Two years ago I painted anthracnose lesions on apples, strawberries and mango. The symptoms are caused by related fungi within the genus Colletotrichum.
“Non passibus aequis” was my mother’s favourite phrase from Virgil’s Aeneid. Literally “not with equal paces”, it describes Aeneas’ son Iulus as he escapes Troy with his father, and immediately brings the scene to life. Who hasn’t seen a parent hurrying with a small child, after all?
Thought brought to you by a section of Travis Baldree’s “Bookshops and Bonedust” where our protagonist’s dwarf friend is walking “two strides to every one of Viv’s”
With the future of .io coming into question this week, with the news that the UK will return sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius, I thought it would be a good time to see how ICANN has treated disappearing countries and ter…
This blog is a continuation of our earlier collaboration (which can be found here and here). These posts focused on our first efforts to set up a workflow to image 5.25-inch floppy disks using a…
Handing the Chagos islands to Mauritius means the sun will set on the British Empire (on the 21st of March 2025, when British Antarctic Territory passes equinox, assuming the treaty is signed by then): reddit.com/r/geography/comment…
colonialism in scare quotes and calling protestors "tech bros" is an incredibly contemptuous way to describe a successful movement for independence. vanity TLDs associated with country codes are one of my least favorite fashion statements mendeddrum.org/@fanf/113244393…
The future of the .io ccTLD is up in the air today with the announcement that the UK is to hand over the British Indian Ocean Territory, also known as the Chagos Archipelago, to Mauritius.
An interesting question arising from today’s deal to hand the Chagos islands back to Mauritius is: what happens to the .io ccTLD with the dissolution of the British Indian Ocean Territory? Presumably it passes to Mauritius, but do they keep it or scrap it, or change how the registry works?
@Ben Harris Their current procedure seems to be documented at iana.org/help/cctld-retirement and is pretty clear cut that if BIOT dies so does .io “Any preferences to retain the domain, or otherwise delay transition to the maximum extent possible, will not be considered a factor in any analysis”
Shout out to everyone on here who feels total dismay about the state of the world this morning. I can’t stand having to hear again and again that “Israel has a right to defend itself” and “has our full support”. I hope one day the havoc that this stance alone has wreaked will be fully recognised.
It's all a colossal DARVO on the part of Israel and the tame media are regurgitating the propaganda. PM Starmer says "We stand with Israel and we recognise her right to self-defence in the face of this aggression". No, no we don't. The aggression has been disproportionately that of Israel and could be curtailed by cutting Israel's supply of arms and military support, not least that of the UK.
"We've tried everything we can do to try to bring Peace to the Middle East, except stopping the supply of weapons....please dont be mean to us" -Western Governments
"Nasrallah was a combatant & a legitimate target. But the massive bombing of the densely populated Dahiya neighborhood in Beirut.. was a major war crime.
Those who argue otherwise must then explain why it would not be acceptable for Israel’s enemies to destroy IDF headquarters, which is situated in the middle of Tel Aviv near residences & popular attractions, and the surrounding area" @MitchellPlitnick on the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah
Thoughts on the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah
Israel’s killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is an important development in the mushrooming regional war.
Someone mentioned Ikea which reminded me of a strange dream I had the other day. Sweden had changed their flag and anthem for some reason and there were riots about it. (Inexplicably riots you had to queue at the post office to enter)
To be fair, the Netherlands actually does appear to have one (1) of those women, and she *is* being talked about. The term 'outlier' applies, as well as, in her case, quite possibly the term 'morally bankrupt charlatan'.
If you want to know more, look up the Centric/Sanderink case.
In general, though, such women generally do not get talked about due to it not actually happening.
how come I never seem to run into any of these women? all I can find are these chicks with masters degrees and/or fifteen years of demonstrable experience
as an infosec-adjacent woman, I would advise anyone looking to leverage sex to gain money and clout to choose a more rewarding field. you 150% can do better
(everyone knows this and security researchers only don’t realize it when they think they’re rock stars. the kind of dude who watched Hackers, thinks he’s the hero, and actually reminds everyone of the greasy sysadmin)
if you have a man in infosec who is giving out jobs for sexual favours, you don't have infosec. That individual would be so compromised on so many fronts.
From Ambrose Bierce’s “Devil’s Dictionary” of 1911:
Respirator, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.
The railway south of Cambridge splits just south of the city, with one line heading to Liverpool Street and one, the faster shorter route, to Kings Cross or St Pancras. Ever since I learned the point where they split is called “Shepreth Branch Junction” I’ve taken delight in saying “we’re taking the Shepreth branch” as if this is some forgotten branch line bywater of the network rather than the main route to London. Conjuring the romantic from the mundane just from a bit of railway geekery. Adlestrop, or the slow train.
Shepreth itself is a bit of a bywater. Express trains, like this one, skip it and its neighbours Foxton and Meldreth, so if you want to partake of their delights — a safari park! A path through a field! Tech startups that couldn’t afford Cambridge! — you’ll need to take the actual slow train.
UK, Ireland and US historic railways, railroads and canals. Includes waggonways, tramways, stations, metro and narrow gauge lines displayed on an interactive Google Map.
@Ben Harris Ooh, I hadn't realised what is now the King's Cross line started out only getting as far as Shepreth and then having a rail replacement bus.
If I see some text I don’t immediately recognise as a word in English I’ll try reading it backwards to see if it makes more sense that way. Does anyone else do this?
And here's news of a huge treat for the 40th anniversary of Elite!
