h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Newsletter: The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the war on libraries and the freedom to read.

https://www.citationneeded.news/hachette-v-internet-archive/

#InternetArchive #HachettevInternetArchive #libraries #newsletter #CitationNeeded

Hey folks, next month there’s an angry & lighthearted book coming out with my name on the cover: “Standing on High Ground”. It’s an anthology of writing from people who were arrested protesting Canada’s awful “TMX” pipeline project. I’m an arrestee/ contributor & co-editor.
Here’s its official home: https://btlbooks.com/book/standing-on-high-ground
Here’s a blog piece full of background and pictures: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/09/08/Standing-On-High-Ground

This project means a lot to me and I’d appreciate anyone passing the word along.

#books #tmx

[BLOG] When sysctl took down my subnet

https://blog.yaakov.online/when-sysctl-took-down-my-subnet/

🆕 blog! “Yet another AI Racism example”

Here's a good pub-quiz trivia question - which Oscar-winning Actors have appeared in Doctor Who? It's the sort of thing that you can either wrack your brains for, or construct a SPARQL Query for WikiData0. I was bored and asked ChatGPT. The new Omni model claims to be faster and more accurate. But, in my […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/09/yet-another-ai-racism-example/
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#DoctorWho #racism

New euphemism for being late: ‘BepiColombo’s journey to Mercury becomes even more epic’ http://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/BepiColombo/Fourth_Mercury_flyby_begins_BepiColombo_s_new_trajectory #astrodon

The Linux commands you should NEVER use
by @sjvn in 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20180220202812/https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/the-linux-commands-you-should-never-use-1712.html

OMG - kids today on learning that the 'save' symbol 💾 is a physical storage disk ...

Also OMG - me on recently learning that 'upper case' and 'lower case' refers to the physical case printers used to use to store their letters. How did I miss this?

At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens.

Here's my favorite story from running OMCB :)

https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/

Ukraine to abolish daylight saving time from 1 January 2025.
https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/tz@iana.org/message/64AC36LPSPQJTR7GDOHOFAJLCIPKTTFO/

"This confidential government report proves that we need to liberate the Postcode Address File"

Brilliant article about the difficulties of getting cheap/free and accurate postcode data in the UK
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#GIS #Postcode #Data #UK
https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/secret-paf-report

Wrote my first lua project, and first vim plugin before breakfast: https://github.com/cthulahoops/chatcli-vim

It's such an exciting time to be making software.

The fact you can just scroll through photos from Mars is mad.
This one was only taken 12 hours ago!

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw-images/?order=sol+desc%2Cinstrument_sort+asc%2Csample_type_sort+asc%2C+date_taken+desc&per_page=50&page=0&mission=msl

Recently, a Dutch hacker found a vulnerability allowing him to shut down 4 million solar power installations. A handful of mostly non-European places manage perhaps 100 GW of solar power in the EU. Any mishap there, or heaven forbid, a compromise, could easily shut down so much power that the European electricity grid would collapse. Shockingly, we regulate these massive control panels as if they are online birthday calendars. And that must change. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-gigantic-unregulated-power-plants-in-the-cloud/