h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

To fully confirm that I am middle aged and live in a bungalow. I am very pleased to announce that my tea and coffee shelf is now organised.

Final report on last year's Iberian blackout has been released, including this very interesting diagram showing the contributing factors

https://eepublicdownloads.blob.core.windows.net/public-cdn-container/clean-documents/Publications/2025/iberian-blackout/Final%20Report%20on%20the%20Grid%20Incident%20in%20Spain%20and%20Portugal%20on%2028%20April%202025.pdf

Whoa: <https://terathon.com/blog/decade-slug.html>

> What is now known as the Slug Algorithm for rendering fonts directly from Bézier curves on the GPU was developed in the Fall of 2016, so this year marks a full decade since its inception.
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> Therefore, effective today, I am permanently and irrevocably dedicating the Slug patent to the public domain.