h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 The Electoral Commission has published a report on automatic voter registration pilots in three Welsh council areas; overall these seem to have been a striking success.

🗂️ The pilots used sources such as council tax data to identify people not on the register and add them.

📊 14,576 new electors were registered, with very high accuracy and very low opt-out rates.

🏫 A further 1,476 14-15 yr olds were also registered; they will be able to vote when they become 16.

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/research-reports-and-data/electoral-registration-research/automatic-registration-pilots-evaluation

🚀 Still not too late to order DOCTYPE before Christmas but it’s getting tight for some parts of the world
Don’t disappoint the nerds in your life (including yourself)
https://vole.wtf/doctype/

News: Netflix to acquire WB.

Me: Ugh, that can't be good. I hope it doesn't go through.

Monkey's paw: [finger curls]

"I was ready to be sympathetic. Was there some other explanation for the wild inconsistencies I had found? Or was she a simple scammer who had found easy marks in the overworked, credulous editors of the journalism world?" https://thelocal.to/investigating-scam-journalism-ai/

Ig Nobel Prize winner buys a castle and donates it to the townspeople [La Voz de Galicia] https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/yes/2025/10/29/eminencia-reproduccion-asistida-construir-viviendas-asequibles-jovenes-compre-castillo-canyelles-26-millones-donado-vecinos/00031761739699694232264.htm

🆕 blog! “My Wikipedia account is now old enough to vote”

I have no idea what I was doing on the 28th of November 2007 but, apparently, that's when I first logged in to Wikipedia. Which means, as of right now, my Wikipedia account is 18 years old!

I didn't make my first edit until April 2009. That was for the nascent Ada Lovelace Day.

Since then, I've racked up a bit over…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/my-wikipedia-account-is-now-old-enough-to-vote/
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#wikipedia

The best engineering projects are the super complex ones which you only hear about afterwards.

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the-hidden-chemical-attack-that-forced-the-northern-lines-extraordinary-repair-85682/

TODAY on "Science Friday": The day-after-Thanksgiving specially selected highlights from this year's Ig Nobel Prize ceremony https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/ig-nobel-prize-2025/

"Is Matrix Multiplication Ugly?” [Jim Propp] https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/is-matrix-multiplication-ugly/

"How SETI Designed A Telescope To Look For Extraterrestrial Civilizations" – Scott Manley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnWR7A0Qiy8

HTTP has a new method: QUERY. Tl;dr: GET with a body.

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body-14.html

#ietf

Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/zork-i-zork-ii-and-zork-iii-are-now-officially-open-source/

#Zork #Microsoft #Retro #OpenSource #RetroGaming