h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

If you miss 'em, they end up here: https://www.youtube.com/MCFrontalot

"Time bombs" in Debian.

#Linux #Debian
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/592cc2a4-4f1b-4830-8304-a8b55db0b111@debian.org

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Yesterday I presented at the NL-NCSC / @SURF / @ACCSS symposium "Cyber Security & Society". According to Donald Tusk we are entering a new pre-war era, and I fear that he is right. I also fear that we do not have anything near a "war-time resilient" level of control over the IT infrastructures that our societies depend on utterly. We are sitting ducks & it is getting worse. Transcribed presentation, with slides, is here:
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cyber-security-pre-war-reality-check/

Microsoft Open-Sources the original source code for GW-BASIC from 1983 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/microsoft-open-sources-gw-basic/

Remember Ebola? If you're wondering why you don't really hear about it anymore, it's because scientists came up with a vaccine, and there are now over half a million doses in the global stockpile. https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/376605/WER9917-196-202.pdf

🆕 blog! “1,000 edits on OpenStreetMap”

Today was quite the accidental milestone! I've edited OpenStreetMap over a thousand times! For those who don't know, OSM (OpenStreetMap) is like the Wikipedia of maps. Anyone can go in and edit the map. This isn't a corporate-controlled space where your local knowledge is irrelevant compared to the desire for profit. You can literally go…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/1000-edits-on-openstreetmap/
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#OpenStreetMap #ReDeCentralize

📣 Delighted to announce that we've been given a grant by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust to revamp https://electionleaflets.org/. EL is our digital archive of physical election literature, founded in 2010.

👩‍💻 We're looking for a contract Python developer for this work. See the summary doc below for more info, and do please pass it on to anyone you thin might be interested.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q8PtcU8JfsaaZQhEU8Jz_IeLiSekdTL1eu5-CyDqd9w/edit?usp=sharing

#civictech

🍺 I tried brewing beer and mostly got in the way!
Matt Gray is Trying: Brewing

https://youtube.com/watch?v=JFl1Jrki-8c

You can see the #InternationalSpaceStation in #Southend tonight
Date: Wednesday May 15, 2024
Time: 9:41 PM
Duration: 7 minutes
Maximum Elevation: 68°
Approach: 10° above WSW
Departure: 10° above E

https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/view.cfm?country=United_Kingdom&region=England&city=Canvey_Island

@andrewt ohhh! Just realised, are you the celltower andrewt?

If so, thankyou, I’m legit addicted.