h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Wikipedia is available in many small languages. But how do you balance auto-generating enough content to be useful (and used), while not discouraging native speakers from writing from the local point of view? https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder is one attempt, as seen in these search results in the Sami language Wikipedia: https://se.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Southend-on-Sea

The weather forecast from the Met Office can display wind speed using the Beaufort scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale Change how wind speed is shown in menu, settings: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/

MICE brings muon collider closer to reality
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/mice-brings-muon-collider-closer-to-reality #science

Harvest mice were successfully reintroduced to the UK
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/13/harvest-mice-found-thriving-15-years-after-reintroduction-efforts

Gopherpedia - The Free Encyclopedia via gopher
http://muffinlabs.com/2013/06/14/gopherpedia---the-free-encyclopedia-via-gopher/

Old CSS, new CSS - a horror story
https://eev.ee/blog/2020/02/01/old-css-new-css/ #webdev

Voyager 2 went into a low-power mode when science instruments put too much load on the battery.
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/details.php?article_id=117 #space

I got a tram in the picture, obviously.

In Brussels (for #Fosdem)

Axions, the other dark matter candidate
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-other-dark-matter-candidate #science

C, Fortran, and single-character strings https://lwn.net/Articles/791393/

Electronic https://youtu.be/BJ8jsEnzzso #music

I'll be at Fosdem this weekend, the free and open source software conference. https://fosdem.org/2020/ #fosdem #brussels

Carmine food colouring (E120) is made from crushed insects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine

Web browsers will be requiring TLS 1.2 or better very soon. Beta version of Firefox already requires it! https://scotthelme.co.uk/legacy-tls-is-on-the-way-out/ #networking

On my way to Citizen Beta https://attending.io/events/citizenbeta026 #london

Living in a healthy democracy - does democracy lead to better health?
https://ourworldindata.org/democracy-health #world

What does a SIM card do, and why does it even exist? Talk by @LaF0rge at 36C3 https://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20200105-36c3-talks/ #video #mobile

The Skies of Mini-Neptunes
http://www.planetary.org/explore/the-planetary-report/the-skies-of-mini-neptunes.html #space