h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

The UK Web Archive has deleted ~50% of their published git repositories. This is not a joke, but I am laughing.

↔️ NEW THING ↕️
See a different Wikipedia article for every browser width × height combo, with over 7.2 million possible results! https://vole.wtf/widthipedia/

I am once again backing up part of the government due to whispers letting me know that someone made another stupid decision

Cloudflare (>20% of all domains) has started automatically implementing DSM Dir art 4 rights reservation (ie copyright/TDM objection to scraping) for all sites that do not have a robots.txt file. They also adding purpose fields (new content-signal field with search, AI train, AI use) to robots.txt unilaterally and are enforcing it through monitoring and analysis. https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/additional-configurations/managed-robots-txt/

The following is a valid DOS COM executable that prints "HELLO" in the lower right corner of the screen.

You can copy these emoji into a text editor, and save it as EMOJI.COM. it should be 141 bytes.

It will run in DosBox-X, with the following options:

cpu cputype=8086
machine cga

🐸☺️🐰🐎♐🗃️🧯🧯🧯🐮💗🦮🪏♐🐰🐹🗃️🧯🧯🧯🧯💗🪗🧯😗🧮🫪😗🧮😗🐮😪😔⭐

may god have mercy on my soul.

Happy birthday to us!
7 years ago today the nonsense that is https://vole.wtf went live

Very cool.
https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/ @andrewt

🗺️ ‘What Do they Talk About.’

A #Map based guide to conversational gambits in 1951 #Britain.

#FestivalOfBritain

Our new Amsterdam servers are live. The EU can now be the primary home for Fastmail data, and like our US locations, it's our own hardware, racked and run by our own people. Nothing rented from a big cloud provider.

Already a customer? Switch regions in your settings. Thinking about it? You choose your region at signup.

Our CEO Bron's post walks through exactly what lives where, because we figure you'd read the fine print anyway.

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region

#Fastmail #Email

The unique (and quirky!) magnificence of Jean Berko Gleason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5afexlm2o7E

Italy and Austria united beneath the Alps 🏔️

⚒️ With over 220 tunnel kilometres excavated, the completion of the EU co-funded Brenner Base Tunnel is one step closer! 🇦🇹 🇮🇹

Miners have now connected Austria and Italy via two main railway tunnels.

The BBT will better connect Italy and Austria while boosting rail transport connections between northern and southern Europe upon completion in 2032.

This is EU cooperation and engineering at its best. 🇪🇺

© Schnittraum Tirol

This is cool: https://dnsisbeautiful.com/traceroute/tbray.org

(I mean, it’s still always DNS, but cool nonetheless.)

h/t @Quinnypig

Beautiful alternative to the periodic table created in 1975 by James Franklin Hyde

I made some #Strudel starter cards to tuck around our #emfCamp EMOM tent.

They're intended to give people a starting point for play, offering a spoonful of inspiration without getting too bogged down in detail.

Feedback welcome and I can host the lot (12 of them so far) somewhere if anyone would like to download them for use or to improve them [as long as you share updates back!]

#livecoding #algorave

The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired

If you are looking for a reason to celebrate today, the last of the MPEG-4 Part 2 patents expired today...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Last-MPEG-4-Patent-Expired

In the summer edition of Highways Magazine, I get back to basics and look at getting vehicle crossings right.

Too many highway authorities are not doing their job right here.

Digital issue available online (signup needed).

https://www.highwaysmagazine.co.uk/

Crossposted with @openvibe

Herman Chernoff, who invented Chernoff Faces, has died. Chernoff faces are an unusually human way of representing statistical data. #Statistics https://improbable.com/2026/07/15/herman-chernoff-who-invented-chernoff-faces-has-died/

Jurassic Park Computers in EXCRUCIATING DETAIL

https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html

#UNIX #IKNOWTHIS #SGI #Sun #Mac #Workstations #movies #films #JurassicPark #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #computinghistory #tech #vintagetech #entertainment #blog #photo #nineties

Under Over Over

Despite its name, the London Underground isn't always underground. This was taken at West Hampstead, where Underground trains pass above the London Overground.

I've made it a mission to find every spot in London where this topsy-turvy railway quirk happens.