Today I went to the remains of a 9000 year old Neolithic proto-city in Turkey called Çatalhöyük, if you’re ever in the area I would highly recommend it.

If you built a galaxy sized camera above the galaxy and used it to image planets would you be doing microscopy?

Dreaming of a modded e-reader with all of Wikipedia locally on it and reasonable local search.

RE: https://toot.yosh.is/@yosh/115606322667370792 if your company has gotten to the point where you are paying more than $1000/mo for a wiki (confluence, sharepoint, etc) you should probably hire a librarian

TIL: Box jellyfish larvae have eyes but no brain to connect them to so instead the eyes also swim a bit. Source: Animal Eyes, Land & Nilsson, second edition, chapter 1

"Vienna researchers retrieved all #whatsapp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history" "...downloaded all 77 million profile pictures visible to everyone—a proud 3.8 terabytes in total. In a random sample of half a million images drawn from this, a facial […]

"The United Kingdom is one of only two countries in the world to award religious figures a permanent seat in the legislature, the other being Iran.[26]" cool

TIL that many modern displays including Apple ones have a wider colour gamut that traditional sRGB. Go to https://hexp3.com/ and try pure green (00ff00) to see the difference!

Edinburgh e-bike component manufacturer, Intradrive, are hiring. They are looking for a junior to mid-level engineer with a hands-on approach and a passion for bikes and electronics. Find out more about Intradrive on their website www.intradrive.co.uk

This is embarrassing to admit, but I never cloned a git repo from something other than a forge before. Today I'm experimenting with making a repo on my own server and cloning it via ssh to my laptop. This means I get to see bizarre and new git error messages! git st: "Your branch is based on […]

Wtf I just learned there’s a night train where you can bring your car with you! https://www.hzpp.hr/en/trains-from-to-slovakia-and-austria

I'm offering a funded PhD position on nighttime lights #RemoteSensing in the Institute of #Geography at the @ruhr-uni-bochum.de#RemoteSensing#geographyttps://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/62065e5be70a916f65edd647cd1b1740b04cd72e0 I'd love for the ad to be seen by as many potential candidates as possible, so […]

Did you see the paper about the ant queens that give birth to two separate and barely related species of ant? [1] It got me thinking, I bet that’s how we got mitochondria too. All of multicellular life: an interspecies sex game gone wrong. 1] [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09425-w

I’m reading this article about Salt Typhoon, and there’s this quote “What the PRC is doing through these proxy actors is really reckless and unbounded, in a way that is significantly outside of the norms of what we see in the espionage space.” But wasn’t the main revelation from the Snowdon […]

I really like how capacitors and inductors are mathematically kinda mirror images of other another. One smooths out voltages and one smooths out currents. One has equation V=LdI/dt and the other I = C dV/dt. Here's that summed up in a little table where I've also […] [Original post on tech.lgbt]

Anyway reliability issues aside, neck fans are really really good because they add like two or three degrees to the upper limit of what I can be happy in, and they do it for phone-charger current, like single digit watts, vs 100 watts for a ceiling fan that I have to remember to turn off when […]

Yesterday I got vaccines for Typhoid, Tetanus, Diptheria, and Polio (combined), Japanese encephalitis and HPV. All in the same arm. I like to imagine what my immune system must be thinking happened.

If you're interested in making #mastodon search a little better - I think I have a good first issue for you 🙂 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/27255#issuecomment-3188874461 This would enable you to search for posts made *only* by those you follow. #mastodonapi

I accidentally gave my tomato plants high nitrogen fertiliser so now they're massive and leafy but I have yet to get any tomatoes...

"A network timeout occurred during relationship request. Please try again."

