h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

New series of university quiz show The 3rd Degree is on Radio 4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01d0q86

earlyoom - an out of memory (oom) killer for linux https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom #linux

Nasal decongestants and illegal drugs https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/uselessness-phenylephrine

Want to bet on whether we'll be able to communicate with alternate timelines/dimensions? And have it adjudicated in the year 2700? Let me introduce the Long Now Foundation https://longbets.org/860/

Local elections this Thursday. Find out who's standing in your area: https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/

The Wayback Machine's First Crawl
https://archive.org/details/wayback-machine-1996

AGPL and removing "further restrictions"
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/mar/30/neo4j-v-purethink-open-source-affero-gpl/

Relative Risk of Motor Vehicle Collision on Cannabis Day Celebration
https://www.improbable.com/2019/04/16/relative-risk-of-motor-vehicle-collision-on-cannabis-day-celebration/

Free postage of election leaflets https://timrollpickering.blogspot.com/2019/05/an-election-free-post-faq.html #ukpol

A Tour of C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup is a great guide of how to write good, idiomatic C++ code - which bits to use and what to avoid. #book

Making promises in JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Using_promises #webdev

Firefox let's you unload tabs by visiting the special about:unloads page (or the about:processes page) #firefox

My personal website uptime promise: I guarantee zero nines uptime

xkcd: frequency
https://xkcd.com/1331/

Success: got a box of covid tests free from the local library. More than just books!

On Ukraine - Roads.org.uk
https://www.roads.org.uk/blog/ukraine

LWN puts things in context: "Younger readers may not be familiar with [FTP], which was once how we downloaded Linux distributions before writing them to a pile of diskettes. That is the source of the "ftpmasters" name; it's a reminder of how much worse things used to be." https://lwn.net/Articles/884301/ #linux

How to get systemd to open a tcp port and pass it to a service - useful for non-root services wanting a low-numbered port
https://www.sobyte.net/post/2022-01/systemd-socket-activation/ #linux

Vote in the pub! #southend

Mike Massimino's book is a very good read, covering the Space Shuttle and Hubble, and what it takes to become an Astronaut. #book