h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

One thing I own which is cool as hell is a vibrating reed based tachometer.

Lots and lots of tiny reeds, each tuned for a specific frequency. Place it on a piece of equipment, and the reeds start to vibrate if they're the same frequency as the equipment.

We take issue with Google favouring its own online display advertising technology services to the detriment of competitors.

So we have sent a Statement of Objections.

Our preliminarily finds that Google is favouring:

➽ its own ad exchange AdX in the ad selection auction run by its dominant publisher ad server DFP
➽ its ad exchange AdX in the way its ad buying tools #Google Ads and DV360 place bids on ad exchanges

Our Statement of Objections does not prejudge the outcome of an investigation.

Tumblr reminded me that Miss Piggy and Kermit meeting Luke Skywalker and Yoda on the set of Empire Strikes Back is a real thing that happened.

"Frank Oz who voiced Yoda, was also known as a puppeteer and actor who was responsible for the voices of Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Sam and Animal in Jim Henson’s The Muppet Show. [...] One day, during a break in filming Oz and Henson, brought Kermit and Miss Piggy on set to meet Kershner, Skywalker and Yoda."

🔗 https://flashbak.com/when-kermit-met-yoda-the-muppets-on-set-of-the-empire-strikes-back-30342/

#StarWars #Muppets

Ofcom's changes to its guidance on incident reporting thresholds for the digital infrastructure subsector under The Network and Information Systems Regulations

I know, I know, just what you were hoping for before the weekend...

But if you provide DNS (authoritative or recursive) services to people in the UK, or run a TLD Name Registry or an IXP, you might want to read this update.

https://decoded.legal/blog/2023/06/ofcoms-changes-to-its-guidance-on-incident-reporting-thresholds-for-the-digital-infrastructure-subsector-under-the-network-and-information-systems-regulations

#BlogPost #Ofcom #DNS #IXP #NIS #cybersecurity #decodedlegal #lawfedi

Watchy - first impressions.

https://www.revk.uk/2023/05/sqfmi-watchy-first-impressions.html

Did I pack the geiger counter in my hand luggage? Yes. Did I leave it turned on through airport security? Also yes.

Mozilla's Firefox is walling off each site's cookies from other sites, which is helpful for privacy. I block ALL third-party cookies and use add-ons that further protect me from the increasingly evil ad-tech industry's relentless spying.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie-protection-by-default-to-all-users-worldwide/

Slightly staggered to only just learn that west Africa has quietly installed a 3000km international electricity transmission grid over the last few years.

The CLSG and OMVG Interconnection projects have connected seven countries in total, including (I think) five which didn't already have a transmission network.

This will give huge areas reliable electricity for the first time.

My last word about the La Sombrita dustup in Los Angeles. https://humantransit.org/2023/05/la-sombrita-a-sculpture-about-the-absurdity-of-the-rules.html

A little bit of internet / government history here: the DirectGov page about identifying different types of wave

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20120405212659/http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Boatingandtravellingbywater/Keepingsafeatthecoast/DG_185489

English undergraduate loan costs will double for many students over their lifetime for new starters in September. None of this increased funding will go to pay for education, as universities face frozen fees with no inflation, which is a real terms cut every year. Students pay more and more but will get less and less. https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2023/05/martin-lewis-good-morning-britain-student-loans/

A lovely shot by Alex Pounds, on a London rooftop in 2010. Giving no instruction to the robot, just rolling the dice on adding a bottom half. Rooftop ocean! Dumb shoes!