h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

The Vanishing Culture report arrives today at a critical moment: While Internet Archive recovers from a cyberattack, it’s a reminder of how fragile our access to knowledge can be. Preserving culture & history requires resilience—and collective action.

🔗 https://blog.archive.org/2024/10/30/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record/

Hey friends, it's hard to write this, but it's time to retire botsin.space. I wrote a post about it here: https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/

TLDR the site will go read-only on or around December 15th.

I'm so thankful for all the support and good times here ❤️ thanks everyone

Sam Altman side by side with Aaron Swartz.

I can't stop thinking about it. One was prosecuted by the US for downloading copyrighted data from 1 source for noble purposes, and committed suicide to avoid prison. The other is widely celebrated for doing this on a much larger scale.

on my blog!

https://dotat.at/@/2024-10-22-tmp.html

against /tmp

remember all those insecure temporary file vulnerabilities that used to be so common? apparently some people don't!

but did we really have to suffer all those bugs and complications?

Turns out rhinos like eating pumpkins. Especially giant pumpkins. Especially when they get to gore and toss them first.

https://petapixel.com/2024/10/17/rhinos-get-in-the-halloween-spirit-by-adorably-goring-pumpkins/

https://4eyed.square.site

TIL that platinum hexaflouride is such a powerful oxidant that it oxidizes oxygen. It is a bit worse than chlorine triflouride which can merely make sand and asbestos burn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-g5-LJ5KZM

The letter:

💂 Announces Veteran Cards will be eligible voter ID.

🏫 Confirms commitment to votes at 16.

📜 Commits to review current electoral law with an eye to reducing 'pain-points'.

The water layer has been updated and now shows reservoirs, water treatment and sewage plants, and pumping stations.

https://openinframap.org/#8.09/51.355/0.088/L,W

More improvements still to come from the recent re-import.

#OpenStreetMap

The GOV.UK “exit this page" button (for pages that might be visited by e.g. domestic abuse victims seeking support) doesn't take you to the Google homepage but instead BBC Weather, and the reason why is interesting and well-thought-out: https://beeps.website/blog/2024-10-09-why-govuk-exit-this-page-doesnt-use-escape/#bonus%3A-why-does-it-redirect-the-user-to-bbc-weather%3F

Updates from @brewsterkahle about the DDOS attacks on Internet Archive:

Today in TLD shenanigans: dot io is being killed off.

Wishing a very pleasant rebranding to all techbros who squatted their web site in an unrelated nation because it made a good pun. On October 3, the British government announced that it was giving...
https://jwz.org/b/ykab

The Technical Difficulties are back with the first of four new episodes of Reverse Trivia

https://youtu.be/-1B-1EYsLk4?si=MWkuDrlsaIGbLSxv