h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

You'll likely catch this image a million times in your various feeds: Earth as seen by Reid Wiseman from Artemis II en-route to the Moon.

My first thought? That's *really* noisy 🧐

But then I realised – it's the *nightside* of Earth, illuminated by the almost full Moon, not the Sun 🌕

The bright limb at lower-right is where the dayside starts, & the fact that you can see aurorae, airglow, & cities in Europe, Africa, & S & N America also gives the game away.

Cool.

#Photography #Artemis

We may have a winner here. The official NASA tracker, https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/ has a hidden DIV for accessibility. This shows the live telemetry.

Holy shit this is detailed. Can you believe the hubris to silently collect all this information on users?

#privacy

https://browsergate.eu/how-it-works/

Mail in ballots have security features and a processing workflow that mirror that of in-person voting. Just about every mechanism that prevents you from showing up to vote in person multiple times or without being registered has an analog - sometimes a stronger one - in mail-in ballot processing.

The precise details vary from state to state and for different voters, but roughly:

Gen-X to Gen-Z Translation Matrix

Meaning Gen-X Gen-Z
That’s cool Dope Bussin
Lame Bogus Cringe
I agree Word Facts
Nonsense Whatever Cap
True For real No cap
Impressive Tight Goes hard
Weird Sketchy Sus
Funny That’s rich I’m dead
Attractive Fine Baddie

Any others?

Obsolete Sounds is the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds/

Clocks go forward tonight in UK and Europe ⏰

Unpopular opinion: Numbered streets can be wonderful. (An important consideration as US cities rename hundreds of streets named for César Chávez.) My take: https://humantransit.org/2026/03/the-joy-of-numbered-streets-or-call-it-39th-avenue.html

To fully confirm that I am middle aged and live in a bungalow. I am very pleased to announce that my tea and coffee shelf is now organised.

Final report on last year's Iberian blackout has been released, including this very interesting diagram showing the contributing factors

https://eepublicdownloads.blob.core.windows.net/public-cdn-container/clean-documents/Publications/2025/iberian-blackout/Final%20Report%20on%20the%20Grid%20Incident%20in%20Spain%20and%20Portugal%20on%2028%20April%202025.pdf

Whoa: <https://terathon.com/blog/decade-slug.html>

> What is now known as the Slug Algorithm for rendering fonts directly from Bézier curves on the GPU was developed in the Fall of 2016, so this year marks a full decade since its inception.
…
> Therefore, effective today, I am permanently and irrevocably dedicating the Slug patent to the public domain.

One of my proudest moments in the field of #eyebombing

I just managed to make another watchface, this time (pun intended) it's always 11 AM, but the timezone changes every hour to where it's 11 AM in the world.