The Campaign for Better Transport does great work lobbying the government to prioritise #bus, #rail and #foot.
https://bettertransport.org.uk/blog/a-budget-for-everyday-transport/
Random old xkcd comic reminds me that I should re-read the Timothy Zahn novels from the Star Wars extended universe https://xkcd.com/1843/ #Books
⚠️ Update: Live metrics show that X/Twitter has now been restricted in #Pakistan for over one week, with service remaining fully or intermittently restricted for most users; the incident comes amidst a surge in internet censorship during elections marred by irregularities 📉
All I know about public speaking, I've picked up from watching @bengoldacre. Alternate between talking quietly and LOUDLY, pack lots in, and shout something between sections.
RIGHT, SO he gives a talk on making sure clinical trials get published, medical data analysis preserves patient privacy, and GPs prescribe the safest, cheapest drugs… but with AUTOMATION and OPEN SOURCE.
Finally got around to writing a story about the i-SOON data leak (as opposed to just madly tooting about how interesting it is). Probably my favorite part of this leak shows an i-SOON employee proudly telling his boss that they successfully hacked one of the universities on the govt's target list, only to be told that university wasn't actually on the list. Whoops:
"A new data leak that appears to have come from one of China's top private cybersecurity firms provides a rare glimpse into the commercial side of China's many state-sponsored hacking groups. Experts say the leak illustrates how Chinese government agencies increasingly are contracting out foreign espionage campaigns to the nation's burgeoning and highly competitive cybersecurity industry."
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/02/new-leak-shows-business-side-of-chinas-apt-menace/
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From the world of RNA: What's an Obelisk, anyway? "The list of things that we don’t know about these agents is lengthy." https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/what-s-obelisk-anyway #Biology #Science
Leap Day approaching! Last time: https://codeofmatt.com/list-of-2020-leap-day-bugs/ #time #linux
Here’s a cautionary tale about digitisation of #archives
For the WW1 centenary, the National Library of Wales created cymru1914.org, to pull together scans of primary sources relating to the period. By all accounts it was brilliant.
Naturally, like all such projects, the site disappeared once the money ran out, taking everything with it. Rip.
Today in "Daylight Savings Chaos Monkey"
If you have backups but you have never tried to restore them, you do not have backups. This is true.
I made a MySQL oopsie, and tried to restore a table from my voluminous backups of same, and was met...
https://jwz.org/b/ykM4
I feel like nobody is writing blog posts about python packaging at the moment. Fortunately I've stepped in to fill the void. https://chris48s.github.io/blogmarks/posts/2024/python-package-manifest-files/
Giving up something for #Lent? Sundays don't count, as they're always days of celebration. Count the 40 days yourself if you don't believe me!
The names and colours for the separated Overground lines are out.
No doubt lots of people will moan about them. So here's my piece on how Tube names happen, collective memory, and why visibility matters. #history #london #transport
https://www.londonreconnections.com/2024/the-big-split-overground-line-names/
DIY enthusiasts, you too can transform your home into a ninja warrior catstacle course
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If you install FOSS apps from F-Droid, upgrade to version 1.19.0 because it finally adds support for Android's unattended updates API introduced in Android 12. This means F-Droid can update apps in the background (so long as you first installed those apps through F-Droid).
The update also adds Themed Icon support, which is nice. Here's F-Droid's blog post on the release: https://f-droid.org/en/2024/02/01/twif.html
Guess what day it is https://youtu.be/gj_aHCpZl4k?si=WxAC86fOG8gv1deY
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