h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Its that time again - the impossible quiz about London transport! https://www.londonreconnections.com/2020/the-covid-christmas-quiz/

Ericaceous (acidic) compost can be hard to find, but it's available for home delivery. Comes in a brown cardboard box, just like any other package!
https://www.thompson-morgan.com/p/ericaceous-compost/WKB4772TM #garden

No more Flash support in Firefox
https://lwn.net/Articles/837611/rss

Humanity's ability to track earth-killing asteroids is reduced, as second cable breaking makes Aracibo radio telescope unsalvageable https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/arecibo-telescope/ #space

Buried Treasure, of a sort, found in chemistry labs
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/07/10/buried-treasure-of-a-sort

How phonies and self-promoters came to rule the world
https://www.improbable.com/2019/05/24/how-phonies-and-self-promoters-came-to-rule-the-world/

Who emits the most CO2 today?
https://ourworldindata.org/annual-co2-emissions #world

The deadline for agreeing a brexit deal is the end of this week https://jonworth.eu/1-man-7-days-deal-or-no-deal-brexit-and-yes-that-man-is-johnson/

A better way to think about worst-case scenarios
http://timharford.com/2019/10/why-were-thinking-about-worst-case-scenarios-in-the-wrong-way/

Hammersmith Bridge is still closed. Last year, London Reconnections looked at why
http://www.londonreconnections.com/2019/hammersmith-bridge-the-signs-are-not-good/ #london

Science! https://youtu.be/BuxFXHircaI

1 in 100 people have covid, says study which sends tests to random UK houses. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveypilot/latest

Haloween is the time of dark magic, and is exactly 6 months opposite the May Faeries, a time of darker magic.

This (patched) vulnerability in the Linux Kernel is a great introduction to eBPF
https://www.thezdi.com/blog/2020/4/8/cve-2020-8835-linux-kernel-privilege-escalation-via-improper-ebpf-program-verification

The story of G-Cloud, the digital marketplace for government procurement https://www.katescomment.com/g-cloud-the-dream-is-dying/ #ukpol

Hummus and Marmite - a winning combination

The website which never dies: Space Jam http://muffinlabs.com/2014/01/09/spacejamcheck-space-jam-website-monitoring-on-twitter/ #web

Low bridge in metric and imperial https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2020/05/low-bridges.html

Http headers and ssl certificates in the wild https://scotthelme.co.uk/top-1-million-analysis-march-2020/ #web

The UK's covid rules are made law (with minimal review) as Statutory Instruments, which you can read online https://statutoryinstruments.parliament.uk/ #ukpol