h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com
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Hello! I post something interesting every few days.
Joined Feb 2019
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Ran into a neat app on F-Droid that makes it super easy to add data to OpenStreetMap wherever you go, called StreetComplete. Pull up the app, and it asks you simple questions about the features around you. Answer it, and it pushes the edit to OSM automatically via your user account. Wonderful!
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Built a map, wrote a report! 📰 https://www.publicinterestnews.org.uk/map
🏜️ 4.1m people in the UK in news deserts
🐪 Millions more in news 'drylands' with less than one news outlet per 100,000 residents
🎡 London appears particularly badly served
My laptop stops charging the battery at 6pm, so you can use the electricity to cook dinner https://dbatley.com/blog/2023/07/battery-charge.html #green #linux
ICANN isn't the only root DNS provider in town: OpenNIC provides top level domains (.geek, .null, …), mirrors new nation country codes (.ku, .uu, …), and mirrors the icann root (.com, .lidl, .softbank, …) https://www.opennic.org/ #dns
The end of time is now only 15 years away - but thankfully Debian has started planning for the 2038 problem and how to switch everything from 32-bit time to 64-bit time. As always, an excellent article from @LWN https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/938149/f85ef76a37728605/ #linux
Mortality in the past: every second child died - Our World in Data
https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past #world
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Let’s ban the advertising of SUVs as an easy first step then let’s start working on regulating them out of existence. The emissions and child deaths are unacceptable and these aren’t the handy farm vehicles people pretend.
Step 1) sign this petition.
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DELIGHTED to see the BMJ @bmj_latest saying today that they will require papers to share their code.
https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p1609
HUGE milestone for reproducibility, quality, and efficiency.
Here's our BMJ editorial on why code sharing matters, from 2019:
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Dug out this late-90s-vintage Brother GeoBook from my work archive, after reading https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/06/o-brother-geobook-lets-get-thou-back-on.html?lr=1
We (at STNC) wrote the IP stack and web browser libraries (maybe email too?).
There's only the tiniest bit, if any, of my code on this - I did a few weeks on it when I started at STNC but then switched to the Psion Series 5 web browser.
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The tories want to close almost every railway ticket office in England.
Here’s @JenOnTheMove and friends laying down why it will absolutely wreck our railways, and why its about much more than just tickets. 😡
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Our IdenTrust cross-sign is set to expire on September 30 of next year. This will affect any Android devices still running old versions of the OS (currently 7.5% of all). Learn more in our blog post: https://letsencrypt.org/2023/07/10/cross-sign-expiration.html
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- Will you print these three pages for me?
> I cannot. For there has been An Error.
- Oh no, what was it?
> An Error.
- Can you accept a new print order for the three pages?
> Of course! I will get to that after the job that's already pending.
- Please delete that first job?
> It is important that you want to delete it, but it is more important that it has An Error, so no.
- What if I shut my computer all the way off and come back tomorrow?
> Oh! In that case you may have all six pages.
My phone runs e.os, which is #android without the #Google apps. It works well - it comes with useful, interesting apps like MagicMaps, and provides access to FDroid and/or the Play store. https://e.foundation/e-os/ #e
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I've made a thing that helps you to make a printable template for a hexaflexagon, with your choice of pictures on each of the three faces: https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/hexaflexagon/
You can take a photo with your camera, or upload a file.
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A scheme that I would look at if I didn’t already have a bike is Cycling UK’s “Making cycling e-asier”. They're providing free month-long e-bike loans in different parts of the country (inc Manchester). e-bikes are a real game changer when it comes to getting people into cycling and can replace a lot of car journeys.
What happened to all the Millennium Commission projects? http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2022/12/millennium-commission-projects.html #London
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The government are closing the most of the ticket offices at uk #train stations, seemingly regardless of how busy they are.
This probably includes your local station: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/interactive-map-shows-station-ticket-30403930
This is bad for staff, who have a year before being sacked.
This is bad for customers, who are left on their own to navigate the UK's notoriously complex ticketing system.
There is a petition against this: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/636542 #railway #ukpol
The government are closing the most of the ticket offices at uk #train stations, seemingly regardless of how busy they are.
This probably includes your local station: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/interactive-map-shows-station-ticket-30403930
This is bad for staff, who have a year before being sacked.
This is bad for customers, who are left on their own to navigate the UK's notoriously complex ticketing system.
There is a petition against this: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/636542 #railway #ukpol
Making streets safer for everyone, with FixMyStreet https://www.mysociety.org/2023/07/05/making-streets-safer-for-everyone-with-fixmystreet/ #uk #roads
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Hello! I post something interesting every few days.
Joined Feb 2019
