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Yesterday our remote sensing team did 3 ortho surveys over the eruption area, the latest acquisition at 16:15 UTC. The team is a cross agency effort combined with people and equipment from Icelandic Institute of Natural History, National Land Survey and the Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Iceland. These have now been made publicly available as an #opendata tile service and can be explored here for example: umbrotasja.gis.is/mapview/?app…

#gischat #Grindavík #eruption #iceland

Kortasjá

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#Iceland #opendata #gischat #Eruption #Grindavík

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Why the hovercraft's time might have finally arrived bbc.com/future/article/2024011…

Why the hovercraft's time might have finally arrived

Hovercraft were a quick way to zip across the world's waterways but were noisy and expensive to operate. Could they be about to enjoy a second wind?
Mark Piesing (BBC)

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"these were not exceptional individuals – they were individuals doing what they (wrongly) believed to be their job or performing what they (wrongly) believed to be their function or protecting what they (wrongly) saw to be legitimate interests."

Excellent blog post from @davidallengreen on the failures of the UK legal system and the professional classes that allowed the #Horizon scandal to flourish.

davidallengreen.com/2024/01/ho…

#PostOfficeScandal

How the legal system made it so easy for the Post Office to destroy the lives of the sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses – and how the legal system then made it so hard for them to obtain justice

12th January 2024 The Post Office Horizon scandal is both simple and complex, straightforward but also difficult to grasp in all its interconnected detail. The essence of the scandal is, of course,…
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#horizon #PostOfficeScandal @dag
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@Adrian McEwen @d a t green Apart from the issues in DAG’s blog, the issue that stands out for me is the cost of legal action to get justice and redress. More legal aid, some sort of restriction on costs that can be awarded to the side with the bigger pockets; I don’t know what the answer is but there’s a real equality of arms problem that’s preventing access to justice.
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Oof. “We find it hard to see why the defendant's legal liability should turn on the court's impression of whether or not the facts of the case fit the dramatic pattern of a Greek tragedy.” I do love a good judicial putdown. (From Paul & Anor v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust [2024] UKSC 1 bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/2024/… )
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Except, in the salient aspect, that the events described *don't* really follow at least the strictest, Aristotelian criteria for Greek tragedy, where the tragedy takes place in a single place on a single day.

The original Cocklecarrot mentioned "Sophoclean" (great word). Now, dragged up in a Secondary Modern, I'm not an expert on such things, but Oedipus Rex and Antigone follow the unities, iirr?

So it was a weirdly specific (-ly wrong) analogy to use to extend a single event to 36 hours and the length of the M1.

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TIL that the works of J.R.R. Tolkien passed into the public domain in NZ this year (life plus 50 years)… but also won’t for another 20 years in much of Europe, and 40 years in the USA…

#law & #copyright peeps: What on 🌏 does it mean if someone writes a derivative work here in NZ and then tries to republish it overseas? Or if it is published here and then imported to a different country via the internet or otherwise?

Please retoot so this post finds a person who can answer it!

(Edit: Not 🇨🇦)

#copyright #law
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After the point UK law diverged from EU law, EU regulations became UK law that could be modified. So now, if I’m talking about Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (aka “the GDPR”) I need to clarify that I’m talking about the UK’s fork of the codebase. Can I find a standard way of doing this? Can I bobbins. If legislation was in git I’d just cite the commit ID and annoy everyone.
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"Whoever wrote this code clearly has no understanding of elementary mathematics or the most basic rules of programming."

Savage, but justified.

Page 17-18,
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#PostOfficeScandal #HorizonScandal

#PostOfficeScandal #horizonscandal

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I'm worried by this story: theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/j…

Yes, Fujitsu must shoulder some blame for the faulty technology, and possibly more for being in denial. But Fujitsu did not choose to pursue the users for the "missing" money and prosecute them. There is a considerable human side to this story. We must not let the Post Office offload all the financial responsibility onto Fujitsu.

"We only acted like complete bastards because their software fucked up." won't cut it.

