Notices by Will Tuladhar-Douglas (yetiinabox@todon.nl), page 3

Is there any digital data storage hardware and associated encoding that has an intended archival life of at least 1000 years without electricity?

I know it's an old question, but given that paper or palm leaf manuscripts last that long, is there any standard out there which would support civilizational timescales?

No bonus points for guessing why I'm wondering about this.

#hardware #archive #collapse

I had my ankle rebuilt in Thailand about 12 years ago after a bad fall. The surgeon was wonderful--showing a still-groggy me pictures of the inside of my ankle and gleefully saying " It was much worse than we thought, but you have huge tendons (you really DO walk a lot!!), so with lots of wires and transplants we rebuilt it all!" They did incredible work. Since then, after loads of physio, I can walk, run, cycle...sitting seiza isn't quite so easy, but most days I don't really notice it.

But today is one of those days where something I did set it off. I can feel every bolt. So I hung around without really getting properly dressed and made some test sheets of paper with one of the kids and finally got a little further on the Overengineered Yoghurt Maker project and did maths with the kids and had Long Necessary Conversations and...as much as I hate days when I can't walk, it hasn't been a wasted day.

Morning from NE Scotland. First of two questions this morning, this one for #tablet or #e-ink folks. Is the #PineNote anywhere near ready? Is there another device which works well forvreading and annotating PDFs and ePubs, and works with Zotero? I'm tired of squinting at my phone.

Second question of the morning: any #paperMakers here? I'd like to try the process used for Broussonetia but with _Galium aparine_ and perhaps some Urtica --so that's Sticky Willies and nettles. Will it work? Other methods? I've got a small screen & deckle sorted but how to prepare the herbs?
#handMadePaper

I found the most soothing "please wait" popup message yet. It's an artefact of translation from Bangla, I suspect, and can be found on the Bangladesh national statistics agency page.

First rescued #millipede of the spring. There is a very odd combination of mathematical fascination and just plain cuteness to these #myriapods. This particular one was determined to march into a busy road, but seemed happy enough when returned to the undergrowth.

With all due acknowledgement of the metaphorical force of the term, "stochastic parrot" undervalues the actual lingistic skill and cognitive capacity of parrots, especially compared to llamas and shoggoths.

https://brill.com/view/journals/beh/156/5-8/article-p391_1.xml

Interesting PhD place offered in Norway linking refugees and sustainable food systems. Deadline 16 April. https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/82001

‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.’ -- Upton Sinclair.
So very much of the failure of ooliticians and business leaders to address the overlapping environmental crises < https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3856605-greta-thunberg-says-world-leaders-not-even-moving-in-the-right-direction-on-climate/amp/ > boils down to this!

@ftp_alun @ColinTheMathmo @VisualStuart

Hang on. Is there a connection to the two Joes and the Reed College maths department juggling lineage?

Taking #ActiveTravel seriously is going to mean rethinking health care a bit, and in particular, it's going to mean treating many more people as athletes. I cover 10-20km a day on foot and by bicycle, but it's almost all routine: school run, shopping, business travel.We do this in a family with a range of disabilities, including some folk having long-term mobility constraints.

But that means when I take a hard fall from the bike and trash the ligaments in my knee, as I did a fortnight ago, I need thorough support much more quickly. I can't just "go back to using the car" - we burnt that bridge decades ago. I have to keep moving, and I need the NHS to help me decide right away whether I need crutches, a proper brace around the joint, surgery (and thus long-term help), or just to keep snarling through the floppy leg, alarming swelling, remarkably aesthetic bruising, and pain. The only information I've found online that seems remotely relevant is addressed to 'athletes'; apparently 'normal' people don't need to walk, cycle, or run every day.

(For the horrified, I have found a brace, but I'm not sure it's enough or correct. Because I'm #actuallyAutistic, the level of pain isn't a good tool to decide; I've walked for weeks on an ankle with no ligaments before.)

Scottish Government transport budget for 2023-4 includes a fall in funding for roads of about 8% and a rise in funding for trains, ferries, and busses. Funding for active travel is slightly down from last year's big rise. And the budget specifically says
"investing in active travel to deliver a transformational shift from car travel to walking, wheeling and cycling".

Not bad!

https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-budget-2023-24/pages/10/

So...one very important fact about my #nofly journey from Aberdeen to Brussels and back. My employer was utterly, wonderfully supportive. They said, will you go to Brussels and help deliver a conference on the good work we pay you to do, and I said, it would not be good to hurt the planet in order to do this good thing, and they said, yeah, we get that.

I have worked for a lot of different organisations and I have never, ever, before seen that kind of commitment. Wow.

I've deleted my tweets and shut down crossposting to Twitter, except where I invoke a specific hashtag.

Done with that.