h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Out to Chelmsford for a couple of hours with #TheDoodle chuckling at the signs and weeping that they are a product of councils giving up.

Black-headed gull.

This is an amber-listed gull in the UK and is commonly seen around both coastal and inland waterbodies. It has a chocolatey brown head in breeding plumage, which gives rise to the name. The gull I've photographed here is a "first-winter" bird and has slightly different colouring compared to the adults.

Stockport, UK. Feb 2025.

#Birds #BirdPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #UKWildlife

Internet now reaches 79% of Indonesia’s population, up from 53% in 2022. The rise of digital wallets, meanwhile, means that seven times the population of Switzerland has been added in the past decade to Indonesia’s banking system. https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/02/rise-of-ai-in-indonesia/

"This project demonstrates how the frequency data from the Great Britain electrical grid contains embedded information about carbon intensity. By using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to decompose 1D time series frequency data into its constituent frequencies, we can extract features that allow us to predict carbon intensity with high accuracy."

https://github.com/JamesTwallin/GridSeis

I’m so pleased with how this turned out & it’s great to get back to launching stuff
https://vole.wtf/styscraper/
Tip: if you build piles of matching height you can then put a pallet across

The computers at work have all updated themselves to Windows 11. We are currently unable to open pdfs from the practice email, which is how we receive prescription requests and send referrals. Oh dear. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Whenever I talk to people about abusive big tech, people ask me why I *do* trust
Apple (more than the others); this is why.

Rather than backdoor their security, they'd rather just disable it completely for people in countries that don't allow it. IMO, that's the right decision on their part, though utterly stupid on the part of our government, as ever.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo

Added initial support for showing Osmose power validation issues. These are only visible at zoom level 11 and above, and clicking them is currently a bit tricky due to a Maplibre bug.

https://openinframap.org/#11.8/50.27097/1.9417/E,L,P

You can donate directly to the Ukrainian Army here. I do: https://savelife.in.ua/en/

I’ve updated my historical (1751 to 2025) UK price conversion calculator with 2024’s inflation rate. Prices have doubled since 2006 and tripled since 1991: https://iamkate.com/data/uk-inflation/

An Anti-Tag Cloud shows you the most common English words that never appear in a text, visualizing the "negative space" of a literary work. https://www.bewitched.com/demo/anti/

Companies House will have new identification procedures starting in March 2025 - this will make it much harder for criminals to establish companies using fake names. https://changestoukcompanylaw.campaign.gov.uk/identity-verification/

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Donald Shoup will be missed. He made visible a huge tax that we pay on everybody, a tax which subsidizes pollution, injury and deaths. The data he collected and examined lights the way to reform, and he was generous in helping start a movement.

https://parkingreform.org/donald-shoup/