Cycling in to work today I picked up this completely broken phone holder that had obviously fallen off of a motorcycle. Turns out it has a little wireless charging module in it! Googling the IC numbers it it accepts up to 36v input (only tested it to 24v, just in […] [Original post on tech.lgbt]

Got a second hand kobo e-reader, it’s my first proper experience with e-paper and it is _really lovely_. I downloaded calibre and loaded some blogs onto it, the html -> epub conversion seems subject the to the vagaries of how each site is formatted but of course […] [Original post on tech.lgbt]

The phrase “uWuboros” has been stuck in my head for several days and I finally had to do something about it.

I started running a Tor relay node on my VPS.

TIL that you can just connect many displays directly up to an RPI, twiddle some device overlays, and it will show up as a framebuffer in the system. Might use this to make a slightly ridiculous viewfinder for the microscope, or slightly more useful, to see when […] [Original post on tech.lgbt]

New blog post: This site now has an .onion address - Not that it particularly needs one but anyway. (https://thomashodson.com/2025/07/30/this-site-now-has-a-onion-address.html)

hacker: i am spying on you through your webcam linux user: omg you got it working?

Doing some more lasercut stools today!

Could we do a federated version of ICANN modelled on the Fediverse?

coda: with this modified module I can measure the power consumption of a device by unplugging its lithium battery, plugging the battery into the sensor socket, and the sensor plug into where the battery was.

TIL No-one, including me, knows what a looptail g is. https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fxhp0000532 (Yes, I know you do, but I’m not counting you.)

I still don’t fully understand coordinate reference systems so this question might not make sense but here goes. I get that the wgs84 elipsoid allows you to convert between (lat,lon,height) coords and (x,y,z) coords. But are the axes of that elipsoid aligned with the axis of rotation of the […]

Watched Mars Express (2023) last night, if you're looking for an animated, short, French, noir-y sci-fi detective movie, I'd recommend it! The visual style is really nice.

has anyone seen a good explanation of this? https://toot.cat/@zeenix/114868965681011617

It has been 0 days since I accidentally made a python file called (e.g) "numpy.py" in the same directory as a script that does "import numpy" leading to everything breaking and me being very confused.

Hey fedi, what is this box?

What a profoundly hopeful article on the huge increase in solar energy production. It even has the tentative suggestion that it could reshape global geopolitics for the better? #solarpunk https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/114842539119136311

If you’re ever looking for a new podcast, “Anthropocene Reviewed” has an utterly bizarre premise that serves as a framing for some of the most moving science writing I’ve ever heard. There’s an episode about a ginkgo tree that made me cry. There are 36 episodes and you’ll wish there were more […]

If I have: 1) A thing on a local network serving a web page (octopi, open flexure microscope, homeassistant, etc) 2) A VM with a publically accessible IP and domain. Is there a combination of caddy, wireguard and/or other things such that I can go to microscrope.mydomain.com and be presented […]

Mastodon's latest version has the ability to fetch missing replies from a conversation (under an experimental flag, not enabled by default). This is a big deal, especially for smaller instances. Mastodon joins other platforms - of which I know of: Streams, GoToSocial, IceShrimp.NET and Bonfire […]

Hey NYC geeks! I'll be doing Matt Parker's "An Evening of Unncecessary Detail" on the 13th! Come by the Bellhouse in Brooklyn if you want to learn all about Space Cannibalism: www.thebellhouseny.com/shows

If the shadow of a plane passes overhead, how do you figure out what plane it was?

Protests every Saturday 1pm against the proscription of PA https://wedonotcomply.org

Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.

On a whim, I strung an led noodle along the top tube of my bike.

Labelling non-violent protestors terrorists is absurd. Sign the petition if you can. https://palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/NoProscription

Just went on a spree of installing octoprint plugins. 1/n

if anyone is bored or wants to contribute to gray archive tech, i've done all the hard parts around this, but here is a set of things you could do to make "practical `repack` mutability for torrents" happen: https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/-/projects/19508 so we have an indexer and a cli tool […]

I made an account on 3dprint.social, a new federated... thing for sharing 3D prints. @rotundroland