h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Next tuesday is shrove turesday, also known as pancake day. The origins of the festival is to have a big party and eat lots, before fasting during lent. Pancake recipe: mix 200ml milk + 100g plain flour + 1 egg.

National parties are part of europe-wide europarties, which combine into even broader groupings. The largest are centre-right EPP (25%), centre-left S&D (20%) and liberal Renew (15%). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_groups_of_the_European_Parliament

A twitter bot trying to explain stock market moves
http://muffinlabs.com/2014/04/21/stckmrktstatus---providing-logical-explanations-for-the-stock-market/

If you know a website which is about to disappear... if no one else is uploading it to the Internet Archive Wayback machine... and if you can find them in the irc channel... maybe you can discover... The Archive-Team. https://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot #www

Most websites allow you to connect using the private and secure https protocol, but it's not always the default. HTTPS Everywhere makes it the default.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere #www

Who emits more than their share of CO₂ emissions?
https://ourworldindata.org/share-co2-emissions #climatechange

18 years of sslsniff, an SSL / TLS proxy
https://moxie.org/blog/sslsniff-anniversary-edition/ #networking

Stories about electricity, electronics and life, from Jason Scott https://textfiles.libsyn.com/the-electric-stories-episode #podcast

Inheritance versus composition
https://lwn.net/Articles/787800/ #python

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