Fujitsu may have to repay ‘fortune’ spent on Post Office scandal, Chalk says

Justice secretary says if firm behind Horizon IT software is found culpable, ministers would seek ‘proper recompense’
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Bookseller email received: 10:00 am.
Item ordered: 10:05am

A map of showing the path of a 1764 eclipse across Europe, printed in two passes, with the map in sepia and the shadow line in black.

A great acquisition in and of itself, but what's really special is that the map was designed by a woman, engraved by a woman, and printed by a woman. And not two weeks ago we were brainstorming ideas for a future exhibition on women in science, so it couldn't be more perfect.

#newacq #NewAcquisition

#newacquisition #newacq

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Fallopian fact: although medical illustrations often depict the ovarian tubes as attached to the ovaries, they're not. And if you only have one tube, it can pick up eggs from either ovary, a bit like (but not at all like) one of those grabby claw games.

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The tubes themselves move with the movement of the fimbriae, because the fimbriae are part of the tube. When there isn't an egg to pick up, sometimes the tubes will stick around in the position you usually see them in diagrams, sometimes they might be hanging around near the other ovary, and sometimes they might just have a little lie down on top of the uterus.
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Finally got around to looking at #PEH578L's petrol gauge. Multimeter showed that the fault was at the sender, which is a simple float on an arm operating a variable resistor.

Opened it up and was slightly surprised to discover a wire-wound rheostat. Also that three of the turns are broken which would explain why it doesn't work. So unless I feel like re-winding it, I probably need a new one.

#peh578l

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@ajlanes The tank is basically a cuboid, so I don't think that's what it's for.

It might be compensating for the fact that the float is on a pivoting arm, so the rate of rotation changes with depth.

But now that I look at it, I think the variance may be the wrong way around for that, so maybe it's compensating for non-linearity in the dashboard gauge instead.

Maybe I should do some experiments...

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You know what would be nice?

An "open firmware" project, where people produce and share FOSS firmware for common household devices, replacing the manufacturer's firmware with a decrapified version.

A smart TV? Reflash it with FOSS firmware, which removes tracking, calls to the manufacturer's servers, and any Internet-connected services that you don't want?

A printer? It's now yours. No ink subscription, or need for an app to print remotely.

And so on.

A man can dream, eh.

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Infoseepage

Probably the closest we have to this are a handful or open router projects and some of the 3rd party Android and Linux phone Distros targeting common smartphone models. Love to see this for televisions, especially as so many of them are no shipping incredibly user hostile features like voice recording, viewing habit profiling. Televisions have in effect become just another bug, watching you watch it.
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Last year I invented a tradition of seeing in the new year on the (WGS-84) zero meridian. This year I actually made it out there in time.

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I am proud never to have hooted a nanny. mastodon.world/@CountBinface/1…

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🚨BREAKING: I am pleased to be offering my free Count Binface vaccine against Jools Holland’s Hootenanny. A single jab will suffice. #Mutenanny

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🚨BREAKING: I am pleased to be offering my free Count Binface vaccine against Jools Holland’s Hootenanny. A single jab will suffice. #Mutenanny
#mutenanny

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TIL that someone invented a barometer in the mid-19th century that used leeches. Yes, leeches!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempes…

#weird #history #meterology

meteorological device

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#history #weird #meterology

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@edchivers @FredKiesche I'm just now visualizing the self-propelled version installed in the rectum of a hippopotamus, using mating Placobdelloides jaegerskioeldi. (If there's a storm coming the hippo gets angry, points into the direction the storm is coming from, and spins its tail as it projectile-shits.)
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Oh man lol
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So you're out #sailing in a new area and your electrics fail. No bother, just go back to using a paper chart for navigation (if you ever stopped: I didn't).

The only problem is that the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office is withdrawing its portfolio of Admiralty Standard Nautical Charts and Thematic Charts.

Thank Bob we still have Imray ... for now.

