h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

The next UK census is less than a year away, with some new questions https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2019/09/census-2021.html

A nice little RPG game, but nothing groundbreaking. https://www.gog.com/game/ara_fell #game

An amazing housing estate
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2019/09/page-high.html #london

A look at the Linux scheduler
https://lwn.net/Articles/805317/ #linux

A private company will launch astronauts to the International Space Station tomorrow. This is the first manned launch from the US since 2011. http://www.planetary.org/blogs/crew-dragon-astro-flight.html #space

Inherited memory
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/06/19/unto-the-fourth-generation-in-nematodes #biology

IPv4 addresses are worth about $20, which is enough for people to try to steal them
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/the-great-50m-african-ip-address-heist/ #networking

Voting for government positions over the internet is still a bad idea: little or no secrecy, and a dubious chain of trust https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2020/05/20/emergency-motion-to-stop-internet-voting-in-nj/ #uspol

PingFS is the only true cloud storage. Computers respond to ping by repeating back whatever you sent. Your files are stored in ping packets, in-flight across the internet. Don't store any data, the internet will remind you. https://code.kryo.se/pingfs/ #networking

The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross is on iPlayer in the UK. Happy little trees, happy little path. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000hjkz/the-joy-of-painting

The human immune system is amazing
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/05/15/good-news-on-the-human-immune-response-to-the-coronavirus #biology

Potash is a strong alkali. It can be mixed with fats to make soap, or used to reduce the temperature for glass.

Making potash: take the ash of a wood fire, mix with water. The potash leeches into the water. Strain to remove ash, boil away the water.

Will Wheaton plays the board game Pandemic https://youtu.be/ytK1zDPPDhw

In HTML 4 strict, <br/ is an alias for <br> ... which means <br/> is a problem. It's all caused by HTML using (and abusing) SGML. http://jkorpela.fi/html/empty.html #webdev

When security vulnerabilities are found in software: in the beginning there was Full Disclosure https://www.spacerogue.net/wordpress/?p=536 #security

Missing numbers - land options, the little-known contracts used to control land
http://missingnumbers.org/land-options-the-little-known-contracts-used-to-control-land/ #housing

Matt Parker is 80% accurate https://youtu.be/vBPFaM-0pI8

Going for a random walk https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2019/09/random-walk.html #london