Westminster ahead of the coronation

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!)

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Driver adventures for a 1999 webcam
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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