I'm also wondering what small or traditional boat sailors without electronics are meant to do.

rya.org.uk/blog/the-rise-of-en…

The rise of eNavigation

The RYA prepares for the UKHO’s decision to phase out paper charts.
www.rya.org.uk
#sailing
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I don't understand. The work of updating the charts remains necessary and relevant, so they'll still have to keep the actual data up to date. Doing as Ordnance Survey have done and providing a print-on-demand service for paper charts is surely much easier and more profitable than the work required to safely move everyone to digital-only?
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The US is well along the same path, and the answer for us is "online viewer for the chart database can generate custom PDFs for printing, and here's a world-wide vendors certified to print bigger (A2-equivalent) ones for you that meet carry requirements." Including Stanfords in the UK so I'd imagine a similar partnership would be easy to reach.
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One billion years of plate tectonics

Credit: Andrew S. Merdith et al, "Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic" via u/Useless_or_inept on reddit

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LGBT conversion therapy (yes, including trans people) is now illegal in Portugal.

Penalties of people found guilty of trying to change sexual orientation or gender identity: up to 3 years in prison and, if the victim was a minor, a ban on working with minors for between 2 and 20 years.

Up yours, TERF island.

publico.pt/2023/12/21/p3/notic…

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Fellow trans women site owners: that HOA guy with the blocklist that blocks Nazis and trans women, but mostly trans women, is back on another instance. Just got the shock of my life when he showed up in my feed. It appears that his new personal instance is h-i.social.

You may wish to preemptively defederate for your own protection.

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We focus when we think of the solstice on the length of the day, but I wonder how much that’s it and how much it’s the quality of the light, the angle of the sun, that makes this time of year miserable. Today it looks like the sun will not get more than 15° above the horizon

Hypothetically if the sun reached the heights it does in Summer during the 7h42 of daylight we get today, would it be more pleasant? (Assume for the purposes of this exercise that I’ve arranged the physics to work to permit this somehow. Either the sun operates like a lightbulb or speeds up or something.)

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For Art Advent Calendar Day 20

Power Lines Drawing #4 (Hamtramck)
July 2020
10x8 black ink on paper

#ArtAdventCalendar #MastoArt #Drawing #PowerLinesDrawings

#MastoArt #drawing #powerlinesdrawings #ArtAdventCalendar

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One of the BBC’s ghouls was looking for an interview tonight after the Brianna murder verdict. This was my reply.
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Dear #lazyweb I'm looking for a very particular product from like 10 years ago (or it's modern equivalent).

It was a linksys usb/ethernet dongle. Tiny, like a tube of lipstick, with 2 wifi interfaces built in, and a microcontroller web server/router. You'd connect it to USB, login to the web server via wifi (if you'd set it up already) or usb/ethernet if not. Then configure one wifi interface to connect to upstream wifi, and other wifi could act as a personal hotspot.

Can't find it anywhere.

#lazyweb

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There’s always so much to do at this time of year - but what can really help is to write a well-defined To Do List of what you might realistically achieve in your day.

Here’s my ‘Christmas To Do List’.

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Revelation from this evening. War Games is set mostly at NORAD, whose main job is to track Santa. So War Games is a Christmas movie.

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Always keep your eyes closed during a storm. Otherwise your soul will get all wet and mildewy.

Welcome... to Night Vale.

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I've got one more piece to finish (a horn that needs sewing up) and then it will be time for the goat-ening. Be prepared for many pictures of a crochet goat.

(In case you're not aware, I'm making one of these youtube.com/watch?v=CC_NDwdzww… but in crochet form. I'm not intended for it to be burned, or destroyed by jackdaws, as seems to be the case for this year's model.)

The Gävle Goat LIVE 2023 | Lofi Christmas mix 🐐🎆

This is the live feed of the Gävle Goat located in Gävle, Sweden. The Gävle Goat live stream will be active until New Years' unless, of course, the straw goa...
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If you're book shopping for the festive season, one of the best things I read this year was The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard. The space pirate love story you didn't know you needed.

aliettedebodard.com/

They're around here somewhere, although I haven't seen them for a while. @aliettedb

#scifi

Home - Aliette de Bodard

This is the home page of Aliette de Bodard, writer of fantasy and science fiction (and the very occasional horror piece).
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#scifi @Aliette de Bodard
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*runs by, booping your nosie on the way past!*

YOU HAVE BEEN BOOPED!

Pass on the boop to someone else to keep the chain going!

(You can boop me... if you can catch me! Bwee hee hee!!)

#Boop

💙💙💙

#boop
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