⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

@falken @spaceflight few months?! I hope so! But I barely believe that Europe is that eager.

The Europeans have a drive for other topics but not for the technological future of Europe. Sadly.

I assume that the next launch may be by the end of the year or next year 🙃.

Europe needs more competition in the rocket business, otherwise Europe will be stuck with bicycles as their highest form of technology

Incremental Font Transfer has been published by the Web Fonts Working Group as a Working Draft.

Incremental Font Transfer defines a method to incrementally transfer fonts from server to client. Incremental transfer allows clients to load only the portions of the font they actually need which speeds up font loads and reduces data transfer needed to load the fonts. A font can be loaded over multiple requests where each request incrementally adds additional data.
https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/WD-IFT-20240709/

☃️ Why a common bit of graphing advice is baloney.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2024/07/a-good-or-bad-example/

@Mer__edith Wasnt this first disclosed in 2018?

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/signal-desktop-leaves-message-decryption-key-in-plain-sight/

Seems like its been on the back burner for a while and just recently resurfaced.

@benschwarz that slow sinking feeling as you realize you just created an outage is very much a character building experience 🤠

a lot of our problems in software stem from people throwing crap over a wall and not taking initiative or responsibility for running that crap. if you build it you should run it. that's what devops is ! dev + ops. the whole point is to reduce frictions between building and running applications in a production env. and to remove fantasy architecture (ahem transpilers) from the cold reality of deploying and maintaining systems on a cloud vendor.

Voter suppression update:

Now looks like 400,000 people may have been turned away from voting due to ID issues....

If Labour will not rid us of this law, then an amendment expanding considerably the range of acceptable documents/items that are valid is required.

Its anti-democratic & was driven by false 'concerns' about electoral fraud of which there is a vanishingly small incidence in the UK.

#elections #voterID
#politics

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/08/voter-id-rule-may-have-stopped-400000-taking-part-in-uk-election-poll-suggests

So far, the OpenPlaques project has located 17779 plaques in the United Kingdom. 14242 (81%) have been manually curated with a subject. The data is available for free for people to make interesting things with. We find new ones every day.