h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

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The good @drfootleg has been busy, creating a "hardware abstraction framework" to run MicroPython games on any hardware! His first task? Porting Asteroids to the Tufty 2350! https://blog.pimoroni.com/dr-footleg-saves-the-galaxy-creates-tufty-2350-asteroids-game/

I've been making a linguistics puzzle game where you decipher a language (which happens to be German) using shared etymology, shared cultural knowledge and pattern matching.

It's called German Is A̶w̶f̶u̶l̶ Easy and the first five levels are up! No German knowledge necessary, and feedback is very welcome.

https://michellefullwood.com/languages/german/is-easy/

#etymology #linguistics #puzzles #LearnGerman

On the way home I introduced two women on the overground to birdnet - "is that like shazam for birds?!?!" so overall a good night out

I ❤️ Debian: https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/debian-13-5-linux-security-update/

#debian #linux

🆕 blog! “GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source”

Within the UK's Civil Service you occasionally hear the expression "being invited to a meeting without biscuits". It implies a rather frosty discussion without any of the polite niceties of a normal meeting. In general though, even when people have severe …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/gds-weighs-in-on-the-nhss-decision-to-retreat-from-open-source/
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#AI #gds #government #nhs #nhsx #OpenSource

My Suica has been vandalised!

It transpires this has a leuco rewritable coating, so special products (like this 1 day season) are literally lasered onto the front (including a map!) and overwritten/removed once used.

Extremely extra but very cool. I've never seen one of these in the wild before.

https://www.ricoh.com/technology/tech/062_laserrewritable

TODAY — Tickets to attend the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony are now on sale at https://eventfrog.ch/ignobel2026 —— The 36th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will take place in Zurich, Switzerland, in early September

Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy Pass, which Google intends on doing too.

“You opened this page. It already knows the following.”

https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken