h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

*** NEW BLOG POST *** In which I take a look at two roundabouts in London - Old Street and Lea Bridge Road.

https://therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2024/08/a-tale-of-two-roundabouts.html

New, by me: More than a million domain names — including many registered by Fortune 100 firms and brand protection companies — are vulnerable to takeover by cybercriminals thanks to authentication weaknesses at a number of large web hosting providers and domain registrars, new research finds.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/07/dont-let-your-domain-name-become-a-sitting-duck/

Tax tech companies to build nuclear and wind generation in Ireland time. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/23/ireland-datacentres-overtake-electricity-use-of-all-homes-combined-figures-show

I shared the stage with Ian Wagdin at Radio TechCon, speaking about the private standalone 5G network made by the @BBCRD and Neutral Wireless, and how I helped CBS News use it to broadcast the Kings Coronation last year!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGeY5U9Nk_8

Technologies we’re glad are dead
by me, 2007. I'm still glad they're dead.
https://www.networkworld.com/article/815734/infrastructure-management-technologies-we-re-glad-are-dead.html

At last something useful said about the Crowdstrike thing.

"If your company is paying for commercial software that includes kernel drivers or kernel modules, you can make eBPF a requirement." – Brendan Gregg

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog//2024-07-22/no-more-blue-fridays.html

#Crowdstrike

⚠️ Update: Network data show #Bangladesh has now been offline for four days with a nationwide internet shutdown remaining in place amidst student protests ⏲

Protesters are calling for the restoration of telecoms, the release of detainees, and accountability for over 150 deaths.

@corbet

Archive.org is up for helping...

The original URL shorteners thought about this, and archived their links with archive.org .

https://archive.org/details/301works?tab=about

I hope google joins now, and gives us the host domain so we can make them continue to work (redirect into the wayback machine that would archive the redirect).

please.

We've signed the @ps open letter urging the European Commission to continue funding @NGIZero, which has helped Manyfold and many other (much more important) Open Source projects so much.

https://manyfold.app/news/2024/07/17/eu-funding-free-software.html

Credit to @ow2 for the English translation.

How to Save Wet Books After A Flood

I wish I knew this in 1980 when my basement apartment flooded. My high school yearbook might have been saved.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/preservation-matters-disasters-saving-wet-books-after-a-flood.htm

It’s finally time to release my newest project: https://www.followthecrypto.org/

This website provides a real-time lens into the cryptocurrency industry’s efforts to influence 2024 elections in the United States.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #elections #USpol #lobbying

About as many countries opened new coal plant units as shut units down in 2023, but overall more capacity added than retired

A surge in new coal plants coming online in China drove this increase — 47.4 GW, or roughly two- thirds of global additions — coupled with new capacity in Indonesia, India, Vietnam, Japan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, South Korea, Greece, and Zimbabwe.

https://globalenergymonitor.org/report/boom-and-bust-coal-2024/

Do/Have you used a CD/DVD/Bluray in a while?

What about burning a disk?

I'm surveying modern day awareness/usage of optical media, mostly to confirm some demographic theories, so if you know what a CD/DVD is, please help me (and maybe others) out by answering some ~10 questions here:

https://optical-media-survey.benjojo.co.uk/

And then please boost for better visibility! Thank you!

Been quietly watching the appointment of new transport ministers.

It's worth noting that the DfT is now headed by the most northern set of MPs I think its ever had, as a collective group. Including former Transport Select Committee chair Lilian Greenwood (who is excellent).

Our new Transport Minster not only personally owns two Routemaster buses, but gives transport infrastructure bus tours of London where he will "interject from the driver’s cab as appropriate".

I love him.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lord-hendys-heritage-routemaster-tour-of-transport-development-tickets-827122564857