h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

A look at git hashes, including why the hash of a blob isn't the sha1sum of the original file. https://dbatley.com/blog/2022/08/how-git-works.html

Amazing star map Stellarium has an online web version https://stellarium-web.org/

The history of modem sounds https://youtu.be/ckc6XSSh52w

The sentient Google AI story certainly reads like the first chapter in a Charles Stross novel ... Or is it just optimized to give the responses the creator wants to hear?
https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917

Xylothek — GM Word of the Week
https://www.gmwordoftheweek.com/home/xylothek

This guy really loves locks - and this Fichet 450 is a lovely lock https://youtu.be/bbeiGJAnxXA

"no one is interested in RTT controllers" 🔥

Museum cafés: how much is a cup of tea? https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2022/07/museum-tea.html

Firefox does the hard work to stop websites tracking people online. Preventing websites sharing cookies is easy - but doing that without breaking lots of websites is hard.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie-protection-by-default-to-all-users-worldwide/

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