Don Thompson @guardeddon@social.cleverlibre.org

Since I've seen a lot of chatter about people switching to #Firefox as Google ramps up the enshitification of #Chrome, let me tell you about a killer feature for people who (a) need multiple accounts on the same websites (eg. devs) or specifically (b) have to use multiple Google accounts.

Firefox has an official addon called Multi Account Containers that lets you trivially set up color coded tabs that have separate sets of cookies. Log into your dev account in one, and your test account in another. Log into your personal #gmail in one and have another tab next to it with your work Gmail. I'm actually not signed in to any Google accounts in most my tabs, I just have containers for the specific tasks I do on Google products.

It'll take you 30 seconds to set up.

Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Mozilla's explanation: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

Venerable tech journalist Walt Mossberg bails on Twitter/X, saying Elon has turned it into a "cesspool" of far-right and anti-Semitic propaganda. https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/walt-mossberg-elon-musk-twitter-x-b2407123.html

"Why did Elon switch off Starlink right when Ukraine really needed it?"

The UK's Civil Aviation Authority have a brief report about what caused all the flight cancellations the other day:

https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/33/NERL%20Major%20Incident%20Investigation%20Preliminary%20Report.pdf (440KB PDF)

A few interesting thoughts about their findings…

The major cause was:

> The plan included two waypoints along its route that were geographically distinct but which have the same designator.

I don't know enough about ICAO4444 / ADEXP to be sure, but it sounds like an understandable, albeit avoidable, error.

(1/n)

Forgot to post this the other day

Ireland - Northern Ireland border, near Carrigans

The cow is in Northern Ireland, the speed sign in Ireland. I am standing on the road taking the pic, and the road has the border down the middle of it

Try closing that one, Boris Johnson!

I'm quoted in this paper about the problems with #What3Words.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.16025.pdf

As a reminder, W3W is a proprietary and for-profit system which shouldn't be used anywhere near government or emergency services. It is prone to catastrophic failure and their business model appears to be unsustainable.

Very happy not to be in Elon's "global address book".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66679922

Back up and running after about 6 and a bit hours.
L-Band, C-Band and STDC are all back up and sending messages.

“Facebook has already shifted users’ agreements for UK users away from the EU to its US terms, does not allow UK users to opt-out of personalised advertisements, nor do they plan to switch to a consent-based model of advertising like is happening in Europe.

It's more than obvious that Facebook doesn't believe the Information Commissioner's Office will enforce UK data protection standards."

🗣️ @marianods for ORG

#GDPR #dataprotection #meta #ukpolitics

https://theferret.scot/uk-privacy-watchdog-threads-app-probe/

I'm off to #Bergen to talk #RegionalClimateModels + specifically #HCLIM at the annual meeting of groups developing it. This time travelling by #CrossBorderRail - kind of. #NorwayFloods have caused all sorts of disruption to Norwegian rail, so I'm taking the other direction - a train to #Hirtshals + the ferry to Bergen.

I'm treating the long travel as a writing retreat as I have no fewer than 4 papers outstanding to work on.

#HCLIM23 #FlyingLess

The first train of many approaches...

Thanks to a collaboration with my friend Stephen Voss, we present this composite image, taken over 3 nights last week. With Dunedin's Mount Cargill Tower as foreground, It shows the change in altitude of the sun over 3 nights caused by Earth's axial tilt and our motion around our parent star. It also shows the rotation of the sun over 3 Earth days (look at the sunspots and how they change position). Photos by me, processing by Stephen Voss. I love collaborations! #astronomy #NewZealand #sunset

Here's how we add a new Arch and Board to Apache #NuttX RTOS

Article: https://lupyuen.codeberg.page/articles/release.html#add-the-nuttx-arch-and-board

The FOSS4G team has been posting this year's talks and mine just hit the channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl7LMEPvAmo

A companion article is here: https://www.jaxartes.net/pages/ads-b/

#foss4g #foss4g2023 #postgis #openskynetwork #adsb

My write-up for self-hosting #jitsi on a Raspberry Pi is here:

https://neilzone.co.uk/2021/04/running-jitsi-on-a-raspberry-pi-4

But it is a pretty much "normal" installation.

Whenever I offer to set up a video call, I use our jitsi instance, and I am incredibly pleased with it.

The four stages of Trump's mix of law and politics

Stage one - the criminal legal process and the political process are distinct and separate.

Stage two - the criminal legal process is for opponents - “lock her up!” and “her emails!” and“Hunter Biden!”.

Stage three - the criminal legal process as a campaign and fundraising tool - the current position.

Stage four - whatever happens next, whether Trump is found guilty on indictment or exonerated.

More info on the new InterCity Notte sleeper trains which Trenitalia has just ordered - with proposed car layouts. Double beds on a night express to Sicily anyone? https://back-on-track.eu/ic-notte-starts-to-renew-its-fleet/

My 2023 wishlist for mastodon.

1. for it to stop trying to be like other social media
2. no really
3. stop adding shit. it's lovely

I'm so happy that we're finally in a place where we can whip up a quick trajectory data exploration app with maps and graphs from rather arbitrary inputs, be it plain old csv with x/y in any crs known to proj, or fancy gis formats in just a few minutes.

It's minimal extra effort and seems to impress most people so much more than comparable plots in a notebook 🤷‍♀️😀

#MovingPandas #panel #hvplot #holoviz #holoviews #geoviews #geopandas

In Egypt, Ernst (Watania Sleeping trains) has lost the contract to run the Cairo-Luxor-Aswan sleeper trains. From 2 August new operator Abela Trains has taken over. Egypt page updated, https://seat61.com/Egypt.htm (sorry I'm 3 weeks late, must try harder to keep on top of things...)