h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com
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Hello! I post something interesting every few days.
Joined Feb 2019
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🚨🚨🚨 Exclusive report: the scheme that ripped off £50m in tax incentives, the people responsible, and the eminent tax KC who said it was just fine. 🚨🚨🚨
Part 1 - the outrageous scheme, involving splitting a business into 10,000 companies, and hiring 10,000 random Filipinos as "shareholders" and "directors" (when really they were just globe puppets) https://taxpolicy.org.uk/scheme
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We've talked of booting Linux off of APFS some day, which would be cursed enough... but I raise you booting Windows off of btrfs.
https://www.lilysthings.org/blog/windows-on-btrfs/
Cursed.
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New report: how the Post Office gagged postmasters by falsely claiming its settlement offers were confidential.
Our report here: https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/05/30/postoffice_silence/
How to be a better radio interviewee
https://gilest.org/archive/how-to-be-a-better-radio-interviewee
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TFW a file format is so old that it includes an "insert paper tape this way" arrow as part of the header: Looks like this traces back to the PDP-11.
Compare with: mapping the Local Election results to the boundaries for the 2019 General Election https://dbatley.com/elections/2024/w2019.html
New boundaries have been published for the 2024 General Election. I've taken the Local Election results and applied that to the new boundaries https://dbatley.com/elections/2024/bce_final.html #BoundaryCommission #ukpol
The new constituency boundaries for electing MPs to Westminster are published this week. Here's my attempt at mapping the local election results to the DRAFT boundaries https://dbatley.com/elections/2024/bce_revised.html #ukpol
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I absolutely adore the whimsical #art of 3D sidewalk chalk artist David Zinn. https://zinnart.com
Zinn creates delightful “works of ephemeral pareidolic anamorphosis” inspired by weeds, sewer covers, traffic cones & nearly everything he encounters around his Ann Arbor community.
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A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model
SFC's Policy Fellow, Bradley M. Kuhn, has written a comprehensive analysis of the situation with the #RHEL (#RedHat Enterprise #Linux) business model, and how it relates to the software rights & freedoms promised in the #GPL agreements.
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis/
#CentOS #RedHat #OpenSource #copyleft #FOSS
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis/
#CentOS #RedHat #OpenSource #copyleft #FOSS
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Feeling unnecessarily celeb as I spend the morning signing copies of my book to send to
Maths Gear! Only a limited run of copies for now - get your hands on one while you can: https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/the-math-of-a-milkshake-by-dr-katie-steckles
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Hunt the "no Prime" link is why I don't shop with #Amazon. It's a terrible user experience and shitty business practice which doesn't deserve your trade. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/21/amazon-sued-prime-cancel-ftc
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Spotted at my local leisure centre, in the car park, this wonderful piece of whimsy…
Remember when all the pop songs were about irc bots? Good times! https://youtu.be/RYQUsp-jxDQ #irc #music
The Gemini protocol (as seen by Curl's developer)
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/05/28/the-gemini-protocol-seen-by-this-http-client-person/ #http
Apollo 13 Accident - Flight Director Loop
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KWfnY9cRXO4 #space
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An article about archiving my father https://www.wired.com/story/my-fathers-death-in-7-gigabytes-internet-archive/
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New Technical Difficulties in which Tom, @garybrannan , and Chris watch me attempt something that could end in one hell of an injury!
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Hello! I post something interesting every few days.
Joined Feb 2019