Ian Bell, co-author of the original Elite, has just released a bunch of never-seen-before original source discs for Elite on the Apple II, Commodore 64, NES, SNES (unfinished), Atari ST... and, amazingly, a prototype of Elite 2, which has never been released before.
@tehstu @plumduff69 So I was already thinking of adding the C64 and Apple versions to my site as a winter project.
Either that or a disassembly and deep dive into The Sentinel - I’ve been finding it hard to choose!
But I think the release of these source discs makes it a pretty obvious choice; I suspect my next project after Elite 3D will be to analyse the full house of 6502 Elites on bbcelite.com.
@geolaw No, it is not open source. Ian Bell has released the source on his website, but there is no licence attached at all. It is still copyright code… but it is out there in the public domain, so who knows what that means!
@geolaw Yup, exactly. I’ve no idea whose copyright it is, but it certainly isn’t mine, and it isn’t public domain either. I’m guessing it’s still the original authors’ copyright, but I don’t actually know…
So there's the answer: the radios and batteries were discontinued in 2014, Hezbollah tried to keep using them, the batteries gradually died, so they began buying cheap third-party batteries made by someone unspecified … which gave the Israeli sigint people the perfect way to put bombs in them.
Thousands of electronic devices, including pagers and walkie-talkies, exploded over the last two days, killing at least 26 people and wounding more than 3,000.
@jonoleth @StOnSoftware @MonniauxD on the other hand, Israel would have the capability to broadcast a strong triggering signal into that region. Pretty sure they have air superiority and electronic warfare assets above it.
This kind of supply chain attack is going to become a staple of warfare given how global these have become. Think of all of the weapons systems, power and water equipment, vehicles, heavy machinery and manufacturing equipment, safety equipment, surveillance, financial infrastructure, networking and telecommunications, agricultural, and the list goes on and on, which collectively if compromised could bring a nation to its knees. We all dwell in glass houses.
@StOnSoftware @Colman @MonniauxD I'm looking at the instruction manual for the V82, and unless I'm missing something it doesn't actually seem to have a battery charge display anywhere, only a full indicator on the charger.
I was under the impression that the walkie-talkies were all bought in bulk recently, so a timer would be one option if they wanted to coordinate with the pager attack and didn't have a better trigger design available.
People seem to be really pissed off about them putting the explosives in the devices but would it be better if they had put GPS radios in the devices and then did 1000 drone strikes instead?
One Intel Analyst on TV said that the ideal time to set off such devices is when Isreal already has troops stationed at the border, ready to strike. This method would be used to disrupt communication in wartime.
But this was set off BEFORE Isreal began sending any troops to the Lebanese border, which suggested to him that the #IDF believed some of the explosives had been uncovered, and they acted before the entire plan could've been stopped.
You should be specific here. This is referring ONLY to the icom radios with large battery units (plenty of space for additional electronics and chemicals to hide). The pagers would not have replaceable batteries and were singular units. And I believe those were tampered with during supply chain transfer.
Better yet, the current draw is a side channel that could be detected by the battery. So arrange for it to blow when a particular audio signal is played on the speaker, which will be mirrored in the current draw.
Slightly embarrassing moment at work yesterday. There's been a bit of a bug going round various people in the office, so when a coworker walked in saying "ooh, I'm feeling a bit grotty today" I moved to jokingly make the sign of the cross to ward off the plague before stopping myself because I remembered he's Muslim.
I'm atheist, but societal Christian defaultism can always rear its head!
HOW IT WORKS - OVERHEAD LINE TEST TRAINS (SLIGHT RETURN)
A while back I did a thread on OLE test trains which you can read here: mas.to/@25kV/11089523444924623… More recently, SPL have put together a further iteration of the FrankenTrain™ to test the next stage of Midland Mainline Electrification (MMLE), & today they kindly invited me and a colleague on board to observe high speed testing of the new OLE between Wigston and Kettering North Junction.
HOW IT WORKS - OVERHEAD LINE TEST TRAINS (SLIGHT RETURN)
A while back I did a thread on OLE test trains which you can read here: mas.to/@25kV/11089523444924623… More recently, SPL have put together a further iteration of the FrankenTrain™ to test the next stage of Midland Mainline Electrification (MMLE), & today they kindly invited me and a colleague on board to observe high speed testing of the new OLE between Wigston and Kettering North Junction.
Welcome to another #RailwaysExplained thread... this one is another port over from the Site We Don't Mention. More to come!
HOW IT WORKS - TEST TRAINS (with some indulgent personal experience)
Back in 2019 a colleague posted this video. This innocent post started me on an odyssey which ultimately ended with me blagging my way into the cab of said train. Want to know more? Read on
Your ... unusually limited loading gauge has to make the market a lot smaller compared even to the continent. (Still larger than North America where aside from Caltrain and Denver RTD we haven't built anything in decades.)
Thanks for the insights. I'm only vaguely interested in this aspect of rail - although my son used to be involved as a route controller when he worked for ROG who - as you know - control the routes for some testing trains.
Funny. We have the concept of "qualification", where some tech has a so-called "technology readiness level" and the higher that is, the lower the qualification efforts needed. There'll be some acceptance qualification for not-off-the-shelf components, but the latter are just checked very little in comparison. Specifically concepts and guidelines don't have to be reinvented again and again.
@forestine @negative12dollarbill @Rch I clearly need to find a typeface that has this feature, honestly amazed that Hoefler Text (third from the top) is both missing this and is so weirdly kerned
The really heartening thing was how we started organising things and almost every party member who walked past asked to join so the crowd just kept growing and growing.
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